Posted on 02/22/2012 10:46:49 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
If no candidate has the requisite number of delegates to provide a first round victory in the nominating vote at the Republican Convention, the convention becomes brokered.
What happens next can get a little dodgy. Deals, sell-outs, betrayals, promises and compromises will take place, all in the name of choosing the individual who MUST win the election in November.
For 4 more years of the Manchurian Candidate president are NOT an option the United States and the American people can tolerate.
Of course the legacy media, taking its daily broadcast talking points directly from the White House, would predictably make a big deal of the notion that the eventual Republican nominee couldn’t from the very beginning muster the necessary strength to unite Party members to the cause.
But that won’t mean much in the final outcome. After all, the media will spend each and every hour of the months leading to November in perpetual attack against the Republican nominee anyway. One more issue won’t really matter much.
In fact the biggest threat to the chosen candidate probably won’t come from the Democrat Party or its media subsidiary, but from “fellow Republicans”, especially if the nominee should actually be a favorite of the Party base…that is, a conservative!
Super-RINO’s like Karl “Tokyo” Rove would undoubtedly spend the remaining months prior to D-Day doing everything in their power to continue endearing themselves to liberal media colleagues by discrediting the Republican nominee...
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The media likes to talk about this every four years. Not gonna happen. We’ll have a nominee well before the convention.
SnakeDoc
For extra credit, name the last time a candidate picked at convention actual won the Presidency.
Many people consider a "brokered" convention one in which the candidate isn't nominated on the first ballot. But that's not what people are talking about. In this sense, people mean nominating someone not going into the convention as a candidate. I don't think I know the answer to the last one of those who actually won.
I like the idea of a brokered convention. It would be a good place to hash out issues and get all the ducks in a row. It would properly focus attention on what matters.
Unfortunately, the ‘money war’ candidates wage against one another in their campaigning will force some guys out who, though they may have run out of $$$$$, were still good men and MORE TRUE representatives of the people! As it is, only the guy who could afford the biggest, noisiest campaign is the one we're stuck with!
Only to those ignorant on who populates Conventions and how they work. It will favor the GOP apparatus candidate Milt. Anyone thinking that anyone other than the 4 current candidates has even a long shot chance of walking out of Tampa Bay with the nomination is dreaming.
Sarah Palin, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
For the Republicans I believe that would be Harding in 1920
The GOP elites are trying their best to foist Mitt Romney upon us and they’re having trouble getting us to swallow. How much easier it will be for them to give us another liberal Republican at a so-called ‘brokered’ convention?
Warren G. Harding had the grace to die before the corruption surrounding his time in the Oval Office came into the open, and Calvin Coolidge proceeded with the vigorous prosecution of those still living.
Something to be said for righteous application of a set of moral principles.
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