Time for GOP Backbone and Leadership

davidlimbaugh.com ^ | 11/05/07 | david limbaugh

[lancer256]

This latest "torture" flap concerning Judge Michael Mukasey's attorney-general nomination raises an important question. Why do Republicans always let liberals co-opt the moral high ground and back them into a corner where their only escape is to prove they are as "compassionate" as liberals?

If Republicans are serious about reestablishing themselves as the dominant party, they should recapture their moral courage and start defending principles they claim to believe in.

The Republicans' timidity shows up on a wide array of issues, from Social Security to torture, where they're on the defensive and apologetic, and they allow the liberals' revisionist "facts" to become "conventional wisdom."

Republicans should have owned the Social Security issue. President Bush is the only political leader in modern history to take on the "third rail of politics" after years of both parties warning about its imminent insolvency.

Instead, Democrats stole the narrative as quickly as you can say "demagogue" and scared seniors into believing Bush was trying to destroy the system.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Amen, Amen, Amen. The GOP leadership has been sucking up Liberal BS for the past seven years. The base is ready to dump them all, IMO.

[fieldmarshaldj]

ONLY 7 years ? C’mon !

[OB1kNOb]

If Republicans are serious about reestablishing themselves as the dominant party, they should recapture their moral courage and start defending principles they claim to believe in. The Republicans' timidity shows up on a wide array of issues, from Social Security to torture, where they're on the defensive and apologetic, and they allow the liberals' revisionist "facts" to become "conventional wisdom."

Repeat loud, repeat often!

[Old Sarge]

If Republicans are serious about reestablishing themselves as the dominant party, they should recapture their moral courage and start defending principles they claim to believe in.

Mr. Limbaugh, there are two things wrong with your statement.

One, the GOP is not serious about becoming the dominant party.

Two, they already are defending the principles they believe in: higher spending, ignoring their constituents, and securing the blessings of a permanent job in the public sector for themselves and their posterity.

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Bernard Goldberg book titled says it all: Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve.

My title would be “How both parties stand for nothing, so they fall for anything, unless it profits them or their friends.”

[NormsRevenge]

Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve.

“How both parties stand for nothing, so they fall for anything, unless it profits them or their friends.”

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Nice taglines too.. if they’d fit. ;-)

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[dforest]

Amen, you can’t stand for anything if you believe in nothing.

The GOP will take NO moral high ground by pushing and nominating a sickening lib like Rudy.

Give it up folks, if this is what we stand for, it’s all over.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Some of you folks beat me to it, but I want to put in my say anyway:

“If Republicans are serious about reestablishing themselves as the dominant party, they should recapture their moral courage and start defending principles they claim to believe in.”

And therein lies the answer.

The Republicans have no principles just like their brothers and sisters the Democrats.

Get real, David.

[navyguy]

Old Sarge, you nailed it on the head.

The GOP is now the party of back stabbing sellouts. They are now the party of GIANT government, open borders, totally irresponsible fiscal policy, PC warfare, and the Amero.

I don’t care who wins the election... NOTHING is going to improve. NOTHING. It will take very real and very serious action to persuade me of anything else.

[no dems]

I've given up hope on finding a Pubbie with backbone. The closest I've seen one come to it was when Fred Thompson stood up to Pope Dobson.

If George Allen would have had some backbone and not apologized 10,000 times for "Macaca", but said: "Yeah, I said it; so what?", he'd still be in the Senate today.

If Tom Delay had not run like a scaled dog between the Primary and the General Election, the GOP would still have that seat today.

Ah....that's enough. I should not even allow myself to get started on this subject.

[no dems]

The GOP is now the party of back stabbing sellouts.

Your description of them is too kind. After the '08 Election, don't be surprised if someone starts the movement to form THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY OF AMERICA.

[kaktuskid]

There already is a clown third-party with that name