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RUSH: See, I understand it, but then on the other hand I don\u2019t understand. They had a unified convention. Everybody showing up in Tampa was unified, get rid of Obama, let\u2019s turn this country around, and now, whoever — Romney, the party, the RNC — whoever\u2019s doing it started this rules fight that\u2019s gonna tear everything apart. Like I say, on the one hand I understand it. On the other hand, it doesn\u2019t make any sense. Not that I agree.<\/p>\n

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I know what they\u2019re trying to do, folks. And, if you\u2019re just joining us, I don\u2019t have time to replay or redo the whole first half hour of the program<\/a>. Essentially, the establishment Republicans, the RNC, the GOP, the Romney campaign, want to change the rules of delegate selection. They want the presidential nominee in future years to be able to choose the actual delegates to the convention so that he owns them, so they do what he wants. And what it really is is an effort to eliminate grassroots people from the Republican convention. That\u2019s really what this is all about. What that means is that the party has decided it doesn\u2019t want to have to put up with a bunch of conservatives showing up, affecting the platform and all the other things that happen at the convention, including influencing the party. <\/p>\n

One of our sponsors here, FreedomWorks, has been all over this rules business. In fact, I think they\u2019ve been at the forefront of this. They just posted an update, and I\u2019m gonna read it to you. “I just got off the phone with a concerned Florida activist, Laura Noble, who informed me that both of Florida\u2019s Rules Committee members, Peter Feaman and Kathleen King, have been removed from the Rules committee and replaced with Romney-appointed delegates. Clearly anticipating a grassroots backlash against the ‘compromise\u2019 on Rule 15 –” That\u2019s what they fixed yesterday, supposedly. “– and the changes on Rule 12 has caused the Romney camp to preemptively replace delegates to ensure they have support on the Rules Committee,” for the new vote at two o\u2019clock this afternoon. “It\u2019s enough to make your blood boil. Please call your state\u2019s Rules Committee delegates here and ask that they oppose the ‘compromise\u2019 on Rule 15.” <\/p>\n

They had a unified convention, and now they\u2019ve started a war within the ranks at the convention. Now, again, folks, what\u2019s going on here is that the party fathers and mothers, the establishment, want to get rid of the conservative influence in the party. And that\u2019s what this is really all about. They can\u2019t win without us. They literally can\u2019t win without us. But I\u2019ll tell you, I know why. A, they don\u2019t like us much anyway, but it\u2019s really rooted around two issues. Abortion <\/a>and immigration<\/a>. They just don\u2019t want to hear anymore criticism in the media about the party. These people do not see themselves the way the Republican Party\u2019s written about in the media, such as this AP story. Again, just a few hits from it. <\/line><\/p>\n

“The Republican Party that\u2019s showing its face to America this week is a restless institution that relies heavily on the uncompromising passions of tea partyers, anti-immigration activists and social conservatives,” and, plus, they\u2019re all white, in a country that\u2019s becoming less so. Well, the party honchos get up and they read this, “Aw, hell.” They don\u2019t want to be thought of this way by the media. They don\u2019t want to be thought of this way by the Democrats. And it\u2019s your fault, my fault that that\u2019s the way they\u2019re looked at. You stupid pro-lifers and you closed-minded, anti-illegal immigration people, you\u2019re ruining us. You\u2019re making us look like the hicks that you are. You\u2019re making us look like the hayseed, backwater idiots that you are. And they\u2019re fed up with it. So even if it means losing elections, they\u2019re gonna get rid of us. ‘Cause they\u2019re just tired of it. That\u2019s the overview. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s another aspect of this. There\u2019s the two rules that they\u2019re messing with here. The second problem is that the RNC<\/a> wants to frontload the primary season with winner-take-all primaries. Now, a lot of people object to that, and for illustration purposes, if that were the case now, there would not have been a Newt. There would not have been a Santorum. That\u2019s what they want to eliminate. They want the nominee chosen early, and they want to determine who the nominee\u2019s gonna be. And they don\u2019t want any apportioning of delegates based on the vote. They want winner-take-all. It\u2019s a problem in a number of ways. <\/p>\n

