When Did the Team Break Up?

RUSH: I hate this. I really hate getting into all this. This is... We all used to be on the same team, do you realize that? I've been doing this for 23 years, and I remember the first ten, we were all on the same team. There wasn't a dime's worth of difference. Now, I don't know... I'll have to think about this. I'll have to think about when the Republican establishment finally gave up and decided they wanted to be Democrat light. I don't know -- or better stated, when did they decide they had to start taking out conservatives? Now, I know they didn't like Reagan. I know you can trace it all back and the Republican establishment always been who they are. I'm not taking that off the table. I'm just telling you that from the standpoint of media, when I started this in 1988, the next ten years, I mean, yeah, there were jealousies.

When Mr. Buckley died, everybody was angling to be the next William F. Buckley to be the leader of the conservative movement, and there were those typical fraternity-type battles. But we were all on the same team. I know the Republican establishment in 1995 hated the government shutdown. But we're not on the same team now it seems. You know, this is what's tough about this. So here's Bill Kristol, who once thanked me for defending him against some attack that had been launched against him at a party at Bill Bennett's house. That would never happen today. There wouldn't be a party at Bill Bennett's house and Kristol wouldn't thank me for anything. Anyway, I'm forced to ask here: How many constituents does Bill Kristol have at the Weekly Standard?

How many readers? What's the reach there? How many constituents do these guys Scott Reed and Vin Weber have, versus the constituents that we know Tea Party has? How many conservatives support Chuck Schumer or read the New York Times? How many conservatives crave being covered by the New York Times? How many conservatives salivate and consider it a career advancement to be quoted in the New York Times? Not many. So essentially, I guess the Ruling Class does not like "the people," and they tell us in this New York Times piece that the people are infantile, puerile, impotent, and can't win. Well, we shall see. They're doing everything they can to force a nominee on the Tea Parties that they don't want. They're trying to limit the presidential choice on the Republican side. We'll see. But I just... I do have nostalgia. I remember, folks, when we were all on the same team.

RUSH: Yep, the Republican establishment doing everything it can to force a nominee on 'em they don't want, meaning the Tea Party. They're trying to limit the presidential choice between a hard-leftist, socialist Democrat hell-bent on taking down the country and a fairly liberal Republican who doesn't want to rock the boat. That's what the Republican establishment wants: Just don't rock the boat.

RUSH: A lot of people as I'm checking the e-mail, are weighing in on, "What was it that caused the breakup of the team?" Everybody's got their own starting point. It's fascinating to listen to some people's opinions on this. I'll share them with you in just a second. But I've got another example media propaganda. Dana Milbank, today's Washington Post: "The Tea Party Loses Another Round -- It was another great day to be a member of the Washington elite," is how Mr. Milbank writes his piece. The article goes on to crow about how the House of Representatives passed three free trade agreements. The piece makes it clear that the Tea Party doesn't like free trade agreements. I thought the Tea Party did. Michele Bachmann has pushed for these free trade agreements.

Anyway, from now on we are going to be getting a steady diet of stories like this, chronicling the demise of the Tea Party's power. I predicted this to you. Everything is coming to pass. Folks, I hate "I told you so's." You do, too. But we predicted this Republican establishment thing, too. We told you they don't like conservatives. (sigh) They don't like rocking the boat. Here's one theory as to when the team broke up: "The morning that George H. W. Bush claimed victory in 1988. Rush, all of the people that you have mentioned in the New York Times piece," Kristol, Scott Reed, Vin Weber] all these names are former colleagues of the gentleman who writes me the note. "The switch from Reagan to Bush carried with it the sense that the revolution was finally over and that the Republican establishment was back.

"It was palpable. They were ecstatic that the eight years of Reagan had come to a close. It wasn't long before Bush White House aides were giving Reagan people grief about wearing Ronald Reagan cufflinks in the White House. The Bush people were saying to the Reagan people, 'This is the Bush White House, not the Reagan White House.' 'This is the Bush White House, not the Reagan White House,' snapped someone I knew well who had been treated very well by the Reagan team and was then a prominent White House Bushie -- and it was said in the New York Times, on the record. There was far more going on than Bush versus Reagan; it was the establishment versus the conservative rank-and-file.

