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 voted for Romney this morning in KS.
There was A LOT of support there for Huckabee and a much larger turnout than expected. Seems to me these probably were not McCain supporters since the DBM has already crowned him the Republican nominee but protest voters. A couple of people did tell me they started out Fred then switched to Romney and were now voting Huckabee.
Translation:
We should just bend over and take whatever you and the other RINOs have planned for us.
There is still hope of stopping John McCain. We must do all we can.
If a ham sandwich can be indicted why can't it run for President?
Yep, and unlike with Goldwater, when it comes to McCain they will probably be right.
Just saw on Fox that Kansas did just that.
Dare we hope we get someone better than McCain?
Possibly, not surely. But we started this with Ditter’s point about voting Obama.
No one says you have to vote for anyone you don’t choose to. Just don’t expect people that you need in a national election to vote your guy. In the end instead of finding something in common with people who support most of what you want all parties get something they don’t want which is radical liberalism. Tell me how it is that maybe 30% of the population can win elections that define SCOTUS? Dictate national security, taxes, etc?
When I vote I look for the conservative first. If he/she isn’t there because they didn’t run then I am going to look for the one who I might be able to work with.
That would depend on who the opponent is. We don't always get what we want, but if Hillary is the nominee and conservatives still decide to sit it out because of a childish tantrum, it would be no less than an act of treason. They already did that once in 2006 and a fat lot of good that did us.
Romney is the real thing. Nobody wrote his speech before CPAC for him; he wrote it himself, and it was great. His record in Mass. was great (I lived there and voted for him).
Coulter is right — Romney was the best conservative candidate since Reagan but too many Republican voters didn’t bother to check for themselves and instead bought the lies about his record by the liberal media (who feared he’d win) and McCain/Huckabee.
So these Republican voters now have no right to complain.
And risk Huck actually becoming the nominee? I want him off the stage—now!
On 3/4 I am thinking of voting for Hillary as I think she is the most easily beatable. No since throwing away a good vote on the republican side that won’t make any difference. That being said I wonder which would be the lesser of evils...McCain or Hillary. In a small way I think Hillary as she will be setting her agenda via polling and looking to a second term. McCain won’t and won’t. What a messed up group of candidates...both sides...but more so on the rat side.
I talked to more than a few women who were rather taken with Fred.
Nice try. But, you’re locking the barn door and the cows have done run off.
We did not get in this mess just off this election cycle. Like it or don’t, but our most recent Republican presidents have been far from conservatives of the brand that we hope for. The party has moved left and McCain is a good fit.
I already voted (for Mitt - Huckabee won Tennessee) and I do hope that a brokered convention might happen and someone besides McCain get the nod. If he does, may once again swallow the same spit as I have done several times in the past when voting
It's not about who conservatives want, it's about who the whole country wants that wins the presidency.
Bush (himself not conservative enough to many here) barely won both elections (in fact didn't Gore even get more of the popular vote?).
Does anybody here think the country's become more conservative since?
Whatever candidate the republicans run, he'd better be more to the left of what people here are comfortable with, or we'll end up with Clinton or Obama.
How nuts can anyone here be to want one of those two elected?
McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero
Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)
Do you want to know why we lost in 2006? McCain/Feingold. Do you think McCain will actually win in Nov? Not on your Soros, pal.
Stop the McCain/Soros trashing of America!
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