Posted on 12/08/2009 11:01:33 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Officials are in the early stages of deciding if Salt Lake City wants to compete for the 2012 Republican National Convention — so early, in fact, that they have not yet formed a bid committee to decide.
Salt Lake City was invited by the Republican National Committee to attend an "interested parties" presentation in Washington, D.C., three weeks ago, said Scott Beck, president and chief executive officer of the Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Beck attended, along with a representative from the governor's office. There, they learned what requirements in terms of amenities a host city would have to have in order to land the convention and were given the official request for proposal. They concluded Salt Lake City could do it, but no decision about applying has been made, Beck said.
"We absolutely have the physical capacity, and having hosted the Olympics makes us a very, very viable city," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
You didn’t have to open your yap and prove you’re clueless, but you managed it! ... Al Goreghoul couldn’t even carry Tennessee in 2000. What else are you so clouseau-less on?
Ansel12 owns that domain name. ;-D
Day late and a dollar short...again. :-)
The entire South will leave the Republican party. It has started already. The first out will be the first back in.
Hey! Whatever bigotry floats your boat. ;-)
I guess you still can’t put down the crack pipe.
Some of the sharpest young conservatives are coming out of Utah. Looking in other states the talent is sparse but when I go to Utah I see potential Reagans by the bushelfull.
-PJ
That is what I said except I don’t see the Reagan’s, I see Romneys.
” Utah is very white of course (Mormon religion) and very republican but their support for the GOP candidates plummeted in 2008 while Obama made gains, it may be that as one of our less pro military states, that Utah has lost some enthusiasm for the GOP.
Another rejection of the Mormon candidate by conservatives might cause even more issues there for republicans.”
Utah is the most purely Reaganite state that I have been in. It is a polished Idaho. It isn't just a political popularity thing, it is an embedded cultural characteristic. It ain't gonna change. Utah is not going to follow, it is going to lead.
Well, they won't be leading their youth to the enlistment office, so that is one value that they sure share with the Romney family and their great political dynasty.
The only reason that the mormons voted for Reagan in 1980 is because they were mad at Carter and the Democrats...
That 1978 thingy about the blacks...
carter put pressure on them to change their racist doctrine...
or lose their tax status...
Don’t bother arguing with someone who referred to Jesse Helms as a backstabbing miserable lowlife snake.
Both of them.
I don’t think Reagan was into wearing magic underwear. There will never be a President from Utah.
That may be but when that much talent is backed by that much enthusiasm something big is bound to happen.
Reagan's chief strategist, Richard Wirthlin, was a Mormon. When we needed something, we called Utah or Nevada which was Paul Laxalt's organization. Reagan was focused on the East.
Nope. Since statehood Utah had been pretty much straight line Republican. 1980 was not exceptional.
Since statehood Tennessee had been pretty much straight line Democrat 1980 was exceptional. By less than half a percent.
In the crucial 1976 Michigan primary Carter had Coleman Young accuse Mo Udall of racism because he was Mormon even though Udall had not attended LDS services for years in protest of the doctrine. Carter won by around 1% and went on to win the Presidency. You could have had a Mormon President!
After that there was enormous pressure by the Udalls and Romneys and from within Utah to revisit doctrine. That is what begat the change.
Reagan could of had Barney Fife as ‘Chief Stratigists’.
There were some white knuckle times in 1980. Bush won the straw polls in Iowa and was crowing about how he had the "big mo" going into New Hampshire. Reagan had lost New Hampshire to Ford in 1976. Reagan's performance with the microphone at the debate saved him.
South Carolina with its first primary was a question mark. Strom Thurmond and Governor James Edwards had both endorsed John Connally. Reagan won handily partly because it was an open primary.
In the general the polls in Florida would roller coaster. We would see a poll with Reagan 10 points ahead and the next would be two. We'd think it was a trend and panic until the next one which showed Reagan up eight.
We anticipated winning Texas, Florida and Virginia and losing the rest of the South. The fight was in the Great Lake States and Northeast where Ford had lost narrowly four years before. We thought that these could have been swung against us by some major development in the hostage crisis. We had our fingers crossed the whole way.
The 1980 election was not all peaches and cream. Reagan had run twice before, in '68 and '76. Because of his age this was his last chance. We could have easily lost it.
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