If Republicans Really Want Our Party Back, Here's How To Take It... - Political Forum

superdude17* · 02-14-2008, 11:08 AM

J.B. Williams & Frank Salvato

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Like most conservative writers and talk show hosts, we have been inundated with Republican reader mail describing a depth of anger and frustration we have never before witnessed, all of it directed at the RNC-MSM anointing of John McCain against the will of the Republican majority.

Before most rank and file Republicans ever got a chance to vote in the Republican primaries, all conservative candidates had already been run out of the race by open primaries held in early primary states that have a notable liberal slant. By the time most real Republicans got a chance to vote in their party primary, there was already nobody left to vote for.

Even then, McCain is currently leading the RNC nomination race with only 37.6% support among Republicans and much less than 30% of the national vote.

Although the MSM and RNC are touting McCain as the “clear choice of Republicans” for the ’08 nomination, no less than 62.4% of Republican primary voters have actually cast a vote against John McCain.

Principled, consistent, core Conservatives in particular, seem to be entirely fed up with having their candidates dictated to them by the likes of Mel Martinez and other RNC turncoats who are either closet card carrying members of the liberal cabal across the aisle, or so compassionate towards democratic socialism that you can’t tell the difference between them.

But Are Republicans Angry Enough To Take Their Party Back Yet?

If 62.4% of Republicans really do oppose McCain becoming the Party nominee, then they need to do something more than whine and complain about it. If their best plan is to stay home in protest come November, or buy into some insane third party fantasy, they will be sadly disappointed with the outcome of their plan.

Further, the idea of getting involved in the RNC or Republican Party organizational process – becoming a committeeman or precinct captain – and effecting meaningful change is a genuine solution-based thought to consider for the future, but incredibly late for 2008 and a patently unrealistic method of dealing with the current McCain crisis.

If they really are fed up with having liberal candidates dictated to them by liberals running the RNC, then they need to act to take control of the nomination process, now and in the future.

Republicans CAN Take Their Party Back, Even Now and Here’s How!

In short, Republicans MUST use the opportunity provided by the remaining primaries to force an open convention and deny McCain his RNC-MSM mandated coronation, if they want their Party back.

A Republican candidate needs 1191 delegates to sew up the nomination. As of today, John McCain has only 804, which means he is presently 387 delegates short of tying up the nomination.

McCain cannot pick up those 387 delegates before the April 22nd Pennsylvania primary, and he must win every delegate between here and there in order to secure the nomination even then.

Here Are the Primaries McCain Must Win Between Now and April 22nd:

(Big delegate states in bold, the three most important in red)

Guam 2.16
Wisconsin 2.19
Hawaii 2.23
Ohio 3.4
Rhode Island 3.4
Texas 3.4
Vermont 3.4
Mississippi 3.11
USVI 4.5
Pennsylvania 4.22

To be blunt about it, Texas alone, with 140 delegates, has the power to dramatically delay the McCain coronation all by itself. The five big delegate states (in bold) together make up 381 delegates and if McCain lost all five, it would become all but impossible for him to win the nomination anywhere but in an open convention.

If McCain fails to capture the nomination by April 22nd, the message will be sent to the RNC loud and clear and McCain will be in a state by state fight from that point forward. If he is denied all of the five big delegate states, he will have to fight all the way through Nebraska on July 12th to capture the nomination, if he can win all the delegates between April 22nd and July 12th.

If McCain is blocked on April 22nd, keeping him blocked through July 12th and all the way to the convention becomes a viable task. Obviously, if he is allowed to sew up the nomination by April 22nd, it’s all over but the shouting.

But to put a fine point on it, Republicans can stop McCain on one day in two states, Texas and Ohio. The two control 228 delegates. Focus on Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania between now and April 22nd.

How The People CAN Make It Happen?

Mike Huckabee is still in the race with 240 delegates. Romney is sitting on another 285 delegates with his campaign in a “suspended” state. Both can still collect delegates. Even though neither can actually win the nomination before the convention, the two combined have the power to stop a McCain nomination and force him into an open convention where the delegates are all in play.

Simply put, what has to happen between now and July 12th is this. Huckabee and Romney have to continue amassing delegates, denying those delegates to McCain and forcing an open convention.

Once at an Open Convention

The goal of affecting an open convention achieved, the process of selecting the legitimate Republican nominee will be rightfully, back in the hands of the Republican electorate.

Because the delegates would not be bound to the candidates to whom they were initially pledged, the process of selecting the party’s nominee would fall to the arena of old-time convention politics. Floor campaigns would be initiated for each candidate supported by the delegate constituencies and allowed by the nomination process. In essence, an open convention serves as a literal “reset button,” thus usurping the political piracy of the liberal leaning RNC and mainstream media rushing to make McCain king.

For you golfers, it would be considered a gigantic political “Mulligan,” - no offense intended toward the Irish.

This Process Has Dual Messages

Taking this tact is to travel the edges of the double-edged sword.

On the one hand it sends a loud and serious message to the Republican National Committee and the interloper mainstream media that Republicans, and Conservatives in particular, will no longer stand for elitists manipulating the election process. It will prove to them through pro-active solution, creative deed; action based on the principles of defending our Constitutional right to defend our Charters of Freedom, that we are willing to defend those covenants and that we are dedicated to casting off the manipulative limitation of their political and ideological opportunism.

On the other hand, because the candidate will then be of the electorate’s creation – exclusively, we must be dedicated to whatever the outcome of the process...even in a perceived worse-case scenario.

In The End

In the end, nothing will be more effective than securing the US Senate with a solid majority. A strong Conservative majority in the Senate creates a power-base from which great influence can be exerted on the Executive Branch’s agenda. This must, regardless of the White House race, become the greatest focus for all principled Conservatives and Republicans from this point forward.

But no greater “message” can be sent to the elitist powers that be – the elitist RNC and Liberal MSM – than to render their ability to anoint “the chosen one” impotent. To affect an open convention where the true voice of the Republican and Conservative electorate can be heard, measured and enacted sends the ultimate message to those who would usurp our constitutional right to defend the Charters of Freedom.

Want your party back? Here’s how you can take it back. Take it back now or forever hold your tongue-and your nose!

Voting for Huckabee gets us to an open convention. One of the main reasons why I am endorsing him. A vote cast in his direction is nothing more than a vote for an Open Convention, which is what our party so desperately needs. Huck is giving us another chance to choose the candidate we so need, and for that I thank you Mr. Huckabee. We need a candidate with energy, passion and enthusiasm. Not a washed up 72-year-old senator. The Democrats, with either candidate, are young and energized. we need a George W. Bush like character to confront that windstorm.

The time is now. I call on all Republicans on this forum who still have the chance to change the tide to act for the sake of our country, and most importantly, our party.