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| A candidate picked in a "smoke-filled" room? Of course any smoking is usually on the sidewalk now a days... |
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| courtesy of Dave in Texas at AoSHQ |
- A brokered GOP convention? It might just happen...
- Why a brokered convention would be perilous
- Sarah Palin?
- Mitch Daniels or Jeb Bush? (Oh sure, that would make everyone happy...I don't think so.)
- Jonah Goldberg on a brokered convention
- Karl Rove says you are mentally ill for thinking so (Jeb Bush must have told him again, "NO!")
Ever read up on the 1952 Republican convention? The front runner Taft had to cave to the more popular Ike (neither had a majority going in). William Manchester wrote about it and I excerpted some of it here (towards the end): link
ReplyDeleteThat is interesting. Although Ike made a few bad supreme court picks (he got snookered), but heck so did a lot of Republican presidents. Ike was a fiscal conservative.
DeleteI agree with the sentiment that brokering a convention helps Romney; but think the game is to prevent Ron Paul (and I am no Paulistinian) from claiming the nomination on a second vote at the convention.
ReplyDeleteAce, and I think RSM noted that many of Romney's delegates have in the recent past been pro-Paul. These delegates are only required to vote for Romney on the first ballot.
I could hold my nose and vote for the GOP nominee, but I could also just vote downticket and let the GOP elites hang.
Ron Paul will not have the votes for that. One thing I am sure of is the party will never let Ron Paul get the nomination. Ron Paul wants the GOP to adopt some of his fiscal platform. And frankly that should not be a deal breaker for the GOP. Ron Paul is more right than wrong on fiscal issues.
DeleteI don't underestimate either Paul or the corruption within the GOP. Paul has two ideas: auditing the Fed, and establishing a currency standard. Those are dealbreakers for the GOP because it (insert calf feeding analogy here) and they aren't giving that up.
DeleteA brokered convention save us form the likes of Santorum, The Ging, and Romney.
ReplyDeleteSo long as they pick someone better...be careful what you wish for.
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