OT – Who will run for President on the Republican side?

[svelte]

OK Mark.

I am starting to get the feeling you’re not yet 21.

You’ve declined the bet and so be it. Not even worth my time to respond to you anymore.

[Anonymous]

I’m glad to hear Ron Paul still has a chance.

And I think a true believer wouldn’t squirm so much and accept the bet.

[markmax33]

[quote=svelte]OK Mark.

I am starting to get the feeling you’re not yet 21.

You’ve declined the bet and so be it. Not even worth my time to respond to you anymore.[/quote]

Svelte I agreed Ron Paul was not a favorite, why on earth would I make a one-sided bet? Are you stupid? Can’t you read? I presented you several bets that reflected your opinions stated on the blog and you refused them. I’ll repeat:

1. Ron Paul collects more delegates in 5 states and wins them.

2. Ron Paul was within 20% at the time I said it wasn’t run away.

3. Ron Paul finishes 2nd at a brokered convention.

If you claim he has no bearing on the party, take the bets. Don’t be scared Svelte, I smell the fear from this side of my monitor. I’m going to punish you with the $100 prize and buy you 10 shots.

[ocrenter]

All this time I thought santorum was running a faith based campaign.

Turns out it is actually Dr Paul!

[Coronita]

[quote=markmax33]Your delegate count is wrong.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2012/calculator/

Mitt has 66 delegates out of the 1144 to win. It is hardly over. Ron Paul has 10 delegates. Mitt has about 5% of what he needs to win. Paul’s best states are coming up and he will likely win alteast one of the upcoming states. Romney doesn’t have a stastically accurate or measurable lead. The GOP promotes a new guy every 3 weeks. Watch out.[/quote]

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Comments?

[Coronita]

[quote=markmax33][quote=pri_dk]A silver or bronze medal in the Olympics is something to be proud of.

In political races, not so much.[/quote]

This is where you are wrong. The GOP will be forced to offer Rand the VP if Ron keeps collecting delegates. 2nd place means a lot and it means a platform he can use for the next 4 years win or lose. Look at Sarah Palin’s flash in the pan.[/quote]

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[Coronita]

[quote=markmax33][quote=pri_dk][quote=markmax33][quote=pri_dk]The GOP will be forced to offer Rand the VP if Ron keeps collecting delegates.[/quote]

Dude, I hope you stick around here until November. I want to see just how desperate and contrived your arguments can become.[/quote]

Facts are desperate Pri. You just don’t have any foresight. I’ll be here.[/quote]

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You know the nice thing about using the quote feature? Revisionists can’t modify what is quoted.

[markmax33]

[quote=flu][quote=markmax33][quote=pri_dk][quote=markmax33][quote=pri_dk]The GOP will be forced to offer Rand the VP if Ron keeps collecting delegates.[/quote]

Dude, I hope you stick around here until November. I want to see just how desperate and contrived your arguments can become.[/quote]

Facts are desperate Pri. You just don’t have any foresight. I’ll be here.[/quote]

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You know the nice thing about using the quote feature? Revisionists can’t modify what is quoted.[/quote]

Like I said the Caucus states have not had the state conventions and have not elected delegates to send to Tampa yet. Ron Paul is winning many of the states on the county level, which in theory means he is going to win the majority of the delegates in many of the Caucus states. It is likely that out of the first 7 states Paul was nearly in first while the media was reporting him in a distance 4th. That is the only point/fact I have been claiming the whole time. I’m sure none of you notice or track what is going on at the county caucuses…

[markmax33]

If you want to understand how Ron Paul will most likely win Missouri without winning the popular vote you need to watch this video from a Fox newstation in Ohio. This guy actually does some reporting.

[Coronita]

[quote=markmax33]If you want to understand how Ron Paul will most likely win Missouri without winning the popular vote you need to watch this video from a Fox newstation in Ohio. This guy actually does some reporting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94XumhCBkTM%5B/quote%5D

I don’t care about transitory speculation. The only thing I care about is the end results…So I’ll just wait for the end results. Thanks though.

[Coronita]

So… Looks like we’re done here, no?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/politics/republican-primaries/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

[svelte]

[quote=flu]So… Looks like we’re done here, no?

http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/03/politics/republican-primaries/index.html?hpt=hp_t1%5B/quote%5D

Oh, we were done weeks ago. It’s just that some of us have been wandering around with rose-colored glasses smoking peyote hoping that zombies can make a farce of the selection process by selecting a candidate who has only been able to get like 8% of the popular vote.

[markmax33]

Again you guys are acting like zombies. I’ve explained it several times. The counts on CNN do not include the actual delegates alloted in the Caucus states. The Caucus states assign delegates at their respective state conventions and if Romney doesn’t hit 1144 before the RNC in Tampa, he could very easily be rejected. Remember there are 2200ish delegates at the RNC convention deciding the fate and they don’t care about the straw votes in their home districts.

Even if Santorum and Newt drop out and they endorse Romney, their delegates will not all go to Romney. There are many Paul delegates that got elected into Santorum and Gingrich’s group of delegates and once they are released they can go vote for Paul.

I’m not gaurenteeing Romney doesn’t get to 1144, but if he doesn’t, things will get mighty interesting.

To write off the election and say somebody is the presumptive candidate is just a fairly uneducated point of view. You would be right about 60% of the time.

[UCGal]

Markmax –
If you had to guess – how many delegates do you think Paul will end up with?

[bearishgurl]

[quote=UCGal]Markmax –
If you had to guess – how many delegates do you think Paul will end up with?[/quote]

I think this number would be hard to guess at present because they have probably infiltrated other campaigns and so are currently disguised as another candidate’s “delegate.” And so are these “delegates” having their own RP-strategy meetings in the broom closet of another candidate’s headquarters?

I think we’ll have to wait a few more months to find out ;=]

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