RUSH: BROKERED CONVENTION Chatter on Rise

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[Yosemitest]

Brokered Convention Chatter on Rise
January 20, 2012

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RUSH: Let me tell you, I mentioned this yesterday, I mentioned this some time ago.
There are rumblings in the Republican establishment of a brokered convention now.
There is unsettledness and disquietedness in the conservative establishment, quote, unquote, in the Republican establishment, quote, unquote.

Both camps have prominent people who are unhappy with the way all of this is shaking out.
And they talked about it on Scarborough's show today on PMSNBC.
For the conservative establishment it's Newt.
"Oh, no, we don't want Newt. We gotta do something about Newt."
For the Republican establishment, they're getting a little queasy about Romney.
I think the term is brittle.
That's the term Scarborough used, that the establishment is concerned about what a brittle candidate Romney is proving to be.
It's said to be scaring the Republican establishment.
It's something I said back on January 11th, the day before my birthday.
There was a Jonah Goldberg columnz in which he mentioned the possibility of a brokered convention,
but according to Scarborough, top conservative leaders, the Republican establishment, want to keep Newt in the race
so they can get a brokered convention where they can pick the nominee.



Now, the Republican elite is notZ conservatives.
There are two different establishments that we're dealing with here, I think, the conservative establishment, the Republican establishment.
There is some overlap.
But the scuttlebutt is -- and it was on the "Morning Joke" show today -- the scuttlebutt is keep Newt in this.
Keep everybody in this.
Don't let this nomination get decided in Florida.
Keep it going 'cause nobody's happy right now.
I wonder how many of you, "Yeah, yeah," agree with that premise, "Yeah, yeah."
This is something unsettled, something not quite right here.
So there's that scuttlebutt.

Then we had the Marianne Gingrich interview last night on Nightline, and what a thud.
It was a dud. And I asked a lot of people to watch this and share with me their feedback, and beyond the clip that ABC aired yesterday...

this is why they didn't air any more clips than what they gave is there wasn't anything.
I think it was kind of pathetic. I actually felt a little sorry for her.
She's being exploited, I think probably willingly, if there's such a thing.
But there wasn't any bombshells.
There was nothing new that came out of this thing last night.
So the fallout, the damage, no news.
I don't think there's gonna be anything any more damaging to Newt than there was yesterday when it all happened, when it all came out.

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Reagan's 1976 Republican Convention Speech
Jan 31, 2011 - 7:25 - Ronald Reagan addresses crowd after narrowly losing nomination to Gerald Ford

Ronald Reagan ran against Gerald Ford for the 1976 Republican Presidential nomination, and lost a close race.
At the close of the convention, President Ford asked Governor Reagan to make some impromptu remarks.
Transcript of Reagan's 1976 Republican Convention Center Remarks, August 19, 1976

Thank you very much. Mr. President, Mrs. Ford, Mr. Vice President, Mr. Vice President to be,
the distinguished guests here, and you, ladies and gentlemen:

I am going to say fellow Republicans here, but also those who are watching from a distance,
all of those millions of Democrats and Independents who I know are looking for a cause around which to rally
and which I believe we can give them.

Mr. President, before you arrived tonight, these wonderful people here, when we came in, gave Nancy and myself a welcome.
That, plus this, and plus your kindness and generosity in honoring us by bringing us down here
will give us a memory that will live in our hearts forever.

Watching on television these last few nights,
and I have seen you also with the warmth that you greeted Nancy,
and you also filled my heart with joy when you did that.

May I just say some words.
There are cynics who say that a party platform is something that no one bothers to read
and it doesn't very often amount to much.

Whether it is different this time than it has ever been before,
I believe the Republican Party has a platform that is a banner of bold, unmistakable colors, with no pastel shades.

We have just heard a call to arms based on that platform,
and a call to us to really be successful in communicating
and reveal to the American people the difference between this platform and the platform of the opposing party,
which is nothing but a revamp and a reissue and a running of a late, late show
of the thing that we have been hearing from them for the last 40 years.

