Posted on 02/13/2008 3:08:24 PM PST by Syncro
THERE'S A DEMOCRAT BEHIND DOOR NO. 1, 2 AND 3
February 13, 2008
A few more primary wins and B. Hussein Obama will be able to light up a cigarette during a televised speech and still get the nomination. It looks like the only thing that can stop him now is an endorsement from Al Gore.
Gore is always lunging into a movement just as it has passed its prime -- the Internet, Howard Dean, global warming, trying to talk black when he campaigns at a black church. He probably bought a big house a few months ago. Gore is such a supremely unlikable human being, he even subverted the mainstream media's affection for liberalism during the 2000 election.
And my brave little Hillary needs a bold move after the Potomac primaries this week. If she can't trick Gore into endorsing Obama, she may have to divorce Bill.
Hillary is, shockingly enough, the most conservative candidate among the top three presidential candidates.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell once remarked that his people would rather vote for Beelzebub than Hillary Clinton.
He didn't mention John McCain.
Pat Buchanan says if McCain is the nominee, the Republican Party will lose its soul. I'm more worried about the Republican Party losing its mind.
Republicans are doing what the Democrats tried in 2004 with John Kerry. In a state of despair, Democrats dumped the legitimate leader of their party, Howard Dean, for a candidate they deemed "electable." Kerry served in Vietnam! Republicans: Conniving has never been our strong suit. Honor is our strong suit.
Sen. John McCain's claim to being a Republican comes down to two factors:
(1) He was a POW -- I know that because he mentions it more often than John Kerry told us that he served in Vietnam.
And (2) he has a relatively conservative voting record compared to, say, Maxine Waters.
I note that there were hundreds of POWS in Vietnam. We can't make them all president. If we're just going to pick one, how about one who doesn't want to shut down Guantanamo and give amnesty to 20 million illegal immigrants? Hey, didn't Duncan Hunter serve in Vietnam? Why, yes, I believe he did!
More at AnnCoulter.Com
That's altogether possible. However, there are (and she knows it) a whole bunch of Ann dittoheads who take her seriously and think she says no (or little) wrong.
ACES (NCB)
So this is wrong?
Since 1998, only four Republican senators have had worse ACU scores than John McCain -- and none were from Goldwater country: Lincoln Chafee, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter. The last time McCain ranked this far down in his class, he was at the Naval Academy.
Explain again how McInsane is conservative.
I never said he was. I merely contradicted Ann's claim that Hillary is more conservative than he is.
But you're not running for president.
Coulter has lost her effing mind.
“They want Obama over Hillary and then wants Obama over McCain...what sense is that.” ~ napscoordinator
Easy answer.
Rush Endorses Obama Because He Is Anything You Want Him to Be February 13, 2008
RUSH: I’m thinking of endorsing Obama. Well, everybody’s asking me about my endorsement. I want to give you a reason why I’m thinking of endorsing Obama. []Barack Obama, ladies and gentlemen, is a blank canvas upon which anybody can project their fantasies, or their desires. You look at Democrats in the audience, and they’re swooning. He’s saying nothing. He’s saying nothing better than anybody in my lifetime ever has. The reason he says nothing so well is because everybody thinks that he’s saying what they want.
So they’re able to project onto Obama their fantasies.
If they believe in allowing somebody to marry a dog, they think Obama will support it.
Therefore, I would like today to announce a tentative decision, I’m stilling thinking about it, to endorse Barack Obama, .... and here’s why. Barack Obama is pro-life. Barack Obama is a Constitutionalist. Barack Obama believes in limited government. Barack Obama is in favor of health care savings plans. Barack Obama loves free markets and wants to protect them. Barack Obama is strong on national defense. Barack Obama is a tax cutter extraordinaire. Barack Obama makes my leg tingle when I hear him speak. [A slam against Chris Matthews who actually said that on MSNBC] Barack Obama will end the designated hitter rule. Barack Obama will establish a college football playoff once and for all so we will genuinely have a champion. Barack Obama will get to the bottom of Spygate. Barack Obama will offer free beer Fridays.
