READER COMMENTS ON
"POLL: A Brokered 2012 GOP Convention?"
(15 Responses so far...)
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David Lasagna
said on 3/2/2012 @ 12:03 pm PT...
You can't make up shit crazier than what we've seen so far outta this GOP nominating process. Given the unpopularity(aside from the recurring brief rollercoaster enthusiasm for the litany of frontrunners) of each and every one of their own candidates I'd think anything is possible at their convention.
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Czaragorn
said on 3/2/2012 @ 1:01 pm PT...
Looks to me like Jeb and Diebold et al. will ensure a brokered convention and a skin-o-your-teeth, last-minute, come-from-ridiculously-far-behind "victory" for the forces of evil. Come on over! Europe is wonderful! (so far, at least)
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Soul Rebel
said on 3/2/2012 @ 3:12 pm PT...
Internet voting!
My pick is Jeb also. Been calling it for months around town.
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Orangutan.
said on 3/2/2012 @ 3:35 pm PT...
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Big Dan
said on 3/2/2012 @ 4:08 pm PT...
JEB in a brokered convention.
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JPP
said on 3/3/2012 @ 1:46 am PT...
It depends SOLELY on the most dangerous Bush's assessment of 1) Obama's chances for re-election 2) the strength of little brother's lingering taint.
If Jebby wants the nomination, I assume the GOP "establishment" will accept him eagerly after the months of idiocy the alternatives have displayed.
Ditto for Gov. Beached Whale.
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Larry Bergan
said on 3/3/2012 @ 2:31 am PT...
Bush - the smarter - has baggage, (his brother, father and grandfather), but I'm not ruling him out.
The grand old party may need someone with less exposure at the last minute though.
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carver
said on 3/3/2012 @ 9:28 am PT...
The current clutch of clowns have so fouled the waters I doubt any half serious politico is willing to wade into that sewage. Although, Palin would probably leap in as the party's "savior"
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Brad Friedman
said on 3/3/2012 @ 6:52 pm PT...
Just for the record, my money would be on Chris Christie. They'd take him in a HEARTBEAT if he'd agree to run --- Today, tomorrow, or at the GOP convention in August.
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Dredd
said on 3/4/2012 @ 7:13 am PT...
It is a rather riotous situation from our perspective, however, they may not see it that way.
Nevertheless, my stronger election instincts is with a brokered convention too.
What is interesting to me is that there have been signs of preparation for this in the MSM for some time.
I am also trying to remember that even if they try they may not succeed.
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Larry Bergan
said on 3/4/2012 @ 11:12 am PT...
Big Dan:
I don't know if this is a good endorsement or not - being who I am - but I love your blog. I always learn something there whenever I visit.
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Suzan
said on 3/4/2012 @ 9:32 pm PT...
I also have been saying this for many months.
My original theory was that this clown show was set up expressly to ensure a groundswell of enthusiasm for a "white knight" to "save" them, and who better than a reclaimed Bush baby?
The MSM has been preparing the populace for just such an occurrence for the last two months.
So depend on it.
Wonder if they'll still think Palin as VP will snare a few extra wimmen's votes?
Love ya,
S
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Ska-T
said on 3/5/2012 @ 11:11 am PT...
Sorry Brad. This election cycle I don't even have enough enthusiasm or knowledge about the current state of the nomination process to intelligently participate in your poll. In any realistic scenario the GOP (Wall St, MIC) power structure wins. Any of their figurehead candidates is a win for them. Obama is a win for them. What does it matter?
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Paul McCarthy
said on 3/5/2012 @ 4:54 pm PT...
Chris Christie would be a worse laughing stock than anyone running now. You can only imagine the cartoons --- Christie as an elephant, a beached whale, a bald eagle that can't fly, the Sta-Puf Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters --- the possibilities are endless. In a pre-TV era he might have made it, but nobody wants another Taft.
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Alec Marken
said on 3/7/2012 @ 4:16 am PT...
After spending so many millions on their campaigns, I doubt the Republican party would snub them all to that extent...unless each candidate is part of a plan to do so. But anything's possible.