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Posted on 03/22/2012 11:07:20 AM PDT by Josh Painter
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To: Kevin C
“it will be someone who hasnt run”
And if it is a real Conservative then we still win.
Some of us are wanting a brokered convention we have to serve notice on the GOP-e that we want go quietly into the night. And right now Newt is our mouthpiece.
Go Newt
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posted on
03/22/2012 12:31:37 PM PDT
by
Bailee
To: Josh Painter
If only two candidates can be nominated on the first ballot, the first ballot will be the only ballot unless Paul and Ginchrich delegates (assuming they’re the odd men out) voluntarily abstain.
To: Josh Painter
Gingrich or consequences? It appears that the consequences are being chosen so far. Have fun. Enjoy the reckoning.
How Dramatically Did Women's Suffrage Change the Size and Scope of Government?
JOHN R. LOTT Jr.
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) (download links for whole document at bottom of page)
September 1998
University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 60
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 107, Number 6, Part 1, pp. 1163-1198, December 1999
Abstract:
This paper examines the growth of government during this century as a result of giving women the right to vote. Using cross-sectional time-series data for 1870 to 1940, we examine state government expenditures and revenue as well as voting by U.S. House and Senate state delegations and the passage of a wide range of different state laws. Suffrage coincided with immediate increases in state government expenditures and revenue and more liberal voting patterns for federal representatives, and these effects continued growing over time as more women took advantage of the franchise. Contrary to many recent suggestions, the gender gap is not something that has arisen since the 1970s, and it helps explain why American government started growing when it did.
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posted on
03/22/2012 12:53:14 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: Josh Painter
I believe Reagan conservative Newt Gingrich would nominate Reagan conservative Sarah Palin before he ever would support liberal Romney or big government Republican Santorum.I've been developing a suspicion/fantasy that the plan is to keep WrongMee from getting over the top during the primaries, so there is some degree or other of brokered convention. Then Newt proposes a Palin/Gingrich or Gingrich/Palin ticket, and asks uncommitted and newly unbound (assuming they make it past round 1) delegates to vote for that ticket. A number of things have made me suspicious about this.
- When Palin withdrew in October, she predicted an unusual nominating process, even using language some interpreted as alluding that she might be back in the running at convention time.
- When she bowed out, it seemed as if her objections were more to the rigors of campaigning rather than serving.
- She consistently refuses to endorse WrongMee, compliments Newt's strengths, and says he should stay in the race.
- None of the current candidates inspire the base like she would, so she might be very appealing to some of the delegates, given the distasteful alternatives
- If this is the plan, it might have begun as a contingency. When she withdrew (didn't run), there were a number of conservatives in the running. If one of them took the ring, fine, but this plan might have been the backup for the kind of catastrophe that faces the GOP now.
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:09:31 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Josh Painter
Oh, and to my list of reasons to suspect that scenario, add this Gingrich quote from this morning:
"I'm not so sure you wouldn't get a series of brand new players" stepping forward during a brokered convention, he told Morning Edition co-host Steve Inskeep.
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posted on
03/22/2012 5:27:15 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: Josh Painter
Great so going into the General, Newt will have Georgia at 15 electorals and SC which has 8. He will be starting off with 23 electoral college. We need to do better than that if we are going to beat Obama.
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posted on
03/24/2012 7:21:25 AM PDT
by
napscoordinator
(A moral principled Christian with character is the frontrunner! Congrats Santorum!)
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