Posted on 03/11/2009 1:57:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I have known Rush Limbaugh since his old radio days in Sacramento, before he became a GOP god. I've disagreed with him over the years. Last year I took on his bashing of Republican moderates and criticized Limbaugh and other talk-radio hosts when they were too harsh on not-yet GOP nominee John McCain. I've never apologized and we're still friends.
If you've watched cable news in the last week, you've seen how the Limbaugh story is playing. Limbaugh said he hopes Obama "fails." As he explained, "I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year and a half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed. If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down."
Because Limbaugh used the f-word, Good Republicans are supposed to distance themselves from him. Thus Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele called Limbaugh "ugly" and "incendiary." Not a smart move. Later Steele called Limbaugh to apologize -- adding a new twist to a story concocted by Democrats.
As Politico.com reported last week, Demo gurus James Carville and Stan Greenberg first concocted the idea of making Limbaugh the GOP albatross last year after a poll showed that among younger voters Limbaugh's ratings were in the toilet. White House adviser David Axelrod and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs joined in the get-Limbaugh gambit, while White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican party" on CBS' "Face the Nation."
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If she says she's a mushy moderate and you agree that she's a mushy moderate, you haven't proven her wrong about anything. You're objecting to what she is, not to what she says.
You mean other 'mushy' moderates? Other RINOS?
Screw 'em, that is what's wrong with the GOP, and that is why they lost last November.
What lost the GOP the election was not getting enough votes. If we just rely on people who already think as you do and don't bother trying to win over new people, we'll lose again. In fact, we may even lose the voters we've got.
What the Republican Party needs are a dedicated pack of 'roid-enraged conservative gorillas who will rip the party structure to shreds, expel each and every 'mushy' and 'squishy' weak sister, establish a new Party organization and platform that is 110 percent Reaganism, i.e., smaller federal government, not the ever expanding behemoth that has been fed by both 'Rats and RINOs (and I mean George W. Bush as well), declare our eternal opposition to Islamofascist terrorism on a global scale, fiscal responsibility which is based NOT on pouring money out of the U.S. treasury into the hands of our enemies and adversaries.
How big is the "'roid-enraged gorilla vote" anyway?
Saunders, Frum, Brooks, Buckley, Parker, Noonan, etc. — it took a real creep like Obama to come along for these turncoats to show their true colors. They feel safe in blasting Rush and others like him because of what they believe to be the overwhelming popularity of the Kenyan puppet vis-a-vis true conservatives. When the Obama experiment goes down in flames, so will they, abandoned by all and most dramatically by their new friends
Saunders, Frum, Brooks, Buckley, Parker, Noonan, etc. — it took a real creep like Obama to come along for these turncoats to show their true colors. They feel safe in blasting Rush and others like him because of what they believe to be the overwhelming popularity of the Kenyan puppet vis-a-vis true conservatives. When the Obama experiment goes down in flames, so will they, abandoned by all and most dramatically by their new friends
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