The media and political establishment want you to think John McCain's nomination is inevitable!
They think you're stupid — and that if they tell you what to do, you'll simply do as you're told… And they would like nothing better than to nominate the Democrats' favorite RINO!
But don't be deceived… We've got some hard and swift news for the Washington elites — McCain's nomination is NOT inevitable, and together we can nominate a REAL RONALD REAGAN CONSERVATIVE.
Despite the attempt to give John McCain the GOP Presidential nomination, the party doesn't have to nominate every Democrat's favorite Republican.
And yes, we CAN stop the McCain Express dead in its tracks, but only if we act now!
What Super Tuesday REALLY showed
Even though he is clearly the Republican frontrunner, Super Tuesday's results show McCain has not only failed to energize the Republican Party faithful — he has alienated it. Just because professional lobbyists and establishment insiders such as Haley Barbour and William Kristol are embracing a McCain candidacy doesn't mean conservatives have to accept such a demoralizing result.
Super Tuesday dramatized how poorly conservatives viewed this cycle's Republican presidential contenders, because Republican turnout was extremely weak, when matched directly against Democratic turnout in the same twenty-plus states.
McCain's winning of blue states California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York (none has voted Republican in a Presidential race in at least 20 years), against such weak candidates as Romney and Huckabee, means next to nothing because GOP turnout in those states was dwarfed by the Democratic voting, with Republicans earning a paltry 33 percent of the vote there. These states account for about 300 of McCain's 675 delegates.
Even more disturbing, McCain's two most significant Super Tuesday wins, where he edged Huckabee in both critical swing state Missouri with only 33% of the vote and Republican stronghold Oklahoma with only 34%, showed that Democratic turnout in the former was 819,000 to the GOP's 680,000, while Oklahoma Republicans barely turned out in greater numbers than Democrats.
Huckabee defeated McCain in the key states of Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, won his own state of Arkansas, and barely lost Missouri and Oklahoma, despite having no money, simply because moral conservatives in those states could not abide McCain and Romney, whose past actions convinced those voters that McCain and Romney couldn't be trusted on vital moral issues.
Missouri has been a bellwether state in virtually every presidential election in the past 60 years, almost always selecting the winning candidate, and the Republican presidential candidates earned only 46% of the state's turnout on Tuesday.
In Alabama, another Republican stronghold, conservatives are so dispirited by this weak group of potential nominees that the Democratic turnout exceeded the Republicans by 567,000 to 549,000. In Tennessee, a state trending strongly Republican in recent years, the Democratic turnout exceeded the GOP by 610,000 to 540,000. The voters are saying loud and clear that none of the current Republican contenders can unify the party.
Delegate facts
Where are we on delegate counts and Open Convention options? Still NOT THERE on the coronation of RINO John McCain for the GOP fatcats, that’s where! After Romney's announcement of support for McCain on Valentine’s Day, McCain picked up endorsements from eight members of the Republican National Committee who will attend the convention and can support whomever they choose.
McCain now leads Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee in delegates by an approximate count of McCain 851 delegates, to 242 for Huckabee, leaving Romney with 277 delegates.
While Romney can ask his delegates to support McCain, he cannot simply hand over all of them; they are NOT bound to follow Romney’s lead. Many are from caucus states that will not select actual delegates until state conventions this spring. Those delegates will be selected by people who supported Romney in the initial caucuses; the direction they go depends on whether they follow Romney in endorsing McCain.
In other states, the delegates are bound to Romney, and their immediate fate is governed by state party rules. In states like Montana, where Romney has 25 delegates, they would be free to support whomever they choose after Romney releases them.
Romney had support from six RNC delegates who continued to endorse him even after he dropped out of the race. Three of them switched to McCain, but some weren't ready.
And although McCain won the New Jersey primary, that state's delegates are not awarded until the candidates run delegate slates in June, 2008 — so McCain is still significantly short of the necessary 1,191 delegates with 36-plus states having voted.
Even with McCain having gained the winner-take-all state of Virginia, and likely earning a significant portion of other remaining delegates, McCain is still short of his “magic number”! Conservative Texas is yet to come, WHICH IS NOT WINNER TAKE ALL — SO UNLESS CONSERVATIVES BUCKLE UNDER AND RIDE TO HIS RESCUE, McCain WILL NOT have enough delegates by the close of primary season on May 20 to lock up the party nomination.
