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    Who are the NERD fund donors Mr Snyder?

    Raise the curtain.

    Truth And Manipulation


    By JGillman, Section News
    Posted on Tue Feb 21, 2012 at 09:11:10 AM EST
    Tags: Michigan, Romney, Conservatives, Conventions, Republicans, Establishment (all tags)

    That queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach has a name.

    Betrayal.

    While we have suffered the inane punditry destroying our favored candidates a "plan B" has been in the works.  For all the insipid questions in debates for our Republican presidential candidates, we get the reward of having the "establishment" plot to undermine the will of the conservative voters. That special convention, which has as a possibility, a none of the above candidate somehow pooping out.

    When the favored son of the blue bloods saw Michigan going away from him, the chill appears to have run the back of Republican elites, and those who would like us to repeat McCain's 2008 performance; the left.  Mitt Romney was never supposed to have the kind of push back, and should have easily cruised to nominating victory. There should have been no doubt, right?

    Except times have changed.

    Some folks. don't like it so much

    Even as I type this, Donald Trump is calling the little local radio station in a desperate stumping for Mitt. Their hairs are up, and the self destruct button has been uncapped. The convention talk has begun.

    But not all in the political machine agree with this plan. (Below the fold)

    There is ONE politico in the Republican machine who disagrees wholeheartedly with this plan.

    Rep. Thaddeus G. McCotter lays out the danger in proceeding with such an effort.  In his Big Government piece he makes a list of negatives:


    • Betray the courage of our current contenders who entered the GOP primary process;
    • Reward an individual who lacked such courage and, instead, chose to sit on the sidelines during this transformational time of hope and peril in the life of our nation;
    • Belie our Republican party's claim to trust the judgment of the sovereign American people, especially those who have worked and voted for the current candidates; and
    • Dispirit and divide our party at the very time it must unite to defeat President Obama and reaffirm American Exceptionalism in the 21st Century.

    Indeed.

    And the first point can be carried over to the heroes within the Tea Party movement who have carried the Republican water for the last couple of years.

    Briefly I had toyed with the thought that perhaps we could get a Sarah Palin entry in the process. That particular idea made the convention possibility palatable.  Briefly.
    But point two is valid. Though I hardly think she lacks the courage necessary, there WAS an opportunity, she COULD have run.

    All these points would likely mean the end of the Republican party.

    Betrayal of the process because of an outcome not desired by party elite, would be the codes given for a very nuclear event.

    Thanks To Rep McCotter for a well reasoned analysis.

    < Compactcare: The Progressive Tactic | Who is the American Taliban? >


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    Dog in the hunt (none / 0) (#1)
    by RushLake on Tue Feb 21, 2012 at 09:42:42 AM EST
    Thad McCotter, who is my congressman and has been for years, is a Obamney supporter. He has been since he dropped out of the race for president himself.

    I'd suggest a little caution in dealing with Mr. McCotter on this issue. I'm not sure what he gains by his support, but he has been consistent in it.

    McCotter is so good on so many things as a congressman, but he doesn't color inside the lines on every issue.  

    • That is why by JGillman, 02/21/2012 10:13:00 AM EST (none / 0)
    Tread very cautiously (none / 0) (#3)
    by Corinthian Scales on Tue Feb 21, 2012 at 10:49:38 AM EST
    Let us not forget who Thad McCotter really is within the GOP.  Thad lives to serve his GOP establishment masters.  And good Lord!  Jeb Bush?!?!  What the hell creep Senator were the MSM talking to... Lindsey Graham?  Sometimes I really question Malkin when she links to such pieces like that.

    The following is worthy of ones viewing time.  There's some bone-chilling conversation about Willard that has yet to be openly discussed.

    The GOP had their time for atonement with voters since being gifted supremacy over the Left in 2010.  They haven't listened yet.

    Let the chips fall wherever they may.

    Tone Deaf (none / 0) (#4)
    by Rougman on Tue Feb 21, 2012 at 12:51:11 PM EST
    I don't see a brokered convention producing anyone that is outside of the GOP establishment.  Mitch Daniels and Jeb Bush are the names being mentioned.

    The GOP might as well stick with Romney and lose as go with a candidate that emerges from a brokered convention and lose.  Any such move by the GOP would indicate to me that the establishment GOP sees the tea party in much the same way as it does the Democrat Party--enemies all.

    If the GOP is so tone deaf as to not understand this they deserve to lose.  

    As for Dan Benishek, he formerly supported (none / 0) (#5)
    by RushLake on Tue Feb 21, 2012 at 05:15:28 PM EST
    Citizen Cain.....who'd a thunk it?

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73129.html

    A couple of key facts . . . (none / 0) (#6)
    by Kevin Rex Heine on Tue Feb 21, 2012 at 05:37:42 PM EST
    . . . to point out:

    First, McCotter uses the term "orchestrated convention" instead of "brokered convention."  I can tell you right now, that those two terms are not the same thing and are definitely not interchangeable.

    I defined a "brokered convention" in this article as simply being a convention in which none of the official candidates arrive at convention with a committed majority of the available delegates.  In and of itself, as I also explained in that article, a brokered convention is nothing to fear.  What McCotter seems to be doing (perhaps not intentionally) is to use progressivist tactics to newspeak us into believing that a brokered convention is necessarily a bad thing - because who knows what the masters behind the curtain in the smoky back room will attempt to foist upon us.

    Depending on how Michigan, Arizona, and Washington State break, by the time the dust settles on Super Tuesday (including Massachusetts, Georgia, and Ohio), WMR may find himself all of a sudden in third place.  This now-very-real possibility has the blueblood elites so afraid of a coronation train derailment that they are doing everything in their power to screw over the grassroots in every single Super Tuesday state that is likely to go "not Romney."

    Apparently the story has now begun circulating that an orchestrated-brokered convention will by necessity foist upon us a candidate other than the four who have endured the rigors of the campaign trail from the Iowa Caucus through the Nebraska Convention.  And so in order to avoid that scenario we must all unite behind Romney as quickly as possible so that he can become our presumptive nominee so that we can focus on the business of beating Obama.  And as is typical with red herring fallacies, that argument smells like a bathtub-sized crock of b****t.

    The truth of the matter is that, the longer this process drags on, the more states and territories that we have to go through before any candidate has a committed majority of the secured delegates, the stronger our ticket should be.  What scares the hell out of the establishment bluebloods is that, eventually, Romney is going to be forced to run on his record . . . and they know what that means.




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