Posted on 05/16/2014 6:33:54 AM PDT by Kaslin
Stop listening to so much conservative talk radio.
Take a break. Watch a cartoon. Go to a ballgame.
Do anything else for a while but think, talk or argue about politics.
Do what I do and listen to country music instead. I guarantee you won’t be so angry all the time.
That’s what I told a bunch of riled-up conservatives the other day when I ran into them at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
I think I really shocked them when I said I rarely listen to talk radio.
What? You don’t listen to Sean or Rush or Levin every day?
Nope. Nope. And nope. They’re all great radio guys, great conservatives.
But I used to work in conservative talk radio. I didn’t listen to talk radio every day then and still don’t for the same reason I bet most country musicians don’t listen to country radio.
Don’t get me wrong. Conservative talk radio is great. But all you hear are angry callers. The only people I hear enjoying themselves are the hosts.
But these days it can be dangerous for Republicans because all you hear is conservatives picking fights with each other over who they want to run for president in 2016.
It’s become a bitter internal Twitter debate between Tea Party conservatives, economic conservatives, social conservatives, libertarians, hawks, doves and who knows how many others.
Everybody else’s favorite conservative candidate for 2016 is branded as a loser, a part-time conservative, a pretender to the legacy of Ronald Reagan.
Rubio’s soft on immigration. Paul is a dove who supports moderates. Cruz is too rash and too radical to win.
The problem is too many conservatives are spending their days looking for the bad in each other instead of looking for the good. No wonder we have so many angry people in our party.
Remember what’s on my father’s gravestone? -- “I know in my heart that man is good.”
That’s something conservative Republicans should keep in mind this fall and especially in 2016.
All this factional infighting and ideological hair-splitting is dangerous for the future of the GOP -- if it has one after 2016.
Instead of knocking Rand Paul as an isolationist or a traitor to the Tea Party cause because he came out in support of a nominee picked by the party, give him a break.
And give him some credit for focusing on the most important prize at hand – putting the GOP back in charge of the U.S. Senate this fall.
The bottom line is we’re all conservatives. We’re not the enemy. The liberals are.
We need to end the intramural squabbling that is tearing the Republican Party’s Big Tent to shreds in the fight to prove who’s the purest conservative of them all.
For 2016 the GOP has to get its primary act together and conservatives of all factions have to come together to agree -- early on -- which horse they want to run in the White House Derby.
Otherwise, in two years we’ll be looking at a choice not between Hillary and the second coming of Ronald Reagan, but between Hillary and the second coming of Mitt Romney.
>”If it is Christie or Jeb, I will vote for Hillary. As will many others”<
Well Jim, you gave it a good try. If this is the attitude of Posters here on FR, it’s over.
What will Hillary’s Campaign Slogan aimed at disenfranchised Conservatives be, “I only let four Americans get Murdered by Jihadist’s but those other guys are RINO’s”?
One post is not representative of this site.
I certainly hope you are correct, but there are many here who would cut off their Nose to spite their Face.
I favor the Levin Rule, Vote your Candidate in the Primary and Vote your Party’s Candidate in the General.
Anything else guarantees the “Enemy” will obtain power and the person that you could have influenced (even if you disagree with some of their Policies) will not be in Office.
I think Harriet Myers and Amnesty when President Bush (RINO-Texas) was in Office. Even being Conservatives, we influenced some of his initial RINO based decisions.
Sounds like simple common sense to me. However, I am attacked for that stance whenever I mention it. A Purist with no Political Representation is just a voice in the wilderness.
I don’t like it, but it’s the way it is. Until the Party that is closest to our Belief system (Republican) is in Power, we have no influence whatsoever. You have to walk before you can run. With Democrats in charge, we are lucky if we are allowed to crawl.
McCain would have us losing wars all over the world. Just like LBJ, only it would be in Libya, Syria, etc. Romney is pro gay, pro choice and anti gun. Ditto Christie.
Put on your blinders, hold your nose and get to crawling across broken glass to support that NWO, Chamber of Commerce agenda to kill America.
I understand, and I agree.
So it’s better for the Democrats to be in charge. I see.
We cannot defeat the progressive movement by voting for progressive republicans.
I know youre right. That’s why I didnt want to say things too nasty about Romney in 2012, in case I was in the position of voting for him. And I was.
So he’s going to pick dogs up by their ears and whip out his member to make political points?
I guess the upside is he will put a stop to any attempts to assassinate Castro.
Just writing that made me realize when Castro took over when I was a preschooler I would have never dreamed he’d still be around when I was getting the senior citizen discount.
I do indeed. They’re partly responsible for the mess we’re in now. Voting for those who enable the perpetrators can’t continue.
Didn’t he spend about 35 or 40 years trying to make it in radio, before he decided it was beneath him?
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