Posted on 03/12/2012 10:34:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
True that! Oh... and Herman Cain.
Oh now that right there gives me a very big happy thought.
A veep nod isn’t in Santorum’s cards. The magic 8 ball says “no”.
Santorum has bigger problems.
Agree. We don’t need any brokered conventions. There will be blood on the floor and the MSM will go to town with this and Obama will cruise to victory. With only 60 days left after the convention, there won’t be enough time to co-ordinate and launch a major national campaign.
Besides, the weekend contests left Romney with 454 delegates in the AP’s count, more than all his rivals combined. Santorum had 217, while Gingrich had 107 and Texas Rep. Ron Paul had 47. It’s a Santorum v. Romney match up at this point in time.
The beauty with having a brokered convention is that it will occur after the dem convention and we’ll see what changes, if any the democrats make.
If polling is looking bad for Obama he might add Hillary to the ticket. It would be awkward for him to make the switch if the GOP has a brokered convention and he’s suddenly up against the Palin-West team.
Memo to parksstp. Texas has no control over its primary date. Texas elections are under the control of Federal Judges Orlando Garcia, Xavier Rodrigues, and US Attorneys Holder and Perez. It is (almost) that simple.
ingtar: A brokered convention means that the GOP-E is calling all the shots.
advertising guy; a brokered convention puts Sarah in play and she knows it
LOL...........
Right now the thinking is all over the place. Brokered will be give and take by a lots of folks in order to find an agreeable nominee. We’ll see if it comes to that.
Cain’s slap and tickle stuff was true so ....Cain...not so much.....lol
Saint Rick is dreaming if he believes he can win a brokered convention. He can’t even win his home states.
RE: If polling is looking bad for Obama he might add Hillary to the ticket.
How will dumping Joe Biden make him look like?
money boss....lots of cubby holed money if’n we get a brokered and bet this......it is wild west open if that happens
I don't think the GOPe would have any objection to a Romney/Santorum ticket. My speculation was along the lines that Santorum will have some substantial bargaining power; and that the GOPe would rather Santorum be on the ticket, than Gingrich. That, plus Romney is likely to enter the convention as the front-runner, with close to 1144 delegates. If delegates bleed off to Santorum, then there will be quite an incentive to combine Romney and Santorum.
Hillary is out...she knows the Kenyan is illegal....just ax her pac
RE: I don’t think the GOPe would have any objection to a Romney/Santorum ticket.
How will two Northeasterners play out in the south?
Everybody, check out this article. It explains a little bit about bound and unbound, brokered and open.
At this point, no matter if we have a 2 man race or a 4 man race, neither Santorum or Gingrich will be able to secure the nomination before convention. I say that they all stay in, take as many delegates as they can, keep Mitt from clinching and then make a deal right before the Convention, combine their delegates and decide who takes the lead. Of course, we still have the bound and unbound issue to deal with, as well as the Super Delegates. Question is, just how far is the Establishment willing to go to force Mitt on us?
RE: Romney/Santorum ticket.
Well, in another Rick Santorum thread, I have read REAMS of accusations against Santorum that he has sold out to the pro-life cause by endorsing Romney in 2008 (Romney of course, is the so-called born again pro-life candidate who still defends Romneycare, which among other things, pays for — ABORTION ).
Santorum running as Romney’s VP will only cement the view that he is selling out the pro-life cause of the Republican party.
How’s he going to answer that?
Don’t be putting your money on that. Seriously.
If a truly brokered convention is the result, and none of the four left is the nominee it will not be Jeb Bush.
Does Santorum "take one for the team" and putting Romney over the top in exchange for the VP slot.
I love how when Santorum abandons his stated principles, he's "taking one for the team." Nothing's ever his failing or responsibility, kinda like Obama.
If he does it before the convention he looks like a genius. As if it was all part of the plan...
If he does it after the GOP convention he’ll look weak and desperate.
What problems? I would think Santorum would be THRILLED to be vice president.
This analysis makes sense to me. In other words:
The Romney game plan is to win 1144 delegates before the convention, the Santorum game plan is to keep that from happening.
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