Go Rickabee!
My point of posting this is not to gauge the chances of Romney, Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul of winning the nomination. In fact, these odds are seem to be very inaccurate. Instead, in light of speculation of a brokered convention, this is an exhaustive list of who could potentially come out as the candidate in a brokered convention. Most of these 53 people don't have a snowball's chance in Hell and are laughable, but it's nice to have a list of virtually every possible candidate.
Go Rickabee!
those numbers are so messed up it’s amazing.
The leader Santorum is trading at 14%
The moderate with almost no chance is trading at 71% even after his recent implosion
And people not even in the race are trading as high or higher than Gingrich and Paul
people on Intrade are doing drugs
RNC spokesman says chances of brokered convention same as ‘space alien attack’
Whose idea of a joke is this?
One name that is not found is Sarah....amazing!
What if the handicapper is a RINO...?
RINO see things in guarded delusion else they wouldnt be RINOs..
President Corker, LOL?:
A few random thoughts:
1. I agree that the odds for Romney are too high, and the odds for Santorum are too low.
2. I don’t think that we will have a brokered convention. I think that either Romney or Santorum (hopefully Santorum) will win it outright.
3. I think that, if we do have a brokered convention, that choosing someone who has not been making preparations for the Presidency will cause us to have a weaker President than picking someone who has already thrown their hat in the ring. (In other words, Perry, Cain, and Bachmann might be ready to roll, but even good conservative candidates who haven’t been making preparations might not be ready.)
4. I find the list of “brokered convention” possibilities interesting. Although some are objectionable (e.g., Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, Mark Sanford), many of them I find downright stomach turning (e.g., Colin Powell, Rudy Giuliani, John Huntsman, Gary Johnson, George Pataki, Lindsay Graham, Judd Gregg, Scott Brown, Michael Bloomberg, Charlie Crist, Joe Lieberman, Meg Whitman).
On the other hand, there are some who are the “what might have been’s” (e.g., Paul Ryan, Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Jim DeMint, Mike Pence, John Kasich, Allen West).
Plus this one: Clarence Thomas. Yes, that is a pipe dream, but I would vote for him in a nanosecond.
Indeed, I can see Tea Party conservatives rallying around.... Charlie Crist.
Dirk Kempthorne is fixin’ to surge.
I noticed that the list had Petraeus and McChrystal from the military.
Most here have been critical of Petraeus’ softness on Islam and McChrystal’s judgment in allowing the Rolling Stone writer with him.
He’s not on this list, but what is the general feeling towards Odierno?
While I'm pushing for Palin-Perry to emerge from a brokered convention, I fear they'll choose the one man not named in the list:
John McCain.
And this time, they'll give him the Veep he really wanted:
Joe Lieberman.
Yep. The GOPe is capable of it.
McCain-Lieberman 2012.
The GOP-establishment's way of fixing what they think they did wrong the last time.
May the Good Lord save us all.
PS: If we get to a brokered convention, pick Palin-Perry 2012!!! Let's give ourselves a Fighting Chance!
Uh, you're lucky to find anyone on any exchange at the moment willing to lay against Mittens. I don't quite get it either, just sayin'...
Hey! Free propaganda for Romney! This is obvious propaganda, pure and simple.