bs...I am voting for Romney no matter who the hell is voting for McCain.
Strategery!
Ping!
I like your idea, except for the part about voting for McCain or Huckabee if they’re running second.
Sounds like BS to me.
What?
How can you say that?
There are at least two candidates I can get exited over.
Oh, wait: you wrote "excited"...
No, there's certainly nobody to get excited about.
There’s only one problem with your convoluted strategy”
It ignores the fact that several of the primaries occur on one day, often called “Super Tuesday,” with the very real chance one candidate could go from tail-end-Charlie to fait accompli in a single day.
I agree with you. None of the potential Republican nominees excites the base. On the other hand, the Dems are highly motivated and will say or do ANYTHING to regain power. Personally, I support Romney because he’s the ONLY one who clearly addresses the issues of illegal immigration, victory in Iraq, and less taxation. I think conservatism is at a crucial point in time. The victory of McCain will definitely destroy conservative principles for at least the next decade - including the future direction of the Supreme Court.
Interesting approach, but I will not vote for a RINO in any primary. Hunter is still on the ballot in California.
Note that over at Intrade, the contract for a GOP Brokered convention went from ~25 to ~6 right after McCain won Florida. Currently, it’s at 7.4, BEHIND the democratic chance at 8.1.
Contract Bid Ask Last Vol Chge
DEM.NOM.2008.BROKERED
The 2008 Democratic Pres. Nominee to be selected at a Brokered Convention M Trade 5.5 13.9 8.1 264 0
REP.NOM.2008.BROKERED
The 2008 Republican Pres. Nominee to be selected at a Brokered Convention M Trade 5.1 14.9 7.4 310 +1.2
Unfortunately, I will be voting for no one in the primaries.
Ironically enough, because I would never register myself as a member of the Republican Party. The reason for this is because of the likes of Lindsey Graham, John Voinevich and, curiously enough,... John McCain.
How on earth did the Republican party end up with a front-runner who.....
1. Wanted to be John F’n Kerry’s running mate??....
2. Was a corrupt member of the “Keating Five”?....
3. Has been duped by the Euro-socialist “global warming” alarmists?....
4. Wants to roll out the red carpet for the illegal alien hordes?....
5. Was one of two senators (along with the ignoble Lincoln Chafee) who joined the Democrats in voting against the Bush tax cuts?....
6. Proudly put his name to the most dangerous assault on free speech (”McCain-Feingold”) in the nation’s history?....
7. Is older than Bob Dole was when Dole ran for President in 1996, and who would be the oldest man in history to try to win the Presidency as a major party candidate?
Somebody wake me up in 2012 if America is still around.
Vote for your choice, and if your choice is someone other than Romney and you don't want MCain, then vote Romney.
I agree, but how does the brokered convention work? How would say Fred Thompson be able to get the nomination in a brokered convention? Or would the nomination go to either McCain, Huckabee, Romney, or Paul since they are still in the race?
Huckabee, I think is doing a real disservice by staying in the election because he is just to going to split the conservative vote and make it easier for McCain to get the nomination.
I won’t vote for Hillary for certain. OR McCain.
I won’t vote for Hillary for 2 reasons: She’s a Clinton, and she’s a woman. No offense but I just don’t think there is ANY woman around that can hack this job. To be fair, I don’t think most men can hack the job either. And I think if a woman was honest, in her heart of hearts, they wouldn’t WANT the job. If you take the job seriously (not like Fratboy Billy) the pressures are incredible, nothing truly prepares you for it. Even the well prepared and experienced and fit are aged greatly by it. I don’t think I’ve met a woman with a personality/psyche that could deal with this. I don’t think very many men have a personality/psyche that could deal with this.
Great idea.....for those who can’t admit there are NO conservative candidates (based on their track records, no matter what the MittWitts say), let them follow the path to a loss of conservatism.....again....
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?
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.
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?