Posted on 01/24/2008 4:55:53 AM PST by Scarchin
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If McCain loses in Florida, the Republicans may well be headed to a deadlocked race and convention. And history teaches us that the likeliest candidate to emerge in that scenario is someone like Warren G. Harding: the prototypical, less-than-stellar candidate to which conventions turn when the going gets rough.
This year's Harding? Believe it or not (are you sitting down?), despite the fact that he's withdrawn from the race, is Fred Thompson.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
For the least drastic step, in the primary, a 5 or 10% showing for Thompson (who has dropped out, mind you) would send a serious message to the machinery that we are pissed.
A more drastic measure (and one I will take) is a similar message against RINOs in general elections. Reasonable minds may disagree with the approach here, fearing DimRats — I, however, don’t care.
I knew women vote with their eyes, but I thought men had brains.
Yes, when it comes to politics, I probably am a misogynist. How else do you explain the rise of JFK (hair), Carter (hair, Quayle (hair), Edwards (hair), Clinton (lip biting), Gore, Dukakis, Mondale (hair)?
Pride goes before destruction. Y’all might want to keep that in mind.
Nam Vet
No. 1, I don’t think the establishment at the convention would select Fred.
No. 2, I don’t think Fred would accept. I don’t think he wanted it bad enough. No one who really is serious drops out after campaigning in only 2 primary states just because he came in 3rd. Look at Edwards and Huckabee. They are still trudging onward, even though their chances are slim. He should have stayed in for just 2 more weeks until Super Tuesday.
Hopefully, I’m totally wrong about all this, and I will be the first one to be glad if I am. I feel like there was a true conservative in the race, and then I woke up and found out that it was only a dream after all. I’m not taking this well at all.
Fred winning the nomination in a brokered convention would be awesome.
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I like that idea.
Too bad, cause he's been trying to be the party kingmaker by virtue of his name for some years now.
LLS
Even to me, a Fred supporter, I have to admit; that’s funny.
We gotta laugh to keep from crying these days.
I don’t blame FRED for getting out. FRED’s mother is ill and FRED knows what his priorities are. If it is meant to be that FRED is to be our President, it will be. GOD will see to it. I think the scenario described in this article are very plausible. I certainly cannot get excited about any of the rest left. Huckabee outlasted FRED, it does not seem possible. Duncan endorsed Huckabee?
WTFO?
LMAO, you brought back memories there!
I never got that idea. Seemed more like Giuliani at first, then John McCain. I never got the idea that Fred was a favorite of any one in the GOP leadership. That being said, I'd be THRILLED if Fred were chosen at a brokered convention!!
Freddy’s dead
That’s what I said....
Why does Michael Reagan care? He left the Republican party years ago. I don't think many in the Republican party would be able to trust Newt to be conservative anymore. I know I won't.
I think you're wrong, but time will tell.
Sadly, that's why many decided not to vote for him, because he wasn't a 'pretty boy'. They didn't care that he had the best message of ALL the candidates, he didn't fit their image of the ideal candidate, because he had a few miles on his face.
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