Karl Rove Unveils 5 Rules to Winning a Brokered Convention!
Submitted by Ralph Waldo on Sat, 02/11/2012 - 10:14Originally posted 05/07/2008
The following is an article by Karl Rove explaining to the Democrats how to win a brokered Convention, or as he describes it,
It's been a while since the last contested convention. So, drawing on the 180-year history of presidential nominating conventions, let me suggest a few rules for winning in Denver.
Rule #1: Control the Convention Mechanism. If you set the rules, decide who votes, organize the event and control what is said, it's almost impossible to lose. So while Democratic National Committee chief Howard Dean is ostensibly in charge, both candidates would be well advised to gain control of the levers of the convention.
Three committees are key. The Rules Committee is where trouble can begin. Someone will come up with a smooth-sounding rules change that will give one candidate the advantage or the appearance of having a majority of the delegates. There will be an early test vote: the key is to pick what it is and win it. It's likely to be obscure—the election of a temporary chairman, say—or contrived. But it will establish who's in charge.
Also, make certain your convention team can communicate instantly and make rapid decisions. At the 1976 GOP convention, the Ford teams covering the floor felt tremors from the Mississippi delegates, who were dissatisfied over Reagan's VP choice. Ford's people persuaded Mississippi to drop its winner-takes-all rule, giving Ford a healthy minority of the state's votes and a big dollop of momentum.
Continue reading for Rule #2 -5 - "HOW TO WIN A KNIFE FIGHT"!
















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'Always be yourself. Everyone else is taken.' - Oscar Wilde
Another bump
for this blast of reality from the past. Looking at the posts, I see many familiar and dedicated names. Am I perceiving a brokered convention leaning towards Jeb Bush?
We need The Doctor not another Bush!
Just a year ago I would have
Just a year ago I would have thought all the speculation on what the Republican old guard might do to members of their own party belonged in some Hollywood production. Well as the old saying goes; truth is stranger than fiction. My advise to delegates is to have lots of pro-mccain literature in your rooms and pockets, purses, etc. Wear the hats, pins and wave the banners til it is time to stand up and vote for our man! Pretty sad that the Ron Paul supporters have to lower themselves to the closed party tactics to win.
(just because you are paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. lol)
3 committees
Rules Committee
Credentials Committee
Arrangement Committee
We maybe babies in this game, but lets be fast studies...
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Thank you M.C. Rove
Karl may not have an ounce of integrity, but he sure knows how to manipulate the political system...sounds like a Minneapolis gameplan.
If we don't succeed in securing the nomination, we can at least make one heck of a public statement and grow the movement.
Just please...one piece of advice. Keep the disobiedience civil and make sure no one gets hurt. These a-holes will be looking for a reason to employ crowd control, and they have cool new devices they'd love a reason to use. Don't give them a reason.
What do you think about the war on drugs?
How about Operation Wall Street?
Shout it today!
http://www.youshouts.com/index.php
Listen to me very carefully
Karl Rove is a master of disaster. As I have stated before, In the past, I served as press secretary for an Attorney General Candidate in Massachusetts, and also, managed the convention floor for the candidate.
The National Republican Convention is the really big league! Don't underestimate the power of George Bush's administration, along with the CIA, FBI, FEMA, ATF to be there to intimidate you, harass you, arrest you, & turn off the cell signals to all of your cell phones at key voting times... oh yes they will do it...
You can bet they have special teams as Rove has suggested, sizing you up as we speak, they will bug your phones, your rooms (there probably planting those devices now) (oh in the name of National Security that is. After all, the country wouldn't want any supposed Wackos or terrorist to disrupt the delegate battles.. No, no. That's the FEDS job to stop you!
We need to start funding Ron Paul's campaign again, to pay for security, debugging sweeps of all our delegates rooms, before and during their stay in those chosen hotels, it doesn't matter they will all be bugged.
Funding will also be needed to pay for and obtain, a satellite phone network, and cell phones, for the use of Ron Paul floor leaders to stay in touch.
They may still be able to deactivate them, but it then confirms what I am saying, they can say that cell phones went down during a vote, due to a program error or an auto accident, but if the satellite phones also go down along with text pagers, then we all know that big daddy is playing god. Filibuster the convention each and every time you recognize and event like this has happened, make them re-vote, filibuster, again and again and again...
They might even go so far as to plant a bad food virus on Paul supporters, so take only your own canned food, don't eat at restaurants, go to sub shops or places where the locals go... If you see McCain people drinking one brand of water, and the rest of you don't have it from the same source. Offer to share yours with them...
Also they have and will use technology, that can scan across the distance of a room and listen to a group of delegates, and or read lips, so they can counter respond and give your floor fight plans to Mccains floor managers... Gather in force and vote yourselves in on all the committees that Rove has stated. Look down or cover your lips when speaking strategy.
