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A Thompson Convention Nomination?
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings ^
| January 24, 2008
Posted on 01/24/2008 5:38:40 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Steven Stark lays out a scenario whereby all the other candidates, none of whom have wholehearted Republican support, cancel each other out, paving the way for Fred Thompson to receive the nomination at the convention.
"When conventions deadlock, history teaches us that yesterday's disappointments become tomorrow's stars. If McCain can't stampede to the nomination and Super Tuesday doesn't produce another clear front-runner, we may not have heard the last of Fred..."
I find the idea highly unlikely, though appealing...but stranger things have happened. Whoever would have thought the 2000 election wouldn't be decided for 36 days?
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: brokeredconvention; deadlock; election; electionpresident; elections; fred; fred08; fredthompson; gop; gopconvention; johnmccain; mikehuckabee; minneapolis; mittromney; republicans; rudygiuliani; thompson
Exactly.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Don’t get my hopes up...that’s mean.
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posted on
01/24/2008 5:40:54 PM PST
by
madison10
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/24/2008 5:49:59 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Two-hand-voting now in play - One on lever, other holding nose.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Good grief, give it up.
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posted on
01/24/2008 5:50:07 PM PST
by
Hugin
(Mecca delenda est!)
To: Hugin
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posted on
01/24/2008 5:54:20 PM PST
by
reasonisfaith
(Donating to Fred Thompson is the antidote to media bias.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; Hugin
Thanks, for the thread/post.
Good grief, give it up.....did G. Washington @ Valley Forge in 1777?...no....While F.D.T. isn't W.G...
He's very likely the best of the lot........We mustn't let ABCNNBC_b_s ($hrillary/DNC) pick our candidate(s).
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posted on
01/24/2008 6:06:15 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you. :^( FRed was LMSM roadkill)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: madison10
You all are dreaming. I wish this were possible. However, Thompson getting out before super tuesday pretty much will make him a non factor if we get to a brokered convention. Conservatives best shot is that Dick Cheney emerges and shows a little intrest in the job. Could you imagine the liberals and the MSM reacting to that? It would be worth the price of admission.
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posted on
01/25/2008 7:10:57 AM PST
by
bw04wb
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
01/25/2008 6:47:49 PM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Thompson’s best hope is for a VP nod. That job doesn’t require setting your alarm clock.
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posted on
01/25/2008 6:49:30 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Unlikley, but I hold out hope.
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posted on
02/05/2008 12:43:09 PM PST
by
MeanWestTexan
(At kaki metumtam, Willard McRomnabee)
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