Now, by changing members of the rules committee right now, before the vote here at two o\u2019clock, what they\u2019re trying to do is block the minority report from even being considered on the convention floor relating to the rules changes. They don\u2019t want a floor fight. That\u2019s where this would be headed. It actually would be fun to watch. Something would happen at a convention that\u2019s not scripted. There would be a floor fight on these rules changes, and they\u2019re trying to prevent that by stacking the vote this afternoon. See, the conservative influence in the party comes from the grassroots. It\u2019s an oft-used term, but let me substitute a term for it. Conservative influence in the Republican Party comes from average people, Tea Party activists, just the nonprofessional people. <\/p>\n

The conservative influence in the party comes from the people who have other jobs, other businesses. They\u2019re the people that make the country work. They are the ones that look at this as about ideas. We\u2019re the ones that look at this about the future of the country. The Republican Party and the Democrat Party, too, to correctly understand them, look at them as a business. The way they see it, the grassroots, the conservative activists, Tea Party, rank amateurs, don\u2019t know what you\u2019re doing, you don\u2019t know the business. You think you do because you think it\u2019s about ideas. But it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s about money. It\u2019s about being in charge of the money. It\u2019s about committee chairmanships. It\u2019s about winning elections. It\u2019s about making sure that we don\u2019t lose various positions of power. <\/p>\n

It would be no different than if a group of citizens thought they knew better than Apple how to make iPhones. That is how the RNC looks at you. You\u2019re the consumers. You\u2019re gonna take what the give you, and if you like it, fine. If you don\u2019t, you don\u2019t buy it. But you haven\u2019t the slightest idea how to design one. You don\u2019t have the slightest idea what it should be or do or accomplish. That\u2019s what we do. In that sense, the Republican Party\u2019s a business. They\u2019re the professionals, and you\u2019re not. You\u2019re rank amateurs, and you do not understand. This isn\u2019t about, as far as they\u2019re concerned, not a turning point here in the country\u2019s future. This is not a crisis point. It\u2019s just another election in a cycle of many elections. It\u2019s about people who have positions of power, wanna hold onto them. And it really has been this way for many, many years, decades, in fact. <\/p>\n

So the conservative influence in the Republican Party comes from you, grassroots, Tea Party people. You went to your first town hall meeting two years ago. So the objective here at the party level is to obstruct the ability of people in the grassroots to mount challenges, to elect delegates, to run the business. It\u2019s an effort to make sure that you, us, we rank amateurs don\u2019t run the business. And they want to frontload the primaries with winner-take-all states, which makes it very difficult to challenge any insider candidates that they would put up. So if you look at it strictly as a business, this is the CEO and the board of directors trying to maintain control for what they would view as a hostile takeover. <\/p>\n

Now, you throw the politics in, the two issues that just embarrass the heck out of \u2019em, immigration and pro-life, pro-choice, all that does is just anger them even more, \u2019cause they see this AP story. They watch television news. They listen to Chris Matthews go nuts on how we\u2019re all racist, and they hate that. They don\u2019t want to be thought of as racist and they think the only reason they\u2019re called racist is because you see to it. You\u2019re the ones that end up being called racist, and because they\u2019re in the same party, they end up by association also being called racist. They want to stop this. They want to stop all this conservatism. They want to stop all this impugning of conservatives and Republicans, and the way they think to do it is to get the conservatives out of the party. <\/p>\n

But, you see, you can\u2019t really look at this as a business as they are because, if it were, this is a business trying to succeed without customers. And that will never fly. This Republican Party doesn\u2019t know how to win elections. This Republican Party doesn\u2019t know how to win. They think they do; but, you know, they can\u2019t win without conservative votes, which they know. They\u2019re just so conflicted over this. So that\u2019s basically where we are. That\u2019s what\u2019s happening today. The next vote on all this is at two o\u2019clock. <\/p>\n

Now, again, what has me appalled is that everybody showed up in Tampa and they had a united convention. Everybody showing up there was at least united around a singular proposition, and that is: “We\u2019ve gotta get rid of Obama.” The disagreements are in how you carry the message. But there was unity of purpose, here. There was not unity of strategy, but there was unity in purpose. Now they\u2019ve started this war within the ranks, to get through this messy process here of finally marginalizing the conservatives.<\/p>\n

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Then you go out, you try to beat Obama. And then, when that happens, you\u2019re free of any conservative strings because you have disempowered the conservative influence in the party. You know, to try to explain to you why and what it is that is causing all this, it\u2019s multifaceted. Usually the simple explanation suffices, and it\u2019s often the best. From my own experience, they just… When I talk about “the establishment,” I mean the Republicans, the GOP, the professionals, the people paid by the Republican Party to do their jobs.<\/p>\n

