Some damn fine men have emerged from brokered conventions. Garfield, Harding, Coolidge...an argument could be made that Jefferson could be included in that list.
IMO, we’re *always* being played. Like a friggin drum.
The establishment GOP controls the convention. Anyone who thinks a brokered convention will result in anyone except Romney is fooling themselves.
We either win this at the ballot box or conservatism and the Tea Party have been silenced in 2012.
WE are probably being “played!”
Well, we’re being played again...because we’re ALWAYS being played by the GOP-e crowd.
However, if we all got on the same page, we could make it for real.
If we end up with a brokered convention, with neither Newt, Mitt-Witt, Ricky-Ticky-Tavi or RuPaul able to secure the nomination, we might as well go for broke and draft Sarah Palin for President, and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Marine General Peter Pace for Vice President.
Sarah will totally dismantle 0bama in any debate they have, General Pace will reduce Joe Biden to a babbling glob of Jello (which won’t be hard to do).
My thoughts, FWIW.
It just gets interestinger and interestinger.
"…he could have enough momentum…"Sssssh! Nobody tell the Mittiots nor the media it's delegates, not momentum, they need.
Bring it.
Maybe someone can explain something: Both SC and FL had delegates taken away (half) because they moved their primary dates against RNC policy. So what does this mean? Does it change the number of delegates needed or just the number of people that can attend the convention and vote for those states?
This whole primary thing is really seriously screwed up!
Well, 2DV (happy belated birthday, BTW), we are always being played by these thugs. But...a brokered convention would, at the very least, provide a forum for a discussion about the future of the GOP.
If they can’t renounce their left leaning, centrist BS, and nominate a true CONSERVATIVE candidate, then they will have made the decision much easier for all of us.
The possibility of a strong third party push is a bit unsettling, but the CONSERVATIVE position MUST be given voice.
With the GOP establishment firmly in control, the only way a brokered convention wouldn’t result in Romney being chosen is if they could find a way to resurrect Karl Marx.
I’ve heard it said that Politics is about making you think you have some control. You don’t. The media, Party leaders and the Powers that Be control the agenda. Average voters are sheep to be manipulated. That’s why we need multiple parties, and encourage open political primaries, and eliminate the current ability for the few to control the duopoly.
In Soviet Union they had one Party and had a dictatorship. Two Parties doesn’t necessarily give freedom to the people.
Perhaps my state’s election (Pennsylvania) will be meaningful for a change! It’s usually too late to make a difference.
Broker it! Let’s do it!
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