Posted on 02/05/2012 11:39:10 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney won last night’s Nevada caucus. It’s no shocker: he took the state by 51 percent in 2008 and it’s packed full of Mormons. But the media is predicting a sunny spring for Mr Romney, with likely victories across February. By Super Tuesday in March, he could have enough momentum to knock out Gingrich and claim the nomination.
Newt was not happy with the result. During his concession speech, he lashed out at his opponent's "shameless untruths" and the media's willingness to promote them. He left the podium with a smile. Gingrich lost the Nevada caucus but won his press conference.
The Grinch has reason to be cheerful. The Washington Post points out that delegates are being distributed in proportion to the votes that each candidate gets. That means that, despite his many victories, Romney could still arrive at the convention without the “50 percent plus one” necessary to secure the nomination on the first ballot.
Newt Gingrich made it plain that he sees this fight going all the way to the convention. He told the press that he's happy to win a few headline states and collect enough delegates elsewhere to break even with Mitt in the final count. So long as Romney misses his "50 percent plus one", Gingrich can then force a convention "brokered" by GOP bosses – a fight that he probably presumes he would win. It's an exciting thought.
It used to be the rule that people went to the conventions without a prior idea of who the winner was going to be; primary wins were leverage, not a guarantee of victory. In 1948, Republican contender Thomas Dewey took just two primaries and 11.5 percent of the overall vote. Yet he won the nomination at his party’s convention on the third ballot....
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I like your thinking.
Broker it! Let’s do it!
One party = dictatorship.
Two parties = dichotomy.
3+ parties = minority rule.
Pick your poison.
In 1948, Republican contender Thomas Dewey took just two primaries and 11.5 percent of the overall vote. Yet he won the nomination at his party’s convention on the third ballot....
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Yeah and he lost to Truman
Makes ya wonder if FL didnt throw the chance to take all 99 to convention because the half to be left at home were unbending Newt supporters...
Thoughts...
The beauty with a brokered convention, with a dark horse emerging is that it will take place AFTER the DNC convention.
This is important because if Obama wants to dump Biden for Hillary, he’ll have to make that play before he knows who he is running against.
Thoughts...
Actually, all delegates will be seated and receive .5 votes each.
Not a chance. It would be a Huntsman or Daniels type. Either way the conservatives will get taken.
I think Newt could negotiate and deal-make to get Paul out. Promise an audited fed and some big position??? Maybe?
I did at one time. I also thought lawyers and law enforcement officers were about justice at one time too.
First, Harding and Fine Man is a seldom used combination of words. Monumentally corrupt embarrassment to the Republican Party might be more accurate. Garfield was a fine man and emerged as a compromise candidate (that was also true of Harding in 1920) out of the 1880 convention but served only 200 days till he was assassinated and died. So it's hard to describe him as a great president. We'll never know. And Coolidge was Harding's VP who took over after Horn Dog in the closet with his mistress in flagrante delicto / Teapot Dome Scandal Warren died of natural causes in office.
Finally, in Jefferson's time there were no formal (informally there were the Democratic Republicans - today's Democrats - and Federalists - now defunct) parties nor any conventions to nominate a presidential candidate. He was Adams' VP and replaced him in the election of 1800. His Vice President, Aaron Burr, got that office by virtue of coming in second in the Electoral College vote.
The last really contested convention, and even this one was still a single ballot affair, was probably the Democratic convention in 1960 with Kennedy barely winning and adding second place Johnson to the ticket for party unity.
Re: Jefferson, I said an argument could be made... for the same reasons you cited. Harding WAS a good man, naive though, hence his corrupt cabinet.
I’m feeling totally depleted..as if my ‘hope springs eternal’ prayerful little world came to an end overnight. I thought we had a few icons of conscience.
No longer trust Drudge, Rush, FauxNews, Washington Times and many other resources that appeared to share my conservative POV.
If anything happens to FReeRepublic - I’m leaving for New Zealand.
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