It could be exciting?
Lots of possible scenarios, but more than likely someone will lock it up after super Tuesday.
Talk to me after Super Tuesday. This is very premature.
Why no speculation about the Democrats? Hillary doesn’t exactly look secure.
Has Rudy broken through 10% in any of the states so far?
Why does the media keep talking about him like he's a contender? The public has concluded that he's a joke.
This whole thing is a nightmare. Fred, our only hope, is looking like a slender reed. And once he’s gone, then what?
it would be exciting,I would bet the demwits have a deadlocked convention before the Republicans
After all, it's St. Paul.
And who will want to spend an extra night there?
>> ...draw voters’ attention from President Bush, whose low approval ratings...
That’s pretty funny, considering that President Bush’s approval ratings are about twice as high as Congress, from where all three major Democrat candidates (Clinton, Obama, and (!)McCain) hail.
Best thing that could happen, IMHO. We need a free-for-all to determine the future of the Republican party. Will we continue to believe in American sovereignty, the Constitution, Federalism, and capitalism, or will we turn into a Democrat-Lite party? This is a fight we need to have. If the latter wins out, I have no further use for the Republican party.
Or, giving Republicans extra time to destroy the dem candidate while they come up with an actual conservative ticket on the last day of the convention.
I can dream, can't I?
That is where I have been putting my energy and money.
The above are not conservative and it will be a shame
if the states that will go to the democrats have a say
on who gets the Republican nomination!
And if it comes down to a brokered convention, it will have been almost 2 years of campaigning for us to have decided a Republican nominee. Holy smokes.
I’ve been saying it’s going to be brokered since right after Iowa.
And I think it will be a good thing.
We’ll have 6 months of our 5 candidates taking free shots at the Democrat nominee, and they’ll have no one to shoot back at other than President Bush, who won’t be on the ballot.
I don’t think a front runner will emerge after Feb. 5th. I think there will be no front-runner going in, and the results will be mixed. Every candidate will have reason to continue, and their supporters will become ever more determined. If not by the results of Feb. 5th, then soon after the mathematics will become so highly improbable that any candidate can reach 1,191 delegates as to make a brokered convention unavoidable.
I think this favors Fred Thompson, because he’s the only candidate that is acceptable to all factions of the GOP. This is important from the RNC’s standpoint, because any other candidate would pose a risk of jeopardizing fundraising.
Rutherford B. Hayes was nowhere in the picture before the Republican presidential convention of 1876. He was far down the list among the Republicans who wanted to be president on Grant's retirement. But the deadlocked convention after six ballots, turned to Hayes. Quoting Henry Adams: "A third rate nonentity, whose only recommendation is that he is obnoxious to no one and necessary for party harmony."Everyone one knows about the corrupt election with ballot stealing in several southern states by the Republicans. Hayes won by one electoral vote over Democrat Samuel Tilden.
Duncan Hunter after four ballots?
I haven’t read the article, but this is just what we are looking at, a contested convention.
On the other side of the isle I see the same thing.
Should be interesting and a good vetting of principles during a very disturbing time in American history.
Off to read the article now.
I don't want a brokered convention because we can not trust the entrenched traditional power bloc in the party to make a winning choice.
I think they will lean towards John McCain because they will see it as his turn.
That is the kind of thinking that gave the 1996 nomination to Bob Dole and is the kind of thinking that will guarantee a defeat in November.
As far as Jeb Bush as a dark horse -
FUGGEDABOUDIT
No conservative will vote for another Bush as president for a long time.
It’s all up in the air right now. I feel certain that McCain will be fading soon, however. Huckafreak is a flash in the pan, as well...