Whatever you want Obama to be, folks, he’s a blank slate, he’s an empty canvas, and this is the nature of his appeal. Whatever people fantasize about, whatever they want, they are confident Obama supports it, too. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/
Listen to Obama’s Ad: The Future http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/
[snip]
All right, now we go to Obama and his acceptance — well, whatever it was, his speech last night in Madison, Wisconsin. We have four bites. Here’s number one.
OBAMA: I should not be here today. I was not born into money or status. I was born to a teenaged mom in Hawaii. My father left us when I was two. But my family gave me love, they gave me an education, and most of all, they gave me hope. Hope that in America, no dream is beyond our grasp if we reach for it and fight for it and work for it. Understand this. Hope is not blind optimism. Hope is not ignorance of the barriers and the challenges that stand between you and your dreams. I know how hard it will be to change America.
RUSH: I hope you do, because hope never got anything done. I don’t want to go through my hope riff. That’s number one. Here’s number two, Obama last night in Madison, Wisconsin.
[]OBAMA: We’ll invest in you, you invest in your country, together America will move forward, that’s what we dream of. That is our calling in this campaign. That’s our calling, to reaffirm that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper; I am my sister’s keeper; that belief that makes us one people and one nation. It’s time to stand up and reach for what’s possible, because together people who love their country can change it.
RUSH: ....this is so syrupy I feel like I’m going to need to take some medication to keep my blood sugar down. I think I’m going to get an insulin attack here. Here’s the third sound bite of four from Obama last night in Madison.
OBAMA: Now, when I start talking like this, I have to say some people will tell you that I’ve got my head in the clouds; that I’m still offering false hopes; that I need a reality check; that I’m a hopemonger. But, you know, it’s true, my own story tells me that in the United States of America, there’s never been anything false about hope, at least not if you’re willing to work for it; not if you’re willing to struggle for it; not if you’re willing to fight for it.
RUSH: And here is number four.
OBAMA: When we instead join arm in arm and decide we are going to remake this country block by block, precinct by precinct, county by county, county — state by state. That’s what hope is. There’s a moment in the life of every generation when that spirit has to come through if we are to make our mark on history. And this is our moment. This is our time.
RUSH: When we instead join arm in arm and decide we’re going to remake this country block by block, precinct by precinct, county by county, state by state, that’s what hope is. Nope. What he’s describing there is action. But I don’t want to get into my hope riff. Now, there’s no question that this kind of stuff, to the right audience, can lift ‘em up. It is, in its own way, inspiring. It’s telling the hopeless that there is hope in hope. (laughing) Look, here’s my point about this.
There was nothing substantive; there was nothing about policy here; there was nothing about what he was going to do in the future. It was all psychological, the Oprahization of a presidential campaign. But here’s the real point. If you watched that whole speech last night, you know why he’s winning and why Hillary is losing.
If you agree with Barack Obama, if you are John McCain, and you agree with Barack Obama, you will lose.
The thing that McCain needs to understand — this hit me last night after watching this speech — if he agrees on a lot of issues with Obama, as McCain tends to agree with liberals a lot, he loses. Because Obama’s going to have this technique and this appeal wrapped up.
You cannot take a part of this and appropriate it as your own in your campaign. This is Obama. He owns this, whatever it is. He has a patent on saying nothing, but he owns it and it’s his, and you can’t appropriate it.
Senator McCain can only beat this back by embracing conservatism. You can’t out-speech Barack Obama. Just isn’t going to happen, especially when he has a TelePromTer. You’re not going to be able to out-charisma Obama. And you’re not going to be able to out-sex-appeal Obama.
Ideas are going to be the only way to stop this guy, because his ideas he’s trying to hide. Like all liberals, he’s trying to get away with not having to be public about what his ideas are; they are socialist, slash, liberal.
Ideas are not embracing him halfway, say, oh, we love Obama. I think Hillary said this, I’m not sure, I’ve been hearing so many things, but I think Hillary said that Obama has not had one negative ad run against him in this campaign, because they’re scared to. McCain’s media guy, Mark McKinnon, said, “Oh, we’re not going to do that.” Well, if you’re not going to do that means he hasn’t been tested, you’re going to need to beat this guy with ideas.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: So we just play these four audio sound bites of Obama, and you just heard them, and basically he’s about “hope” and “the future.” And, of course, everybody said, “Well, who’s possibly against the future?”
