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.

[upchuck]

Anyone surprised by this is not really paying attention. The GOP elites will do what ever is necessary to get Mitt nominated.

I really don’t understand why since Mitt has zero chance of beating nobama.

Unless, of course, the GOP elites secretly want another four years of nobama destroying our country.

They trashed Sarah, they scared off Herman, they are currently working, without much success fortunately, on Newt.

Newt must become unstoppable.

[catfish1957]

My thoughts too, Santorium, Paul, Perry together shouldn’t have over 50 delegates come time of the convention.

[muawiyah]

The ESTABLISHMENT is likely not to force Daniels down your throat. He’s a good Christian man. There are places he will not go.

[muawiyah]

Nobody knows those folks ~ but here's a thought for you ~ Illinois somehow borrowed $5 billion this last year and presumably that would cover payment of the $4.5 billion in unpaid bills lying about.

Did not happen.

Now they have $8.5 billion in unpaid bills.

To put it loosely, somebody in Illinois politics STOLE $5 billion.

Now who might that have been? Was it the Governor?

He'd be the 7th Governor of Illinois in a row to end up involved in crime.

Maybe it was the corrupt Democrat machine that surrounds the governor and occupies all the top spots in the state bureaucracy. Those are the folks who brought Obama to the top. Did they steal for Obama? Does he have the $5 billion?

There are things cooking in Illinois that may well bring down the Obama regime before mid-summer.

Stay tuned. Theft in Illinois government is always a problem, but this would be the biggest theft in their history. It's big by even California standards.

Stay tuned.

[TomGuy]

One thing that may shake up the Republicans is the State of the Union speech which will be Tuesday evening.

If Obama gets a significant bump, any Republican could be in trouble, because the MSM/Dems still have months to improve and remake Obama into Obama ver 2.0. Incumbency is difficult to defeat.

A significant Obama bump with the voter dissatisfaction with the dwindling field of opposition contenders does will not bode well for the GOP in November. Are they willing to settle for another Obama term and hope to retain the House and gain the Senate? At the rate Obama is issuing Executive Orders and McConnell/Boehner are folding, Obama has already shown he can circumvent the legislative mechanism.

I fear a brokered convention is Elite code for let's nominate Jeb. That would be another sure loser. Obama has run against Bush since 2007 and having another Bush to run against would be every better than having Mitt I never had a position I couldn't change Romney or Newt trainload of Samsonite Gingrich.

[philman_36]

They gave us John McCain and, because he refused to fight, we got that malignant jungle rot known as Obama.

Go back a little further. If establishment Republicans had gotten behind Alan Keyes in the Illinois Senate Race we would never have had Mr. Dunham.

[Pravious]

It’s a nice dream (and one I share, since I don’t really think any of our candidates are acceptable), but it would leave us with a candidate who hasn’t been properly vetted. Whoever it is, The Enemy would find SOMETHING (”In Eighth Grade, Candidate X accidently ran the cat over with the lawnmower!”)to immediately spin that into a Palin-like “Candidate X has been destroyed,” backing it up with quotes from (liberal) polls. And then we’d lose.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I agree - somewhat. America wouldn't sigh a sigh of relief, but genuine informed patriots would. That is the problem, the MSM information machine (contrary to popular notions around here) is not dead. It is alive, well and informing your neighbor as we speak. It is also shaping a myriad of idiots that also consider themselves to be erstwhile Conservatives in their political views.

FWIW, I pretty much agree with the tea party poster above that puts the proposition thus: a loss isn't a bad thing if it clarifies things in the end. For me, now, I have decided that it is the ideals that matter. If some fool tells me he has found his inner core (all these idiots do - including Fig(leaf) Newton) then welcome to the club - but you're hardly an able leader if you just began to figure things out. Not only that, but your track record up until this election is essentially deceit and accommodation - not acceptable.

Yes, I will agree that there is no perfect candidate just as there is no perfect person. However, if you're of a seasoned age and cannot tell a liar from a truth teller in the relationships you're in, you're a hapless fool and only doomed to continue being unable to divine truth from fiction.

