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To: editor-surveyor

A brokered convention will bring back discussion of the issues, in the wide open, for every Republican to see and hear. The only way the party can rally on a platform that will bring full conservative participation is to find common ground on EVERY ISSUE important to us. We have been ignored far too long by the National GOP. If they expect us to support the GOP after their recent record of abandonment they are going to have to put EVERYTHING on the table and stick to the platform presented.

A brokered convention will UNITE the GOP. And therein we have the BEST chance of defeating a Democrat. As long as we remain fragmented we give the Democrat Party high hopes of victory.


370 posted on 01/26/2008 7:46:45 AM PST by o_zarkman44 (No Bull in 08!)
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To: o_zarkman44
"A brokered convention will bring back discussion of the issues, in the wide open, for every Republican to see and hear. The only way the party can rally on a platform that will bring full conservative participation is to find common ground on EVERY ISSUE important to us. We have been ignored far too long by the National GOP. If they expect us to support the GOP after their recent record of abandonment they are going to have to put EVERYTHING on the table and stick to the platform presented."

I see what the problem is now. - You don't understand the basic structure of the political parties.

The Republican party is not a democratic entity. The party is run by an entrenched power elite at every level. The candidates don't pick the delegates, the state committees do. The delegates are usually bound for the first ballot, but they are rarely loyal to the candidate their state has chosen, and will bolt to the power elites choice on subsequent ballots. These delegates are chosen based on their proven loyalty to the party commanders, and nothing else.

Dissident voices are rarely heard at conventions, and it is emphatically so at a brokered convention.

"A brokered convention will UNITE the GOP. And therein we have the BEST chance of defeating a Democrat."

No, there will be a temporary illusion of unity for the Drive-By Media to display, but since few voters will be satisfied by the power brokers globalist elite choice, the turnout will be sparse, and the media's candidate will be the victor.

374 posted on 01/26/2008 11:18:06 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Turning the general election into a second Democrat primary is not a winning strategy.)
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