There is so much more, but this is enough to digest for now.
Daryl out
Daryl
We NEED to Send Revolution: A Manifesto to EVERY DELEGATE!
To as many delegates as possible, as soon as possible.
WE have 2 months!!! WAKE THEM UP!
Great Idaea
I would be up for a Chip IN and donate to this entire cause if somebody could put it together.
This would be awesome.....with an incredible cover letter that starts out like this....
As a concerned citizen of the United States of America, I am sending you this book in one last effort to save our country from Disaster. I understand you are a Delegate, and I understand that you have to make a decision. Will you please take the short time, and read the enclosed book written by one of the Presidential candidates. We still have a chance to bring this country back to a "Great Nation" that it once was..........
It is not about party lines, it is about facts. Democrat or Republican, or even Libertarian.....it does not matter. Do what is right......
Good idea!
I certainly like that idea. Like, I said, I haven't totally given up on the dream, and this seems like a doable thing (though I am skeptical as to how many will actually read the book)...
Is there a list of delegates/addresses somewhere?
"Know what you know, know what you don't know, and understand and appreciate the distinction."
Minarchism
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Now why would you want a list of delegates ?
When down below you posted the following....
If you want to support a campaign that's serious about winning, you should have signed up with McCain, Hillary, Obama, or even Edwards, Romney or Huckabee
Thanks, Karl!
A GOP brokered convention is probably not even on Rove's radar.
Unlike Minarchist below, I hold out hope for a miraculous outcome. I've got money riding on it ;-)
New Hampshire and Ecuador.
Not ruling it out.
Well, I'm not ruling it out.
But, then, I don't rule out winning the lottery even though I never buy lottery tickets (maybe I'll find or inherit a ticket that will turn out be the winning one... you never know!!!).
In the mean time I assume I won't win the lottery, and RP will not win the GOP nomination, and live my life accordingly.
"Know what you know, know what you don't know, and understand and appreciate the distinction."
Minarchism
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Why are you here wasting our time then
Most on this site are trying to get him elected. What's your excuse?
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Ron Paul's campaign is not about getting elected!
I'm here because I support Ron Paul's campaign to spread the message of liberty (his campaign was never about winning the GOP nomination - it was always primarily about getting some attention to spread his message - in which he has succeeded in achieving beyond his wildest dreams).
If you want to support a campaign that's serious about winning, you should have signed up with McCain, Hillary, Obama, or even Edwards, Romney or Huckabee.
Hint: if a candidate is serious about winning then the campaign ends when winning is no longer a practical option.
Let's get real, folks.
"Know what you know, know what you don't know, and understand and appreciate the distinction."
Minarchism
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this advice is for Democrats
Karl Rove is giving this advise to the Democrats because they have two candidates who are about 200 delegates apart and neither is likely to achieve the winning number before the convention. He also wants to promote and extend the chaos within the Democratic Party as much as possible.
In the meantime prominent Democrats like George McGovern who, despite being a Hillary supporter, is urging her to end her campaign.
Imagine if Ron Paul was winning states and only 200 delegates behind McCain - how would you feel about people calling for him to end his campaign?
Folks, let's get realistic and LISTEN to Ron Paul. This campaign is NOT about winning the GOP nomination. Even if something happens to McCain the GOP delegates would go for Romney, Huckabee, etc. before they would elect Ron Paul. Get over it. Focus on what this campaign IS about: spreading the message of liberty.
"Know what you know, know what you don't know, and understand and appreciate the distinction."
Minarchism
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bump
Fortune Favors the Bold
Fortune Favors the Bold
Getting to know the delegates - and their cell phone numbers
Can you imagine what would happen if we had their friends call them on the floor asking them to support that new guy, Ron Paul?
Bandwagon: Perhaps, if he isn't allowed to speak at convention, he may be interviewed or hold a rally nearby, and when he comes on, it's a cue to have friends of the delegates call or text them, asking them to consider Ron Paul.
Those of you attending State Conventions, start making friends.
IMissLiberty
You can reach voters in California, here: http://consequeries.com/California-voter-guide.php
bump... it seems we need to
bump...
it seems we need to make our own convention team.... I nominate SGP who seems to know the rules pretty well.
i agree-
~peace
~peace
Very good Info
Bump!
can we keep this bumped for awhile?
Important stuff here.
Recommended reading: The Most Dangerous Superstition, http://www.larkenrose.com/store/34-books/2019-the-most-dange...
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Daryl
This should give a better idea of how well organized
the opposition is.
Yah..it kinda freaked me
Yah..it kinda freaked me out. We are babies in this adolescent powergrab..
Yeap
Volunteers going in with the naive idea that the process is going to be fair is a fairy tale fantasy far removed from reality.
That is why HQ should have recruited, hired and trained some of the grassroot leaders to be prepared to lead the troops into the thick of the battle at all levels.