If I could just take a moment; I had an assignment the other day.
Someone asked me to write a letter for a time capsule that is going to be opened in Los Angeles a hundred years from now,
on our Tricentennial.

It sounded like an easy assignment.
They suggested I write something about the problems and the issues today.
I set out to do so, riding down the coast in an automobile, looking at the blue Pacific out on one side and the Santa Ynez Mountains on the other,
and I couldn't help but wonder if it was going to be that beautiful a hundred years from now
as it was on that summer day.

Then, as I tried to write -- let your own minds turn to that task.
You are going to write for people a hundred years from now, who know all about us.
We know nothing about them.
We don't know what kind of a world they will be living in.

And suddenly I thought to myself,
if I write of the problems, they will be the domestic problems the President spoke of here tonight;
the challenges confronting us, the erosion of freedom that has taken place under Democratic rule in this country,
the invasion of private rights, the controls and restrictions on the vitality of the great free economy that we enjoy.
These are our challenges that we must meet.

And then again, there is that challenge of which he spoke,
that we live in a world in which the great powers have poised and aimed at each other horrible missiles of destruction,
nuclear weapons that can in a matter of minutes arrive at each other's country
and destroy, virtually, the civilized world we live in.

And suddenly it dawned on me,
those who would read this letter a hundred years from now
will know whether those missiles were fired.
They will know whether we met our challenge.
Whether they have the freedoms that we have known up until now
will depend on what we do here.

Will they look back with appreciation and say,
"Thank God for those people in 1976 who headed off that loss of freedom,
who kept us now 100 years later free,
who kept our world from nuclear destruction"?

And if we failed,
they probably won't get to read the letter at all
because it spoke of individual freedom,
and they won't be allowed to talk of that or read of it.

This is our challenge;
and this is why here in this hall tonight, better than we have ever done before,
we have got to quit talking to each other and about each other
and go out and communicate to the world
that we may be fewer in numbers than we have ever been,
but we carry the message they are waiting for.

We must go forth from here united,
determined that what a great general said a few years ago is true:
There is no substitute for victory, Mr. President.

[JSDude1]

Mike Pence has never once had unfaithful problems with either he or his wife-AND his pro life, and pro marriage bonafieds are well known.. Mitch-not so much pro traditional marriage (he’s not anti-but I know for a fact he’s a homosexuality supporter).

[xzins]

I agree that Romney is cold-blooded and that Ron Paul is a nut case.

However, I also know that Paul is a libertarian, and that a libertarian will default to a the notion that a woman should be in control of her own body.

I don’t, therefore, think those rankings are accidental.

[cookcounty]

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..

[muawiyah]

Paul is not a perfect Libertarian either, and he has no reputation for Libertinism or Liberalism.

He does not fit into neat categories that can be easily matched against current legislative agendas.

People also mis-speak and sometimes make statements you think actually apply to other, but unrelated situations.

[gimme1ibertee]

“Mr Gorbachev tear down this wall” still brings chills and a tear to my eyes.

Oh,yes...me too. I miss that man so very much. The only thing close to him was Sarah Palin,and she's out. I fear for my country and where it's going. I just wanna scream when I watch these conventions and see how these candidates go after each other over insignificant things,yet not enough on issues of the day and what plans they can put forward to turn things around. All signal and no substance.

That being said,the only one I think has even the slightest chance of taking out 0bama is Gingrich. That's where i'm headed.

[xzins]

I have a friend who claims that Ron Paul is his hero. I think he has resigned himself to Paul losing again. I told him that Rand Paul is probably more likely to gain real political prominence someday, and that Ron’s greatest danger is somehow ruining that for his son.

I tell him that one of Ron Paul’s greatest detriments is his inability to communicate. He rants about how that shouldn’t be a factor. The fact is, though, that it’s reality.

And I don’t think I’m wrong focusing on Naral. If they’re pleased at Paul voting their way, then I’m suspicious. Those things don’t easily happen consistently and accidentally at the same time.

