"See Fred ... they really do like you."
"Phooey, all they talked about was the bags under my eyes"
Cheer up!
With all due respect to Fredheads, do we want to run a candidate who dropped out and has been roundly criticized internally, even here by Fredheads, for not running a good campaign? I anticipate an answer might be, yes rather than the RINOs we have left. I respect that answer from those who believe in the all or nothing sit at home approach even if it means Hillary. But for those of us who have not reached that point, who would take almost anyone but Hillary, is this a good idea?
Now they are tormenting us. Not nice.
I’m not gonna hold my breathe.
Curtis Mayfield?
Nice thought, but with the field narrowed down, I don’t think we’ll see a brokered convention unless Rudy can muster some enthusiasm and pick up some steam to compete with Rommey and McCain. Otherwise, it’ll be one of those two.
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.
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!!
I just hope Fred’s channeling Sun Tzu :)
We need to be preparing for 2012.
What kind of young, articulate conservatives do we have playing on the farm teams that we can call up?
Once a candidate drops out with virtually no delegates, there is nothing to bargain with.
In the past, names have changed as to the VP, but the president must have something going in. At least a national following of some sort.
Fred does not had any of this to any large degree and was late to the party. In fact, the only Fred heads I have seen are here on this forum.
A losing candidate like Huckabee would be far more likely to broker for delegates then Fred, and he has little to no chance.
Fred is out. Unless there is someone in the wings who can mount a sudden following and swoon delegates, the candidate will come from the 4 who are left and they will have delegates to horse trade with. But I'm not sure about Rudy, so there may only be three, and probably only two.
(.....FRedhead here)
Leni