{"id":16787,"date":"2012-01-20T17:11:38","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:11:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-20T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T17:11:38","slug":"brokered_convention_chatter_on_rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/01\/20\/brokered_convention_chatter_on_rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Brokered Convention Chatter on Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/p>\n

Both camps have prominent people who are unhappy with the way all of this is shaking out. And they talked about it on Scarborough\u2019s show today on PMSNBC. For the conservative establishment it\u2019s Newt.<\/a> “Oh, no, we don\u2019t want Newt. We gotta do something about Newt.” For the Republican establishment, they\u2019re getting a little queasy about Romney. I think the term is brittle. That\u2019s the term Scarborough used, that the establishment is concerned about what a brittle candidate Romney is proving to be. It\u2019s said to be scaring the Republican establishment. It\u2019s something I said back on January 11th, the day before my birthday. There was a Jonah Goldberg column 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. <\/p>\n

Now, the Republican elite is not conservatives. There are two different establishments that we\u2019re 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\u2019t let this nomination get decided in Florida. Keep it going \u2019cause nobody\u2019s 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\u2019s that scuttlebutt. <\/line><\/p>\n

Then we had the Marianne Gingrich interview<\/a> 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\u2019t air any more clips than what they gave is there wasn\u2019t anything. I think it was kind of pathetic. I actually felt a little sorry for her. She\u2019s being exploited, I think probably willingly, if there\u2019s such a thing. But there wasn\u2019t any bombshells. There was nothing new that came out of this thing last night. So the fallout, the damage, no news. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s gonna be anything any more damaging to Newt than there was yesterday when it all happened, when it all came out. <\/p>\n