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Will the 'Perfect Candidate' Be Chosen at a Deadlocked Convention?
Self | December 3, 2011 | PJ-Comix

Posted on 12/03/2011 4:40:48 AM PST by PJ-Comix

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To: jocon307

“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.


41 posted on 12/03/2011 7:39:49 AM PST by Mountain Mary (One Nation Under God...There I said it.)
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To: pepperdog

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.


42 posted on 12/03/2011 7:42:46 AM PST by sodpoodle ( Newter the Democrats - top to bottom.)
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To: McGruff
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.

43 posted on 12/03/2011 7:48:18 AM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Mountain Mary

“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.


44 posted on 12/03/2011 7:58:01 AM PST by jocon307
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To: PJ-Comix

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.


45 posted on 12/03/2011 8:21:13 AM PST by only1percent
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To: PJ-Comix

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.


46 posted on 12/03/2011 8:32:40 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: PJ-Comix

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?


47 posted on 12/03/2011 8:36:10 AM PST by ngat
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To: ngat

Oops, that shold be CRONY-Capitalism.


48 posted on 12/03/2011 8:37:45 AM PST by ngat
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“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.


49 posted on 12/03/2011 8:40:25 AM PST by ngat
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To: ngat

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.


50 posted on 12/03/2011 8:45:22 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: ngat

“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.


51 posted on 12/03/2011 12:37:57 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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