I as a registered Republican will not be voting this election. McCain is nothing but a Liberal in Republicans clothing., I don't care what he says. As far as I am concerned now the Nation can go down the Socialist path if that is what the people want. Who am I to stand in their way. I am not alone in this feeling.
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In wooing these delegates, what becomes fair game? Anything?
Yeah, I have to admit, anything. Probably illegal. Part of the tactics you've got to use is figuring out what resonates with each person. It's something different from everybody, a commitment for a ship or a veterans' hospital. You can go deep into each of their personal lives to really see what everybody wants. What do you want? You can have it. What do you want? You can have it. In 1976, it got so bad that Henry Kissinger accused me of giving away his entire foreign policy—and he was right, I did! Because we didn't want any ideological divide on the floor of the convention. I knew then the heart-and-soul types would take over.
What about planning the details of the convention? Could the little things like choosing the keynote speaker sway it one way or the other?
That's a whole separate game that's played all the time. You can have a committee chairman who plays it straight down the line, or one who leans toward one candidate and can make key appointments beneficial to that candidate. But the party apparatus isn't as strong as it was years ago. The PACs, lobbyists, political consultants have a lot more influence on the process.
Are you planning to get involved, or are you keeping out of it?
Been there, done that. It's a young man's game. Let them worry about all the problems I worried about for 40 years.
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