Posted on 02/17/2012 3:59:55 AM PST by Flotsam_Jetsome
Although there is much talk among political observers about the possibility of a brokered GOP convention in Tampa, Republican National Committee Communications Director Sean Spicer is not buying it.
"The last time we had a brokered convention was in the 1940’s, and we’re four contests in that have awarded delegates," Mr. Spicer told me on Wednesday. "We are four weeks and four states into a process. I get that it’s the buzz, but I literally spend as much time worrying if some space alien attack happens."
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He is obviously an idiot
I’d say they’re about as good as an inside commie attack.
Who, Mittens? Be that as it may, judging by the image I provided (h/t weaselzippers), it's also obvious that the makeover was a resounding success. I mean, the guy could fall back on a career in hand modeling! ;)
no the moron that said something about the aliens..........
I don't spend any time worrying about it, but it could happen.
A brokered convention could be. . . interesting.
Republican National Committee Communications Director
Admit it, Republicans, you're doomed.
Worried e-GOP is good e-GOP.
The e-GOP learned the tactics of Saul Alinsky, from the left.
Because increasingly the e-GOP ... is the left. Entrenched big government, open borders squatters.
If the establishment is ridiculing the idea of a brokered convention, you can bet that is exactly the one thing they are worried about.
And that’s good.
Speaking of Ron Paul...
That may very well be so, if GOP=Republicans, but I refuse to believe that is true of conservatism in the broader sense. The problem as I see it is that Republicans have become indistinguishable from those on the left, due to their addiction to money-driven politics and the perks that derive from their privileged positions of political power. It truly is a game to these people, and they are emotionally and intellectually isolated from having to suffer the direct consequences of their game-driven ploys and so feel that they can pal around on both sides of the aisle with impunity.
Many were given a shock in the 2010 mid-term elections. Hopefully there will be enough "quiet, but carrying a BIG stick" TEA party folks still engaged in 2012 that we'll be able to remind these jokers that they work for US, rather than we being the grateful recipients of their "largesse". Graduated tyranny is still tyranny.
I VOTE. And I'll be scrutinizing the candidates records and voting OUT any candidates, no matter their political stripe, that have demonstrated a willingness to sell my children's futures down the river for political expediency. And if tyranny ends up undeniably manifesting itself, there are 90 million reasons why putative traitors to the Republic should rethink their position.
“Nice accent...New Jersey?”
Note that I did not say real conservatives are doomed. Just the Republican Party.
And the fact that the RNC “communications” director would utter such inarticulate, sophomoric phrases is just one more sign of that inevitable destruction.
That was my point.
There is no rebellion within the Republican Party.
People are going to look back at the whole idea that there could be a brokered convention this year with the same astonishment that people before the first Gulf War were seriously arguing that we should wait for “Sanctions to bite” instead of liberating Kuwait.
The whole idea is based on fantasy.
so 1964 was not a brokered convention ???
Barry Goldwater 800
George Romney 40
But I think you also give them too much credit in assuming they have learned Alinsky's tactics or how to employ them to effect. The truth is: they are not at all smart or even clever; they genuinely fear ideas; and on average they have the communications ability of a chimp with a mouthful of marbles.
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