Well, ending with Mitt isn’t ending well either. I just don’t see any other way to even have a chance at someone other than him.
We have a ton of people who didn’t want to put themselves through 12 months of this. If the convention decides, a lot more people could jump forward.
Susan Martinez, Jim Demint, Sarah Palin, Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan, John Kasich, etc.
The joy of a brokered convention is that literally anything could happen.
And then the media only has 3 months to attack the nominee.
Doesn’t matter.
Even Jeb is better than Mitt.
The point is to deny Mitt the 1144 delegates needed, and then defeat him with another nominee at the convention, whether it be Gingrich, Santorum, Jeb, Palin, or someone else, so long as the nominee meets the “acceptable” threshold.
If all we get is an “acceptable” ticket, it is still miles ahead of the GOP-E Liberal they are trying to cram down our throats right now. I’ll take an acceptable candidate over Mitt and declare victory with a great deal of glee!
We CAN do this, we absolutely CAN!
P.S. The supposed delegate count still does not include Missouri (Rick), and does not have all of the delegates Newt will get (more in GA, for example). It also assumes Florida gets to defy all GOP rules and award all 50 delegates to Romney, which the current and former head of the GOP say Florida cannot do.
The REAL delegate count INCLUDING all of these things has Newt and Rick combining for more delegates than Mitt.