RUSH: GOP may run Romney-Rayn II at convention to oust Trump. $2mil payout?

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Anyway, Charlie Rose with Mark Halperin last night. Charlie Rose said, "Are you saying, Mark, that if the Republican Party unites against Donald Trump, that they can't stop him?"

HALPERIN: The establishment now will not accept Trump as the nominee. They will fight him to the end, including at the convention if they need to and I think they'll run someone else if he does become the nominee.

ROSE: Meaning somebody's in the field --

HALPERIN: No! Someone like Mitt Romney or Mitch Daniels, someone else to step forward to say, "We've got a safe place to vote because we cannot be the party of Trump." Romney-Ryan at the convention is the way the party would go and they'd say, "America, you were wrong. We're giving you a second chance."

RUSH: Now, he doesn't just make this stuff up, folks. All of these people talk to each other, and the Republican Party leaks what they want certain people to know. They go to... Politico is one of their favorite sources to leak to. Halperin didn't just pull this out of thin air. He just said that last night on Charlie Rose that if Trump is the nominee, the Republican Party will not accept it and will go back. They won't go to anybody currently in the field 'cause there isn't anybody that jazzes them in the field.

They're gonna go back to Mitt Romney or maybe Mitch Daniels, and then they'll choose Ryan as the veep again and they're gonna go back to the American people and say, "Look, we gave you a chance to elect this brilliant team in 2012, and you blew it. We're going to give you a second chance." This is... My point is if he's saying this, somebody somewhere in whatever circle he travels in has also postulated this. And not the first time we've heard the Republican Party thinking about reaching out to Romney.

It's not the first time we've heard Romney thinking about running again. It's not the first time we've heard anything. And I guarantee you something else. If Trump isn't the nominee but Ted Cruz is, they'll do the same thing. They won't support a Ted Cruz nomination, either. At the highest levels Republican Party, they're in a constant panic. 'Cause they're know even if they do succeed, if they were to succeed in taking Trump out, now they're looking at Cruz. And that scares them even more. Don't doubt me.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/ryan-transfers-2-million-to-nrcc-announces-romney-as-speaker-at-major-fundraiser-216533#ixzz3tu9P8hMd

Noteworthy...
Ryan transfers $2 million to NRCC, announces Romney as speaker at major fundraiser

By JAKE SHERMAN 12/08/15 09:24 AM EST

Speaker Paul Ryan told his House Republican colleagues Tuesday morning he is transferring $2 million in cash to the party’s campaign arm, and has secured Mitt Romney as the speaker at a major March fundraiser.

 


Imagine the backlash and convention madness if republicans just decided trump was too much of a mess... and just made up their own new ticket.  Slap in the face to the entire process.  But Rush is very often Right...

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Last night- - - - -

Mitch Mcconnell & Reince Priebus told the audience at a dinner that a contested convention is more likely than at any other time in modern history. 

Not a SINGLE primary or caucus yet... But they already foresee this, huh

Tough for anyone to deny the GOP is turning its claws on Trump, when the HEAD OF THE PARTY PRIEBUS says it. 

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Don't forget - ROVE brought this on last month, and said that's how we got Abe Lincoln.


BLOOMBERG: Republicans Discuss Brokered Convention as Trump Leads

Republican party officials are now actively preparing for the prospect of a contested convention in Cleveland as front-runner Donald Trump continues to draw strong support from the GOP base.

The scenario was discussed by more than 20 party stalwarts Monday at a Washington, DC, dinner held by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, the Washington Post reported. A person familiar with who attended the dinner confirmed to Bloomberg that it took place, and that Priebus, members of congress, establishment lobbyists and others have held similar discussions for weeks.

Should Trump continue to dominate the nomination race in the coming months and amass the required number of delegates to become the official Republican nominee, members of the establishment told the Post they would be forced to contest his nomination on the convention floor in Cleveland from July 18–21. ..

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-12-10/republicans-discuss-plans-to-challenge-trump-at-convention

The Republican establishment's participation in a bid to thwart Trump comes a little more than three months after the billionaire signed a loyalty pledge presented to him by Priebus.

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End result, Trump goes third party...STILL gets more votes than Romney and Hillary is handed the nomination.

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End result, Trump goes third party...STILL gets more votes than Romney and Hillary is handed the nomination.

you're right.   it'd be close between trump and romney.   

at that point, it'd be august with zero party support.  Romney picks up 15% of the vote automatically.  BUT by then, these folks supporting Trump are DETERMINED he will win.  he's the hero, the underdog, kicked out of his own party for "telling it like it is" (when in reality, he's wrecking allies which will cost us global relationships".

Yea, I could see Trump getting more votes than Romney. 

JEB! asked yesterday if Trump might really be a dem plant.  It's only December 2015.  Before long, I think almost EVERYONE will agree to some degree, trump's role is to give hilary the job in 2016.  the last 5 people in america to admit it will be the getbiggers.  No way do they ever come on getbig and say "shit bro, I gotta say, I think trump really might be doing this just to create GOP chaos and get hilary the job".

I do'nt buy into "trump was only great buddies with the clintons for so many years to do business".  Because there were a LOT of businesspeople making lots of money that DID NOT need to buddy up with clintons.  Trump's been cracking skulls in the NYC biz world for 30 years.  He doesn't NEED to suck up to clintons in 2006 for that.  They were longtime friends and after having his fun, she will likely have the white house with the top repubs all neutralized long before they would have met her in the general election.

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this would make the televised convention the best reality show ever!
of course, because it includes The Donald !

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this would make the televised convention the best reality show ever!
of course, because it includes The Donald !

pundits are saying it's what Trump wants.   Makes some sense.  He's the foil in this national drama for the history books.  But he doesn't have to go bald/gray with 4 or 8 years of long paperwork days.   

Trump is a marketing genius, but is he a bookworm willing to sit at a desk 80 hours a week or do so many of those mundane meetings?   Just as huck runs to sell books... is trump running to grow his media and biz empire?   And a brokered convention gives him a win but he doesn't have to actually serve? 

"Too real for washington", his wedding buddy hilary gets the job, and he's the hero riding off into the sunset, able to do ANYTHING he wants

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Isn't Carson threatening a third party run now too?

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Isn't Carson threatening a third party run now too?

Yes.  But the GOP doesn't need to railroad him.  He's down to 9% in some polls. 

He's just doing the "me too" thing now that repubs have abandoned him.  Canceled 700k$ in Iowa commercials alone.  Money drying up.   The repub blogs are filled with people saying he's zonked out on meds.