Will the 'Perfect Candidate' Be Chosen at a Deadlocked Convention?

Self | December 3, 2011 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

I remember all the contention going on here when Harriet Miers was selected by Pres. George W. Bush to become Supreme Court Justice. I pretty much stayed out of the heated arguments going on BUT in the end it all worked out when Bush withdrew Miers' name and nominated Samuel Alito.

Will something similar happen next year in the selection of the next GOP Presidential candidate? Perhaps IF the convention is deadlocked. For the past few months we've had new heros who have faded to be replaced by even newer heros who have also faded. EVERY candidate proposed seems to have fatal flaws (although I can't even remember the "flaw" of Bachmann) that caused their popularity to plummet. Perry's entrance into the race was hailed by many but he soon plummeted due to his horrible debate performances. Then came the rise of Herman Cain who might take himself out of the race this weekend. The latest flavor of the moment is Newt Gingrich but now he has his severe critics who claims he is unelectable...or should be.

So what who do we finally end up with? It is my contention that we might end up with the person that many have said would be the strongest candidate yet he is not running. I won't name the person but he/she is a solid conservative with a lot of political experience and a great speaker who would be a slam dunk winner in November.

Perhaps you have your own favorite candidate who is not running. In any case I am hoping for a deadlocked convention for two reasons. One is that it would open the possibility this person would be nominated...and ultimately defeat Obama. The other is that a deadlocked convention would be INTERESTING to watch. For about 50 years the nominee at the convention was pretty much known in advance. However, if there were some fireworks at the convention, it would make some very interesting viewing...and I don't think it would harm the eventual nominee.

[Mountain Mary]

“Republicans clearly do not want Romney”. I would replace the word Republican with Conservative.

The party establishment GOP groupies in my area are all Romneybots.

[sodpoodle]

There are many men who have succeeded against those odds (and women too) but we have noted the increase in single mothers who depend on welfare (not fathers) to raise their kids; with no uncles or grandfathers filling the void.

We attempted to eliminate poverty, but created a bigger problem for those children and society as a whole.

Kudos to those who survive and flourish in spite of rough beginnings. Being an optimist, I prefer to believe that adversity doesn’t create character, it validates.

[Pollster1]

In my dreams.

We have similar dreams, but it won't happen in 2012. I'm praying for 2016 - and for an effective effort by her to influence Congressional elections in 2012.

As for a brokered convention, I don't believe it, although it's fun to imagine. Romney would win a deadlocked convention, but the GOP leadership will not permit that. Impatient voters will not permit it either. If a not-Romney can't knock that RINO down before half the races are over, the voters in the second half of the races will line up behind what the party and the mainstream media describe as "Inevitable Mitt". In which case we might as well BOASLAP and BOHICA for Obama.

[jocon307]

“I would replace the word Republican with Conservative.”

Yes, you are right. But, from that can we infer the at least 50% of republicans are conservatives? If so, that’s good I think.

[only1percent]

Not very likely.

To have a first ballot fail, you’d need the plurality holder to be short of a majority by MORE than the sum of superdelegates and delegates previously pledged to early state dropouts, because, as happened with Obama, you can count on virtually all of them falling behind the plurality holder in the name of democracy. That in turn requires two very-closely-matched candidates and a strong third pulling delegates deep into the calendar. District and statewide winner-take all rules make that hard to achieve.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Freepers are listening to the left wing drivel too much. By next November we could run a corpse and win. Any of the candidates on that debate stage with the possible exception of Ron Paul would win the general election. So lets just pick the one we like the best and get on with it. Right now its looking a lot like Newt.

[ngat]

Yes. Here’s why. Conservative republicans are nice people. They don’t hate their politican opponents, even democrats.

So, there stood poor Rick Perry. Michele grabbed a-holt of him with the Guardasil issue, began beating him severeley about the head and shoulders by saying he circumvented the will of the people, bypassing the Texas Legislature through Executive Order to institute the government program through Executive Order.

Then she whipped up on him, saying it was done in collusion with BigPharma, for a lousy $5,000.00 payoff. She then dropped kicked him by using the words-cront-capitalism.

Finally she finished him off by saying Rick had violated parental rights, and shoveled dirt on Perry by repeatedly stating the harm that could come to the health of LITTLE GIRLS by forcing this vaccine on them.

You didn’t realize that the non-professional-politician- voter would recoil in horror after witnessing brutality of Michele’s attack on a fellow-republican?

[ngat]

Oops, that shold be CRONY-Capitalism.

[ngat]

“So lets just pick the one we like the best and get on with it. Right now its looking a lot like Newt.”

As Speaker Boehner like to say, you are whistling past the graveyard with that one.

[Georgia Girl 2]

32 days til Iowa and Newt is running ahead in every poll. At this point the momentum is going to be hard to stop. If Cain drops out today a significant portion of that support with go to Newt. Some probably to Perry.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“As Speaker Boehner like to say, you are whistling past the graveyard with that one”

I thought Tammy Faye liked to say “Thats the best we could get” as he caves in to the Dems time after time. In fact I remember him and the other so called conservative republicrats throwing Newt to the wolves in the 90’s when he played chicken with Clinton and let the govt shut down. They couldn’t take the heat so they sacrificed Newt.