"Rush, you have hit the nail on the head, and by now this sentiment is clearly understood by the Tea Party. This is a considerable undercurrent in the campaign on our side without doubt." Another theory. "Rush: I totally remember the very first time I saw the split between the conservative elites and us. It was over illegal immigration, California Prop 187, 1994. They all scolded us about how wrong we were -- and that if we, the base, were seen as anti-Hispanic, there would be no future for the Republican Party. I remember how shocked we all were at being scolded by our own guys. They all were doing calculations on demogarphics. We were focused on principle. Remember how mad they all got when you emphasized principle over woeful at your CPAC speech?

"Anyway, there might have been earlier cracks but that California passion was one I noticed big time we in the base couldn't believe they be see it our way." That Prop 187, of course, was Californians were simply sick and tired of paying for welfare, health care, education for illegal immigrants and they have to do not to any more -- and a federal judge said, "Hey, you can't do that! That's unconstitutional." So, anyway, it's heating up. One of the reasons I've said that for the Tea Party to ultimately succeed, it's going to have to take over the Republican Party. You can't go third party. Third party's end of the line. You have to take over the party, and the party doesn't exist. Honest to God, can you pronounce the name of the chairman of the Republican National Committee?

You can pronounce it? I can't. Now, I'm deaf, so I've never heard it pronounced. I look at it written, but I can't pronounce it. I don't know how to pronounce it. I don't know what they're doing. I don't know what he's doing. You know, one of the reasons why there is so much attention being focused on this presidential nomination process -- and it's natural that there would be -- is that people instinctively (and perhaps subconsciously) are aware that there is not is any leadership anywhere else and that all of the leadership for what we believe is gonna have to reside in the nominee. Ergo, that's why there is so much angst about it because the establishment is pushing a nominee who is a fairly liberal Republican who has no intention of rocking the boat. That would be Romney.

CALLER: You were talked earlier about the Republican establishment and when it took over after the conservative revolution, and when that was.

RUSH: Well, what I said was that, in a media sense, I can remember when I started this program in 1988 -- which was the end of the Reagan year, the beginning of the Bush years -- I was under the impression that all of us on the conservative media were on the same team. Now we're not, and so the question was, "When did split happen?" I've been trying to think about it and other people have been calling in, writing in with their theories on when the split happened and that's what you're calling about, I'm sure.

CALLER: Right. I'm calling about the realization that I had that the Republicans didn't stand for me anymore, and that was when they didn't follow through on the Clinton impeachment. I thought that they should have taken more action there. I just felt that it showed me that all the elites are gonna stick together.

RUSH: Yeah. That was instructive. That was very instructive. That was the establishment circling the wagons.

RUSH: Yeah. They had a case. They had a case, and look what it did to Lindsey Grahamnesty. He was one of the House managers. He was one of the House managers presenting the case in the Senate for the impeachment of Clinton. I I think, in truth, not just that, but don't forget: Newsweek spiked the whole Lewinsky story. If it weren't to the intrepid Matt Drudge that would have never hit the wires; we'd-a never know about it. I think the elites, the inside the Beltway establishment, they were just... That whole Lewinsky thing embarrassed them. They thought it was beneath them, they didn't want to go there -- and I'm talking about on our side -- and they missed the whole point about Clinton committing perjury and what it meant for a chief executive to do that. Even our guys were saying, "Yeah, it's just sex. Come on, he was just lying about sex! Everybody lies about sex."

Perry is a real conservative you are just to blind to see it.

Yes Perry has made mistakes, but that doesn’t disqualify everything else he has done, even Savage has said that Perry is 80% of everything he would want in a candidate, and surely you don’t think Savage is a RINO.

Here’s the deal, Perry IS an insider, but he there are different groups of insiders. Many people seem to think there are only one group of evil insiders, when their are actually several. The currently most powerful group is the one that the Bush’s control, it’s the Northeastern Rockerfeller Republicans that gained power when Reagan left office and HW Bush took over. This group has been running the party since HW Bush and they are the ones people typically think of when they talk about Republican insiders.

But there is another powerful group, lets just call them the conservatives who have been out of power since Reagan but have exerted influence in various ways. Their power base lies mostly in the south and west, Cheney was a part of this group which is why he was brought onto W’s ticket, and Perry,Buckannan, and Gingrich are a part of this group too. They are insiders currently out of power seeking desperately to reaquire it.

There are other insider groups that are much smaller, the religious right insiders like with members like Huckabee.

And then there are the true outsiders like the Tea Party people and the libertarians represented by Ron Paul.

