Posted on 01/22/2008 6:23:37 AM PST by Bosco
Until Rush comes out a supports a candidate I will honor his right to choose who he wants and his right to privacy. In case you are not listening here it is in a nutshell. what he is saying IS LOOK AT THE FACTS, DO YOUR OWN DAMN RESEARCH, AND THINK FOR YOURSELF, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY VOTE FOR THE PERSON WHO YOU THINK WONT FLUSH THIS NATION DOWN THE CRAPPER. Nothing is more difficult to control than a well informed populace and the more you know the less you will be bamboozled.
This is not rocket science!
You’re right - do your own research! None of these candidates are “ideal”. Unless YOU are running they won’t be ideal. Why is this so startling?
My guess is that he’ll support Mitt. He’s about the best we can do after Fred eventually drops out. He’s being forced to ... he’s not even in Florida ... you can’t win without being with the folks you want to sway your way - so be default as fas as I am concerned - he’s already out.
RUSH: In a situation like this, where you don’t have a genuine, down-the-list conservative, you have to look at variables. It’s easier for me to support a Romney than a McCain, for example, because I believe his conversion is genuine and he’s not lying about past positions. He’s not trying to tell people that they’re wrong when they assess his past positions. He explains why he changed his mind and what it was that caused him to change his mind. And so I don’t want to go through that whole list again, but that’s pretty much how I would do it. It will be up when we update my website this afternoon to reflect the contents of the program. But this is really difficult. But depending — there are a couple people — I can’t take these endorsement calls, because I’m just —
There’s nothing wrong in what he’s saying - it’s just common sense!
r u sho he be saying dat?
Did the research....not one of them is qualified.....NOW WHAT????
he pretty much endorsed Fred by saying he couldn’t endorse him on the off chance that when and if Fred drops out, Fred will endorse McCainiac....as McCain and Fred are friends and this is a very possible scenerio.
I will back Fred as long as I can...if Fred drops out I will have to think long and hard about who to back as the field goes down hill rapidly after him.
Both now actually are closet Mitt Romney backers.They are too timid to say it.
From whence comes such timidity? A fear of losing their bully pulpits within the Republican party, and a fear of losing their connservative fans.
Anne and Rush do not know it but the exodus has already begun, with scads of "Republicans" voting Obama in Minnesota.
Rush and Anne:
"Lead, follow or get out of the way."
And they are getting out of the way.
Anne and Rush have devolved from conservative activism to being mere observers.
It would be best for a candidate to NOT have Rush’s endorsement in the general election.
He’ll support Romney.
He already does to a certain extent, but he has to keep the suspense up, doesn’t he?
RUSH: Okay, top five right off the top of my head, not in any particular order: limited government. Get government out of people’s way. Number two, belief in the system that it’s people who make the country work, not government. Number three, don’t give me a laundry list of policies without a philosophical underpinning that explains the policies. Number four, don’t tell me that government is the agent of change and that you are going to lead the government. My brand of conservatism is based on individual entrepreneurism, rugged self-individualism, telling people that they’re the ones who make the country work. I think this is born out by history and people respond to it. And then, fifth, after all of those things that I would define as conservative, which includes the belief that people can triumph over the obstacles in their lives, that they’re not incompetent, they’re not incapable, and they’re not stupid, the fifth thing is, is there any leadership on any of this?
I believe Rush wants the field to narrow ... Fred dropping out which is inevitable and perhaps Rudy too before he comes out with an endorsement. Even if Rush chooses to be silent - Mitt is the obvious choice.
I’d add Hannity and Hewitt to you list as well.
No conservatives left on the field if Fred drops out. I'll have no candidate I can really get behind, they are all false conservatives and RINOs.
I noticed that yesterday. I was struck by Rush's comment about Thompson - What if he endorsed Thompson, and then Thompson dropped out and endorsed McCain? Unfortunately, Romney will be a bait and switch.
Hannity is Rudy’s shill.
Ann is not timid. She has an article up on her website you would find informative perhaps.
Duncan never got started and neither did Fred. Everyone like Hunter but you do have to campaign.
BTW....Huckaboo is here in Gainesville Florida today for a fundraiser....lolol.... I can’t imagine there being much money here for someone not on the democratic ticket.
Credibility is easy to lose.
Looks like many of us are in the same boat as Rush:
"RUSH: And I also, I can see possibly not supporting a Republican nominee."
They continue to enlighten and inform, but do not lead as they used to.
They have ceased to be conservative activists.
We r screwed!
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