[Outlaw Woman]

McCain 2008 Part Deux

[entropy12]

List of GOP-E:

Jeb Bush
HW Bush
Marko Rubio
Paul Ryan
John Bolton
Nikki Haley
Kelly Ayotte
John Sununu
Rob Portman
Ann Coulter
Jim Demint
Dan Quale
Eric Cantor
Donald Trump
Michael Medved
Dennis Miller

[entropy12]

List of GOP-E:

Jeb Bush
HW Bush
Marko Rubio
Paul Ryan
John Bolton
Nikki Haley
Kelly Ayotte
John Sununu
Rob Portman
Ann Coulter
Jim Demint
Dan Quale
Eric Cantor
Donald Trump
Michael Medved
Dennis Miller

[svcw]

Romney may be the nominee but he will never be president.

[citizen]

Well, that’s clear as mud....not.

But you are correct in your headline. Romney will be the nominee. All the hyperventilating notwithstanding, that was a foregone conclusion months ago. Like it or not, there was, and is, simply no other viable candidate in the field.

[factoryrat]

If romney the used car salesman is the GOP nominee, then we are doomed to four more years of the obamanation. They are two sides of the same socialist minted coin.

[Linda Frances]

The GOP wants romney, they can have him. If they think we are lining up like good little conservatives to vote for their rino, their wrong. They assume we will vote for him to get rid of obama. Romney is no different than Obama and could hurt us long term. I'm calling their bluff and will vote third party or write in a candidate if romney wins the nomination. They don't care about conservatives, except to USE us for our vote and this conservative won't help them ruin this country.

Don't forget the cheating in Iowa and other states. Iowa still has 8 different precincts who “lost” all their paperwork. Romney has his church people working the precincts. I'm sure they will miraculously be found when Romney needs them.

http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2012/01/06/appanoose-county-gop-chairman-im-confident-the-results-are-accurate

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/20/145500170/8-precinct-vote-totals-missing-from-iowa-caucuses

Supporting Medium: 

FOX News (video): Romney & GOP kept Gingrich off of Virginia ballot

Examiner: Ron Paul’s wife, Carol Paul says elections are being stolen

CSM: Did Mitt Romney steal Maine caucuses from Ron Paul?

BuzzFeed: “Outrage”: Ron Paul Manager Claim Conspiracy In Maine

Political Wire: Santorum Says Romney Rigged Straw Poll

WSJ: Paul Campaign Challenges Romney's Maine Win

Examiner: Maine vote fraud official

Examiner: Nevada vote fraud official

Examiner: Iowa vote fraud official

http://www.examiner.com/conspiracy-in-denver/romney-virginia-gop-commit-election-fraud-fox-news

[SuziQ]

Romney will win, because he'll be the one with the most delegates, at the time of the convention. There are no 'dirty tricks'. We had some good discussions of issues, and a rollicking primary.

It's up to Republican voters at the ballot box in November. Are they going to withhold their vote from the nominee because he's not the uniformly most perfect candidate, and let Obama cruise on in to a second term, or will they vote FOR the Republican nominee, and also give him a Republican House and Senate, with lots more conservatives, so they can get some good things done?

[NorthernCrunchyCon]

Also, let’s not forget that the Utah GOPe - despite controlling the state house, state senate, governor mansion and judiciary - could not secure a conviction against the following Mormon fundamentalist leader (when they finally decided to prosecute):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022139/Warren-Jeffs-trial-Heavy-breathing-sex-tape-3-wives-including-bride-12.html

On the other hand, Texas quickly put him away for life (plus 20 years). Two extremely red states. Two different outcomes.

[x]

Notice how high the percentage of conservative states are proportional? Notice how low the percentage of progressive states are winner take all? Of course, there's overlap. But the trend is obvious.

If I understand what you're getting at and your numbers and my math are right, something like 86% of the red states are proportional and something like 76% of the blue states are proportional.

I guess that's statistically significant, but whether it makes a difference in real world terms is harder to say. Given better candidates such a difference might make a difference, but given who we have, we get what we get.

[COBOL2Java]

How the GOP-e gets conservatives to vote for their candidate

1996: "Vote for Dole! Vote for Dole! If you don't vote for Dole you'll be voting for Clinton!"

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2008: "Vote for McCain! Vote for McCain! If you don't vote for McCain you'll be voting for Obama!"

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OK folks, we see their tactics. They pick lousy RINOs (they're so confident this time around they've chosen someone worse than a RINO) and hope to scare us to vote for their loser. Again. They're here on FreeRepublic. Will it work?