Thursday, February 23, 2012






(Station corrected)


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    1. Thanks, corrected.

      I think this makes me feel a little better about my basic math error in the other post today. Or perhaps it should make me feel even worse.

  2. This made me want to pull out my vintage powder blue uniform that is roughly four sizes too small.....

  3. I heard some of Rush today. He was defending Santorum for being a team player.

    It is widely held in the right wing blogs that the UAW got a better deal then they would have received under a normal bankruptcy. ( I am not a lawyer so I don't have an opinion.) Romney would be applauded by most GOP audiences for criticizing a Dem for favoring unions so I don't think this shows he packed the venue.

    1. No question that he packed the room -- you could hear it from the introductions on. Lots of Romney and (as usual) Paul people, not so much for the other two.

  4. Angels dancing on the heads of pins, but:

    Isn't it plausible that while delegates are supporters of various candidates, many of them are party hacks first and foremost? (Probably not Paul delegates, but many delegates for the others?)

    I have never been a national convention delegate, but I have been in a position where I might have become one if I'd wanted to (i.e., been able to pay my expenses). But I have always been a Democrat first and foremost.

    So ... it seems to me that in the event of a deadlocked convention, at least, a majority of delegates would look for some other way out - changing pledge rules if need be, then looking for trusted party leaders to help lead things to closure.

    And - here comes the pitch - wouldn't that scenario amount to a brokered convention? Totally unlikely to happen, I agree, and not much like the brokered conventions of yore. But if, as I suspect, a majority of delegates are partisans first, supporters of individual candidates second, isn't a brokered (or at any rate 'negotiated') convention at least in the realm of possibility?

    1. I think JB is saying that the convention can be "brokered" only if the delegates are in fact truly tied to the candidates and willing to take their direction. Then the candidates could negotiate with each other over which one of them their supporters would ultimately vote for.

  5. I'm calling on the convention to draft Keith Hernandez as a unity candidate



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