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<\/a><\/p>\nIt would allow the presidential nominee to determine who the delegates to the convention are in future conventions. That was the purpose of the rules change. And, as of last night, it was supposedly beaten back. Now, there is talk of an end run at two o\u2019clock this afternoon. Byron York has a piece at the Washington Examiner: “Despite reports of a compromise, there is still substantial unhappiness among many delegates to the Republican convention over a package of party rules changes proposed by the Romney campaign. The fight … could break into the open today, as delegates debate various proposals to resolve the conflict.<\/p>\n
“The short version of the story is that the changes would give the party\u00c2\u2019s presidential nominee more control over how individual states choose their delegates to the national convention. In this cycle, there have been bitter fights in some states as supporters of Ron Paul, who did not win any primaries or caucuses, tried to exploit the rules at local, district, and state-level conventions to win delegates,” and thus try to influence things that happened. <\/p>\n
“If the proposed new rules, introduced by Romney campaign lawyer Ben Ginsberg, had been in effect this year, Mitt Romney, as the presumptive nominee, would have had significant control over that delegation-selection process.” And the latest is that, while it was apparently beat back yesterday, they\u2019re trying again in an end run that\u2019s not ostensibly the same rules change that was being attempted yesterday. The details here are not really important. The thing that we all need to know is why this is going on and what the express purpose is. Why does the establishment want control of the delegates. And, folks, it\u2019s very simple. <\/p>\n
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So here\u2019s the AP story: “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.” In other words, let me translate this for you. The Republican Party that\u2019s showing its face to America this week is a restless bunch of white racists who hate Latinos, hate women, don\u2019t want any abortions, don\u2019t want any amnesty, don\u2019t want any immigration reform, and want old folks to die. <\/p>\n
Now, the Republican establishment will read this story, and rather than get livid at it, they\u2019ll say, “We gotta get rid of these conservatives. They\u2019re killing us.” It\u2019s what they say. That\u2019s why the effort to change the rules. The next paragraph of the AP story: “These forces propelled the GOP to big wins in 2010, and they might help Mitt Romney win the White House this fall. But they operate largely beyond his control, sometimes igniting brush fires and pulling his campaign off message. More troubling for the Republican Party in future elections is that these fiery conservatives seem to be turning off many Hispanic voters, the fastest-growing segment of the American electorate.<\/p>\n
“The challenge facing GOP leaders as they hold their nominating convention and look to the future: trying to win elections and push their agenda through Congress by harnessing the energy of these conservatives without letting that energy turn on them — and without letting it put the party badly out of step with a nation that\u2019s rapidly becoming less white.”<\/p>\n
And so you see, according to the AP, when you boil it all down, the biggest problem with the Republican Party is its “whiteness.” They are racist, anti-women, anti-Hispanic — and, damn it, they\u2019re the reason Republicans win. So we gotta get rid of \u2019em. The AP wants us gone. The Democrat Party wants us gone. And the Republican establishment doesn\u2019t want the hassle of dealing with this. “In Romney, the convention-goers in Tampa are nominating a former corporate executive who fits somewhat uneasily in the party\u2019s decades-long rightward shift, which manifests itself most clearly in Congress.”<\/p>\n
Republican “lawmakers\u2019 adamant opposition to tax hikes, even on the wealthiest families,” writes the AP, “puts them at odds with most Americans.” You see, most Americans want to raise taxes on themselves and on their grandparents and on everybody else, including the rich. But these white conservatives want the government to have less money and be smaller and don\u2019t want any Democrats around. And so these white conservatives are the problem. And so they gotta go. They\u2019ve just gotta go.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t about Ron Paul, which as the media would like you to think it is. It\u2019s not about Ron Paul; it\u2019s not about his delegates. It\u2019s about the establishment finally being at its wits\u2019 end on this War on Women<\/a>. Rather than try to rebuke it, they want to try to stop it. One thing I learned — and people ask me all the time: “How do you put up with all the criticism and all the lies that people tell about you?” Well, it was tough at first because I thought I could stop it. And somehow (I don\u2019t know how), I learned I can\u2019t stop it.