You wanna war?
Posted on 02/13/2012 12:30:33 PM PST by Bigtigermike
Santorum’s contraception boom — “We’re all Catholics now,” said Mike Huckabee — won’t hold up. Because we’re not. This race could well go to a brokered convention. If Jeb Bush is proposed, so Sarah Palin should be minutes later. She is now and always has been the singular Jacksonian voice in the original Tea Party phenomenon; the only one who can bring it to the mainstream. Her absence from the primary race has left a vacuum and no substitute has been found. Every other possible or potential leadership hopeful has risen and receded in this long Republican primary season.
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The Bush secret agenda has been a subliminal theme for months with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie as the favored proxy and pitchman. At CPAC it broke through to the surface: Al Cardenas, head of the American Conservative Union, says that Republican turmoil might lead to a brokered convention in which Jeb Bush would emerge as a “possible alternative” party nominee. It made Drudge this weekend.
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At best, he is trying to set us up.
I’m not the one who doesn’t have a life by sitting hours upon hours scouring FreeRepublic for threads that have Palin name in it to make snide remark. Seriously, that all you do. What a waste!! LOL!
Get out of da Bushes!
A brokered convention that dumps Romney for Jeb or Christie is a disaster and will re-elect Obama. It would be the elites and RNC just switching RINOs.
If we can’t get a conservative like Gingrich, Santorum or Palin, we are not offering America a real and good opponent to Obama. Another term for Obama & co. will put America so far down, it could be 50 years before we get back to pre-2008 strength. You, your kids and grand kids will be little more than 3rd world peasants.
The MSM would try to hang Social Security reform around his neck, but I don't think it is as powerful an issue as it once was.
No, you just post threads about her.
Seriously, that all you do.
Talk like caveman much?
Bingo! I think her comments have been hedged toward not running in the primaries, leaving a run in the election open by virtue of not making comments about such specifically. I’ve had the sense all along that she sees being drafted at the best way of seeking POTUS. She has stayed above the fray and not wasted time with debates that have done little more than dilute the standing of all who have participated.
The Bushes are so liberal there is no way I could ever vote for their New World Order which is what we are fighting now.
Not generally a fan of populism. I think the average man or woman is smart enough to understand more than just simply platitudes.
Bingo right back at you!!!!!!
That’s why she hasn’t officially endorsed, in fact she praises all of the candidates and their supporters but backs Newt “strategically” to keep the process going on as she said. If drafted, if nominated, she WILL serve.
“Republican turmoil might lead to a brokered convention in which Jeb Bush would emerge as a “possible alternative” party nominee.”
No matter how many stakes you drive through the heart of the establishment Dracula, he keep’s coming back. And since Bush would likely go down in flames in a year when Republicans should win big, it leads one to conclude the establishment would rather lose in the general election than lose control in the primary.
No to the establishment party hacks and no to any more Bushes.
First they came for the Catholics, but I said nothing because I was not a Catholic...
His reason was like lightning and his action like a thunderbolt" Amos Kendall,.
Because many inside the Beltway in both parties are secularists; agnostics and/or atheists. They don't think Obama’s most recent brazen usurpation of the Constitution is any threat to them. They're wrong on all counts. They're the same type of people who thought when Hitler came for the Jews it wouldn't impact them.
Most of us here believe that the show CAN'T go on, and we want a leader who knows it, too, and isn't afraid to say so.
Sarah is that leader. Newt is at least a wannabe.
Mitt and Rick are selling continuity - your benefits are safe - just with better management.
Winston Churchill was, in 1936, 37, 38, and 39 one of the most mocked, derided, and despised men in Britain. "Everybody knew" he was a joke, and dangerous, to boot. Even with panzers rolling through Poland and paratroops landing in Norway, there was no way for him to become PM.
Only when the panzers were heading for the Channel was it possible for the old thinking to give way, and for the King to send for Churchill.
I feel like that's where we are at. There are Those Who Can See, those who know that if this can't go on, then it won't, and that change at our direction and in a manner of our choosing will be preferable to collapse - but we are far from a majority.
Sarah Palin, who I believe with all my heart is the one to lead us, cannot be chosen until things get worse - a lot worse. And we have no King to send for her.
If Obama is reelected, I do not believe we have four years to wait. A lot is riding on this election, but we are leaderless.
This notion that a brokered convention could be a healthy or “good” event just doesn’t ring true to me. I do not know why Palin thinks that it will be. I see no guarantee that such an event will lead to a conservative getting the nomination. Corrupt people always lift up other corrupt people. It is just as likely that we’ll get a RINO shoved down our throat than it is that Sarah Palin will get it, and this would happen with even less accountability than it would in just winning the delegates the old fashioned way. After all, there will be deals going on behind closed doors, conversations I will not be privy to. Right now, I can at least see what’s going on state by state. I can read the polls. I can debate with people and I can campaign in my home state, or on the internet in my limited way, or I can donate money to my candidate so they can keep on fighting. In the brokered convention... I lose all of that. It gets handed off to a small group of people who will be tackled directly by Establishment propaganda types.
This isn’t good for the country. We must do our best to avoid a brokered convention at all costs, and get a firm front runner immediately.
And as for Palin getting the nod. I don’t see how that can be seen as a good or bad thing. We already have candidates who can express conservatism. The question is, what will Palin’s platform be? If it’s as weak as Santorum’s or McCain’s, her personality itself simply won’t cut it. We need real change in this country, including tax reform, entitelment reform... measures must be taken that will strike a lasting blow against the leftist enemy and reinvigorate our failing country. Now is not the time for the usual solutions that never go anywhere. Now is the time to launch a bold initiative.
That’s another thing. Look at what names are getting shot around. People who are not going to be vetted the way this campaign season can vet them. People who are going to get nominated without a real discussion on their platform. They may not even have a platform when they win it. It would just degenerate into a pure personality contest. Unless I am wrong about how this brokered convention would work, that’s the only conclusion I can come to.
If Palin thinks this stuff is actually positive, perhaps the reason why she has been content to provide commentary as opposed to leadership is because she has bought into this idea of an upset win in a brokered convention when all the other conservatives have “failed”. She would therefore have “no choice” but to take it upon herself. In other words, she would take the spoils, without any of the toil. This is conspiracy theory, of course. But if this really did come to pass... Palin wouldn’t be the person we thought she was, and I wouldn’t support her.
But the fact of the matter is, I wouldn’t support any of the losers who emerged from this brokered process.
The more I think about it, the bigger the tragedy begins to look.
We must defeat Romney, and we must try our best to avoid a brokered convention. Unless I am horribly misguided as to how a brokered convention will work that is.
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