I Want A Brokered Convention
When I was taking education classes, they preached on and on about conflict resolution and compromise. They told us how to de-escalate confrontation so that the conflict between groups or individuals doesn't blow up into a larger conflict.
In our jobs, we are trained to defuse situations either as a manager or when we deal with customers. Don't escalate the situation because you will only make things worse.
Finally, in politics, we are told we must compromise. We are told that we must go with whoever is the most "electable". We have to pick whoever "appeals to the independents". Hard line stances on policy issues are taboo and labeled as divisive or being closed-minded. We see it happen every election in Illinois. Pick the guy or gal that the Chicago liberals want.
What's the result of all this conflict resolution and compromise?
We are left with a society that stands for nothing - hence the high level of "independents". God forbid we take a side in an issue or a party for that matter! We have been brow beaten into believing that any conflict is bad whether it's in our personal lives or an international conflict.
We, as Americans, have become a nation that goes with the flow. Whatever works as long as it doesn't effect me. We don't ruffle feathers because somebody's sensibilities might get hurt. We worry about saying the wrong thing in case somebody might get offended. We would rather go with the status quo than upend the apple cart. Risk is frowned upon, safe choices praised.
As a result, we get outcome based education in our schools, games like Duck, Duck, Goose and Musical Chairs are banned because kids might feel left out, football/baseball/basketball games with no scores so "everyone wins", businessmen not donating or getting involved because they worry about backlash to their business, politically correct language, refusing to publicly take a stand because friends or neighbors might get offended, etc. It used to be said that you don't talk politics or religion in a bar. Now, that same adage applies in our daily lives as people are scared to talk politics or religion in open society.
What happens when you compromise time and time again? We (conservatives and a nation) move just a bit more to the left. You see, it's not hard for the left to compromise because they basically get what they want knowing that the next time, they will get closer to their eventual goals. Conservatives on the other hand, cannot go back the next time because we already gave up ground to the left. There lies the problem.
If a teacher gives up a bit of control in the classroom to placate students, that teacher will never get that control back. Likewise, conservatives give up a little more each time, and we never get it back - ie center-right Supreme Court judges, moderate candidates, Romneycare, etc.
What does this have to do with a brokered convention? Everything.
Conservatives are being told right now that Mitt Romney is the most electable. Conservatives are being told that a conservative candidate cannot win against Barack Obama. Conservatives are being told that if the others in the GOP race don't get out, then we are hurting Mitt's chances and are only helping President Obama's re-election chances. Even in DC, a GOP led US House compromised with the President to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for the Keystone XL pipeline - and we all know how that has worked out. But we are supposed to keep compromising?
If everything was hunky-dory within the GOP and "independents" (God, I hate that term), then there would have been no Tea Party. If everything was fine in the GOP, then there would be less conservative candidates at this point of the game vying for the GOP nomination. If there was no problem within the GOP, then Tea Party candidates would not have beat GOP incumbents in primaries in 2010. If there wasn't a problem with the progressives, then those same GOP conservative candidates should have lost their elections.
For the longest time, conservatives have been told by the Beltway Boys, the Left Coast, and in Illinois the Collar County Crew that conservatives can't win. On the flip side, when their guy loses and the Democrat wins, it's also the conservatives' fault because we refused to compromise and support the moderate/liberal GOP candidate 100%. Time and time again, conservatives are treated like the step-child of the GOP. Even friends of conservatives who have made their money and reputations from expounding conservative ideas - like Ann Coulter - have drank the Mitt Romney kool-aid.
So I want to have that fight on the floor of the GOP convention in Tampa. I want a knock-down, drag out, cage match, last man standing war for the heart and soul of the Republican party. The establishment doesn't want that fight because of how it might look to the American public. The MSM media will go heads over heels in delight when it happens, but who cares about them?! A brokered convention isn't about them anyway. It's about the future of the GOP and the future of our country.
When we had a Presidential candidate in 2008 who was a squishy "walk across the aisle" type guy and the GOP now wants a candidate that is nothing more than Obama-Lite, what are conservatives to do other than pray for a brokered convention?
If the convention is brokered, the GOP could pick a candidate who is more conservative and someone that either wasn't on the ballot or someone who was on the ballot who dropped out. Remember, depending on the poll, roughly 70% of the GOP voters prefer someone other than Romney. That is why a brokered convention scares the GOP establishment. A brokered convention scares them more than what the MSM would say about it; it scares them more than what the independents would say about it. To lose control of the convention, the nominee, and ultimately the GOP itself scares the establishment GOP more than anything in this world. This nomination was supposed to be a cake walk for Mitt, and instead has turned into a gauntlet.
I want a brokered convention. Let's have the fight. Let's take the GOP back from the liberals and squishy moderates once and for all. Isn't that one of the goals of the Tea Parties anyway - to fight off progressivism and to reclaim the one party that - on paper - shares Tea Party ideals? Here's to a brokered convention.
