Posted on 01/21/2012 4:52:20 AM PST by Yosemitest
Are there two types? There is the smoke-filled back room of establishment GOP types picking the RINO for us. Then, there is the brokering that would go on between the freed-up delegates, as it dawns on them that vote after vote, no candidate is getting to a majority. Isn't that a "brokered" convention as well, and if stalemated, a newcomer could result?
Reagan failed to get Congress to do that.
A FISCAL CONSERVATIVE has got to love Daniels. A SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE might well consider he took back his unfaithful wife (a serious act of Christian love).
I doubt Ronaldus Magnus would have taken back Jane Wyman on a bet.
I agree. A brokered convention could only be kept from the establishment if the delegates themselves rebelled against the leadership and refused to put a rino stool-pigeon in place.
I want no Chris Rino Cristie.
I want no Mitch Rino Daniels.
I want a bold, forceful, proud American-exceptionalism conservative.
And I will NEVER support any candidate whose pro-life record is NOT bold, clear, and absolutely without doubt.
Rush is wrong. There are a SURFEIT of brokers. Every state has its congressmen and representatives, its party leaders, its factions, etc. And every one of them are more than willing to haggle for the nomination.
Almost guaranteed: Whoever the nominee would be would be far more conservative than either Romney or Gingrich.
I have seen a list of probably the TOP 10 conservatives in office right now, most ANY of which would get the votes of the conservative delegates.
And this is very important: delegates are only limited in their vote to the FIRST ballot. If no nominee wins outright, ALL delegates become FREE AGENTS, and can vote for whoever they choose!
Out of the 2,286 delegates to the convention, what percentage would you guess are conservatives? Maybe 60% or more? And a nominee needs 1,144 votes, or 50% +1 to get the nomination.
Which means that Romney is toast. The best he could probably muster after a failed first vote would be 10-15%, almost all from New England. Gingrich would do better, with maybe 20-25%. Santorum could pull, again my guess, 15-25%.
Palin could probably waltz in and claim 40%+, maybe more.
Of the other conservative possibilities, they would form their own blocs. Some of them would bow out, not wanting the job. Palin could be a “kingmaker” with the snap of her fingers for any of them.
All told, it would be an extraordinary, and oddly enough, most (real) democratic event than what most people have seen in their lives.
The Beltway bandits, Hill Rats, insiders and lobbyists, and the RNC leadership would be dashing madly about, for once totally out of control, while the party rank and file ruled. RINOs and leftist media spin doctors, and people like Karl Rove would be in an utter panic as all the castles they have built were torn down, and a candidate they didn’t own was suddenly the nominee.
A candidate who would win, and lead a solidly Republican congress on a resurrection of America.
A president who would likely nominate two solid conservative Supreme Court justices and insure the court was a conservative and constitutionalist body for the next decade or two.
A president who would strip America of decades of welfare state leftism, craft a balanced budget, end the Obama recession/depression, break the big media oligopoly, and turn the Democrats into a minority party for decades.
I think the nominee still needs to get a majority of the delegate votes.
Remember, this whole thing was put together by the now quite insane Tony Wiener. He's not a doctor ~ but he was undoubtedly in the top couple of dozen legal text writers in town. It will take some just like him to undo this garbage.
As it turns out two of the three four finalists are Virginia residents. That makes it impossible for any Virginia Republican to run as VP.
Which means Republicans, like Democrats, are willing to sell the public down the river and send their mothers into the street for a shot at higher political office!
Hmm, so you want a pro-life absolutist. So do I. We have THREE of them currently available to vote for. BTW, Daniels is also a pro-life absolutist.
Gingrich and Santorum are the only pro-life republican candidates currently remaining.
Paul has a dismal 55% rating by right to life and a 75% rating by the national abortion rights action league. FWIW, there is no such thing as “states rights” abortion. Homicide is homicide.
Romney’s record is radical pro-abortion until he began to seek the presidency in the middle of his term as Massachusetts governor, a term he won on the basis of a promise that he is unalterably pro-abortion.
I don’t particularly care how some organization with political agendas rates someone’s moral standing ~ Paul is a RTL absolutist.
Sorry, muawiyah, when BOTH organizations, pro-life and pro-abortion, who hate each other rate Paul the same way, then Paul’s record is pro-choice.
And pro-choice is the libertarian position, and we both know it is.
Paul does not accidentally get rated by the pro-abortion lobby, NARAL, as voting 75% of the time favorably toward legislation important to them. I would suggest that you are missing a nuance someplace.
I hope that this time the RINOs get the short end of the stick, but they never do.
You need to look atthe situation through the prism of running against BO. Newt will carry midwestern states and some eastern states when going against Obama.
Failure to recognize that is a sign of a narrow mind.
I don't let organizational political ratings guide my thinking about any of these people.
Dr. Paul is a nut case ~ Romney isn't. He cold-bloodedly synthesized whatever policy positions he thought might trick the broad masses. That makes him a sociopath.
Your right, you don’t listen to Rush much.. He goes after Romney just as much as other when they are WRONG.. Makes me sick for people to comment when they don’t listen to somebody every day...
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