Watch Out for Jeb at the Convention

EIB The Rush Limbaugh Show ; RushLimbaugh.com ^ | March 15, 2016 | Rush Limbaugh

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RUSH: Again, if you're just joining us here, it is apparent, well, it's not apparent. It's abundantly clear that the Republican establishment, all these reports we've had prior to today about them being in panic have not even gotten close to reality. The panic is real today. They are acting as though their own very future is at stake today. And they have decided that the future of the Republican Party, as you know it and love it, hangs on what happens in Ohio. Meaning John Kasich, in their view, had better win this thing.

Now, keep in mind Kasich doesn't have a prayer of becoming the nominee. He doesn't have a prayer. If John Kasich thinks he's gonna become the nominee in a contested convention, he's got another thing coming. If it gets to that point, can I tell you who I think they're gonna make president, or make the nominee, if all this happens, as they want it to? Remember, now, we've got a guy on the Republican committee, convention committee rules committee writing today in The Daily Caller that first ballot delegates are not bound to vote for the candidate that won their state's primaries.

Everybody's thinking that that's the rule, that on the first ballot, that's why primaries matter, that's why this matter of 1,237 delegates matters. Whoever gets there is automatically the nominee. This guy writes a piece today saying, no, no, no, no. That that that that's not the case. Delegates can vote whoever they want, on any ballot. Oh, really? He says '76 is the only time this was actually put into -- '76, yeah, that's when they denied Reagan. So I'm just telling you, if they succeed in this, if they sucked in denying Trump or Ted Cruz 1,237 delegates by the end of the primary process, I'm here to tell you Jeb Bush is gonna be the nominee. That's what they're gonna do. That's what they've always wanted.

And Jeb himself said back on December 14th of 2014 when this whole process started Jeb said that his strategy was to lose the primaries and win the nomination. And everybody said, "What? How you gonna do that?" And the answer we got, money. He's gonna outspend everybody. He's gonna whittle the field. He's gonna show the rest of the field they can't compete with him financially. He's gonna split the conservative vote by having all these conservatives in the race, they're not gonna have a prayer, and Jeb's gonna be the coalition favorite. He's gonna have all the money, and that's that.

And what they meant was Jeb's gonna win the nomination without having to kowtow to Republican Tea Party base voters, meaning Jeb's not gonna have to talk about abortion. Jeb's not gonna have to talk about immigration. Jeb's not gonna have to talk about any of these things that matter. He's gonna win the nomination nevertheless. And it may well yet happen. If not Jeb, they'll go Romney. But if Kasich thinks it's gonna be him -- and I don't doubt that he does. That's why he wants to win Ohio and stay in. And now there's talk that Rubio will stay in even if he loses Florida. And Rubio and Kasich have both said that they are rethinking their pledge to support the nominee, that came as recently as a week ago.

Isn't that why Trump has supporters in the first place, because so many Republicans make promises and then break them? So the fur is flying, and the establishment's making one last gasp here. Well, it won't be the last. Speaking of Rubio, Rubio said that there will be a reckoning for conservatives who support Trump. What does that mean? I don't know what it means. There will be a reckoning for conservatives who support Trump? No, no. What he's talking about here is they're taking names, and if you're conservative and you supported Trump, something's gonna happen to you some point down the road. You're gonna get kicked out. You're gonna be shamed or excommunicated from the party, who knows what. I'm just reporting to you what's in the news here.

Meanwhile, while all this is going on, while it's all going on, there's a new poll out, and what is this poll? Is it YouGov? Trump's now at 53% nationally. Reuters has him at 45. But this is 53% nationally among potential Republican primary voters for the first time, Trump is at 53%. Why does that matter? 'Cause primaries don't go on national votes, obviously. I'll tell you why it matters, and it's 'cause of what Carly Fiorina's out there saying. If any of the anti-Trumpsters start bashing Trump voters, which is starting to happen, by the way. National Review Online, a couple people there really tore into Trump voters. "You deserve to suffer. You deserve to be dead meat. You deserve having economic strife." I mean, that's the upshot. There are more details to it than that.

But the point is it started to happen. Trump voters are now being insulted and blamed, and Carly Fiorina said (imitating Fiorina), "Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Don't do that. You're gonna need these people at the end of this process if Trump's not the nominee. You're gonna need them voting for whoever the nominee is or you don't have a prayer of beating Hillary."

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[Art in Idaho]

Jeb = CWII

[lee martell]

When Rush suggested that Jeb! still may end of being the nominee after all GOPe dirty tricks are done, I felt sick.
No Jeb!!

[Red Badger]

Never underestimate the power of treachery...........................

[Bobalu]

[DoughtyOne]

[Red Badger]

Jeb = Hillary LANDSLIDE........................it’s what they want anyways.....................

[RC one]

Any elected official providing aid and comfort to Jeb Bush under such circumstances would be committing political suicide. We will not vote for him and we single you traitors out and destroy your political careers.

[MNJohnnie]

The five stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

This “Brokered Convention” nonsense is the bargaining stage.

[scooby321]

I wonder if Soros will pay me to go to Cleveland?

[matthew fuller]

http://www.threepercenter.org/

[Bobalu]

Trump could threaten a nuclear option.

Screw me out of the nomination and I will hold rallies across this nation and implore my supporters to cast their ballot for me as a write-in candidate and to NOT vote for anyone else on the ballot!

Every single republican senate and house seat up for election would go down to defeat.

Burn the house down to the ground.... end the GOPee.

The republicans up for election would convince the GOPee to back down! They may despise Trump but they really hate the idea of being forced away from the trough in DC.

[upsdriver]

Won’t be Jeb, it’ll be Romney. I’ll be pulling for Trump to run as an independent and I believe he would win in a three way race.

[Art in Idaho]

Jeb = Hillary LANDSLIDE........................it’s what they want anyways.....................

After all the primaries, the blood sweat and tears of all the workers, from the voters to the workers for each candidate - if all of that is for nought, there will be a national rebellion that may get hot. Especially if Trump goes over 1237 and they still pull these shenanigans.

[Deo volente]

If they succeed in doing this, the Republican party will be destroyed and a far-left Democrat (but I repeat myself) will occupy the White House for the next several decades. We’ll have nine Marxists on the Supreme Court and this country will be a living hell. We might even have another Civil War to boot.

Bush, Romney, and the rest had better think long and hard about the consequences of their treachery.

[Bobalu]

I’ll be pulling for Trump to run as an independent and I believe he would win in a three way race

Can't because of states with sore loser laws.

[Red Badger]

Hey! That’s a great idea! Flood their sites and ad replies for them to send you and a whole bunch of us as supposedly Anti-Trump protesters! and then once you get there, switch sides!............................

[Rusty0604]

If the republican pray did that I would consider not voting for the first time since I cast my first vote for Reagan. If Jeb had won the nomination by getting the votes of the people, I would have held my nose and voted for him, anything to stop Hillary.

[Red Badger]

This may rival the 1860 Republican convention that chose Lincoln over Seward.................................

http://www.greatamericanhistory.net/nomination.htm

[SERKIT]

Jeb! aka "Booger Boy". Let's pick a winner!