Posted on 02/16/2011 4:06:08 PM PST by paul in cape
(Link to Gov. Christie speech below). Is next year the year? With no front runner, why not vote for favorite sons around the country, and then have the delegates choose the strongest candidate in August/September 2012?
There are many good reasons to do this:
1) Open primaries won't choose the weakest candidate
2) Less time for the Media to torpedo the candidate
3) Our strongest candidates (Christie, Palin, etc.) don't need to get bloodied early, or waste their time and money in a primary
4) It'll drive the liberals and Washington elites crazy!
Feel free to add or agree/disagree.
BS,
Christie is not a strong candidate.
WAY too early for a front runner. By the time we bet through a primary, there will be a winner. If it is Mitt, I’m going fishing on Nov. 4th...
Open Primaries got us a 3rd term with Jenny Granholm (Now with 20% more penis)
Too many people want us to take the blue pill and go back to sleep.
I love it how every post prior to mine completely disregarded your question. Posters picked up on trigger words like “open primary” and “Christie” and uttered the typical knee-jerk reactions.
Think how often the conventions have become totally ignored by the news media...because nothing happens.
The idiots, like the Bushes, tried to make them "diversity fests" and then bored the ones who they needed to stay enthused. And the media regarded it, appropriately, as propaganda. Unfortunately then, when someone of worth then got to the podium...no one was covering it...and it was if it never happened.
A brokered convention would definitely work against the Romneys and other CPAC RINOS that count on their establishment controls to prevail. The People...in an unresolved Convention...scare the Establishment...and the Media silly.
The problem with brokered conventions is that the party bosses choose the candidates behind closed doors. Hence, we would probably end up with Romney.
Ah — NO.
It’s a SURE road to defeat.
Oh, and Christie, as “good” as he is in NJ, is NOT a strong candidate for President.
But, but wait, Ann says he is the ONE.
Christie is a weaker candidate than Romney. Same NE liberal mold, less polished and charismatic.
The primary system has broken down and we Republicans have not had good candidates for the big November elections as a result. Dole & McPain, good grief!
The primaries are held too early and the open ones let in too many spoiler votes. Early primaries favor the early leading candidates who have a lot of advertising money. The primaries happen too early for voters to examine and learn who has the best stands on big issues. Too many voters don’t wake up until August and then the ticket is already written in stone.
The GOP should push for later primaries and the first vote at the convention, even those cast by delegates chosen by primary outcomes, should not lock in the candidates, unless the vote is a super majority. Let some more vote rounds go on to shake out candidates that by late August or early September have lost their shine.
Not taking a shot at you, personally, Tet_Again.
But, dammit, why are we conservatives making decisions on presidential candidates based on their "polish" and "charisma".
That's what liberals do! That's what the press does!
Don't we, as conservatives, make our judgments on the basis of a.) policies and b.) character?
Then, and only then, do considerations as shallow as "polish" and "charisma" come into play. If at all...
Christie has WAY more charisma than Romney, and less polish is a good thing. Gov. Christie is genuine.
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ikely and undesirable.
The pressure to fall behind the plurality candidate would be immense; Obama worked this to his advantage (he had less than a majority of first ballot delagates coming out of the
primaries and caucuses). The choice could be an unpalatable one of the pluraity candidate (who, given GOP winner-take-all biased delegate selection systems, would hav been weak) or refusing to do so, in a process that Obama and the media would portray as undemocratic and corrupt.
Delegates are not competent for this. Back when conventions had substantive power, deegates were the politcal luminaries of their locales, sent to do serious business. Now they are a grab-bag of local party volunteers, donors, old college buddies of the candidates, etc., sent to have a feel-good time. Absolutely no way you want them making a real decision.
FAIL ~ a brokered convention will give all the power to the same Establishment that stuffed Preibus down the party’s throat.
True and a good governor for the state he is governor of. But not presidential.
Anne apparently does not know of his Muslim connections.
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