Posted on 05/12/2015 7:44:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Ideas include oath to single candidate, pledge to stay in race until end.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — As the Republican National Committee convenes its spring meeting in this resort city, conservative activists fearful of getting stuck with another moderate candidate in 2016 are gathering 2,300 miles away to plot strategies to engineer the presidential nomination to their liking.
Representatives of some 40 conservative groups plan to meet Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in the Washington suburb of McLean, Virginia, where they will air their fears of having the nomination process hijacked by establishment Republicans and wrestle over different strategies to turn the primaries and caucuses to their advantage.
Their goal is to avoid ending up with another moderate, establishment candidate like they landed in 2008 with John McCain and in 2012 with Mitt Romney. Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the way they think Ronald Reagan did 35 years ago....
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no outcome (yet), just that they had the meeting with the intent to determine which one they would consolidate behind. I cannot imagine it will be anyone BUT Cruz. Hopefully we hear soon.
I believe Sununu had RR ear on more than one.They were all a disaster as far as I’m concerned.
If that’s the case then my view of goldwater has dimmed.
Sununu wasn’t in the Reagan administration. He was governor in 1988 and helped GHWB win the NH primary.
Good luck with that. Hope that they are successful. They absolutely have to end open primaries, motor voter registration, and other dimmanazi methods of choosing our candidates.
Got it.Thanks.
I agree 100%, it’s good to see an adult in the race, finally!
Yes, it is.
Fiorina probably has 10 percent of Marin County locked up; well maybe, 5 percent.
Palin and Ryan have something in common: they could not corral the aberrant Biden in “debate”.
rofl
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