An open leader, with the overall direction of duty to the Constitution, would, indeed, electrify the alienated among us; and make no mistake, true Americans ARE alienated. It is because we are now a minority in a drugged and propagandized socialist state that we cannot understand why things are the way they are (why can't Austria be what she was in 1930?). When that simple truth is grasped, our true perspective - and challenges - become clear.

[RFEngineer]

“Screw a brokered convention when ANOTHER moderate can be foised upon us! “

Anything can happen in a brokered convention, but it won’t happen without organization.

There is great danger in putting all the conservative eggs in the Newt basket - especially when he has turned on conservatism many times before.

Neither Newt or Romney are right for conservatism.

Conservatives have been short-changed in this primary cycle, and conservatives are not ready for the possibility of a brokered convention, and should be.

[BagCamAddict]

I'll tell you what...

I don't normally listen to Rush because I only hear him when I'm driving, and I'm never driving when he's on. But last week, I was traveling for business, and I was able to listen to him during some of my road hours.

BITE ME RUSH.

I happened to catch his show the two days when he was bashing Newt and Perry for their statements on Bain Capital, and it became clear he was pimping Romney.

Made me sick to listen to.

Sorry Rush, you lost me at Mittens.

[Varsity Flight]

Keynote speech: “Mark my word, __ new taxes.”

[Las Vegas Dave]

Amen...

[Daveinyork]

I don’t think a brokered convention is possible under the rules in effect since about 1972. Nobody controls delegates, and they are free to vote however they want after a cettain number of ballots have resulted in no nomination.

Under the old rules, and I’m old enough to remember them, primaries counted for very few delegates, and state party bosses selected most of the delegates. I think that still happens, but not as much.

Governors would run as “favorite son” candidates, which gave them control of all their state delegates. In states where the governor belonged to the other party, I’m not sure but I think it was the state party bosses who selected the delegates. After a long, drawn-out process placing all the candidates in nomination, the charade of voting was carried out. Most of the time it was decided in back room deals before a single vote was officially cast.

I can’t see that happening. I think the delegates would not go along with it.

[usconservative]

Go back a little further. If establishment Republicans had gotten behind Alan Keyes in the Illinois Senate Race we would never have had Mr. Dunham.

Absolutely wrong. Alan Keyes was a political stunt - a JOKE here in Illinois.

If the Republican Party had simply STAYED BEHIND Jack Ryan in the first place, Obama would've never been elected to the US Senate, and never gotten out of the Illinois State Legislature where he did nothing but vote "Present" on everything.

Imagine, the Democrat Party making a scandal out of a married man, Jack Ryan, having sex with his own wife. OMG, THE HORROR!!!!!

That's *exactly* what happened, despite the trumped up hype around he and his wife going to (gasp!) a sex club. The complete lack of backbone displayed by the Illinois Republican Party is exactly the reason why we have this worthless piece of crap, George-Soros-Sock-Monkey Obama in the White House.

To deny these FACTS is to deny reality.

[no dems]

it would leave us with a candidate who hasn’t been properly vetted.
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Yeah; I thought of that. That’s the biggest “down-side”.

[Pravious]

I agree. I blame Obama on Seven of Nine. What a weird world it is, to catapult a NOTHING to the Presidency, and then sit back and wonder why he sucks at the job.

[no dems]

There are things cooking in Illinois that may well bring down the Obama regime before mid-summer.......Stay tuned.
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Wow! That’s exciting news. Keep us posted.

[redgolum]

The calculation being made is that the religious conservatives will vote for the R no matter what. It may be true, but not in the numbers they are hoping for.

[philman_36]

If the Republican Party had simply STAYED BEHIND Jack Ryan in the first place, Obama would've never been elected to the US Senate, and never gotten out of the Illinois State Legislature where he did nothing but vote "Present" on everything.
You disagree with my opinion. Very well.
Thanks for sharing your opinion.

[usconservative]

You disagree with my opinion. Very well.

You didn't state it as opinion. You attempted (badly) to cite a fact. A "fact" which has since been corrected.