“But the pieces do fit as to your apparent mindset.”
I’d likely vote for Palin if she were a candidate - as she’d be the most conservative.
However, my criticism of Newt is based upon his documented, repeated mercurial nature on conservative issues, and his multiple divorces.
He’s not any more reliable as a conservative than Romney, he just says the right things but only occasionally.
The reason I want a brokered convention is not some pie-in-the-sky hope for a candidate that isn’t running, it’s to convey the ability of conservatives to rise up to demand what they want of a candidate, and their party.
If it is significant, it’s a way to take over the GOP, a political coup, if you will.
If there is no brokered convention, no matching invigoration of the conservative grass roots, then I’d like to know that too.
What I am most afraid of most is the possibility that too many erstwhile conservatives now get government checks or bennies of some kind, so they no longer care enough to do the things that might threaten the status quo - even if that status quo leads us into oblivion, fiscally speaking.
That theory is that they like their stuff - and feel like they deserve it and won’t lift a finger if it means their check or benefits are threatened.
I want to know if it’s true.
That’s why I want to see a brokered convention.
Like I said, going over the top in your anti Newt rhetoric doesn’t even serve your stated purpose.
He is the leading Non Mitt...virtually the only thing standing between Mitt and the nomination by delegates on the first ballot.
Nor does it fit reality. Reality is, EVERY candidate is FLAWED.
Likewise Newt, but he also has certain strengths the others don’t have, that are sorely needed. There should be a BALANCED look at him...a sheet of paper with flaws on one side, strengths on the other.
A brokered convention appears to be some kind of test in your mind...if there aren’t enough committed Conservatives to make a brokered convention happen, you “want to know it”.
Apples to oranges.
You have fixated on this one thing to the exclusion of all other considerations.
Assuming this to be the “be all and end all” of testing Conservatives.
The reality is brokered conventions rarely, rarely happen no matter the breakdown of the electorate into their philosophical categories.
And even if one did happen, the outcome would really tell the story.
Not the happening, but the OUTCOME.
I assure you there are plenty of ways for the powers that be to keep one of your choice from being selected by a brokered convention.
Meanwhile, if you think verbally eviscerating the by far leading non Romney candidate is the way to get us Conservatives anywhere, I thoroughly disagree.