[Yosemitest]

Okay, I had to look up sur·feit:

an overabundant supply,
an intemperate or immoderate indulgence in something,
disgust caused by excess.( my personal favorite).

I like your well thought out reply.
I hope you're right.

"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."

It's my opinion that Karl Rove, and Dick "the toe-sucker" Morris are the "bane" of the Republican Party.

"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 truely hope you're right.br

[mo]

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...

[mo]

“...to the psyche of this nation if out of the GOP Convention came a young, fresh face”

the ONLY “fresh face” the establishment it in ends to let out of a brokered convention has a Bush around its neck.

Thats ALL this is about...

If Gingrich is way out in front...Jebby will be his “
VP”.....

[mo]

“...to the psyche of this nation if out of the GOP Convention came a young, fresh face”

the ONLY “fresh face” the establishment it intends to let out of a brokered convention has a Bush around its neck.

Thats ALL this is about...

If Gingrich is way out in front...Jebby will be his “
VP”.....

[cookcounty]

"the 7th Governor of Illinois in a row to end up involved in crime."

Question: "Why is Rod Blagojevich still not in prison?

Answer: "Because there are no empty cells in the Illinois governors' cell block."

[muawiyah]

Naral are made up mostly of physicians in Connecticut, and abortionists nationwide. The greater number of them vote overwhelmingly for Joseph Lieberman.

The world does not nestle in little boxes that are readily understood.

[Scotsman will be Free]

I agree, mostly. However, names like Gingrich get bandied about so much, and have for years, that it sort of seeps into what passes for the brains of the average plebe. Santorum would definitely go over the heads of many Wal Mart customers.

[muawiyah]

Bwahahahahah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BagCamAddict]

Sorry.

I used to listen to Rush years ago, but it hasn’t fit into my life in years.

Honestly, it wasn’t so much the bashing of Newt and Perry that bothered me (though that did bother me — I happen to think they are both right; capitalism is great, but not if it’s making people homeless just so you can make even MORE millions). What bothered me was that he was not just defending Romney, he was outright promoting Romney.

Again, sorry, but I was shocked that Rush would promote Romney, and that lost a lot of my respect for him.

[Yosemitest]

I think you're misreading or misunderstand Rush.
I don't think he was promoting Romney, so much as he was just trying to explain Romney's logic and strategy.
I don't remember Rush endorsing or promoting anyone, yet.

[raygun]

WHAT is he talking 'bout? Are you fucking nuts? Rush is an ass-hat a-waiing for a bloviate. YOU are NOT on the same page as us. RUSH is NOT on the same page as US. Rush'll come out totally bashing "us". You watch what Rush does...

[Yosemitest]

We shall see Monday.
Ease up on the language. Kids use this site as a study tool.
Thanks.

[RipSawyer]

As a young boy I watched Reagan as host of THE GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER. I was always captured by his short conservative talk that he would give during each show. He lost that job the same month I signed up for the Navy, May of 1962. There was always something about his voice and manner that set him apart from the other actors of his day even though some of them greatly outdid him in Hollywood. He really was the “Great Communicator”.

[RipSawyer]

“Unless, of course, the GOP elites secretly want another four years of nobama destroying our country.”
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“Foil (literature), a subsidiary character who emphasizes the traits of a main character. A technique also used in plays and motion pictures”

“A Comedic (or comic) foil, is the straight man in a comedy double act.”

They CERTAINLY don’t believe that Romney will beat Obama and restore America to its former glory, therefore there are only two real possibilities. Either just what you said or they DO believe Romney can win for whatever reason and they know more of what goes on behind the scenes than we can hope to and they plan on Romney rubber stamping all the damage already done by Obama. The Republican establishment is far from being the enemy of the left, they are more of a “foil” as defined in the quotation above. In my view Fox News which started out as a real alternative to the leftward slanted propaganda on the other TV “news” shows has moved gradually leftward until it is little more than a foil for the lies of CNN, MSNBC etc. It is amazing how the silly people on the left bemoan the “lies” on Fox News when Fox more and more just repeats the same garbage available on the left leaning channels.