Posted on 02/11/2012 3:10:22 PM PST by WL-law
Washington and Lee University's 2012 Mock Republican Convention just concluded minutes ago.
A long-standing W&L tradition organized and executed entirely by the students, it was an exciting and impressive 3-day affair, featuring appearances from a variety of governors, congresspersons and other politicos, a debate, a parade of floats down Main Street in Lexington Virginia, and the usual parties and spirited behavior.
Today the delegations voted. The winner -- Romney, on the first ballot, carrying about 70% of the votes cast.
Romney himself could't seem to find a way to call in to make an acceptance speech, and so Ann Romney subbed for him
No surprise here; these are elitists, and this is John Warner’s ‘’alma mater’’.
“these are elitists”
It’s the students themselves that make the calls. “Elitists”? - They’re smart and conservative, so I guess they’d take that as a compliment.
Besides, neither George Washington nor Robert E. Lee ever voted for a Republican in their lives.
One of my granddaughters is currently a student at Washington and Lee.
But I certainly wouldn’t call these guys “smart” if they voted overwhelmingly for Romney. Do they know ANYTHING about his record?
>>>Washington and Lee 2012 mock convention - chooses Romney<<<<
Soda Industry Convention - chooses Coke
Ice Cream Producers of America - chooses Vanilla
Wedding Planners Dress Color Consortium - chooses White
Cheese Producers Association - chooses Cheddar
And so forth.
“One of my granddaughters is currently a student ...”
My daughter is a 2L at the law school at W & L. She said it’s mostly just a big party, but she is on law review and has an article due so is preoccupied and avoiding any distractions.
At any rate, it’s too bad that Romney won - obviously no one is getting his real record out there for exposure. ABR
My sense is that the student delegates for each state are doing research to predict how their state will vote at the convention.
They are not advocating on their own, directly.
They are providing a carefully researched view into what they expect will happen - hence the structure of a Mock COnvention.
So — analysis into the students’ motive is ill-placed.
They are not advocating on their own, directly.
They are providing a carefully researched view into what they expect will happen - hence the structure of a Mock COnvention.
So — analysis into the students’ motive is ill-placed.
Ill placed? How naive. The DEMOCRATS want Romney to lose for them. So Democrat operatives - including, yes, college students - are sending out message after message in venue after venue to get people believing Romney is inevitable. That's CALLED "indirect advocacy." It's plug obvious, it's organized, and it's the very purpose of the existence of the RINO faction - to serve the Rats in this manner - by sabotaging the conservatives.
I suspect this is going on I only wish it could be documented and exposed the way Acorn was.
“So Democrat operatives - including, yes, college students - are sending out message after message in venue after venue to get people believing Romney is inevitable. That’s CALLED “indirect advocacy.” It’s plug obvious, it’s organized, and it’s the very purpose of the existence of the RINO faction - to serve the Rats in this manner - by sabotaging the conservatives.”
Wow. Let me get this straight - your claim is that conservative, churchgoing students attending a school renounced for its student conservatism are “democratic operatives” - because their research led them to conclude that, in particular instances, their state will likely allocate some votes to Romney.
That’s ridiculous, and a slander on the students.
Do you think that the students representing, say, the Utah delegation, are wrong for concluding that Utah will most likely vote Romney? Or are they democrat “operatives”?
“So - analysis into the students’ motive is ill placed.”
Thanks for the insight as to how the Mock Convention was structured ... makes sense - it’s meant to more or less parallel the projected reality of the actual convention. I didn’t fully realize that.
The voice of young country-clubbers....
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