We MUST convince conservative convention delegates to remain uncommitted, especially through the first convention ballot. Delegates bound by GOP primary results ARE NOT BOUND to the candidate AFTER the first convention ballot. As New York Post columnist Charles Hurt noted on February 6, 2008, we can count on McCain to turn to the left as soon as he is nominated. (See Charles Hurt: Once John Wins He'll Make a Left)
But What About The Delegate Count? Isn't McCain's Lead Insurmountable?
The short answer to that question is NO!
In fact, the elites in the media and in Washington D.C. really don't want you you know how the delegate process actually works. And more importantly, John McCain doesn't want you to know!
Presently McCain still needs over 350 delegates to reach the magical number of 1191.
But what happens if he doesn't?
Here's what will happen!
Out of the 2,380 delegates sent to Minneapolis-Saint Paul — 1,729 of them [73%] will be bound in some formal way (this figure excludes Ohio, Washington, North Carolina, and the Virgin Islands, whose delegates are "morally bound," "unofficially bound," or "requested" to vote for their candidate). These break down in the following way:
463 delegates will be bound through the convention.
565 delegates will be bound through one ballot. That is, they have to follow the results of the state election on the first ballot. After that, if no candidate has a majority of delegates, they are free to vote as they please.
383 will be bound through two ballots.
318 will be bound through three ballots.
The remaining 651 [27%] are not bound in a formal way. They can vote however they want from the first ballot.
And THAT'S WHAT HAS JOHN MCCAIN SCARED STIFF! That's what he doesn't want you to know!
He knows that half of the Republican base simply will NOT vote for him! That's why he's scrambling to pick up key endorsements (including the endorsement of Mitt Romney)… that's why he's trying to knock his only remaining competitor — Mike Huckabee — OUT OF THE RACE!
OpenGOPConvention.com is a project of the federal Patriot PAC, and in the coming days and weeks we will be mounting an aggressive campaign of media ads and drumming up grassroots support all over the country with one goal in mind:
… TO STOP THE NOMINATION OF JOHN MCCAIN!
But That's Not All…
What happens if John McCain can secure the magical number of 1191. That makes his nomination inevitable, right?
WRONG!
The delegates to the GOP Convention are bound by certain rules and THOSE RULES CAN BE CHANGED BY THE DELEGATES THEMSELVES!
Remember the Democratic National Convention of 1980? Senator Ted Kennedy's supporters — seeking to unbind the convention delegates ON THE FIRST BALLOT — actually mounted a credible challenge to the rules.
Of course the challenge failed because a majority of the delegates were already committed in their hearts and minds to President Jimmy Carter.
But McCain is no incumbent president. He's not loved! Ask yourself, what would happen if the delegates actually had the opportunity NOT TO VOTE FOR JOHN MCCAIN ON THE FIRST BALLOT?
We cannot accept a nominee who has spent his public career making war on his party's base for the past fifteen years. Plus, John McCain's tarnished reputation, personal foibles and objectionable connections will make him easy meat for the liberal media.
We must seek to nominate candidates such as Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, or South Carolina Senator Jim De Mint, for President. We need your personal and financial support TO PREVENT MCCAIN'S FIRST BALLOT NOMINATION IN MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA IN SEPTEMBER 2008.
Voters in most primary states noted the economy is now 2008's most important issue, with illegal immigration second, and we all know how these two issues are interrelated. McCain simply cannot be trusted to adhere to conservative principle or policy, and we must prevent his presidential nomination at all costs.
The truth about McCain
John McCain will become 72 on August 29, 2008, making him the oldest presidential first-time nominee. The man nicknamed "McNasty" by high school classmates has an explosive and ungovernable temper; he is unfit to serve as President and Commander-in-Chief. As the depressed GOP primary turnout numbers clearly show, McCain is utterly incapable of leading the Republication Party coalition this fall.
McCain's political hero, Theodore Roosevelt, harmed the United States grievously in 1912 by running third party, costing the majority Republicans the Presidency and putting the unbalanced Woodrow Wilson in office. McCain's contempt for the Ronald Reagan Platform, and his deviations from GOP principles, will split the Reagan coalition carefully assembled and sustained by conservative activists for four decades. As Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Reagan, Rick Santorum, and other conservatives have noted recently, MANY CONSERVATIVE VOTERS WILL STAY HOME IF MCCAIN IS NOMINATED.
