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A Unified Convention Torn Apart?
Rush Limbaugh ^ | 8/28/2012 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 08/28/2012 1:57:28 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather

August 28, 2012

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RUSH: See, I understand it, but then on the other hand I don't understand. They had a unified convention. Everybody showing up in Tampa was unified, get rid of Obama, let's turn this country around, and now, whoever -- Romney, the party, the RNC -- whoever's doing it started this rules fight that's gonna tear everything apart. Like I say, on the one hand I understand it. On the other hand, it doesn't make any sense. Not that I agree.

I know what they're trying to do, folks. And if you're just joining us, I don't have time to replay or redo the whole first half hour of the program. Essentially, the establishment Republicans, the RNC, the GOP, the Romney campaign, want to change the rules of delegate selection. They want the presidential nominee in future years to be able to choose the actual delegates to the convention so that he owns them, so they do what he wants. And what it really is is an effort to eliminate grassroots people from the Republican convention. That's really what this is all about. What that means is that the party has decided it doesn't want to have to put up with a bunch of conservatives showing up, affecting the platform and all the other things that happen at the convention, including influencing the party.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016; apart; convention; establishment; power; rnc; torn; unified
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To: LibLieSlayer

We Conservatives who refused to support the whole ‘ABO’ meme that in reality was nothing more than a shill operation for voting Romney have been saying from the beginning, that Obama and the Media CHOSE Romney to be our nominee for the purpose of ensuring an Obama victory.

This is nothing more than old Soviet Union election illusions. Romney was chosen and shoved down our throats to ensure Obama “wins” while creating an illusion that the electoral process is still viable.

It’s not. Cook County is now national and omnipresent.

America has seen her last open, free and honest elections. The Ruling Class will pick our leaders for us from now on, and Conservatives are going to find themselves akin to wearing yellow crosses on their lapels when all is said and done.

We are full-blown MarxoFascist - and the Ruling Class is going to make sure it stays that way.

There’s no way to stop of fix this beyond bloodshed. That’s fact.

And I daresay we are far too late to even hope for an outcome that doesn’t resemble the French revolution bloodbath.

Draw near to God, while He may still be found. That is our only hope anyway.


41 posted on 08/28/2012 3:07:08 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: muawiyah

Sometimes, the key to electoral success isn’t so much one candidate’s personal charisma, intellectual brilliance or sheer eloquence as much as it is a matter of the bumbling incompetence of the opponent.


42 posted on 08/28/2012 3:08:22 PM PDT by AnAmericanAbroad (It's all bread and circuses for the future prey of the Morlocks.)
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To: snowrip
God, I thought the Dingbats were in the Democrap party or listening to George Noory’s “WACKO TO WACKO AM”!

Some people are willing to sacrifice their children and other posterity for their “strict” adherence to what they consider “principle”. AND THE MEDIA FIFTH COLUMN uses their “strict&rdquo (stupidity); adherence to impale them on their own adherence. I believe the biblical term is “STIFF NECKED” fits them correctly, as-in the Oklahoma City bombings, which were done by the inflexibilities of the AO bombers. This the last chance to reverse the Total Control/Stalinist/Nazi tide before oblivion and some are arguing what what color should the THEIR flush water in THEIR TOLIET be. PLEASE die OF SOMETHING.
MITT WOULD NOT APPROVE OD THIS MESSAGE.

43 posted on 08/28/2012 3:10:51 PM PDT by BilLies (FOX NEWS, Ass.Press ABCBSNBCNN, NYTimes, WaPOSt , etc., hates your Traditional American guts!)
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To: Newton
january 22 is the date ~ Romney's crowd will be gorging at the federal patronage trough for less than 1,000 appointive positions.

That's when you strike!

Doesn't mean organizational planning can't take place earlier though. That can go on right now ~ they aren't going to be asking Conservatives to do the boots on the ground stuff anyway.

44 posted on 08/28/2012 3:11:16 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: StevenFlorida
Silly noob, you bent your tube.
45 posted on 08/28/2012 3:11:23 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: StevenFlorida

PS welcometofreerepublic


46 posted on 08/28/2012 3:12:50 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: INVAR
I belong to JESUS... I am his... and I do not fear whatever path that HE has for me in the salvation of my Republic. I would have fought beside Washington without question. I would fight with Palin through the gates of hell and back. I fear no man... only GOD and my Savior CHRIST. My knee bends for no man. I am certain that your does not either!

LLS

47 posted on 08/28/2012 3:13:43 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Sarah speaking at the romney convention would be like Led Zeppelin opening for The Monkees)
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To: cripplecreek; LibLieSlayer
I haven't missed a convention rollcall of the states since the early 1950s ~ and I mean early ~ 1948 maybe?

It failed to grab my attention this year.

48 posted on 08/28/2012 3:15:46 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: freedomfiter2

That truly is THE problem. It’s almost like he’s one of them!


49 posted on 08/28/2012 3:16:57 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: bigtoona

Voting for Romney puts the nail in Conservatism as a viable political force in the country.

This is Cook County folks, gone national. At this point forward, any attempt by Conservatives to form a party in opposition to the GOP and DNC will be rendered ‘null and void’ by TPTB.

There is no way to solve where we have arrived in tyranny via the political process. History makes the lesson of where we now find ourselves perfectly clear.

