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Would You Welcome a Contested Convention?
National Review Online ^ | March 19, 2012 | NRO

Posted on 03/19/2012 1:26:32 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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A floor fight is the only way the conservative base (60% of the Party) has a fighting chance to boot Romney.

This year could see the sea change needed to win won for the "Gipper."

1 posted on 03/19/2012 1:26:37 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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I wanna see establishment blood on the floor (metaphorically speaking of course).


2 posted on 03/19/2012 1:28:29 PM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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Of course. :)


3 posted on 03/19/2012 1:29:15 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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The poll is would you welcome a contested CONVENTION.
No one wants a contested election except maybe
the lawyers.


4 posted on 03/19/2012 1:30:19 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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There needs to be a debate at the brokered convention.


5 posted on 03/19/2012 1:31:25 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: tet68

Thanks! I’ll see if I can get that fixed!


6 posted on 03/19/2012 1:32:15 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Rather than see Romney get the nomination, I would welcome an extraterrestrial invasion.;-)


7 posted on 03/19/2012 1:32:52 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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YES! YES! YES! YES! It would mean that the flip-flopping Massachusetts liberal didn't get enough delegates.
8 posted on 03/19/2012 1:35:32 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yes, Rick Perry for President.


9 posted on 03/19/2012 1:39:16 PM PDT by tirednvirginia
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If the Repulsicans want me to evah support them again, they’d BETTER have a contested convention.

A convention in which RINOmney is formerly nominated to be a dim-bulb-crat, and we get a conservative nominated to run against the Cretin-in-Chief.


10 posted on 03/19/2012 1:43:48 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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There's more than one way to skin these moderates.


11 posted on 03/19/2012 1:46:58 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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LOL!


12 posted on 03/19/2012 1:50:35 PM PDT by lonevoice (Klepto Baracka Marxo, impeach we much.)
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Rather than see Romney get the nomination, I would welcome an extraterrestrial invasion.;-)

Six of one, half dozen of the other.

13 posted on 03/19/2012 1:53:06 PM PDT by rogue yam
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“Rather than see Romney get the nomination, I would welcome an extraterrestrial invasion.;-)”

As long as they weren’t voters from Kolob!

14 posted on 03/19/2012 1:54:13 PM PDT by conservativejoy ("Where there is no vision, the people perish." Proverbs 29:18)
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Absolutely.

It's the only way we have a prayer of not having another RINO "moderate" shoved down our throats.

15 posted on 03/19/2012 1:54:20 PM PDT by Joe the Pimpernel (Islam is a religion of peace, and Moslems reserve the right to slaughter anyone who says otherwise.)
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I welcome a floor fight.

Barring that, America is doomed. Romney is just as bad as Zero.


16 posted on 03/19/2012 2:03:03 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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Yes 42 %
No 58 %
9,492 votes


17 posted on 03/19/2012 2:04:27 PM PDT by Gator113 (** President Newt Gingrich-"Our beloved republic deserves nothing less." ~Just livin' life, my way~)
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Criky...I forget that he's working that angle too.
18 posted on 03/19/2012 2:04:45 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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A floor fight is the only way the conservative base (60% of the Party) has a fighting chance to boot Romney.

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I just don’t understand the logic. If the party is controlled by the moderates just how will a brokered convention work out for conservatives? If Romney has twice as many delegates as anybody else and the “at large” delegates from the party headquarters are all “Moderate”, just how does that help anybody but Romney? I don’t want to be a party pooper but it looks to me like if Rick doesn’t do well in Illinois he’s done, if he does he can win the nomination.

I’m getting pretty disgusted with the whole situation about now. The only good candidates are out of the race. I’ll vote, if I’m alive, but that is about all I’ll do.

Romney talks a good story but nobody knows what he would do in office except possibly turn left. Santorum talks crazy talk, he too is unreliable. His mouth overloads his brain and could very possibly keep him from being electable. Newt could explain anything in the universe, it may not be true but he could convince you he is right but there is not a democrat in the world that would ever actually vote for him. I doubt that he can get many independents to vote for him either and we will need independents. Purity is great, we don’t have anybody that is pure conservative and the closest we have to it is Ron Paul but he comes across as a lunatic to some people so there is no way he could actually get elected. I’m in Kentucky, I’m seriously considering voting for Paul. His son is a great senator for us and I like most of what Paul has to say.

My vote won’t make any difference. If Romney gets Illinois NY and CAL it’s over, and it is looking good for him about now.

I don’t care for Romney, I don’t like people I can’t trust but I hope he beats Obama, Obama is ruining the country. I realize it isn’t Obama, it’s the electorate but he told this wonderful fairy tale of how he would get along with everyone and blah, blah, blah and like idiots, perhaps I should say, the idiots bought it. Sickening.

This from a newspaper in the Czech Republic:

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America. Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president.”


19 posted on 03/19/2012 2:06:00 PM PDT by JAKraig (Surely my religion is at least as good as yours)
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Romney will not discrimanate against gay/lesbian judges....he is not a conservative...end of statement


20 posted on 03/19/2012 2:06:32 PM PDT by rxtn41
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