Limbaugh, Hannity and the Republican Establishment

2/1/08 | A2J

[perez24]

I agree with your percentages. The problem is that the 30% includes stuff I really care about.

[pgyanke]

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[Neverforget01]

Just how much power do your think Talk Radio has? Radio hosts either affirm our beliefs or disagree with them; they don’t form them.

[Regular American]

Not that I agree with the original premise of McCain being a done deal to start with, but does the SCOTUS mean anything to either of you? Perhaps you recall Madam Speaker? We got her from so called principled conservatives doing exactly what what you are advocating right now.

[B Knotts]

I agree with you. If, at the end of the day, we just cave and go along with McCain, they will just keep doing this to us, over and over.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

The problem is that the 30% includes stuff I really care about.

That is indeed the problem.

The 30% includes amnesty, free speech, judges, global warming, rights for terrorist suspects, etc.

I'm not a "stubborn 100%-er," and am willing to be open-minded about any candidate, but I really have a hard time with McCain over these issues since they're so critical.

[G.Mason]

FWIW ... I'm with you all the way.

As I have said, I'm finished with these RINO's. Slow death is not my idea of a better option.

Let the Socialists complete, unfettered, their dirty deed.

Perhaps then, "we the sheeple" will rise up and "get er done".

[JimRed]

My only consolation is that the GOP can be very effective as an opposition party.

Only if we keep the numbers in each house high enough. Staying home will guarantee that it does not happen. Write someone in for president if you will, but vote the rest of the ticket!

[Maneesh]

The problem with this approach is that we water down what the Republican party stands for. It will send a clear message to the next Republican candidate that you can be a RINO and win.

We need to prune liberals out of the party and send a clear message that if you violate the core principles of the Republican party you will not be supported. Romney is just within the limits of how much I will compromise. McCain is way over the line and I will actively campaign for him to lose. The Republican party will be more effective in opposition and regroup around core principles rather than be in the “reach across the line” RINO mode.

[hellbender]

Sadly, much in life amounts to choosing the best of a set of evils. Yes, McCain, Romney, & Huckster are the worst set of candidates ever inflicted on America by the dying GOP elephant as it rots from the head down. But the alternative is national catastrophe, from which America very likely will never recover. Electing Hillary or Hussein would be like installing Hugo Chavez. I honestly don't think that's an exaggeration.

That said, I think we need a 3rd party ASAP. Only when conservatives can go to the Republicans with proof that we represent umpteen million voters and have so many $ million in the bank, which we will use to endorse only solid conservatives in the GOP, will we be able to make them change course.

[xzins]

Exactly.

[JimRed]

Sean Hannity...Bottom line, he’s irrelevent.

His opinions may be irrelevant, but the interview format with Colmes as counterpoint and Hannity's pitbull attitude often reveal things about the interviewees that don't come out on "Meet the Depressed", etc.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

No, needs to be a mass migration to a new party.

[Beagle8U]

I agree with you right up to the part where you say conservatives should support Romney.

Romney is worse than McCain!

[PubliusMM]

“Republicans still cannot play offense and are absolutely pathetic at defense.”

Bingo! The weighted impact implement again squarely contacts the friction retention device.

That realization, along with the revelation that Republican no longer means conservative should be the seed that leads to the birth of a new conservative movement in US politics.

But...there’s no way, under any circumstances that I could ever vote for either Obama or the Hildebeast. Sorry, they are just too, too far to the left on every issue of substance facing the nation, today. Socialized healthcare? Can’t do it. Higher taxes and higher spending? Can’t do it. Increased entitlement spending? Nope. Timetable for the WOT in Iraq? Wrong. Negotiate with Islamofascists? Can’t be done. Continue to apologize for the the success of this grand experiment? Sickens me.

No... I’ll write in someone before I’ll cast a vote for Her Thighness or the JFK-wannabe.

Lock and Load.

[A2J]

By the time the Lewinsky scandal hit Newt was nowhere to be found. A little too busy with his new squeeze.

Exactly!

And yet Hannity trots Newt out like a brand new thoroughbred, apparently forgetting this is the same guy who said that the Reagan Revolution is dead.

[ought-six]

Hell, I live in Illinois. If the contest in November is between Obambi and McCain, my vote is meaningless because Obambi will carry Illinois by a landslide (no matter who the Repub candidate is). Thus, if I cast a write-in vote for Dick Tracy it would be the same as casting a vote for McCain, because both votes would be meaningless. Same for the Hildabeast: She will carry Illinois handily, so it makes no difference who I vote for against her.

[A2J]

In Hannity’s case, he actively supported a radical social liberal, and now is pretending there’s something about McCain that is against his principles.

Hannity's hypocrisy wreaks now that he's been outed and is trying to come across as one whose principles have never changed. Right.

We allowed ourselves to be divided, we dallied, we were ultra-picky and refused to acknowledge that a 30% block divided 5 ways gave no one any chance of success.

Amen.

We hold a share of the responsibility in this mess, too. We've turned the bolts on the neck of our creation and now want to call it a monster when it comes to life.

[Maneesh]

A strong argument but still a compromise and justification. I think we would need to bunker down for 2 years: 2008 - 2010. The libs will cause sufficient mayhem that there will outrage by 2010 and the Senate and House will back firmly in CONSERVATIVE GOP hands and then the White House in 2012.

[ksen]

It’s called the Constitution Party and it gets about 1% in a good year.

Isn't that the Christian Reconstructionist party? Or have they changed?

Last I read of the Constitution Party they were advocating legislating Christianity. I'm a christian but I want no part of a party that feels it is ok to use the power of government like that.

But maybe I'm misunderstanding the stand of the CP.