It won’t end with Conservatives being made politically irrelevant. The Ruling Class will declare our principles illegal, criminal and a threat to national security.

I can make that accusation with 100% confidence, because history proves that fact correct, time and again. Not to mention the skids greased with everything from the 2009 April DHS Terrorism Assessment to all the ammo purchases by the Alphabets to the contempt and hatred exhibited towards us by those in power and office.

America has no clue what time it really is.

That the GOP and the Obama regime are allies together is still something even most Conservatives refuse to consider.


50 posted on 08/28/2012 3:17:19 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: muawiyah

I’m watching “Fact or Fiction” on the SyFy channel.


51 posted on 08/28/2012 3:18:27 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: muawiyah
I started in the early 60’s as a kid. I also stayed up and watched William F. Buckley destroy leftists on Firing Line. This is not the Republic that I grew up in and love.

LLS

52 posted on 08/28/2012 3:20:06 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Sarah speaking at the romney convention would be like Led Zeppelin opening for The Monkees)
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To: cripplecreek
Goldwater had the nomination locked up using the core Republican constituencies. Romney was a bit outside of that milieu AND the dude said he'd been BRAINWASHED.

Young Goober there is hardly any more personable.

A note; LBJ bought into Goldwater's political theory regarding the shape of the American electorate and used it to guide him in winning the election.

That's the one I"ve discussed several times ~ first, you hold your base, then you strip off a faction from the other guy, then you win.

There is no other formula that has worked so well so often.

I wonder if they had any discussions about that thesis in later years!

53 posted on 08/28/2012 3:20:49 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: snowrip
God, I thought the Dingbats were in the Democrap party or listening to George Noory’s “WACKO TO WACKO AM”!

Some people are willing to sacrifice their children and other posterity for their “strict” adherence to what they consider “principle”. AND THE MEDIA FIFTH COLUMN uses their “strictness&rdquo (stupidity); adherence to impale them on their own adherence. I believe the biblical term is “STIFF NECKED” fits them correctly, as-in the Oklahoma City bombings, which were done by the inflexibilities of the AO bombers. This the last chance to reverse the Total Control/Stalinist/Nazi tide before oblivion or OBAMANATION, and some are arguing about what color should the THEIR flush water in THEIR TOLIET be. PLEASE die OF SOMETHING.
MITT WOULD NOT APPROVE Of THIS MESSAGE.

54 posted on 08/28/2012 3:21:04 PM PDT by BilLies (FOX NEWS, Ass.Press ABCBSNBCNN, NYTimes, WaPOSt , etc., hates your Traditional American guts!)
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To: Newton

No conservative will EVER help Mr. RomneyCARE, author
of Death Panels and the attacks on Conservatives
from 2008 to 2012.


55 posted on 08/28/2012 3:24:51 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: muawiyah

Check out this article from 64. Up and slightly to the left.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=897&dat=19640707&id=Py9PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DU4DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5063,2157718

Sure seems like today is a replay.


56 posted on 08/28/2012 3:25:39 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: INVAR

I disagree... Washington faced the impossible and with GOD... he prevailed. We will too... you are NOT alone.

LLS


57 posted on 08/28/2012 3:26:52 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Sarah speaking at the romney convention would be like Led Zeppelin opening for The Monkees)
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To: BilLies
PLEASE die OF SOMETHING.

Yeah, who wouldn't be proud to vote with you.
58 posted on 08/28/2012 3:28:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: LibLieSlayer

Why should God help this nation when we have refused to do II Chronicles 7:14 and sat on our hands while God was tossed out of our culture?

I believe God is the same yesterday, today and even forever.

I do not for a moment think He is going to give a Holy-Spirit imbued people who have let their faith go lukewarm until it only has the form of religion, be given a pass on judgment when He brought Ancient Israel to ruin for far less than what we ourselves have allowed this culture to become.

We’re suffering a lack of leadership and decent statesmen because of our national and collective sins. It’s like the period of evil Judges in the bible - when the people had become so corrupt, no decent leader could be found to save them from woe after woe.

The Founders themselves gave us plenty of warnings that they understood from Scripture about what would happen to us should we ever betray our principles for expedience.

We’re living the curses of Deuteronomy 28. God does not change, even if we people think we can change God to fit our sensibilities and twist scripture to make ourselves feel good because we only want to hear smooth and easy things.

If we wanted to truly fix this country - then doing it politically is bass backwards. A repentant people who LIVE what they claim allegiance to, will have leaders who reflect their principles. Sadly, in a nation of Godless hedonism, such evil often trumps the righteous.

In addition, a large majority of Christians in America today do not want to preach the Gospel because they think it is offensive. None of them are willing to risk labels and hatred and persecution if it involves doing more than going to a chicken stand and buying sandwiches.

They’ll shill for a politician, but not for Christ or biblical principles and will sit silent in the face of accusation they are ‘extremists’ or deny that their faith does indeed define them.

And that is how we have arrived where we are now at as a nation.


59 posted on 08/28/2012 3:42:27 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: RWGinger
Why should we conservatives have to break away? It is the old line RNC types who are trying to thwart the influence of the conservatives.

The Tea Party and Social Conservative focus should be on marginalizing the "old line RNC types" rather than launching a 3rd party. Why abandon the field to them? More effective to outnumber them.

The democrat party would be a more compatible fit for some of these GOP hacks.

60 posted on 08/28/2012 3:48:58 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
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