RUSH: BROKERED CONVENTION Chatter on Rise

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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.

[philman_36]

The fact is, what two CONSENTING ADULTS do in the context of their PRIVATE MARRIAGE is THEIR BUSINESS and NOT YOURS, nor anyone elses.
What part of this do you NOT understand?
I don't have any problem understanding that.
What part of let's have sex in public do you not understand?
That's hardly "PRIVATE", is it?

[muawiyah]

Pence just sounds stronger on the social side because that’s his campaign schtick. Daniels actually has a state government to run. Besides, now that he has a majority in the state senate as well as the house he can probably bring in Right To Work ~ something that half a century of mostly Conservative control of the legislature has never succeeded in doing.

[philman_36]

My apologies...I’m not trying to hijack or divert your thread. I’m simply responding to replies directed at me from a previous reply of mine.

[muawiyah]

Geri appears to have NOT CONSENTED.

I think that readily disposes of 90% of your argument.

Now, should that be any of our business? All I can say about that is she chose to take it to court.

[Sudetenland]

Morning Joe also had that low-life moderate David Walker of the "Comeback America Initiative" and "American Elect." They are pushing for a non-Romney 3rd party moderate ("This is not a right-left issue") and are the losers who are polling the internet for a candidate.

Right now, Ron Paul is leading the polling (gee, color me surprised at that)--Obama is 2nd, Huntsman 3rd, Bernie Sanders 4th, Roemer 5th, Gary Johnson 6th, Dennis Kucinich 7th, Al Franken 8th. [I think you see how that's going to go.]

They are all pushing this "brokered convention" so that there will be no strong conservative choice . . . it will be Obama, Mitt or worse, and someone like Paul or Huntsman--thus assuring the reelection of Obama.

Rush is right, these establishment slimes really do think that everything is basically fine. They preach fiscal restraint, but everything they are doing is to maintain the status quo. This Walker and the "Americans Elect" movement are emphatic about fiscal restraint, but everything they are doing will assure Obama's reelection.

[muawiyah]

The Illinois GOP isn't particularly lacking in backbone ~ their problem is LACK OF NUMBERS.

The Democrats in Cook County control the state legislature.

Unless you can figure out some way to depopulate Cook County it will continue to be that way into the indefinite future.

[Sybeck1]

Good one

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yes everyone should be careful what they wish for when talking about a brokered convention. Brokered being code for smoke filled backroom.

Personally I think after Santorum drops out momentum will start to swing toward either Newt or Willard and one of them will get a clear majority of delegates. I’m hoping its Newt.

[dools0007world]

Why do you think a brokered convention will favor a RINO GOP candidate?

IMHO, the convention may be an opportunity for Red State conservatives to wrest the national RINO-led GOP from its demrat controllers.

[dnandell]

They’re not just going to pay people to vote, check out this story from “The Iowa Republican,” Former Obama Staffer Busted for Stealing Iowa Secretary of State’s Identity.

http://theiowarepublican.com/2012/breaking-former-obama-staffer-busted-for-stealing-iowa-secretary-of-state%E2%80%99s-identity/

If you can’t win an election, rig an election!

[usconservative]

What part of let's have sex in public do you not understand?

Now that you've gone BACK to the liberal lamestream media lie after previously admitting IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, I'm done discussing with you. Your inability to keep the FACTS straight has made this exchange pointless.

[usconservative]

Geri appears to have NOT CONSENTED.

And it DIDN'T Happen.

That effectively eliminates your argument.

[usconservative]

The Illinois GOP isn't particularly lacking in backbone

When you run away from your candidate at the first sign of trouble, what do you call it?

Any REASONABLE person would call it lack of backbone.

The rest of your post (Democrats in Crook County controlling the State legislature) factual as it is, has nothing to do with the discussion at hand.

[Jim Noble]

Yes, the Illinois GOP behaved cravenly with Ryan, with enormous consequences.

The GOP has a bad reputation for not minding their own business, well deserved in this case.

[usconservative]

Have snow to clear and errands to run, departing the thread.

[freeangel]

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

By George! I think you’ve got it. The GOP elites absolutely want to keep the status quo.

[napscoordinator]

I have met three Presidents Bush, Bush and Clinton. In fact I was on his Inaugural Committee. Yep military are a big part of that. My point is that I would give up all three to have been able to meet Reagan.

[SueRae]

ping. Wonderful words.

We are in for the fight of our lives this year. I’m working my darndest to be ready for whatever comes.

[SueRae]

I’d like to think so but I’m not so sure. We’d have a very big fight on our hands with the “it’s his turn” wing.

Bobby Jindahl for Health and Human Services, a cabinet position. He has a PhD. in healthcare policy and I believe he would be the most effective in dismantlying th 0bamacare and putting forth a workable solution. I’d trust him more thn all of the other legislators that signed that piece of crap we have right now. From there, who knows. I’m a big fan of his.

[JSDude1]

I have worked for (interened for) and known, supported Mr. Pence since near the beginning of his career in Congress-trust me he’s the real deal (and I know his conservative record isn’t 100% but he’s darn close-and a real Reaganite) Mitch Daniels (despite some conservative successes) is NOT a Reagan Conservative like me-or I assume you.