Posted on 03/10/2012 12:08:57 AM PST by Bulwinkle
TAMUNING, Guam – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney picked up nine more delegates Saturday, winning unanimous backing at the Guam GOP convention.
Republicans on the tiny Pacific island decided to shun traditional paper ballots and all 215 eligible to vote at the convention backed Romney with a show of hands.....
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It's becoming clear that for a true conservative to become POTUS again in this wonderful country, a 3rd party or other means is the only way it is going to happen.
Why do you think a third party has any chance of gaining WH? Palin warned of this approach, and is against such an idea.
A third party will do nothing except further fragment the GOP and hand Obama the next 4 years.
A Mitt Romney nomination is going to hand 0bama another 4 years and those idiot elitists in the GOP know it!
There are only two options... winning enough delegates or contesting to a brokered convention. There is no viable 3rd party option that will secure the WH. Palin has said as much herself.
Maybe Romney can plop some supporters on Iwo Jima and Pelelui and demand delegates! Wow, ridiculous...
Mitt seems to be using the strategy of winning races that award delegates, while some of the others seem to be using the strategy of winning moral victories without getting delegates.
A lot of people want to blame Newt for Santorum losing and Santorum for Newt losing, but the truth is that Romney is the only one running a serious campaign.
“Cmon what is wrong with this crew.”
It’s Organization, GOTV, and MONEY that win nominations, not TV debates.
Romney has had four years to plan for this. It’s showing, now.
The only thing ridiculous is that the other candidates aren’t organized enough to realize the rules of the game.
Mittens “picks up the blinds” here. Chips is chips.
Yea third party is a great way to get a conservative president.
Oh wait, no it’s not. It’s actually a terrible idea.
Newt and Santorum were both essentially broke.
Of the two, Newt did by far the best job in lining things up. He tried in VA as did Perry, but the only ones who passed muster there were the two who ran before, Romney and Paul. Their submissions were not checked.
Santorum did not even try to qualify for VA ballot.
Santorum has difficulties in various states with delegates and will not win as many delegates as his vote totals would suggest he should.
Newt does not have those delegate problems.
Ron Paul is a special case. He is a Libertarian masquerading as a Republican in order to have a chance to draw attention, get in the debates and get anywhere at all. He may very well go third party, or if not, negotioate his son Rand onto a ticket in return for his delegates.
Newt is a man of towering accomplishment and intellect. He wanted to drive the debate and rehabilitate himself politically and personally, from what I have seen of his run, but without money and organization such as Romney has out the wazoo, he has done amazingly well.
Before Romney unleashed the neutron bomb of lying ads on Newt, he was the leading candidate of all, nationwide.
He crashed in Iowa due to that attack, recovered in the good state of SC, then hobbled into second to Mitt’s powerful FL punch. Early votes alone, for Romney, were enough to sink Newt there, but Romney false Newt ads were a 65-1 ratio to negative ads about Mitt.
Given all, Newt did much better than Santo in doing necessary nuts and bolts. Neither were flush enough to contest Mitt on far off islands, as important as each delegate is.
Ron Paul does well organizationally, but he isn’t a Republican and many people love him on some things and believe he’s insane on others. Therefore no matter what, he cannot win states and caucuses, but does collect a lot of proportional delegates to use as leverage.
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Mitt seems to be using the strategy of winning races that award delegates, while some of the others seem to be using the strategy of winning moral victories without getting delegates.
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True... I’ve noticed Romney spends almost none of his time campaigning in caucus states.
So, those territories have a total of 59 delegates (excluding HI)... that’s quite a lot of delegates than people realize...
“So, those territories have a total of 59 delegates (excluding HI)... that’s quite a lot of delegates than people realize...”
Mitt pick up 18 today, Ricky and newt 0.... 9 Guam and 9 Mariana Islands.
Yeah, under the radar. The way it goes, with Mitt is the only one who bother to send a campaign rep to those territories, he’ll get a lion share of delegates there...
You completely miss the point. If Myth Romney is the nominee, there will be a leftist president; the only question is whether the leftist will have an “R” or a “D” next to his name. Most here aren’t that into the “crips versus bloods” stuff.
The only way to EVER get a conservative president is to have the GOP nominate a conservative. If they choose to nominate Myth, it will be important to have a CONSERVATIVE 3rd party take enough votes away from him that the party learns is simply cannot continue nominating from the left of the party. If we don’t do that, we’ll keep getting Dole/McStain/Myth type nominees.
Hank
With Romney in the R race - we basically have a two party system as ONE.
So a third party is not really a third but a second party.
I agree. We are really down to ONE party with two names to deceive. We need a second party.
No it’s not. It really a second party. We only have ONE now with different names.
Mitt is so far from being a republican as I am from being a liberal. So all bets are off for those who can see the writing on the wall.
Great post! You explained it perfectly. And I’ll add Mitt has no reason being in a R race. His record proves otherwise. We now have a liberal and a libertarian crashing into the republican race.
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