Scarborough says he’s spoken to top conservatives and all want a brokered convention. He also states as fact that Sarah Palin wants a brokered convention. Your thoughts? Ping to Today show list.
Mika should sit so close to him...he has a violent temper...just ask the family of his late aide.
This is bullshit.
A brokered convention is a fantasy. It is simply not possible. People who are saying they want a brokered convention are just stalling, waiting for something to happen. I would dare say that most are just waiting for Romney to sew things up, so they can be forced to accept what the wanted all along.
The only way to avoid Romney is to beat him in the primaries. Any fantasy of a brokered convention that distracts from that immediate goal just serves to seal the deal.
"Romney. Romney. Romney. Romney. Romney.(yada yada) ...
Ignore that Romney DEFIED the Mass Constitution and instituted
GAY MARRIAGE without authority.
Ignore that Romney INITIATED RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE.
Ignore that Romney covered up the BIG DIG.
Ignore that Romney RAN Mass into the ground."
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
Right, the same Weakly Standard conservatives who wanted Christie, Jeb, Daniels, etc. once it became clear Myth can’t crack 30%. The only thing worse than Romney being the nominee would be if the party hacks were able to select some bloodless suit who didn’t have the drive to run for it in the first place.
Translation: The Country Club is getting scared of Gingrich.
Pray for America
Mika always looks like she just sucked a lemon.
What in hell is a brokered convention ?
Joe’s too often a second-rate water carrier for the GOP RINO Establishment, and he mixes two groups here: the RINO and conservative ‘Establishments’.
But there is something to the Jeb/Mitch/Chris C. wing of the party having doubts about Romney and seeing a possible chance to slip in one of their guys instead. Coalition: Mitt delegates and ex officio delegates.
Then there’s also the tea party, conservative insurgent block. They are backing Newt now and they did miss the boat in getting a viable, real small government type on the ballot. Their potential block: Newt and Santorum delegates and, if they go with a Palin type, Paul delegates as well.
Strangely, there’s an incentive and hope for both camps looking to the convention. Usually there’s ungrounded chatter about the possibility of a brokered convention, but this is at least a little bit different in that both major wings of the party have some interest and hope in it.
It’s still something of a long-shot, but there’s more there there than the usual.
In other words...
they want to pick Romney no matter what their party members say.
Joe Scarborough is the last guy who would be on the inside track of what the conservative leaders are thinking. He’s a left wing tool.
How in the heck would Joe Scarborough know ANYTHING about what conservatives want since he is NOT a conservative and has never been a conservative!