John McCain was a hell-raising Midshipman at Annapolis, crashing multiple Navy jets during flight school. He was known for "dating" strippers. As he admitted with understatement, "I had trouble with the (naval) regimentation." Had his father and grandfather not been four-star Admirals, the Navy would not have tolerated his erratic and undisciplined personal behavior.
After his military service and controversial term of imprisonment during the Vietnam War, McCain returned to the U.S., engaging in the same immature behavior that characterized him before the war. His first wife Carol noted that their marriage disintegrated because "John was a 40-year-old who wanted to be 25 again."
McCain married his second wife Cindy, the daughter of Phoenix beer/liquor distributor Jim Hensley, convicted twice of falsifying company records after World War II. Hensley served Arizona prison time for the second offense. Hensley's liquor partner was reputedly connected to Arizona organized crime figures. McCain parlayed his wife's money and his P.O.W. status to win 1982 election to the U.S. House, and the Senate in 1986.
His press secretary for the Senate campaign was Torie Clarke, who as Bush aide in 1992 was notorious for referring to 1992 Houston convention speeches by Pat Buchanan and Ronald Reagan as "that conservative crap." In 1989, McCain referred to conservative icon Paul Weyrich as "that pompous, self-serving SOB," because Weyrich opposed McCain's hard-drinking, womanizing pal John Tower for Defense Secretary.
McCain got into hot water during his first Senate term by lobbying the Federal Home Loan Bank Board to go easy when investigating Phoenix, Arizona savings and loan criminal Charles Keating. For the first and only time, McCain received rough treatment from the mainstream media as one of the "Keating Five." The Senate investigation of McCain's lobbying for Keating enraged and humiliated him.
Following his 1992 re-election, McCain began abandoning the Reagan conservative platform, and attacked the First Amendment's guarantee of political speech by teaming with liberal Democrat Senator Russ Feingold to sponsor alleged "campaign finance reform." These bills were nothing more than unconstitutional restriction of issue-group campaign activities in federal elections.
The media began fawning over the former "Reaganite," who wanted to "clean up the system" that had ensnared and embarrassed him. Conservative issue groups such as pro-lifers, anti-taxers, Second Amendment supporters, and advocates of judicial restraint were justifiably infuriated at McCain's betrayal of voters who elected him.
Other betrayals of conservatism followed. In 1999, McCain said the U.S. Supreme Court should not overturn the dreadful 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that eliminated all state abortion restrictions.
In 2007, McCain now claimed to want to overturn Roe, but his complaint that Justice Samuel Alito "wears conservatism on his sleeve" indicates he cannot be trusted to appoint Justices who will overturn Roe v. Wade.
McCain has attacked religious conservatives in a notorious February 28, 2000, speech in Virginia Beach that ended his quest for the 2000 nomination, and reportedly discussed leaving the GOP in 2001 because he was angry over his loss to George W. Bush. His advocacy of "open borders" and amnesty schemes for illegal aliens are fiercely rejected by the GOP rank-and-file. He simply cannot be trusted to adhere to conservative orthodoxy, and we must prevent his Presidential nomination at all costs.
STOP McCain!
Please support OpenGOPConvention.com's efforts to keep the current GOP convention delegates not bound by a primary election result UNCOMMITTED UNTIL THE CONVENTIONS'S SECOND BALLOT, SO WE CAN OBTAIN A BETTER NOMINEE THAN MCCAIN. Most of his primary delegates were obtained with votes of non-Republicans, or were obtained in hopelessly Democratic winner-take-all blue states.
McCain at best has won less than one third of the total GOP delegates for this nomination, which is fitting, because in the vast number of contested primaries in GOP states such as South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma, he has won only 35% of the total primary vote. It's obvious the party is not united behind him.
We urge you to support us with your letters, faxes, telephone calls, and e-mails to the Republican National Committee, repudiating McCain as a standard-bearer for the GOP. Please donate to our effort to advertise and educate the voters about how we can OPPOSE THE FIRST BALLOT NOMINATION OF JOHN MCCAIN IN MINNEAPOLIS-SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA THIS SEPTEMBER. WE KNOW THE MEDIA, HIS PRIME ENABLER, WILL TURN AGAINST HIM AS SOON AS HE IS NOMINATED, AND THE COMBINATION OF NEGATIVE STORIES AND CONSERVATIVES WHO WILL NOT VOTE FOR HIM WILL GUARANTEE GOP DEFEAT IN THE GENERAL ELECTION THIS NOVEMBER. WE MUST CONTAIN MCCAIN — NOW!
