Posted on 02/17/2012 3:02:34 PM PST by M. Thatcher
A prominent Republican senator just told me that if Romney can’t win in Michigan, the Republican Party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race. “If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity. The senator believes Romney will ultimately win in Michigan but says he will publicly call for the party to find a new candidate if he does not. “We’d get killed,” the senator said if Romney manages to win the nomination after he failed to win the state in which he grew up. “He’d be too damaged,” he said. “If he can’t even win in Michigan, where his family is from, where he grew up.” What about Rick Santorum? “He’d lose 35 states,” the senator said, predicting the same fate for Newt Gingrich. It would have to be somebody else, the senator said. Who? “Jeb Bush,” the former Florida governor.
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Another chicken-hearted, conservative-hating, RINO... ugh!!
I had an enlightening but disturbing conversation with one of my oldest friends today. Haven’t talked politics with her in a good while, since her husband is gravely ill. Her husband’s family has roots in PA going back to William Penn, they know all the movers and shakers in politics, particularly in the Pittsburg area. They live 6 mos out of each year in PA and have been back up there about a month.
Today she told me she was upset because she had been going to vote for Mitt Romney, but now she’s hearing from GOP insiders that Santorum and Romney have cut a deal. The only thing that is being worked out in the Primaries right now is which one of them will be at the top of the ticket.
According to her, this deal has the blessing of the GOP establishment and that is why they are not worried about a brokered convention. Whoever gets the most delegates gets the top spot, with the other being assured of the VP slot.
Politics in this country has all of the ethics and credibility of professional wrestling!
Now we're talking about a game plan!!!!!
Going to do my best!!!!
So if Willard wins by 100 votes we gotta keep him?
Actually remember a brokered convention. It was standard practice that number one was Presidential candidate, number two was VP
Can’t remember the President that first got to select his own running mate. Maybe another freeper can enlighten us.
The question is more of “What the heck is wrong with our voting electorate?”... as we vote these idjits into power and do not remove them for cr@p like this.
He would know a loser when he saw one, wouldn't he?
The GOP establishment has been trying to shove a Romney candidacy down our throats for over a year (at least). If Romney’s a bad horse to bet on now (and he is), it’s their fault, not ours. Leaving aside for a moment whether or not Jeb Bush would be a good candidate, I think such a move would be seen widely and correctly as panic.
At this point, I don’t think we have any choice but to play the hand we’re holding, which I admit isn’t exactly an inside straight. All three of our remaining candidates are flawed in one way or another. So, we go with the best of the bunch (i.e. Not Mitt) and do our best to get him elected.
Kyl or Blunt. Lugar wouldn't use a number, never talks in specifics.
The word from PA is that Santorum is very much under the control of the GOP Establishment. Since the drubbing he took in his last Senate race, he goes along to get along, aand he wants to be President so badly that he didn’t hesitate to take the deal.
If this plays out, there are going to be a lot of people who are voting for Santorum to get rid of Mitt in for a big shock. Even if Mitt comes in second and is offered the VP slot, because of the GOP E “rules”, he’ll be top dog in the next election cycle, and the Establishment Coronation of Mitt starts all over again.
Our only hope is if Newt gets enough delegates to deny Rick and Mitt’s combined votes from being enough to seal the deal.
As long as Mittens is +1 delegate, a brokered convention will get us Mittens because that's exactly who the GOP establishment brokering the convention have paid for.
Not to mention that Romney has all the Wall Street backing.
Yep, you are probably right about that. If not Mitt, it will be another of their choosing.
The place to beat them is in the primaries.
““We’d get killed,” the senator said if Romney manages to win the nomination after he failed to win the state in which he grew up. “He’d be too damaged,” he said. “If he can’t even win in Michigan, where his family is from, where he grew up.” What about Rick Santorum? “He’d lose 35 states,” the senator said, predicting the same fate for Newt Gingrich. It would have to be somebody else, the senator said. Who? “Jeb Bush,” the former Florida governor.”
I KNEW, it: when I saw the headline, I just knew Jebbie Bush would have to feature in the calculation.
Well, unnamed CINO Republican senator, I have news for you—if you think Romney would be killed and that Gingrich and Santorum would lose 35 states, your boy Jeb would likely lose 45 states because conservatives are sick of big government elites like the Bushes, liberals hate them, and that only leaves a few squishy moderates like you guys.
Of course, his father is still eligible to serve another term...
BUSH 41 + 45
I don’t believe it. They are both losing to Obama by about the same margin and there is no way if Santorum is the nominee he picks Romney as VP.
The key is, can Santorum get enough delegates to seal the nomination. If that happens, I’d say you are right.
If it takes Santorum and Romney’s combined delegates to get to the magic number, Santorum will do what the GOP E says.
Sounds like McLame.
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