Posted on 09/14/2009 5:01:13 PM PDT by seanmerc
RUSH: And you enjoyed it for all the reasons that you've mentioned. But we've gotta be really, really careful here, Dana, about this left versus right government thing. You mentioned third party, and we've been through this with Perot.
CALLER: I know that. I know that. And I think Perot helped Clinton get in, I don't doubt that. I do believe there has to be a huge movement before people can vote that way.
RUSH: But a third party is not going to do anything other but ensure the reelection of Obama and every other Democrat running for office because even if you come up with a charismatic third-party presidential candidate, still isn't going to have anybody of any significance running in that party for seats in Congress of the US Senate unless this movement happened to become the majority movement in the country, and that's not what's happening. I respectfully disagree with you here. I understand the anger at the Republican Party. Hell, I've got it, too. I've had it for a long, long time. But don't make the mistake of thinking this is not a left versus right thing. This is a conservative ascendancy that's going on out there. You didn't show up and protest like this when the Republicans were in power.
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No JUANnabies. Ever.
My brother supports Ron Paul. And he helped Obama into the WHite House by supporting him.
A divided “right” kept Canada in Liberal governments for a long, long time.
I might be the first one to come up with this slogan but:
RUSH IS RIGHT!
I agree with you on that one however the GOP is wrong for not being a conservative party!
As opposed to electing what...RINOs who enjoy collaborating with Democrats?
It’s sad to see Rush shilling for the RINO Party again.
I agree with you 100%.
agreed....but then we have to turn the rePubes back into a conservative party again. We need to get rid of the McCains and the Lindsey Grahams in the party....and do it ASAP.
He is dead right.
But, not to say I told you so, but many of us warned that if we ran a faithless, worn out, inarticulate, unprincipled old man against an equally unprincipled but very articulate young man, we’d get our hat handed to us. Many of us warned that running McCain was begging for a train wreck.
Don’t make the same mistake again. Run someone who actually stands for something. Run someone who actually stands up and fights for what we believe in. Because if he won’t or can’t do that, he isn’t going to win the election, and if he does you still haven’t won anything.
No one who isn’t already in the fight against Obama now should even be considered for president. If we’re in the middle of the fight of the century, and they are sitting silent on the sidelines, they’ve no right to come calling two years from now. Speak up, get in the fight, or don’t even think about asking for my support.
Rush had a caller, today, who took issue with his spin that the D.C march was against Democrats, not Republicans. Besides being mad at Republicans for their lack of spine and disappointment during Bush’s term, she wondered aloud to Rush if we shouldn’t go third party.
Rush, as you would expect, disagreed with going third party. In fact, Rush says on one hand he’s mad at Republicans, but on the other there is a difference between them and Democrats. Curiously, when he tried to describe Obama, he used every term except the most accurate one - Marxist. Actually, Rush calls Obama a fascist. When Obama tries to nationalize 1/6th of the economy that isn’t fascism, that’s Marxism. When the government takes over GM and Chrysler that isn’t fascism, that is Marxism. Corporate execs (profit and non-profit) buying favorable policy to the exclusion of their competitors and the American people with campaign donations facilitated through lobbyists is fascism, not capitalism.
Anyway, Rush won’t go third party, but perhaps we can enlist his help in spotlighting Republicans who need to be defeated, rather than carrying water for the Republican party as a whole? Obama is setting up his party for a huge rout in ‘10, but unless we can excise the neo-con-RINO cancer from the party, we will squander a huge opportunity in ‘10 and ‘12.
Political parties are shaped by their members.
It is far easier and effective for conservatives to get involved in the GOP and make it what they want than to form a new party.
Think about it. If conservatives can’t even win a Republican primary, then how do they ever expect to win a general election?
The teaparties have illustrated something: when conservatives get politically active, they have the numbers and the power to accomplish all of their goals. Conservatives lose time and time again at the ballot box because they don’t bother showing up.
Unless the GOP makes a significant shift to the right, Obama will probably be reelected anyway.
Look who the GOP gave us in 2008.
It’s simple math. Lets say 33% are ultra conservative, 33% are conservative and 34% are hardcore marxists - the winner in our form of gov’t - the hardcore marxists.
Been there done that, now don’t do it again!!!!
Rush is usually right.
I really don’t want a third party.
I just want to vote out the RINOs during the primaries and have conservative candidates in the general election.
Catchy!
It’s really too bad though that we can’t have a viable third or fourth party system ..
You don’t understand the purpose of voting your conscience. Your brother has principles. You don’t.
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