Tuning out Rush Limbaugh

The Guardian(UK) ^ | February 6, 2008 | Niall Stanage

[Zack Attack]

But his strong performance yesterday indicates that grassroots Republicans are, in fact, willing to tolerate his departures from party orthodoxy.

Some maybe. But most of that support is from the moderate right and independents. When all is said and done, among the grassroots conservatives, Romney actually won the popular vote nationally over McCain, as well as in McCains home state and yet he is the one dropping out. And Romney is not exactly conservative either.

[bray]

Rush has become a Whine-fest. Come on Rush, America has voted and whether we agree or not, Man Up!

Pray for W and Our Troops

[gitmo]

I’m struggling to find the theme of this article. What is Stanage’s main point?

[Savage Beast]

A Godless nation is a doomed nation.

[carjic]

Fear not. We made it through 4 years of Carter and 8 years of Clinton (just barely) and we will do ok. The other side (Clinton or Mccain) will expose themselves for what they are and we will have our time again.

[Ouderkirk]

I want to know what you think of Hillary/Barack's stance on illegal immigration

Hillary/Obama are open-border amnesty advocates. We know this. But what of it? At least I know what I'm getting with them with respect to this issue. I don't have to agree with them, to know where they stand. Frankly, their position will fluctuate with the tides of public opinion. If they think that they will derive some power from granting amnesty then that's what they will do. If they think that there is more power in deporting them, then they will do exactly that. We know liberals, they have no core beliefs beyond gaining and sustaining their own power and that of their fellow d'RATS.

This does not make me like McCain any more than what I do now. Which is practically zero. I no more want McCain in the White House than I want Hillary in the White House.

I'm ambivalent with respect to Obama. Don't hate him, don't love him either. He's pretty much an empty suit who panders to whatever will get him elected. Obama speaks in deliberate vagueness so that he does not have to defend a position that anyone might object to. IS he going to govern effectively with that sort of strategy, I think that the Clinton(42) administration demonstrated that attempting to govern by popular opinion is a dismal failure.

It begets the question of why should I vote for democrat light versus a bona fide d'RAT. I don't drink light beer and don't smoke light cigarettes, nor do I drink scotch whisky in water.

[pepsionice]

The party lost its orientation...and is like a compass pointing two different directions. The “Huck” crowd have used up every bit of charm they have...and 30 percent of the party is disenchanted with them. The Mormon crowd...disenchanted and likely to sidestep any support for a true Republican. The “we gotta control the supreme court” crowd....has fired off every round and is now firing blanks on half of the party.

I think we are looking...like Rush will say...at four years of rebuilding and rethinking the party. I’d rather see a major talk on where the Republicans are going in the next decade and how we fit into all fifty states and the various issues that are regional in nature.