The establishment, they just are embarrassed like they can\u2019t believe over the positions conservatives take regarding abortion and immigration. They\u2019re just embarrassed, and they want to get rid of it. They just want to get rid of it. Folks, if I may be blunt? I could be wrong about this and I certainly hope I am wrong about it. I don\u2019t think they look at winning elections on the basis of superior ideas, best presented. I think they look at winning elections the same way Democrats do: buying votes.<\/p>\n

What else is this Hispanic stuff about?<\/p>\n

They know the Democrats are buying those votes. They don\u2019t think they can compete with that with ideas, obviously. So they want to go out and try to buy them in a different way. They want to buy the Hispanic vote by say, “Hey, we love you, too! We care about you. Look at all the Hispanics at our convention here. Don\u2019t believe what the Democrats are telling you about us.” When the frustrating thing is you and I know that the way to win the votes of a majority human beings is with conservatism, which is simply Americanism, the America of our founding.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Elizabeth in Fort Myers. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great. Listen, I\u2019m just learning about what you\u2019re talking about with what the Romney campaign is doing with the delegate vote, and I\u2019ve gotta say… I\u2019m conservative, I\u2019m psyched for the election, but I feel like I\u2019m being pushed and pushed and pushed by the Romney campaign, by the RNC, away from voting for Romney. And, you know, Romney did it to me as well when he was undergoing attack after attack, and he wasn\u2019t answering.<\/p>\n

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Finally when Obama makes the statement, “You didn\u2019t build that,”<\/a> I\u2019m thinking, “My God, if that doesn\u2019t ignite a fire, nothing will.” And sure enough, he came out — Romney came out — fighting back. And I said, like, “Okay, great. We\u2019re back in there. We\u2019re fighting.” Then Andrea Saul makes that remark — you know, in trying to defend Romney, makes that statement — and it just totally hit me in the gut. And I\u2019m like, “What am I doing? I\u2019m giving money to this man, and he\u2019s not fighting. Look at what\u2019s coming out of here.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but, look. (sigh) This was known. You shouldn\u2019t really be surprised by this. The objective hasn\u2019t changed here: Get rid of Obama. The Andrea Saul reference she\u2019s making, that\u2019s when the steelworker said Romney killed his wife<\/a>. Obama runs a steelworker ad where the man says Romney killed his wife, and Andrea Saul went out there and her reaction was, “Well, if they\u2019d lived in Massachusetts, they wouldn\u2019ta died. She would have had health care.”<\/p>\n

Wait a minute! Is that your response to the allegation you just committed murder? What\u2019s happening here, folks, has been going on for years. The Republican Party is trying to deemphasize conservative influence within the party. There\u2019s nothing new here, in terms of the objective. It\u2019s just that they\u2019re doing this at the convention, which everybody arrived at unified. Now, this whole thing came to a head yesterday, and it was beaten back. There was a compromise on the rules.<\/p>\n

And at the end of the day yesterday, everybody thought, “Okay, everything\u2019s cool now. We successfully beat back the efforts to change the rules on delegates.” But they\u2019re back today with a new rule, a proposed change. There are actually two. One is the front loading of primaries, the primary elections. But the second thing going on is there\u2019s a new rule that would allow for changing of delegate selection rules between conventions. The rule that was compromised on yesterday was the rule that said only at the convention can the rules be changed on delegate selection.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a proposal that\u2019s now being voted on at two o\u2019clock this afternoon that would make that moot. And if this one passes, it means that the party could change delegate selection rules between conventions (i.e., when nobody\u2019s paying attention). They can do it without consulting the state parties. That\u2019s what\u2019s being voted on in a half hour, and that\u2019s what\u2019s got everybody all revved up now. So what was thought to have been a compromise yesterday turns out to be a head fake. But that\u2019s been caught as well.<\/p>\n

So now people are gearing up to try to beat that one back. I mean, this is politics. It happens. It is a business, in a sense. The thing here that\u2019s puzzling… I mean, you and I have known for I don\u2019t know how long that mainstream Republicans (the leaders, the establishment) whatever you want to call \u2019em, don\u2019t really get their jollies by having conservatives in their midst. That\u2019s nothing new. But to take a unified convention and tear it apart like this is just… (snorts) To me, that\u2019s what is the stupid, idiotic thing.<\/p>\n

