Posted on 02/09/2008 11:44:24 AM PST by Jim Robinson
Folks, there still may be a slim chance to force a deadlocked convention. I'm no election math wizard, but I believe it's still mathematically possible for McCain to NOT receive the requisite number of delegates to win the nomination. But it would require a great turnout of passionate conservative voters in the remaining primary states to accomplish.
The trick would be for all remaining primary conservative voters to vote for their favorite candidate as if he were still in the race. Fred's name is still on the ballot. So is Hunter's and Romney's. Shoot, vote for Huckabee, Paul or even Giuliani if you wish. Anyone but McCain!
None of the others can possibly win, but it's still possible for McCain to lose. Let it go to the convention and force the GOP to publicly fight it out as if its very life depended on it. Because it does.
What do we have to lose? As it stands now, more and more conservatives are declaring their intentions to sit out the general. If McCain is our candidate, looks like Hillary/Obama will be our next president. Don't let it happen. Vote for any GOPer other than McCain!
I do NOT own a white flag...I'm not about to buy one, and I'll be damned if I'm ever going to MAKE one. There's no way I'm going to just sit around and let McCain schmooze his way in (Actually the liberal media are using their political equivalent of a "shoe horn" to force him in).
McCain is too weird, too psychotic and way too unpredictable for me.
As a voter you tend to make a mental prediction as to what the person you're voting for would do in office.
You can pretty much see where that puts me with McCain.
The MSM has been using an old saltwater (& some in freshwater) fishing technique known as "chumming".
With saltwater fish like, for example, blackfin tuna, you lay out a chum-line of cut bait, minnows, and whatever you can come up with. The chum line trails behind the boat and the targeted fish (you hope) comes to eat the free goodies like they're in a buffet line.
Then he bites on the especially attractive big chunk.....the one with the hook in it.
How different from that scenario is what the liberal media have been doing for some time now, with McCain.
I can guarantee you, they have a big hook and will reel him in at just the right time...probably very late in the game when there is little or no time for rebuttal.
We've all been exposed to the media version of this...be careful before you bite!
Ever check Huckabee’s actual record with what he says about it? Ever check Romney’s actual record with what Huckabee has said about it?
It’s obvious you didn’t bother to.
Beware of politicians courting the Christian vote.
Hunter's our choice. {{{sigh}}} Oh what the hay, hope is free. Maybe the Earth will spin off its axis and Hunter will be our next president. :)
I think this is flawed logic. Failing to vote for McCain is the best way to put a Democrat in the White House. Every poll (not that they mean that much) says McCain is the one R who can beat Hillary or Obama. Read the article on Realclear politics by Robert McFarlane that ends with this:
“there is the cost of their extremist rhetoric to the Republican Party. As President Reagan once told me, “Going over the cliff, flags flying, is still going over the cliff.”
I like dogs...not humans!!!! ;>)
| TOTAL 1191 TO WIN - TOTAL OUTSTANDING 1035 | |||||
| CANDIDATE | # PLEDGED | # UNPLEDGED | COMBINED TOTAL | # NEEDED | % NEEDED |
| MCCAIN | 697 | 17 | 714 | 477 | 46.10% |
| HUCKABEE | 178 | 3 | 181 | 1010 | 97.58% |
| PAUL | 16 | 0 | 16 | 1175 | 113.5% |
| ROMNEY | 286 | 0 | 286 | 905 | 87.43% |
great thinking!
The liberal media weren’t the only ones trashing Romney. We had a lot of people doing it here, sometimes saying really vacuous things such as, (in talking about Romney’s healthcare plan requiring people to prioritize their health in drawing up their budgets)
“Yeah I know, it’s actually PRIVATE but the GOVERNMENT pays for it”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967138/posts
If our own at FR can maintain that a plan can simultaneously be both PRIVATE and PUBLIC, then the nomination of McCain should surprise no one. We lack the rigor to make these decisions. You’re right. We now have no right to complain.
Good luck trying to food in all their bowls. You'll be as busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.
Trying to ‘put’ food.......
Louisiana isn’t lousy.
“Romney is the real thing.”
He sure is—the real RINO.
Better than McCain. I'm not a Huckabee fan, but I'd much rather have him than McCain, if those are the only choices.
Who knows? Nothing's carved in stone yet.
I’m off the reservation and out for a fight. I went Constitution Party yesterday. Pass the ammunition!
Jim Rob is a much better man than me.
Yer illegal alien criminal loving liberal butt would be gone if I ran this joint.
Yes, it would.
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