Well, I’m not necessarily against the future, but somebody’s gotta be for right now, and I am for right now. If you don’t pay attention to right now, then the future could be bad. We’re all for the future. I’m not necessarily against the future, but somebody gotta stand up for right now, and I am the man to stand up for right now. I want to grab a quick phone call because it sets up what’s coming.
RUSH: This is Jack in Boston. Great to have you here. Welcome to the program, sir.
CALLER: Yeah. Rush, I never would have thought that it would actually come through but you remember the 1979 or 1980 movie Being There with Peter Sellers?
RUSH: Oh, yeah.
[]CALLER: There was a character, Chauncey Gardiner. Now, the way people reacted to Chauncey Gardiner is the same way people react to Barack Obama. He didn’t say anything! He just talked about planting the seeds and it will grow to the future and good, and at the end of the movie I think he like walked on water. See his picture: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/
RUSH: Walked on water.
CALLER: They believed anything he did.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: It was a very, very funny movie. People should see it.
RUSH: Being There. That’s an excellent, excellent suggestion, because that does nail it. Chauncey Gardiner. He’s a streetwalker.
CALLER: Yeah, he was a servant. All he saw was what —
RUSH: Servant.
CALLER: — he watched television; he didn’t know anything.
RUSH: He got fired. In fact, he was fascinated with the television remote control.
CALLER: Yeah. What happened was, he was a servant to these wealthy people who passed away, and he never was out of the house, and he comes out — and all he knows is what he’s seen on television, and he says these platitudes that don’t mean anything, and everybody thinks he’s like a genius and they follow him and he becomes the president of the United States.
RUSH: Yeah, just like —
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: — messianic.
CALLER: Yeah. The movie was hysterical.
RUSH: Other wealthy people bring him into their homes for the wisdom and the guidance that he’s offering. That’s an excellent —
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: — excellent suggestion, Jack. Go out and rent it, buy it, whatever: Being There with Peter Sellers.
We’ve also decided, folks, it’s time; since it looks like Obama — Hillary got her clock cleaned. There’s just no way other than that to describe it. It’s not over. Those legs are still not protruding from underneath the house; and there’s still a couple formulas whereby she can win, but let me just go through this with you. Here’s what it’s going to take. For her to overcome Obama for the pledged delegate lead, she’s going to have win 55% of the remaining delegates. Assuming next week goes Obama’s way in Wisconsin and Hawaii, that percentage will then rise to 57% of the delegates that she’ll have to win. If you toss in a likely Obama win in Vermont, Wyoming, Mississippi, Oregon, Montana, South Dakota, then the percentage of pledged delegates she will need after those primaries will top 60% of the remaining delegates available.
The question, how does she do that? How does she do it? I’m telling you. Did you hear what Fast Eddie Rendell, the governor of Pennsylvania, said? He went out there proving once again the real racism exists on the left in this country, he went out there — and he’s a big Clinton supporter. He effectively said (paraphrased), “Well, when you get down to brass tacks, there aren’t a lot of white people in this country are going to vote for the black guy.” Fast Eddie Rendell, governor of Pennsylvania. It’s actually Eddie “Don’t Call Me Fast Eddie” Fast Eddie Rendell. So he’s out there.
They’re going to make a play for these delegates, unseated delegates in Michigan and Florida, super delegates. I’ve got some thoughts on Chelsea coming up, too, because she’s out there trying to horn in on those super delegates and get them to vote for her mom. And like I told you yesterday: if they have to, they will cause a riot. Where is the Democrat convention? Is it in Denver? They’re going to cause a riot, if they have to, in order to win this nomination. They’re not going to let this thing slip away. So you cannot say this is over for a long, long time.
But now that Obama has a 100-delegate lead — 102, I think, according to CBS — he’s a player. He’s there, and he’s for the future. I’m for the right now. For the right now, he has a theme song on this program. [](playing Candy Man by Sammy Davis, Jr.)
RUSH: By the way, folks, the vocal portrayal here [is] by Sammy Davis, Jr., who’s black. So don’t say anything to me.