In our jobs, we are trained to defuse situations either as a manager or when we deal with customers. Don't escalate the situation because you will only make things worse.
Finally, in politics, we are told we must compromise. We are told that we must go with whoever is the most "electable". We have to pick whoever "appeals to the independents". Hard line stances on policy issues are taboo and labeled as divisive or being closed-minded. We see it happen every election in Illinois. Pick the guy or gal that the Chicago liberals want.
What's the result of all this conflict resolution and compromise?
We are left with a society that stands for nothing - hence the high level of "independents". God forbid we take a side in an issue or a party for that matter! We have been brow beaten into believing that any conflict is bad whether it's in our personal lives or an international conflict.
We, as Americans, have become a nation that goes with the flow. Whatever works as long as it doesn't effect me. We don't ruffle feathers because somebody's sensibilities might get hurt. We worry about saying the wrong thing in case somebody might get offended. We would rather go with the status quo than upend the apple cart. Risk is frowned upon, safe choices praised.
As a result, we get outcome based education in our schools, games like Duck, Duck, Goose and Musical Chairs are banned because kids might feel left out, football/baseball/basketball games with no scores so "everyone wins", businessmen not donating or getting involved because they worry about backlash to their business, politically correct language, refusing to publicly take a stand because friends or neighbors might get offended, etc. It used to be said that you don't talk politics or religion in a bar. Now, that same adage applies in our daily lives as people are scared to talk politics or religion in open society.
What happens when you compromise time and time again? We (conservatives and a nation) move just a bit more to the left. You see, it's not hard for the left to compromise because they basically get what they want knowing that the next time, they will get closer to their eventual goals. Conservatives on the other hand, cannot go back the next time because we already gave up ground to the left. There lies the problem.
If a teacher gives up a bit of control in the classroom to placate students, that teacher will never get that control back. Likewise, conservatives give up a little more each time, and we never get it back - ie center-right Supreme Court judges, moderate candidates, Romneycare, etc.
What does this have to do with a brokered convention? Everything.
Conservatives are being told right now that Mitt Romney is the most electable. Conservatives are being told that a conservative candidate cannot win against Barack Obama. Conservatives are being told that if the others in the GOP race don't get out, then we are hurting Mitt's chances and are only helping President Obama's re-election chances. Even in DC, a GOP led US House compromised with the President to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for the Keystone XL pipeline - and we all know how that has worked out. But we are supposed to keep compromising?
If everything was hunky-dory within the GOP and "independents" (God, I hate that term), then there would have been no Tea Party. If everything was fine in the GOP, then there would be less conservative candidates at this point of the game vying for the GOP nomination. If there was no problem within the GOP, then Tea Party candidates would not have beat GOP incumbents in primaries in 2010. If there wasn't a problem with the progressives, then those same GOP conservative candidates should have lost their elections.
For the longest time, conservatives have been told by the Beltway Boys, the Left Coast, and in Illinois the Collar County Crew that conservatives can't win. On the flip side, when their guy loses and the Democrat wins, it's also the conservatives' fault because we refused to compromise and support the moderate/liberal GOP candidate 100%. Time and time again, conservatives are treated like the step-child of the GOP. Even friends of conservatives who have made their money and reputations from expounding conservative ideas - like Ann Coulter - have drank the Mitt Romney kool-aid.
So I want to have that fight on the floor of the GOP convention in Tampa. I want a knock-down, drag out, cage match, last man standing war for the heart and soul of the Republican party. The establishment doesn't want that fight because of how it might look to the American public. The MSM media will go heads over heels in delight when it happens, but who cares about them?! A brokered convention isn't about them anyway. It's about the future of the GOP and the future of our country.
When we had a Presidential candidate in 2008 who was a squishy "walk across the aisle" type guy and the GOP now wants a candidate that is nothing more than Obama-Lite, what are conservatives to do other than pray for a brokered convention?
If the convention is brokered, the GOP could pick a candidate who is more conservative and someone that either wasn't on the ballot or someone who was on the ballot who dropped out. Remember, depending on the poll, roughly 70% of the GOP voters prefer someone other than Romney. That is why a brokered convention scares the GOP establishment. A brokered convention scares them more than what the MSM would say about it; it scares them more than what the independents would say about it. To lose control of the convention, the nominee, and ultimately the GOP itself scares the establishment GOP more than anything in this world. This nomination was supposed to be a cake walk for Mitt, and instead has turned into a gauntlet.
I want a brokered convention. Let's have the fight. Let's take the GOP back from the liberals and squishy moderates once and for all. Isn't that one of the goals of the Tea Parties anyway - to fight off progressivism and to reclaim the one party that - on paper - shares Tea Party ideals? Here's to a brokered convention.
Posted by downstateiladvocate at 2/5/2012 3:41 PM 
Categories: Politics
Tags: Mitt Romney GOP Republican Convention Conservative Liberal Moderate Establishment MSM
Categories: Politics
Tags: Mitt Romney GOP Republican Convention Conservative Liberal Moderate Establishment MSM
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