Brokered Republican Convention

[McCamy Taylor]

It is late here, so I am not going to give a bunch of link or references. This is just my impressions of where the opposition stands at the present time, which is up shit creek without a paddle. Mike Huckabee has said that he intends to keep any of the Republican nominees from going to Minneapolis-Saint Paul with enough committed delegates to win the nomination, and between him and Ron Paul and the telecommunications industry, I think they just might see it done.

While Karl Rove has been busy scheming to create a Brokered Democratic Convention between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, complete with RNC instigated "intra-party battling" to consist of verbal sparring, hair pulling and maybe a little Denver PD head bashing broadcast coast to coast, the Republican Party has literally broken into the three parts, just as I predicted when I put together this cartoon a couple of years ago about the ill conceived idea of using the topic of Immigration as a new Southern Strategy.

http://www.grandtheftelectionohio.com/Flash/moron/moron.html "Grand Theft Election Ohio: The Moronic Option"

Immigration is now the least of people's worries, but the GOP is still split between Big Business, Big God and The Folks. The Folks are mostly abandoning the Party, since the main thing they are afraid of is losing their house and their job and their retirement, and these are Democratic issues. That leaves the other two in charge of things. Big God can not stand the candidates that Big Business can stand and vice versa. Chris Matthews regularly hosts representatives of the two wings of the GOP to try to get them to iron out their differences. About the only thing they can agree on is Mitt Romney , and yet somehow John McCain is the nominee. This makes no sense at all, since Big God despises him, and a very important sector of Big Business, Big Cable despises him, too.

In the last week, Telecommunications represented by the NYT, The WaPo and just about every media outlet except NBC (whose parent company is GE which makes NBC the unofficial mouthpiece for the Pentagon, which loves the idea of a McCain presidency) has been after McCain for a sex scandal, a money scandal, an influence peddling scandal, a campaign finance scandal, another campaign finance scandal, a lying under oath scandal. And I have yet to hear that same corporate media stand up and begin the obligatory defense of the presumed Republican presidential nominee. You would almost think that they are writing and talking about a Democrat. You would almost think that John McCain is John Edwards and that the corporate media is trying to force him out of the race. But they would not do that to a Republican, would they?

I have waited in vain for some media pundit to stand up and say "If the Democrats do not have to accept a limit on their campaign spending, it isn't fair to make McCain accept one. He didn't know that he would be his party's nominee when he accepted public money. It is the Democratic Congress's fault. He spent the Vietnam War in a box for his country. We owe it to him." If the MSM can not do this for a Republican, something is seriously wrong. We have either walked through the Looking Glass----or some people in high places do not think that McCain is going to be the one nominated in Minneapolis-Saint Paul.

Which is why I take Huckabee's predictions about the Brokered Republican Convention very seriously. Just as Rudi was unacceptable to the majority of the telecommunications industry because of his ties to NewsCorp, McCain is unacceptable to some powerful telecommunications industry players because of his ties to some shady telecom players. So, hounded by the press, lacking in funds, he will have to compete with Huckabee and Paul for votes.

If McCain does not get enough delegates, who knows what will happen? The Party might try to substitute Romney at the convention, since the Mormon is acceptable to Big Business and Big God. However, everyone knows that Huckabee does not "heart" Romney, and Huckabee will go to the convention with a lot of delegates. If he is snubbed, he could take his votes and do something drastic with them. If Huckabee is the nominee, Big Business may try to persuade Bloomberg to run.

That sounds a lot more like 1968 than whatever it is that Karl Rove has dreamed up for the Democrats.

I guess if they could get McCain's cable problem worked out and his campaign finance problem, Rove might be able to pull it together. I have been thinking about it. The only way to make him acceptable to Time-Warner and Disney would be to provide them with the same incriminating evidence that Iseman and her employers have on him so that if he is blackmailed for FCC favors Time-Warner and Disney can counter blackmail. That gives all the cable companies blackmail parity or a level playing field. Somehow I can not see McCain going along with that.

As for the campaign finance problem, he could say he is having a Senate Chambers Campaign, sort of like Carter's Rose Garden Campaign from 1980, in solidarity with the troops in Iraq and all the poor hungry people in the US. He could challenge Hillary or Obama to do the same. In other words, make a virtue of necessity. Instead of campaigning, he could stay in the Senate and do nothing but legislate until September.

We know how well that worked for Carter.

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1. "his ties to some shady telecom players. " K*R

Who are they? That's an interesting analysis. I know he was tied to Qwest but they looked pretty good on the wire taping issue. It seemed that the lobbyist form Indiana University of Pennsylvania who knew nothing about telecom had some obscure clients. Is it them?

I think the real danger for McCain is that he's got months and months under the most serious scrutiny ever. Lots of opportunities for that famous temper to emerge, along with all the political double dealing.

[McCamy Taylor]

2. See my journal. Lots of links there. Lots of reasons for CNN and ABC to not like him.

[FlyingSquirrel]

3. Now HERE'S someone who does not waste their GDP posts...

Unlike yours truly.

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