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To: TBBT

IMO if this keeps up, you can forget about a Brokered Convention.


2 posted on 01/21/2012 8:49:59 AM PST by duckman (Go Newt...)
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To: duckman
"IMO if this keeps up, you can forget about a Brokered Cram a RINO like Jeb Bush or Mitt Obamney down our throats Convention."

Thier,... Fixed it :-)

18 posted on 01/21/2012 9:04:48 AM PST by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: duckman

Well, there are no “brokers” anymore, so that was never gonna happen anyway. But hopefully none of ‘em will have a clear-cut majority going into the convention, so that delegates will feel free to throw their support behind someone else entirely.


21 posted on 01/21/2012 9:07:16 AM PST by Wyoming Cowboy
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Awesome! Send Newt money! I did...


49 posted on 01/21/2012 9:24:18 AM PST by fabian (" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo with laughter")
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To: duckman

We don’t want a brokered convention anyway.

If it goes to a brokered convention the elites of the GOP make the decision. And we know who that will be.


64 posted on 01/21/2012 9:37:37 AM PST by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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To: duckman
"IMO if this keeps up, you can forget about a Brokered Convention."

You can forget about one anyway. I think it was Rush I was listening to and he was telling why their can't be one. Wish I could remember exactly what he said, but I can't.

65 posted on 01/21/2012 9:37:44 AM PST by Spunky (Sarah Palin on Polls "Poles are for Strippers and Cross Country Skiers")
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To: duckman

You can always forget about a “brokered convention.”

Here’s the facts on brokered conventions: They’re the stuff of wet dreams for journalists. EVERY presidential election since the early 70’s, they like to trot out the possibility of a brokered convention for one of the parties, usually the party not currently holding the presidency.

There isn’t going to be a brokered convention with the way the primary system is now set up. The last DNC brokered convention was in ‘48. For the GOP it was ‘52. The last POTUS elected coming out of a brokered convention was FDR in ‘32, and this is why journalists, left-wing dispensers of mental masturbation, keep the fantasy alive. They’re hoping for another FDR to emerge from the convention.

It ain’t gonna happen now. Period, end of discussion. The monetary requirements to run for POTUS are now so large that there can’t be a multi-way split of delegates to candidates who ran all of the primaries and received
enough delegates to engage in horse-trading at the convention.

Any time you read some journalist or blogger flapping their gums about “brokered conventions,” just ignore them. They’re fantasizing.


111 posted on 01/21/2012 10:16:24 AM PST by NVDave
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