it would truly be a stroke of genius.
which means the stupid party won’t allow it....
Sarah???
I thought I would post it first LOL
Wouldn’t a brokered convention be the easiest way for the establishment to throw their candidate on us?
A “Brokered Convention” would put the RNC/GOP “Elites” in charge and give(foist on) us Mittens. NO THANKS!
Let’s wait until at least the Florida primary until we start talking such gibberish............
Cheer up, my baby sister could beat Obama as things stand now. Any of the GOP candidates currently in the mix can easily win this election, so don’t fall for the hype that tells us we must choose Romney.
At this point we have no good choices. There is not a single candidate that I can vote for. Back in ‘08 I voted for McCain even though he was not a good candidate. I won’t just vote for Anyone But Obama. I refuse to settle for the candidates hand picked by the party powers.
The problem is that too many people still pay attention to the MSM. ANY candidate we put up will be demonized as a devil worshiping, mass murdering, child molester. And a significant portion of the electorate will believe it.
Most people define brokered election as one where the candidate is not nominated on the first ballot. The last time that happened was 1948 for the Republicans and 1952 for the Democrats.
But I think you mean brokered in an older sense where the party looks past the candidates and nominates a "dark horse." The last time that happened for the Republicans was when the party bosses invited Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes to the be the candidate to heal the rift between the Taft and Roosevelt wings of the Republican Party.
I would say the last brokered convention for the Democrats was 1924. Although John Davis was technically a candidate significant support did not begin to swing his way until he emerged as a compromise candidate around the 100th ballot.
Regardless of how you define brokered convention, the last brokered candidates in both parties all lost.
The repungnicons do not even have a WAR ROOM setup... and they have been at war with progressive demonrats for six years. In a word... Worthless.
LLS
I believe you are correct and some potential candidates have been on this strategey all along. That said....
Loose lips sink ships.
We don't have another Reagan in this group of candidates (I wish there were) and it doesn't look like one in the wings either. So check everything on the all the candidates and chose wisely, or else the media will pick our candidate and the country will be lost forever.
I will chose whomevery I think is the best conservative candidate in our state primary, please do likewise.
A good VP pick -- people are talking about Marco Rubio right now -- could attract people who are on the fence.
Of course the candidate at the top of the ticket would have to be smart enough know this (and be confident enough not to be threatened by the popularity of the VP pick).
It is an option.
oh please, oh please
oh please, oh please
oh please, oh please
A contested convention would be a vast improvement over the dull assemblages that conventions have become in the last four decades.