What may be news is that Rush Limbaugh mentioned Michael Steele’s statement that he was the one who designed the primary rules so the GOP would have a brokered convention. IOW, Steele is saying this was all planned out, and he’s claiming credit for it.
Threads have been posted about it here, but they seem to keep getting shifted to the “bloggers” forum. It seems though that no one talking or writing about it has done the delegate math but me. I redid the math changing all Mitt’s states to winner-take-all, and he only goes from about 500 to 550 delegates. This race is the way it is because Romney is a weak frontrunner, not because of a rules change. He wouldn’t be wrapping this thing up until near the very last state either way. If I project the rest of this race out by winner-take-all, he wouldn’t hit 1,144 until June 5th, after all but 1 state had voted, Utah (the icing on the cake).
It is true that putting back winner-take-all everywhere would make it almost impossible to go to a brokered convention. But it wouldn’t shorten the length of this particular race.
Thank you all for joining the discussion. Pretty rough to my standard but I am getting used to it.
Anyway, I am hopeful because 2 reasons: 1) The establishment sees clearly that Romney’s candidacy is the lost cause as the Republican base clearly rejects him by 60/40 ratio, so they have to find a replacement; 2) Their favorite son might be Jeb Bush who would be a decent choice even though he still wants to go global.
Since the establishment disfavors Romney, they will rule Florida and Arizona and other issues against him. Maybe they will pressure some state conventions to drop him as well. Let’s just hope so. I have not been feeling this good for few days already.
I read a prophecy that one of our future presidents would be a large man with large ear!