Posted on 02/02/2008 5:08:34 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Like many on Free Republic, I am disturbed by the outcome of the Republican primaries for President this year. None of the Republican candidates still in the running gives us anything to be excited about. Indeed, most of those who do support one or the other does so grudgingly. Speaking for myself, I'll vote for the Republican nominee whoever he is just to prevent another Clinton White House.
However, we can do much better than what's in the currente field, and we should. There is only one way this can be achieved- a brokered convention. And it can be achieved.
I've chatted with a couple of Freepers, and from the information they've given me, I've learned how this can be done.
Vote for the second place candidate in your state even if you dislike him. For example, if Huckabee is running second to McCain in your state, vote for Huckabee. If Romney is running second to McCain in your state, vote for him. However, if Romney or Huckabee becomes the front-runner, than vote for whoever is the second-place candidate in your state, even if it's McCain. Or if Ron Paul is running strongly in your state, vote for him. Whenever one of these candidates becomes the front-runner, oppose him, regardless of who he is.
The point of this is to deny any of the candidates a majority of the ballots at the Republican National Convention. This will make it clear to the delegates and the convention managers that the conservative grass roots is not satisfied with any of the candidates who is running and wants someone who is acceptable to them. The nominee doesn't have to be ideal, but he or she has to be acceptable.
We can still influence the process. It will just take some thinking outside the box and creative approaches.
So, vote for the second-place Republican candidate in your state, even if you detest him. It's not about nominating any of these, but getting someone else in.
Thanks to the Freepers I've chatted with for giving me this idea.
Regards,
CF
I thought no person could serve more than two terms in a row.
Or — you could just vote for Fred Thompson. He’s probably still on the ballot on most Super Tuesday states anyway — I know he still is in Illinois.
You are nuts. First, many states are winner take all. In California, they award three votes, winner take all, by Congressional district. I suggest you do the math and see where your nonsensical suggest leads us to. Have you also factored in the results already in?
Newt Gingrich?
Does anyone think that Newt Gingrich will be who the RNC would selects if they broker the convention?
Oh look! A new troll!
Good idea, but how does it actually work at the convention? I don’t trust the GOP establishment at all. They have zero interest in representing the People of the United States.
Actually I think McCain might take them. Hope not.
I agree. Romney isn’t going to win in places like Alabama and Georgia so why not throw your vote to someone like Huckabee who could? Make sure the vote is split fairly well. Mitt isn’t the most conservative. A lot of people hear hate John McCain but when you put his record alongside Romney’s. Romney has a far more liberal history. He supported Homosexual activists and appointed homosexuals to judgeships. He put together a Universal Health care plan that required the state to pay for more abortions than before it was enacted. He ordered Catholic hospitals to provide the Morning After Pill. He is a NorthEast liberal. He even voted in the Democrat primary as recently as 1992 and then ran against Ted Kenney in 1994 claiming he wasn’t looking to go back to the Reagan Bush era. So these people who are trying to convince themselves that Romney is the guy they are smoking something. I like you don’t want any of them to win outright. I want to see a fight because I won’t vote for Romney or McCain in the general election unless they put a strong conservative on the ticket with them.
I listened to them in the Reagan Library debate and they all were horrible little men. Talking about global warming and health care. None mentioned anything that would help introduce more competition into the Health care and McCain offered his silly that we need to do something on Global Warming whether it is real or not. Jesus are these all that are available? Where is the common uncommon man like Washington? These are uncommonly political men.
GWB is better than all of them. Do we really want to take a step backward and elect these losers?
Romney is polling ahead in Georgia
This is the stupidest idea I have heard!!! In case you haven’t noticed, McCain is running way ahead all over. Romney and Huckabee combine for only a few states. USE YOUR HEAD PLEASE!!!!!! The only way to insure a brokered convention is to oppose McCain everywhere. Under the most optimistic scenarios for conservatives, McCain comes out ahead after super Tuesday.
For Heaven’s sake, just vote against McCain wherever you are. If you neutralize Romney’s and Huckabee’s wins, it will never get to Brokered!!
You apparantly don’t know how this process works!
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