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I remember in June of 2008 being at the gay Pride parade here in Chicago and talking to a man named David Valkema from the Log Cabin Republicans — a classic Cocktail Partier. He said — and I will never, ever forget this — “Sometimes we run a guy we just want to get rid of so we can be done with him for good. No one wants McCain to win, and I hope Obama wins, because he’ll be a new Jimmy Carter and then we can have a new Reagan later”. He said that McCain could have his run — and have the “one and done” shot at a national campaign — and then the party would be able to tell him to shut up and go away, much like what it did to Bob Dole after his spectacular loss.

We used to hear that kind of thing here before Palin and the tea party, I still don't feel comfortable speaking about how FR has been or is, as someone who has't been here so long, but it seems to me that we are a little more focused on and confident of, being able to make things change.

We don't have so many guys talking about the inevitable, and the unchangeable, the unbreakable conspiracies, the uselessness which only leaves cynicism and bitterness to cling to, we seem to think that we have a real shot at change, and at winning, it seems to me that we are more aggressive and now we are part of a wider, stronger, more confident, and capable, and better led, conservative movement.

Something’s going on, and it is definitely not for the betterment of the Grand Old Party!

quote from FR poster conservativejoy:

If some of the GOP insiders in PA know what they are talking about, a brokered convention is not going to happen.
Word around Pittsburg is that the GOP E has already brokered a deal between Santorum and Romney.

As far as the GOP is concerned, the only thing the primaries are deciding is who is going to take the top of the ticket.

Sickening.

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Heads up. Rumor of a deal between Romney and Santorum camps. This person claims to have knowledge of this deal through an old established PA family who are pro-Romney but despise Santorum (for unstated reasons).

If this is true it throws the whole primary into turmoil.

For more information, see: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2848107/posts

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Certainly plausible and would partially explain why the R’s never took the gloves off when it came to 0bama’s past. But a funny thing happned on the way to the convention..McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. And she took the gloves off where they wouldn’t/couldn’t..and they (the cocktail party) expended at least as much energy running against her as they did 0bama.