[deport]

Someone in leadership must have said “We better stop balloting or we are going to end up endorsing a guy who can’t win.” I’m not a sour grapes kind of guy but this stinks BAD to me.

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Care to guess how the NFRA endorsement came out in October 1999?... They failed to reach the 66% requirement that year also. If this year is no better than 1999 it means very little.

62.4% Steve Forbes
37.4% Pat Buchanan
And we know how these two came out .... Buchanan leaving the GOP and Forbes dropping out after the Delaware primary.....

	Associated Press Archive - October 11, 1999 Conservative group fails to decide on endorsement
	A grass-roots conservative Republican organization on Sunday failed to agree on which GOP presidential candidate it would endorse. The first National Federation of Republican Assemblies convention ended with a vote in which publisher Steve Forbes got 164 votes, or 62.4 percent, with Pat Buchanan getting 99 votes, or 37.6 percent. But Forbes fell short of the group's by-law requiring a two-thirds majority for NFRA endorsement. The three-day NFRA convention in Kansas...

[pissant]

ANd to think they could have chosen that sterling prizefighter the RNC was pimping, Bob Dole. Oh wait, he got KO’d by Clinton 14 seconds into the 1st round.