Yup. Thanks to all the morons who have voted for liberal Republicans Romney, McCain and Huckabee.
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Posted on 02/03/2008 10:36:28 AM PST by proudofthesouth
What is a brokered convention? What causes it? Would it be a GOOD thing for the Republicans to have this year?
GHOULIANI HAS ONLY 1 DELEGATE!!
“”Merrill Lynch sells all the candidates to foreign investors and the election is cancelled. The proceeds are used to pay down the national debt.””
Since no one else picked up on this, I’ll jump in. The candidates might bring the price of a cup of coffee but apart from that, they aren’t worth much!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Republican_National_Convention
Neither Ford or Reagan had enough delegates to win the nomination by convention time. After fighting it out at convention, Ford won. And Reagan endorsed him and gave a very rousing speech.
Not exactly a kingmaker then is he?
How about Newt? He is traveling this week with.........hold on to your hat.........Al Gore. Is he showing how he can go left?
Or... ARLEN SPHINCTER!!
If Romney gets more state delegates then McCain, the superdelegates will put McCain on top on the first ballot and all hell will break loose.
No candidate produced by a brokered convention has ever won the general--from either party.
The problem is, you need three to broker a convention. That means Huckabee and/or Ron Paul need to siphon off as many delegates as possible between now and the convention for there to be any chance for a dark horse to emerge, someone hand picked to be well liked among the base but still electable to the masses.
Remember, the party establishment is still pretty much run by the Bush administration by virtue that Bush is still in office, and McCain and Bush still don’t like each other all that much (so much to the point that McCain almost ran as a Democrat VP candidate... wisely he chose against it). Don’t automatically assume McCain’s the nominee if the convention goes brokered, as it possibly will.
The Democrats, for that reason alone, will not have a brokered convention, because only Obama and Clinton have a chance. The more likely scenario is that Obama may win the primaries but if Clinton hauls in superdelegates and, on top of that, gets the Michigan and Florida uncontested election results counted so that she walks away with the Democratic nomination, then all hell will break loose in that party.
Republicans don’t have superdelegates.
You’re right... It will never happen. Last time it happened was about 100 years ago. Harding, I think.
All the RINO supporters on here who support Romney, McCain or Huckabee don’t want a brokered convention because they know their favorite liberal candidate would likely lose out.
They’re only ‘elites’ if WE empower and recognize and finance them as such, one way or another.
WE still have the power of the vote even after the primary.
It’s OUR Republic, if we choose to keep it.
A brokered convention is one where the convention goers would actually convene and decide upon a candidate. (As opposed to what conventions normally are: A few days of getting drunk, banging hookers, and betraying the Party’s rank-and-file.) I’m hoping for a brokered convention because I want to see blue-blood, RNC country-clubbers kissing a lot of conservative ass if they hope to get anything done.
There are 123 uncommitted delegates that come directly from the Republican National Committee. Perhaps they don't use the word 'superdelegate' but that is certainly what they are.
That is an amazing fact. Thanks CS.
To whom? Unfortunately, there is no Ronald Reagan.
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No, there are not. You are either lying or wrong.
It is a damp-dream fantasy of the Beltway Press in every single election cycle.
It isn’t going to happen. Bet on it. But the press pines, hopes for, has wild fantasies about brokered conventions every four years, showing that they’re just as stupid as they were four years ago.
When you see some twit in the press start breathlessly wondering if we’re “going to have a brokered convention,” you know right then and there you can stop reading, change the channel, whatever.
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