It makes no sense to do this now. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I just have to share with you: I\u2019m a little uncomfortable talking about all this rules stuff because it\u2019s so inside baseball. I do not want to play a role here in creating a rift. That is already happening. It\u2019s just maddening that this is happening while the convention\u2019s going on, when everybody arrived in Tampa unified with a sense of purpose here to defeat Obama for whatever reason. Some want to defeat Obama just \u2019cause he\u2019s the opponent. Others want to defeat Obama to save the country.<\/p>\n

That hasn\u2019t changed.<\/p>\n

All this inside baseball stuff, it\u2019s interesting, but it\u2019s not changing anything on the ground. It\u2019s not changing the polling numbers. It\u2019s not changing how these candidates are being perceived. This is stuff that the vast majority of voters are never gonna know about and never care about. It\u2019s never gonna matter to them. It really is inside baseball stuff. I just wanted to share it with you so you would know. It\u2019s just a continuation of what you and I are all aware of.<\/line><\/p>\n

And that is the uncomfortable nature that Republican leaders who are not conservative have with the conservative wing of the party. It isn\u2019t anything new. This is just the latest manifestation of how the Republican establishment is trying to rid themselves of this nuisance (which is us). Now, we have a guy on the phone from Arlington, Texas. He\u2019s a member of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee. He wants to weigh in on this. His name is Bill. Bill, welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush. Dittos. And, by the way, Bo Snerdley is the best call screener in the world. The guy\u2019s very professional.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) How many call screeners have you spoken to, Bill?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, a number.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I like to call in to talk radio. Rush, you are right on the money on this topic. You have hit the nail on the head. Here is the thing that Republican activists, conservatives, Tea Party people all across the country can do. If they go to Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s Eagle Forum website — just Google Eagle Forum — on the right hand side it says, “Update: Protect Your State\u2019s Delegates.” There they list the delegates that have signed onto the minority report, and then they have lists of members of the Rules Committee. In other words, they list the states where the Rules Committee members have signed on. They list the states that haven\u2019t signed on. People can find their own state representative. They can e-mail them or give them a phone call and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do they really not know what\u2019s going on, these state people? Why does anybody need to call them? Do they have any idea what\u2019s going on?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m telling you, Rush, this story was breaking on Saturday, and the mainstream media wasn\u2019t picking it up. Only on Sunday did the Washington Times have a story. Most of the rest of it was on blogs. People aren\u2019t really aware of this. Grassroots people are just now finding out because of you and because of Mark Levin. And you all are doing a great service to the country by doing this. This is the same thing that was happening back in 1700s when the British government was trying to take away the freedoms that American colonists had been used to. They\u2019re rolling us back 40, 50 years in terms of democracy within our party. This is a terrible mistake. People can contact their representatives on the Rules Committee and urge them not to make this mistake. This could tear apart our party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, you say that this could cause a split. How?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, this can cause a split because many of us activists out here supported candidates for president other than Mitt Romney. Once he became the nominee we closed ranks, but we never expected he would have a power grab like that. It discourages us tremendously. We\u2019re geared up for the campaign. Now we\u2019re having to rethink our commitment, and it\u2019s a very frustrating thing. Romney\u2019s making a huge mistake here by dispiriting the grassroots people that are gonna get out there and knock on the doors and make the phone calls and get-out-the-vote to win the election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s not dispiriting anybody. He\u2019s firing \u2019em up! That\u2019s another thing that\u2019s a little curious about this. This is just gonna fire these people up when they hear about what\u2019s going on. It\u2019ll fire \u2019em up to get ticked off. The establishment\u2019s gonna hear about this. I know the fear is that this is gonna cause people throw up their hands and say, “Aw, to hell with it. It doesn\u2019t matter. The party is trying to get rid of me. I\u2019m not even gonna vote, not gonna give \u2019em my vote.”<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think that that\u2019s the end result of this because of the patriotism of these people and the very nature what this election\u2019s all about. This is not going to change that. At any rate, Bill, I appreciate the call. Thanks much. It really is an inside baseball subject. It\u2019s real, and it is happening, and it is an effort by the establishment to deemphasize conservatives — and if they\u2019re not careful with this, they\u2019re gonna end up causing their worst nightmare to happen, which is third party. If they\u2019re not careful, that is where this is all gonna end up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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