[WILLIALAL]

Having a brokered convention, is the only way to stop Romney, but there is the risk of having a splintered party.

Neither solution makes me feel good about 2012.

[Mountain Mary]

” there is the risk of having a splintered party.”

It already is splintered: GOP-E vs Tea Party.

[DaxtonBrown]

[Having a brokered convention, is the only way to stop Romney, but there is the risk of having a splintered party.]

The party is already irreparably splintered betwen GOPE and Tea Party. Deal with it and move on to a solution.

[Fiji Hill]

Having a brokered convention, is the only way to stop Romney, but there is the risk of having a splintered party.

The party is already splintered. Many conservatives say they are tired of holding their noses and voting for the lesser of two evils, and that they will not vote for Romney if he gets the nomination.

The only way Romney can unite the party if he is the nominee is to pick a genuine conservative as a running mate and then pretend to be a conservative as Nixon did in 1968 and 1972, and as Bush did in 1988.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

The party is much more than splintered already, it is almost balkanized.

[RIghtwardHo]

As for me ... if it gets us to a Conservative GOP, I prefer a splintered Party. 2012 is flat going to suck. But I am done with the GOP Elite running conservatism.

[central_va]

but there is the risk of having a splintered party.

LOL. You can't splinter it any more than it already is.

[NavyCanDo]

“but there is the risk of having a splintered party.”

Try posting on FR “Go Romney” and see how truly splintered the party already is. You would get chewed up and spit out. While on other conservative forums you will find those believing Newt is the more progressive of the two, or a dreaded inside the beltway insider. Yes the splintered party is very real. What will it take to mend it? One helluva VEEP choice maybe? Hateful attacks by Obama on our nominee could get us to rally around him, also a possibility.

[Sola Veritas]

“Having a brokered convention, is the only way to stop Romney, but there is the risk of having a splintered party.”

I don’t know that a brokered convention would produce a more acceptable candidate than Romney. whatever, the party is already “splintered.” I have voted for the GOP nominee in every election since 1976. However, this time I refuse to vote for Romney IF he is the nominee. Of course, I won’t vote for Obama either. I doubt there will be any third party candidate I could support either. So, looks like I will be staying home (or leaving that portion of the ballot blank) for the first time in my 58 years.

So, as far as I am concerned - the GOP of Ronald Reagan is splintered and now beyond restoration.

[af_vet_rr]

but there is the risk of having a splintered party.

What do you mean "risk" of a splintered party?

The party has long since splintered between the establishment RINOs that support Romney, and Conservatives/Tea Party members.

If the GOP RINOs manage to get Romney the nomination, there won't be a problem with the party splintering, because there won't be any more Conservatives left in the party - we'll go elsewhere. We've been bending over for the RINOs for decades, and we're done with it.

A RINO gave us Clinton, another RINO gave us a second term of Clinton, another RINO gave us Obama. Now, another RINO by the name of Willard Romney is hell-bent on giving us a second term of Obama.