Mitt's new mission. (Hand-pick the nominee with Adelson)

Politico ^ | 06/13/2015 | Alex Isenstadt

[GIdget2004]

Mitt Romney is working with an unlikely collaborator — Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul who bankrolled Newt Gingrich’s 2012 campaign — in the hopes of ensuring that the GOP primary produces a mainstream conservative without any of the mayhem that marked his own race.

The two, who speak monthly, aim to convince the wealthy contributors bankrolling various candidates to work together to avoid the kind of primary election chaos that Romney believes laid the seeds for his defeat in 2012. The former Massachusetts governor is also considering endorsing a candidate to achieve his goal.

[Vigilanteman]

Problem #1 is giving too many delegates to states which will never vote GOP in November. Seriously, the opinion of Wyoming is far more valuable than the opinion of Massachusetts.

Delegates should be awarded on the following formula:

1. No more than 20% based on their electoral votes.
   
2. 20% based on things such as GOP governors, senators, congress critters and control of state legislatures.
   
3. At least 60% based on actual ability to deliver electoral votes to the GOP in the last five or six election cycles.

Want more delegates? If your state does reasonably well in #1 and #2, but stinks in #3, then adopt a congressional district awarding system like Maine and Nebraska do rather than winner-take-all. Pennsylvania is a prime example.

[Tennessee Nana]

Why do you think Willard was breaking his neck to get the GOP to have their convention in Utah ???

[Rennes Templar]

‘.. without any of the mayhem that marked his own race.”

ie, eliminate competition.

[Carry_Okie]

The two guys who screwed up the last election were Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, who stayed in the race just long enough to edge out the other conservatives, and then dropped out of the primaries and gave it to Romney. Who effectively dropped out of the election and gave it to the gay Muslim illegal alien Communist.

Fred Thompson did that fan dance last too followed by Romney's "RINO swan dive" in the general election.

[KC_Lion]

I maintain that the First Two GOP primary states should be the ones who had the Highest Percentage of Population and the Highest Raw Number of GOP Votes in the Last Presidential Election.

You would then get a much better gauge of the actual Grassroots GOP choice of Candidates.

Not the ones the Wizards of Smart think would make The Best Roman Consul. >:(

[jjotto]

You want California to be one of the first two GOP primary states?

[Vigilanteman]

Sorry. California is actually worth less than Wyoming in GOP calculus because Wyoming actually and consistently delivers electoral votes to the GOP candidate in November.

My formula isn't totally heartless, though, as it would award a minimum number of delegates based on electoral votes which would make California worth as much as, say, a Georgia or the two Carolinas. And that's REALLY stretching its value.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The non-conservative always use a qualifier like, pragmatic conservative , or compassionate conservative.

[SharpRightTurn]

“primary election chaos”

In other words, when the establishment speaks, that settles the issue.

[Lurkinanloomin]

It about amnesty.

It’s all about amnesty.

The RNC must produce an amnesty candidate for The Cheap Labor Express.

They want us to vote to give away our country to fraudulently documented foreigners.

[SharpRightTurn]

Romney + Adelson—what could possibly go wrong?

[Rome2000]

The former Massachusetts governor is also considering endorsing a candidate to achieve his goal.

LOL

This POS is like a vampire.

[Norm Lenhart]

You know, I get the funny feeling told people that empowering liberal Republicans, Mitt in particular, was a REALLY bad idea. Not only did he lose, just as predicted, but he was emboldened to keep pushing the GOP leftward.

Now I can’t remember who it was that said that. IIRC there were several people here on FR that did, but it’s...fuzzy somehow. All I know is that those guys were right. Oh sure it MASSIVELY pisses off the leftists here that still scream in his defense to this day. But those guys were right.

I wish I could remember who it was...

[American Constitutionalist]

This should get interesting.

Mitt and Sheldon can say all they want, but at the end of the day as a lot of men know if the wife ain’t happy then no one is happy in the house.

Sheldon’s wife likes Ted Cruz and most likely her canidate of choice.

[TADSLOS]

Romney steering the GOP leftward. I always thought that was a given.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Helping Hillary for 2016, just like he helped in 2008 and 2012.

[Forgotten Amendments]

This is Politico, so take it with a grain of salt.

I think Graham is going after the Adelson $$$. Against online gambling. For perpetual war.

[Norm Lenhart]

Thats because unlike a lot of people here, you ‘think’.