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?
One thing people are not considering is that as long as there is some doubt as to the nominee the MSM will not turn the big guns on McCain. They really want him as the nominee because he is such a rich target. If he was a sure thing now that would mean 9 months of displaying his dirty laundry.
I'm not saying it will be enough to cut the barriage a little shorter in duration but we all know that the more you have time to throw crap the more of it will stick
Man if anyone has crap that can get thrown at them it is McCain
“Most are legally bound for one or two ballots. Never heard of anybody going to jail for ‘breaking faith’.”
Mr. niteowl77
If, in the very unlikely event that McCain does win by the third ballot, there might be an opportunity for those candidates who have enough delegates to make a deal with McCain. The two most likely candidates are Huckabee and Romney. The other candidates are not likely to have enough delegates to put McCain over the top if he does not win by the third ballot.
First, Huckabee hates Romney because he is a Mormon so Huckabee and Romney will not deal to stop McCain. That leaves it to Hucakabee or Romney to deal with McCain.
Huckabee wants to be president but will settle for the vice presidency believing that is the his path to the presidency.
Romney does not want to be vice president, though he did (and maybe does) want to be president.
My first prediction is McCain will deal with Romney because doing so will allow McCain to pick his own running mate in exchnage for many of Romney's people being named to key cabinet positions--State, Defense and Commerce.
My second predictin is that McCain will pick none of the other presidential wannabes as his vice presidential running mate because there is much more talent outside that pool than inside it.
Thank you. That was brilliant.
It is my understanding the rules can only be suspended by a majority vote of the delegates
Remember, both major political parties are coalitions of smaller parties that would be independent parties in a parliamentary system. McCain is simply the leader of the moderate branch of the Republicans. If the conservatives had picked one candidate earlier, either Romney or Huckabee, who had the requisite political skills (which Hunter does not), then McCain would not be the nominee.
Better McCain than Hillary.
The 'Rats have superdelegates. We have McCain delegates. Superdelegates are looking better and better.
Not me. I don't support ecotards.
Thank you for the undeserved compliment. I would say, “It’s logical, Jim, not brilliant.”
I could vote for:
John Bolton
Peter Pace
Duncan Hunter
Joe Apaio
OR
the great unknown who has
the character traits of the men
listed above.
My husband suggested:
Michael Steele
Rick Santorum
or my husband (who rules our household and that’s a handful).
I don’t — my husband said that and HE thinks Steele would be a good choice.
You might try Google.
If Hillary wins the nomination (in a smokefilled room in Denver), I predict Obama will reject any offer to be Hillary's running mate. He does not like her, does not like her politics of destruction, does not like her politics of self-enrichment, does not like her politics of "its my turn".
Conversely, if Obama wins the Democrats' nomination (which is beginning to look more and more likely after the four blowouts and Hillary canning her campaign manager), I predict Obama will find a Washington outsider or a person who has worked inside the Beltway but has since spent at least a decade outside Washington. My prediction would be Mayor Bill White of Houston.
No one has answered my question.
i thought MichaelTArchangel's scenario sounded ROOTED IN REALITY though.
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