Another part of their strategy is to once again pre-select their establishment candidate whose “turn” it is,
and then place him against 5 conservative candidates that the base actually wants.
The establishment candidate gets 40% of the primary votes,
and each of the others gets 10-15% of the votes.
Haven’t we seen this game a few times already?
The winner would not necesarrily be the richest, but the baddest ass ... and I think we could use a basdass Pubbie right about now.
No more, "My esteemed opponant .. " crap.
"Why, just last week that sleazy bastard ... "
Let the fur fly.
Democrats would vote for a Republican fighter !
Mix in the super-delegates and that gives the GOPelite candidate a very big advantage from the start. Unless the preferred candidate crashes and burns early, the nomination is probably a foregone conclusion.
Of course, there will be the retreads from 2008 and 2012, and the hangers-on who help split the votes. Ironically (or by design) those hangers-on tend to split the conservative vote rather than the GOPelite vote. Isn’t that curious.
Of course, from 2008 and 2012, the challengers were not that stellar of a bunch anyway:
the talkshow host who has zipper problems,
the female who actually was kind of flakey,
the one with brain-freeze when it came to naming the departments he would eliminate,
the deposed former House speaker who supposedly would out-debate Obama, but lost the 2 Florida debates to the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama,
the one who couldn’t retain his own Senate seat,
and for 2012, the guy who lost to the guy who lost to Obama.
Now, we already hear rumblings from Huckabee (his evangelical friends are just begging him to run). Even McCain and Romney, both hinting.
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The most interesting might be the Dem race again — watching another unknown come out of the woodwork and send Hillary’s coronation trip into the abyss.
I’ve seen that too, but how do you fix that? I think all conservatives have got to unite around an acceptable conservative candidate.
The problem is, so many conservatives refuse to bend when it comes to nominating their side’s candidate. No one is ever good enough for the majority of conservatives. They will only vote for their guy and will refuse to vote in the general election if their “guy” doesn’t’ win The primary.
They will even vote for a democrat just to spite those they disagree with.
I’ve seen that happen on several primary seasons.
Nah, won’t work. They will be just as shocked when, in a shorter primary, their guys lose even faster.
Actually, think about it: a shorter period FAVORS the “non-establishment” candidate who will usually have less money. The longer the campaign, the more it works against the lesser-funded candidate.
Yup. The conservatives need to pick one and put ONE person on stage with the GOPe idiot.
I’ve said before the tea party needs their own primary before the GOPe one.
Send the ONE winner to the stage with Cristy.. You likely will only be able to fit one more on the stage anyways.
“Another part of their strategy is to once again pre-select their establishment candidate whose “turn” it is,
and then place him against 5 conservative candidates that the base actually wants....”
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It’s clear that Huckabee has already “unofficially” volunteered to be one of these “conservative” candidates to attract some votes from a true candidate such as Ted Cruz. Huckabee has already performed his first chore for the GOPe by endorsing his fellow false conservative Little Lindsey Graham.
I hope that Huckabee is NOT fooling any of you conservatives out there—but he probably is.
The GOPe is stacking the deck in this process, you can be sure of that.
One thing I find interesting is the prohibition on early winner take all primaries.
We wouldn’t want a conservative to win all those SC delegates early.