Ron Paul Could Still Win Enough Delegates To Deny Mitt Romney The Republican Nomination

The American Dream ^ | 5/7/2012 | The American Dream

[JohnKinAK]

Could be very interesting convention.

[Izzy Dunne]

And here I thought my nightmares were over.

[Keith in Iowa]

Deja moo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2880838/posts — I’ve seen this scat before. :D

[BushCountry]

Romney has 856 Delegates and needs 288 more delegates to secure the nomination. Ron Paul could get 70% of all the remaining delegates (over 900) and Romney would still win.

Is this possible? No

Is it delusional, bordering on insanity to even suggest that it is possible? Yes

I am no Romney fan, but facts are facts.

[JohnKinAK]

Is this possible? No

Is it delusional, bordering on insanity to even suggest that it is possible? Yes

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Read the whole article and you’ll see many of those Romney pledged Delegates are being filled by Paul supporters. And these delegates may abstain from voting on the first round, preventing Romney from winning on the first vote.

[Signalman]

No wonder the GOP is called The Stupid Party. Yeah, let’s have Grandpa Ron Paul as the nominee. Obama is salivating at this scenario.

[celtic gal]

For those of us in CA the primary is pretty much a joke...seems the nomination has already been determined by the eastern and southern states with a couple of western states tossed in for measure...so why should we even bother other than maybe a protest vote just for the hell of it? And as to ballot issues? Why bother with that either? Any time the legislature doesn’t like the way things go they scream violations and it is unconstitutional etc...
Apart from the weather in Central CA along the coast, CA has little to offer..but I am stuck here...so I may not even bother to vote at all until Nov.

[kempo]

I’m sure Las Vegas will give anyone here odds that Ron Paul will not be the next GOP candidate. Put your money where your mouth is.

[bigbob]

Porcine Airlines will fly first...

[myself6]

Hate to break this to ya...

Romney has no chance.

The people who make up the ground game are not with him. Hell, may not even vote for him (I wont be voting for him).

However...

No matter how flawed Ron Paul is he is NOT a socialist and therefore I can bring myself to vote for him. I would even work for his general election campaign.

With that being said...

There is no reason not to support this tactic, a brokered convention is simply the ONLY conceivable way we can keep the socialist/statist Romney off the ticket.

For those of you so called ABO types that say how much you dislike Romney but will vote for him over Obama... Well... Put your time and money where your GD mouth is and help create an opportunity to get someone other than that POS Romney on the ticket. Or are you, as I fully suspect, just paid romneybots or actual romney loyalists? (rhetorical question)

[taxcontrol]

Given the choice between Obama lite (Romney) and Nut Job (Paul), I’d have to go with Nut Job.

[HenryArmitage]

Romney has 856 Delegates and needs 288 more delegates to secure the nomination. Ron Paul could get 70% of all the remaining delegates (over 900) and Romney would still win.
I may have misunderstood but i think the article is implying that of the 856 that Romney 'has' he may not actually have. And that it is possible to convince members of that 856 to either support another candidate or if they are legal bound to Romney to just not vote in the first round as they would not be breaking the law and not helping Romney. That being said I agree with you that this article is grasping at straws that just are not there.

[SnakeDoctor]

I don’t buy it. Paul’s fanatics always seem to have this secret foolproof strategy for winning even though they lost.

On the off chance this is legit ... it ain’t a good thing. I don’t like Romney or Paul — but neither will beat Barack Obama if the Republican Party looks like a banana republic. International embarrassment doesn’t help electoral prospects.

SnakeDoc

[mnehring]

Bummer for Paul he still has the plurality of votes in five states (not delegates) to even be considered, even with his games. If he doesn’t win the plurality and Romney exceeds the required pledged delegates (no matter how many ‘sleepers’ Paul slips in), his name won’t even be brought up nor will his ‘sleepers’ be given a chance.

There is also the issue the RNC is looking at punishing Paul for some of his games such as Nevada and Louisiana where they have deceived voters (false voter guides) or having their own people lie as to who they are supporting when pledging as a delegate.

All this shows is his camp is as deceptive as a Chicago politician.

[Diogenesis]

Romney is a LYING CHEATER.

He does not have 856 delegates.

That said, Romney has no chance. Zero. Zed. Nada.

[wolfman23601]

A GOP Brokered Convention isn’t nearly the “international embarassment” of what Obama has put us through.

[SnakeDoctor]

Agreed. The public won’t see it that way ... the party name would change to “Banana Republicans” instantly.

This wouldn’t be a brokered convention in the normal sense. This would be one candidate hijacking-by-technicality delegates that, by actual party vote, were supposed to go to another.

SnakeDoc

[Deb]

So if Ron Paul manages to get his drug-addled followers to throw a monkey wrench into the GOP convention and the ensuing chaos is on display for the Left to mock and ridicule, does Paul expect some sort of gratitude or admiration?

Lunatic Libertarians have been trying for decades to tank the GOP so their party of drugs, porn and open borders can ascend. Fortunately, most people know there is an enormous difference between Republicans and Democrats.

[kempo]

I’m sure Las Vegas will give anyone here odds that Ron Paul will not be the next GOP candidate. Put your money where your mouth is.

[LegendHasIt]

Me, I’m just hoping for the Shrieking Comet of Death to cause an extinction level event before ANY of the likely political debacles come to fruition.