Better a brokered convention
than mitt being foisted on us.
It should be interesting if it happens, it would be the first one in my adult life and I don’t believe Dick Morris’s assertion that it would kill Republicans chances this fall. It might actually make the convention watchable and put some major suspense into it, and it will certainly dominate the news cycle.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with us deciding who our standard bearer will be at the end of the summer. Obama will be flailing his arms saying “look at me, look at me” but all the news will be about the republican nominee.
Let the people’s representatives (because that’s what delegates are) come together and, in convention, decide who they want to run against Barack Obama, in the open and by vote. Let’s get back to the American way of electing leaders and tell the manipulating oligarchs to go screw!
Wonder what became of all those brilliant media minds who told us there was a better chance of alien visitation than a brokered convention?
I would love to be a committed Gingrich delegate at a brokered convention.
Sure beats a MITTENS love fest...
Freegards
Lex
I LOVE THE IDEA OF A BROKERED CONVENTION
Don’t get discouraged by the media guys!!!
At this point in the LAST campaign they had foisted McLame on us and there was no turning back
I don’t mind the prospect of a brokered convention.
I know the pundits say the conventional wisdom that a long drawn-out primary undermines whoever the Republican nominee will be but I think all four candidates are making some really good points, and it’s setting the stage well for what is so wrong with Obama.
I understand the Republican candidates are taking some jabs at each other but in articulating their own positions they’re also doing a really good job at pointing out the pitfalls in Obama’s policies from mandates on religious institutions, gasoline prices and energy policies, the burdens to the economy from higher taxes and more regulation.
I don’t think the current competition among the Republican candidates is bloodying them up as much as the media says, and in the end they are making a fundamental contrast to the Obama Administration.
Mitt Romney will be the nominee. The GOP decided that long ago and they will be sure that is exactly what happens. If it is a Brokered Convention, they will state Romney has the most delegates and he will get the nod.
There is no reason to believe that the GOPe will be able to impose their will on a brokered convention, and if somebody like, say, a Sarah Palin showed up just to say "Hi," you never know what might happen.
I am starting to like the idea of an astroid slamming into the Earth...
“I think I’m starting to like the idea of a brokered convention”
Starting? ANYONE they come up with HAS to be better than the losers we have now.
[Yeah, now watch the Elites come up with a “great” candidate, like Nanny Bloomberg, just to prove me wrong]
It would be more accurate to call it an "open" convention.
A brokered convention is a real convention. Instead of the pantomime conventions we’ve become accustomed to.
Either this party coalesces around its constitutional core, or it shatters. This is my prediction: if Romney is the nominee and loses to Obama, this party shatters. A Romney win does its own kind of damage, but a loss in November will cause an uprising among the rank and file that leaves this party holed and sinking. And good riddance.
The party grandees that are trying to foist Romney on us have a death wish; they don’t realize what they are playing with. In their world they think they are the party. In my world, if they are the party then I’m clearly not one of them. If the “Discount Democrats” steal this nomination I’m out. I’m sure the Romniacs are convinced they can juice the game enough to force me to vote for them against Obama, but they can’t stop the split in the party thats coming in the aftermath.
You, me and a lot of other Republicans. Romney is not much better than Obama. They gave us Bob Dole and John McCain. Let us object to them giving us Romney.
I figure the floor of the GOP convention in Tampa will end up like a Texas Cage match in the WWE.
It’s preferable to Mitt or Santorum in my book, although I really don’t know what to expect.
I love the idea of a brokered convention because I seriously think that Obama has a plan to pull the federal mandate from the Obamacare legislation and to try to persuade the Supreme Court to let the legislation stand without the Federal Mandate, but with a State mandate, instead.
Before Obama can make this offer, he needs to have Romney confirmed as the Republican nominee. Santorum would stop the idea dead.