Posted on 02/10/2008 9:46:55 AM PST by Perdogg
Let's say we get a brokered convention. Other than John McCain, who would we put on the ticket?
1) Brownback, Guiliani, and Thompson have endorsed McCain. So Has Phill Graham and Jack Kemp.
2) Hunter has endorsed Huckaphony.
3) Gilmore and Tancrado are out.
4) George Allen Jr has endorsed McCain.
5) Colin L. Powell has given to the McCain campaign, but no one is really sure, plus he said he's not interested in elected office.
6) Norman Schwarzkopf has endorsed McCain.
7) Newt is hated more than McCain.
8) Cheney has been demonized beyond repair
9) John Bolton has endorsed McCain.
10) Tom McClintock cannot get elected statewide in California.
11) The religious right isn't going to support a Mormon, if so, they would have endorsed Romney a long time ago..
12) Are you willing to live with the results of this, i.e. are you going to support whoever would be nominated?
13) Has anyone thought this far down the road, or just want the party to implode so we can gamble with this silly notion about electing another Carter to get another Reagan?
McCain will be the nominee.
There is nothing we can do to change that.
Who's the Carter in this race? Carter was a RAT. I don't see either Hitlary or Obama as a Carter. Now, McInsane is a RINORAT so is he the Carter?
That the ticket GOP Establishment types scream insults at your party base. That is really going to get them to support your candidate come November!
I strongly suggest McCain supporters might want to quit singing the Cult of Personality song in praise of McCain. People here know his real record. Chanting slogans about how great McCain is isn’t going to sell with Freepers. We know better. We know his political record.
It is also really stupid to be screaming insults at Conservatives or trying to play bogeyman politics by talking about “Well they are worse”. Conservatives vote for things, not just against them.
Neither screaming insults, nor browbeating us, is going to convince any of us to vote for McCain Being spun to believe in a McCain we know has never existed does not convince us to support him, it angers us because we know we are being lied to.
Right now McCain supporters best tactic is to simply talk about what the Democrat candidates are saying on any issue. Their only hope is that the Democrats manage to scare Conservatives more then McCain pisses them off.
I have no doubt most Conservatives will be scared into supporting McCain in Nov by the Democrats. Simply saying “Well they are worse” “or “McCain is really a great Conservative” isn’t going to work. We know better. We know McCain’s real record.
The Democrats themselves are your best chance of changing peoples minds about McCain. Telling us what a great guy he is isn’t going to sell to Feepers. We know his real record on things like Iraq. His real record differs quite a bit from the air brushed one presented by his campaign
Personally, I think all this Mcspam is a waste of time. I think McCain’s record for the last 8 years has so poisoned the well that McCain supporters are wasting their time. However, if McCainiacs are going to keep spamming the board with McCain ads, they might at well at least TRY to be effective, rather then merely annoying.
I have been requested to cause a deadlock when I vote on Tuesday so it can go to the convention. I would like to know to what good I would be working for.
I asked a simple question, can you not answer it?
The problem I see is that there will be a reluctance for any of those candidates that we would support to step forward. It would end up being a brokered convention between Huckabee and McCain and I don’t know how beneficial that would be except we could problem get McCain to announce a conservative running mate.
Can’t we dig up some 200 year old DNA from the Founding Fathers and have a test-tube nominee?
...perhaps by Democrats. I think a lot of conservatives like him.
Write-in ? Lynne Cheney..... a hands-down winner.
In the extremely unlikely scenario of a brokered convention, the candidates with pledged delegates would release their delegates to support one of the four people who have delegates: John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee or Ron Paul.
It is most likely that Mike Huckabee would release his delegates to put Senator McCain over the top or else Mitt Romney might do the same.
Back room deals and concessions would determine who released what to whom.
With the lead McCain has now, and well over halfway to the number of delegates he needs, there is no way the Repub convention will be brokered. We need to all start our decision process as to whether we will actively support him against Hillary or Obama, or not. Simple as that.
And you people wonder why in Freeper poll after poll you cannot gain any support for McCain?
Try actually thinking instead of merely emoting for a change McCainbots. What you are doing is not working. Doing more of it, more shrilly is not going to change anything.
So instead of being the best campaigners for a Hillary’s campaign with your obnoxiously arrogant hysteric posts, shut up and actually listen for a while to hear what Conservatives are telling you.
You need their votes, they do not need your Hillary Lite Candidate.
Carter is the reason we now have “super delegates”
I will vote Republican in November. Right now it looks like my vote will be considered AGAINST Hillary or Obama not FOR the Republican nominee.
What’s this brokered convention talk? It wont happen on the Republican side, but may on the Democrat side.
So true, and my military buddies say he at least will defend the country and treat the troops well.
(13) See you at the media sponsored McCain weenie roast in November.
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