Posted on 02/09/2008 11:44:24 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Folks, there still may be a slim chance to force a deadlocked convention. I'm no election math wizard, but I believe it's still mathematically possible for McCain to NOT receive the requisite number of delegates to win the nomination. But it would require a great turnout of passionate conservative voters in the remaining primary states to accomplish.
The trick would be for all remaining primary conservative voters to vote for their favorite candidate as if he were still in the race. Fred's name is still on the ballot. So is Hunter's and Romney's. Shoot, vote for Huckabee, Paul or even Giuliani if you wish. Anyone but McCain!
None of the others can possibly win, but it's still possible for McCain to lose. Let it go to the convention and force the GOP to publicly fight it out as if its very life depended on it. Because it does.
What do we have to lose? As it stands now, more and more conservatives are declaring their intentions to sit out the general. If McCain is our candidate, looks like Hillary/Obama will be our next president. Don't let it happen. Vote for any GOPer other than McCain!
Better, IMHO, to go with whoever's doing better in each particular state. If 100 delegates don't go to McCain, it doesn't matter whether they all go to one candidate, or all to different candidates. I would guess that in Ron Paul's home state he might do better than Huckabee, and there may be some other such states as well.
Thanks for the info.
Perhaps you are right. It will be interesting to see the results this evening from Louisiana and Washington. Sure would be fun to see McCAin get a great put down.....if it could lead to Romney getting back in with Fred!
Go to wikipedia and read the entry on John McCain. All kinds of interesting stuff there including his lackluster piloting skills and his partying days when he took up with an exotic dancer named Marie the Flame of Florida.
If Huck takes all the delegates today, we’re 113 down...Go Huck..
And, BTW, I’m not drinking the Kool-aid for Huckaphony; just trying to make it a race once again.
Right, but if the goal is simply to prevent delegates from going to McCain does that matter? If there's an area where Ron Paul would have a better chance than Huckabee to pick up delegates, wouldn't it make the most sense for conservatives to put their support behind him?
If you can dig up stuff that fast, what do you think the Dems have been storing up for him?
Joke: Tinfoil land!!! LOL
Reality: very good question!
Hey, can I have all your stuff when your dead?
Obama is the man, yo!
In principle, I don’t think the government should mandate the purchase of anything. But look where we are. People think that “healthcare” should be a right.
I’ve had that healthcare right in the world’s 6th largest economy. I believe that it was Yaelle who told me that she had it in Switzerland. If it was Yaelle, we agreed. Gov’t healthcare is the pits.
How about housing? If healthcare is a right, surely housing is, too. Everybody else, get ready to defray the costs of my mortgage.
In an environment such as this, every now and again, someone tries to do something. Rep. Bill Arthur gave us HSAs. Romney gave MA residents RomneyCare as you call it. Maybe it has problems. I think, from what I’ve heard him say in debates, that he wants there to be more choices in healthcare, a more market-driven system. Good!
But if a ‘rat governor had forced RomneyCare on a state, I don’t know about other conservatives, this one would say, “Geez! A ‘rat with an idea? How can that possibly be?”
IMO the Dems have been salivating at the chance to bleed him dry! You KNOW they have to have alot on him because when everyone was still in the running for the Pub ticket, they were openly stating in the MS that he was THEIR Pub candidate of choice to run against.
We would have to settle on one candidate to get the nomination. Whoever has the most delegates, except for McCain, should be the one we start with.....or set up the vote on FR and go with the winner. I like Fred, but if he has endorsed McCain, then he could not be one of the candidates.
I hope you are right because we are going to get her but is McCain up to the task.
I would hope that most voting today would think the same way; coalesce behind one who is still left in the race, not necessarily as a supporter, but as a way to protest and maybe even stop the worst candidate the party has had in my memory and maybe since early in the 20th century.
Wow, that is a great idea. I feel so helpless. McCain was the awarded the nomination before I could even vote. I am in Wisconsin so I still have a primary to vote in.
YES!!
I voted for Duncan Hunter last Tuesday.
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