Posted on 01/21/2012 4:52:20 AM PST by Yosemitest
Anyone surprised by this is not really paying attention. The GOP elites will do what ever is necessary to get Mitt nominated.
I really don’t understand why since Mitt has zero chance of beating nobama.
Unless, of course, the GOP elites secretly want another four years of nobama destroying our country.
They trashed Sarah, they scared off Herman, they are currently working, without much success fortunately, on Newt.
Newt must become unstoppable.
My thoughts too, Santorium, Paul, Perry together shouldn’t have over 50 delegates come time of the convention.
The ESTABLISHMENT is likely not to force Daniels down your throat. He’s a good Christian man. There are places he will not go.
Did not happen.
Now they have $8.5 billion in unpaid bills.
To put it loosely, somebody in Illinois politics STOLE $5 billion.
Now who might that have been? Was it the Governor?
He'd be the 7th Governor of Illinois in a row to end up involved in crime.
Maybe it was the corrupt Democrat machine that surrounds the governor and occupies all the top spots in the state bureaucracy. Those are the folks who brought Obama to the top. Did they steal for Obama? Does he have the $5 billion?
There are things cooking in Illinois that may well bring down the Obama regime before mid-summer.
Stay tuned. Theft in Illinois government is always a problem, but this would be the biggest theft in their history. It's big by even California standards.
Stay tuned.
Go back a little further. If establishment Republicans had gotten behind Alan Keyes in the Illinois Senate Race we would never have had Mr. Dunham.
It’s a nice dream (and one I share, since I don’t really think any of our candidates are acceptable), but it would leave us with a candidate who hasn’t been properly vetted. Whoever it is, The Enemy would find SOMETHING (”In Eighth Grade, Candidate X accidently ran the cat over with the lawnmower!”)to immediately spin that into a Palin-like “Candidate X has been destroyed,” backing it up with quotes from (liberal) polls. And then we’d lose.
“Screw a brokered convention when ANOTHER moderate can be foised upon us! “
Anything can happen in a brokered convention, but it won’t happen without organization.
There is great danger in putting all the conservative eggs in the Newt basket - especially when he has turned on conservatism many times before.
Neither Newt or Romney are right for conservatism.
Conservatives have been short-changed in this primary cycle, and conservatives are not ready for the possibility of a brokered convention, and should be.
I don't normally listen to Rush because I only hear him when I'm driving, and I'm never driving when he's on. But last week, I was traveling for business, and I was able to listen to him during some of my road hours.
BITE ME RUSH.
I happened to catch his show the two days when he was bashing Newt and Perry for their statements on Bain Capital, and it became clear he was pimping Romney.
Made me sick to listen to.
Sorry Rush, you lost me at Mittens.
Keynote speech: “Mark my word, __ new taxes.”
Amen...
I don’t think a brokered convention is possible under the rules in effect since about 1972. Nobody controls delegates, and they are free to vote however they want after a cettain number of ballots have resulted in no nomination.
Under the old rules, and I’m old enough to remember them, primaries counted for very few delegates, and state party bosses selected most of the delegates. I think that still happens, but not as much.
Governors would run as “favorite son” candidates, which gave them control of all their state delegates. In states where the governor belonged to the other party, I’m not sure but I think it was the state party bosses who selected the delegates. After a long, drawn-out process placing all the candidates in nomination, the charade of voting was carried out. Most of the time it was decided in back room deals before a single vote was officially cast.
I can’t see that happening. I think the delegates would not go along with it.
Absolutely wrong. Alan Keyes was a political stunt - a JOKE here in Illinois.
If the Republican Party had simply STAYED BEHIND Jack Ryan in the first place, Obama would've never been elected to the US Senate, and never gotten out of the Illinois State Legislature where he did nothing but vote "Present" on everything.
Imagine, the Democrat Party making a scandal out of a married man, Jack Ryan, having sex with his own wife. OMG, THE HORROR!!!!!
That's *exactly* what happened, despite the trumped up hype around he and his wife going to (gasp!) a sex club. The complete lack of backbone displayed by the Illinois Republican Party is exactly the reason why we have this worthless piece of crap, George-Soros-Sock-Monkey Obama in the White House.
To deny these FACTS is to deny reality.
it would leave us with a candidate who hasnt been properly vetted.
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Yeah; I thought of that. That’s the biggest “down-side”.
I agree. I blame Obama on Seven of Nine. What a weird world it is, to catapult a NOTHING to the Presidency, and then sit back and wonder why he sucks at the job.
There are things cooking in Illinois that may well bring down the Obama regime before mid-summer.......Stay tuned.
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Wow! That’s exciting news. Keep us posted.
The calculation being made is that the religious conservatives will vote for the R no matter what. It may be true, but not in the numbers they are hoping for.
You didn't state it as opinion. You attempted (badly) to cite a fact. A "fact" which has since been corrected.
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