Posted on 02/07/2008 8:49:26 AM PST by Pan_Yans Wife
Can Mitt still win?
Frankly, no – the arithmetic makes it all but impossible
The Republicans have already chosen most of their delegates, and Romney has won only 256 of the 1,417 chosen so far—some 18%.
To get the delegates he needs to lock up the nomination, Romney would not only have to improve his performance, he’d have to become virtually perfect – winning 934 of the 963 delegates who haven’t yet been chosen. Unless all other candidates dropped out of the race, there’s no way anyone will scoop up more than 97% of the delegates remaining. Even if Mitt gives the greatest speech of his life at tomorrow’s conference of CPAC (the Conservative Political Action Committee) he can’t win enough delegates to become this year’s nominee.
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Are you hoping for a brokered convention and a Romney win? Your signature line makes it look like you oppose Romney.
One way to stop McCain: Huckabee/Romney 2008
ding dang, you got that right.
I wonder if Romney would support McCain once he gets the nomination.
Mitt can only possibly win as a third party candidate. Unless McCain becomes ill, the Republican fight is over for 2008.
If West Virginia didn’t help you figure it out, Huck is on the same page as McCain. See global warming, open borders and McCain-Feingold.
Are you hoping for a brokered convention and a Romney win? Your signature line makes it look like you oppose Romney.
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I’m hoping for a brokered convention and a conservative governor, a dark horse not even in the race to win.
I’d probably rather Huck than McMeMeMe for president; but he’s the only one of the three who has less chance of winning than McLame.
McCain needs to wake up and smell the "VILE"!!!
"Bipartisanship" Is A Dirty Word; and RUSH: "We want to defeat them"
deny mcamnesty the majority and do backroom deals in the convention (with unpledged delegates). just like McAmnesty and Huckabee did in west virginia.
With the advent of the televised media, brokered conventions aren’t as common. The public was disgusted when they saw the intraparty conflict televised in 1952 which resulted in Eisenhower’s victory.
I suspect die-hard Freepers would like the spectacle, but I would imagine that the networks would want to sanitize it and not show a true picture of the happenings. This is NOT the way politics should be run in America.
I would hope not. It always bothers me when a person can’t give a speech, ever, without reading it. Reading what someone else has written. Watch McCain....he is always reading. His wife also looks like she is afraid to make a move without his permission....kinda like a Stepford Wife.
I am sure McCain knows that of all the places to lose it, CPAC would not be it, so he will work hard to keep his cool if that happens unfortunately.
He doesn’t have to “win” he just needs to keep McCain from winning into so we go into a full of wheeling and dealing and horse trading. McCain is hugely unpopular with the party’s base and that’s who controls conventions.
McCain needs more than half of the remaining delegates. It is possible to stop him in time
If McCain wins the nomination and goes on to win the election (by some perverse act of nature) it will be the end of the conservative movement.
The neo-cons and RINOs know McCain cannot win without conservatives but they expect conservatives to vote for McCain even though he made it clear he resents us.
They feel they don’t have to pay atterntion to conservatives because we have no where else to go.
Like McCain’s mother said - “They will just have to hold their nose and vote for him”.
Conservatives are the plantation negroes of the republican party.
The only time they want to hear from us is when it is time to vote for them.
I just could not bring myself to vote for McCain.
On Super Tuesday, it looked like much of the nation “rolled over” and gave their delegates to McCain. What makes you think the comatose public that aren’t addicted to politics are actually going to consider their vote soberly and do the right thing?
Most Americans are fat, lazy and addicted to reality television... they will NOT understand or care about the intricacies of a brokered convention. They will vote with their “hearts”, not their minds. McCain’s landslide will continue.
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