(playing Candy Man by Sammy Davis, Jr.) LISTEN: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/
RUSH: Sammy Davis, Jr., ladies and gentlemen, here on the EIB Network. That’s our Barack Obama theme song for right now. Who knows what the future will hold? By the way, Mr. Fast Eddie Rendell, what he was really doing... When Fast Eddie goes out there and says (paraphrased), “I don’t think white people are going to vote for black people,” he’s telling white people not to vote for black people. That’s the message from the governor of Pennsylvania, Fast Eddie Rendell.
Of course, the Clintons don’t get called on this. This is, again, the playing of the race card. They’re trying to start an Uncivil War, or revive it. This time you’re not using the Schlick Meister, Bill Clinton. They’re using Fast Eddie Rendell — who used to, by the way, in the old Veterans Stadium throw snowballs from his seat in the upper deck on the visiting players, particularly the Dallas Cowboys.
END TRANSCRIPT
Read the Background Material...
• American Thinker: The Obama Cult of Nonthreatening Personality
• AP: Obama’s Support Broad in VA, MD
• FOX: Exit Polling Explains Obama Sweep in Virginia
• NewsBusters: Matthews: Obama Speech Caused ‘Thrill Going Up My Leg’
• Wall Street Journal: Obama’s Wiretap Votes
• HotAir: Obama: Elect me and I’ll lose the War AND Raise Your Taxes!
• Weekly Standard: Obama Unplugged; Lost Without a Teleprompter - Dean Barnett
• AP: Rendell: Race Factor Could Hurt Obama
Sorry if your acrostics fail me.
It is kind of hard to tell exactly what she is. She certaintly VOTED liberal in the senate, but she never SPONSORED legislation like McCain/Feingold, McCain/Kennedy, and the two McCain/Lieberman bills. She's anti-gun. McCain is anti-gun. She's pro-tax, McCain voted against the Bush tax cuts. I don't see a clear difference here.
Of course one can handpick the issues on which McCain voted liberal, and then say he's just as liberal as Hillary. As for introducing legislation, has she ever introduced any? If so, it certainly wasn't notable. (Not that I'm taking up for all the legislation he has introduced).
to some degree that is true...however, at her mislead core, Hillary is liberal. Come on, just look at her big government proposals.
Not that I know of, but there is a big difference between voting for it and introducing it. My guess is that she deliberately avoided introducing anything too extreme so she blame her voting record on her constituency and thus appeal to moderate voters with a lie or two. (BTW lying is something McCain seems to be fairlly adept at too) Hillary appears to be motivated more by self interest than ideology.
Of course one can handpick the issues on which McCain voted liberal
It isn't "handpicking" to point out that he headed the successful attempt to cripple the first amendment. This is not the action of a conservative.
When even reading the scorecard can’t help you decide, just as well take one of three options:
1. Vote for third party;
2. vote for the person running AGAINST the candidate you don’t like the most; or
3. don’t vote at all, or vote the rest of the ballot, leaving the Presidental section unmarked (unless there is the option of “None of the above”).
The forum is infested with troll-like subversives. Every politician running for office probably montitors FR and most likely has people posting propaganda for them. That’s why it doesn’t pay to argue with most of those who go against traditional consevative thought, imo.
You are not attacking the hiring of illegal aliens.
Your comment was an attack on lower tax rates. Those are 2 different issues, don’t confuse them.
As I said, honest businesses get hit hard by high taxes, and the impact is felt by consumers, workers and investors alike.
Thompson proposed this lower tax rate. So did Romney. Huckabee’s FAIR tax also eliminates corporate income tax. this is all for the good, and I am glad McCain is joining up on that issue.
The way to go after those few businesses (and no, its not 50%) that knowingly hire illegal aliens is to enforce the law on that matter and stop them, not to tax everyone to death.
“I don’t see a clear difference here.”
1. Have you read Hillary’s health care task force files?
2. Abortion. prolife McCain v proabort Clinton/Obama.
3. Iraq.
4. presciption drugs.
5. Views on making Bush tax cuts permanent: Hillary/Obama no, McCain yes.
He makes me sick!!! How am I going to salute this guy???
Not a big Mc Cain booster but exactly how did he help the enemy?By signing that fake “confession”?
Everyone knows that was coerced and forced and no one would believe a word of it.
“Everyone knows that was coerced and forced and no one would believe a word of it.”
What about the POWs who were also “coerced and forced”, but still refused to sign? The ones with character, I mean.
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