A tremendously brave article from National RINO Review!
Ill-suited? Hell no, Rush is exactly what this country needs and he is the MOST "well-suited" to deliver that message. This article from NRO is pathetic. I really think Rush is one of the only people out there with a brass set of Constitutional Balls, and no appetite for appeasement.
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First, we get the following:
“His real concern, it seems to us, is that some people may attempt to water down conservative principles in the name of adaptation and the pursuit of popularity.”
Then we get this:
“But that is no reason to neglect the importance of building a popular conservatism that speaks to today’s concerns.”
David Frum, is that you?
The article was going along well until that bit was slid in there.
I read that as meaning “We need to move to the left in order to become popular.”
If Err Amerika could have been profitable, it would have run the Democrat party. As is stands, they’ve had to settle for MoveOn.org.
National Review circulation: 155,000.
Rush Limbaugh audience: 14,000,000 - 25,000,000.
A fair article.
Rush’s “problem” is one I can relate to, as I often make a flip remark that to some, implies something I didn’t intend. His recent reference to the “Ted Kennedy Memorial Healthcare Bill” is a perfect example. To some, it’s perfectly innocuous and clever, but to others it’s mean and “ugly”. We know what Rush meant, but especially for verbally adept people, the temptation to cross this line is always there.
And when he does, the Dems pounce and try to turn it into a weapon. Maybe what we do when Biden steps on his tongue seems the same to them. The last thing we need is more Policital Correctness, but when they control the media, it’s hard to avoid falling into these traps.
Ironically, this victory, repaid with surging interest on the part of the public, seems to have utterly escaped the bright-boys at NR.
Does little Billy Crystal write for the NRO.? You know, the guy with a look of extreme constipation on his face...
What about Rush...his format gives him the opportunity to give a voice for us all...God Speed!
Rahm, Begala, and Carville can get bent. If they can have such a citizen on their side, have at it.
Which girly-man wrote this editorial?
NR calling that illiterate racist D.L Hughely a “CNN interviewer” is like calling Rosie O’Donnell a “respected social commentator”
LOL! Oh, so very true!!
This was a good, balanced article. They think Rush might be wrong in his pushing conservative principles, because they think he's not looking at the possibility of 'growing' the GOP. I think he's doing JUST that, by encouraging the GOP to get back to the conservatism that won in the 1980's with Reagan. By doing this, Rush believes that MORE people will be able to see that freedom and personal responsibility are GOOD things, for citizens in particular and for the country in general.
It is clear that the Democrats think folks in some states are still pretty conservative, or Rahm Emmanuel wouldn't have gone out looking for conservative Dems to run against squishy Republicans, thus creating a Democrat majority in Congress in 2006.
What has happened to the National Review? The Democrat party has been hoping and praying the controversy surrounding Limbaugh will be prolonged indefinitely... to keep with their desired story line. The National Review article fits the democrats media narrative a little too closely for comfort.
This is article was ordered up by the Democrat party pure and simple.
Rich Lowry, if it hasn’t been said before, you are a putz.
You want to know what is wrong with this country, and specifically conservatives?
We’re losing our moral foundation.
RUSH IS RIGHT.
Principle first. “Government isn’t the answer to our problems, government IS the problem.” - Ronald Reagan, first inaugural address.
We need to stop electing “Republicans” that we wouldn’t trust to babysit our dog. Olympia Snowe, Arlen Spectre, Linsday Graham and John McCain come to mind immediately.
Start Electing CONSERVATIVES, not “republicans”.
Well, here's where the NR is wrong. This is just a thinly-disguised veil that really means that Republicans must reach out the unwashed center by adopting Dem ideas. Same-old hogwash that is exactly the reason why the GOP is in danger of going the way of the Whigs. Reagan won because of his message. The Reagan Democrats came to him, not the other way around.
NR is trying to straddle the fence. They don't want to rile up the grassroots but then again they have to please the cocktail Republicans.
National Review has been pretty weak for years.
I think this is a lame effort to escape their effete elite wuss haven status.