Yes, RINOs are that left-of-center.
There will not be a brokered convention. This might be fun to think about now but the race for the presidency began months ago and anyone getting in in August 2012 has no chance.
Rush is wrong. There are a SURFEIT of brokers. Every state has its congressmen and representatives, its party leaders, its factions, etc. And every one of them are more than willing to haggle for the nomination.
Almost guaranteed: Whoever the nominee would be would be far more conservative than either Romney or Gingrich.
I have seen a list of probably the TOP 10 conservatives in office right now, most ANY of which would get the votes of the conservative delegates.
And this is very important: delegates are only limited in their vote to the FIRST ballot. If no nominee wins outright, ALL delegates become FREE AGENTS, and can vote for whoever they choose!
Out of the 2,286 delegates to the convention, what percentage would you guess are conservatives? Maybe 60% or more? And a nominee needs 1,144 votes, or 50% +1 to get the nomination.
Which means that Romney is toast. The best he could probably muster after a failed first vote would be 10-15%, almost all from New England. Gingrich would do better, with maybe 20-25%. Santorum could pull, again my guess, 15-25%.
Palin could probably waltz in and claim 40%+, maybe more.
Of the other conservative possibilities, they would form their own blocs. Some of them would bow out, not wanting the job. Palin could be a “kingmaker” with the snap of her fingers for any of them.
All told, it would be an extraordinary, and oddly enough, most (real) democratic event than what most people have seen in their lives.
The Beltway bandits, Hill Rats, insiders and lobbyists, and the RNC leadership would be dashing madly about, for once totally out of control, while the party rank and file ruled. RINOs and leftist media spin doctors, and people like Karl Rove would be in an utter panic as all the castles they have built were torn down, and a candidate they didn’t own was suddenly the nominee.
A candidate who would win, and lead a solidly Republican congress on a resurrection of America.
A president who would likely nominate two solid conservative Supreme Court justices and insure the court was a conservative and constitutionalist body for the next decade or two.
A president who would strip America of decades of welfare state leftism, craft a balanced budget, end the Obama recession/depression, break the big media oligopoly, and turn the Democrats into a minority party for decades.
I hope that this time the RINOs get the short end of the stick, but they never do.
I LOVE the idea of a brokered convention, though the convention will be loaded with GOP apparatchicks-—unless conservative activists get active in the ACTUAL delegate selection..
There is a Cold Civil War on....between We the People in Flyover Country...advocating hard for the freedoms guaranteed by Constitutional Government...and the East-tablishment Rinocracy/Democrats-
The latter, essentially fused as one in their boundless appetite for Communism/Socialism...enthusiastic to the degree each “side” anticipates the power that comes with their potential control of the Freedoms of Flyover Country..
A “brokered” convention will indeed make it all evident...