<\/p>\n So it has to be beaten back and defeated, but you can\u2019t stop it. The Republican establishment better figure out that they can\u2019t stop this stuff. Even if you were able to cleanse the party of all these white conservatives, do you think the AP is gonna start writing love stories about you? Do you think the AP is all of a sudden gonna love you? The only way that\u2019s gonna happen is if you become perpetual minority losers, and then they\u2019ll love you like crazy.<\/p>\n We\u2019re winning everything, though. See, that\u2019s the problem. The 2010 elections, the midterms, were a landslide loss for the Democrats and the left — and this election could be (and should be) a landslide loss for the Democrats. But with stories like this, attempted rules changes such as those yesterday, and Chris Matthews going nuts, you can see what\u2019s happening here. The full arsenal of the left, including the media, is doing everything it can to intimidate everybody at this convention into shutting up.<\/a><\/p>\n About Obama.<\/p>\n About the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n About its policies.<\/p>\n About the things that it has done that are ruining the country.<\/p>\n Otherwise, you\u2019re gonna pay a price like you haven\u2019t seen. We\u2019re gonna make this country hate every one of you. You may win, but we\u2019re gonna make everybody hate you and think you are the most despicable enemy this country has ever had. And when the party\u2019s not made up of a lot of fighters… How many times have I told you this story? It was the early nineties, in the Hamptons. I\u2019m at a dinner party of mostly establishment Republicans. Major figures (you\u2019d know the names), big donors, fundraisers would come up to me, and point their finger in my chest. They\u2019d actually jab my chest.<\/p>\n “What are you gonna do about the Christians?”<\/p>\n “What do you mean, what am I gonna do about the Christians?”<\/p>\n “This abortion! It\u2019s killing us! We\u2019re never gonna win a damn thing. They listen to you. You gotta get them to shut up about this.”<\/p>\n I said, “They\u2019re only 24 million votes. You can\u2019t win anything without \u2019em.”<\/p>\n “We don\u2019t want \u2019em! It\u2019s not good. It\u2019s embarrassing.”<\/p>\n Well, that\u2019s 1992, \u201993. We\u2019re now at 2012. It\u2019s 20 years. That\u2019s how long it\u2019s been building. That is something that existed then, existed during the eighties with Reagan. There was embarrassment over Reagan.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Texarkana, Texas. Alan, you are up first. It\u2019s great to have you with us today. Hello.<\/p>\n CALLER: Thank you. Hey, Rush, God bless you, sir.<\/p>\n RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n CALLER: I\u2019m really angry about this RNC<\/a> effort to freeze out conservatives from having influence as delegates. I\u2019m a registered Republican for 22 years, active with the Tea Party for over three years. Personally I preferred Cain or Santorum or Bachmann, but I\u2019m voting for Romney. I really love Paul Ryan <\/a>to save the Constitution, and despite the fact that the RNC froze out Texas and most conservatives from the process of picking the nominee to get their establishment candidate, the RNC got their pound of flesh, they got Romney, so they need to piss off and stop trying to freeze us out because without us there is no Republican majority, ever. We made the House majority, not the RNC, and they better step off if they know what\u2019s good for \u2019em or the Green Party is gonna be their closest parity competitor in future elections.<\/p>\n RUSH: You sound wired up out there.<\/p>\n CALLER: Very.<\/p>\n RUSH: I can see it. I can hear it. Well, I have to take a break. I wish I had a chance to respond now. I will react to your call. You\u2019re expressing the sentiments of many, and when people, as they learn what this rules change is and why it\u2019s taking place, there is an appropriately accompanying wave of anger that is developing over this. I have to take the break, though. Thanks for the call very much, Alan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: There\u2019s an AP story here today. This rules change that everybody thinks got solved yesterday. Let me briefly, as I understand this, tell you what\u2019s going on. There was an attempt, by the rules committee yesterday, to change the rules of the convention in determining who the delegates to the convention are from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bob-Michel-le.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>As long as you accept your role in the minority as constant losers, we\u2019ll give you a couple pieces of legislation here and there. The days of Bob Michel in the House when the Republicans had 135 members?<\/a> You get back to that and we\u2019ll love you again. (That\u2019s really what this is about.) “Much more problematic is the Republican Party\u2019s strained relationship with minorities, especially a fast-growing Hispanic population alarmed by the sometimes sharp tone of conservatives on illegal immigrants<\/a>. The party may need to address that problem before long to avoid falling behind Democrats in key states.”<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/000MostDangerousMan.jpg\"\/)
<\/a>Just shut up!<\/p>\n