McCain by the way didn’t really belong to ANY of these groups, which is why many insiders considered him to be an outsider AKA a “maverick”

You are more right than you even realize...and ths is also where Rush is wrong. HE says there is no room for a ‘third’ party. The fact of the matter is that the dems and the repubs HAVE merged into one and the same party. That’s ONE party. Now we need a SECOND party and we have it. WE call it TEA.
This is from the RINO FREE AMERICA project here on FR. We started this as a response to the RNC pushing rinos on us.

PART III.
FREE REPUBLIC DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Whereas: The RNC and the Republican Party have disregarded Conservative Family Values and Morals to the detriment and exclusion of its Conservative base

. Such as the adaptation of insidious legalese designed to dupe its base into accepting unacceptable moral conduct, including homosexual activity by legitimizing such behaviour as a human right, thereby endangering our children in their schools, us in our workplaces, forcing our Military to accept openly gay homosexuals by aquiescing to the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” philosophy, and endangering innocent children by allowing them to be legally adopted by homosexual couples which forces them into the gay lifestyle;
. Such as the acceptance into the Party of, and supporting the elections of, pro-abortion advocates knowing full well that abortion murders human babies in the womb;
. Such as accepting and overlooking adultery among its elected officials as an “error in judgement” when it is abundantly clear that if you cannot keep your marriage vows, you cannot be trusted to keep any vows and a prime example of this is none other than Newt Gingrich;
. Such as overlooking, and often engaging in, corrupt practices whether through actions by colluding with, or granting special favors to, corporate lobbyists, wealthy constituents, profiteering in the granting of government contracts to wealthy donors, or simple graft and porkbarrel theft of taxpayer monies;

Whereas: The RNC and the Republican Party have espoused ultra-liberal, even suicidal, policies to the exclusion and detriment of common sense

. Such as continuing to espouse the myth that Islam is a “religion of peace” knowing full well that Islam has declared war, by word and by deed, on the entirety of Human Civilization;
. Such as politicizing our Military by forcing them into politically correct policies that endanger our Troops’ lives both at home and on the battlefield;

Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have allowed themselves to fall prey to extreme environmental psuedoscience

. Such as the notion that CO2 is a danger to humanity and the planet;
. Such as the paying lip service and legitimizing the myth of manmade global warming;
. Such as the acceptance of extremist environmental jujitsu that forbids us from utilizing our own natural resources which GOD has blessed us with in abundance, which has caused energy prices to be artificially high, making us beholden to our sworn enemies;
. Such as allowing extreme environmental policies to interfere with how we live on, and use, our own private property thereby running farms out of business, forcing businesses like logging and coal mining to shut down causing the wholesale destruction of entire communities and sending great swaths of middle class citizens into poverty, and even regulating how much water we can use in our own toilets;
. Such as mandating unnaturally high CAFE standards and over-regulation of our automobile industry forcing them to make vehicles the public did/does not want, and would not buy, ending decades of America’s unparalleled world leadership in innovation, class, and style, eventually destroying the entire American automobile industry.
. Such as over-regulating and over-taxing American manufacturing sending millions of jobs out of our own country.

Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have aquiesced to the distortion of the First Amendment of our Constitution by participating in removal of GOD from the public square instead of defending our Constitutional RIGHT to Freedom of Religion, not freedom FROM religion;

. Such as taking Christ out of Christmas;
. Such as disallowing our right to openly wear symbols of Christianity or Symbols of Judaism in our workplaces while allowing those who practice Islam to not only wear the symbols of their ungodly religion, but allow them special rights for footwashings in special areas, in special basins built at taxpayer expense in our public colleges, forcing employers to grant them special breaktimes in the workplace to conduct their prayers while disallowing our right to pray in any venue because it might cause offense to anyone who doesn’t believe as we do;
. Such as disallowing the Holy Bible to be read or taught or even spoken of in government schools, while forcing our children to be indoctrinated into Islam under the guise of “diversity;”

Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have helped to incrementally deprive us of our Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms by advocating for one regulation after another designed to make legal firearms ownership as difficult as humanly possible and making criminals of otherwise law abiding citizens;

Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have colluded with liberals in mandating that instead of English being the official language of the United States, our children are forced to learn Spanish in government schools, and employers are forced to hire non-English speaking aliens or be charged with civil right violations;

Whereas the RNC and the Republican Party have committed these and many other offenses to society at large and Conservatives in particular

Whereas: NO Republican can be elected without wholehearted support of the Conservative Base

WE, the Members of Free Republic,in keeping with the concept under which Free Republic was born, along with the Founder of this Conservative Forum, Jim Robinson, and more generally, the majority of Conservatives of the United States of America, do hereby make and agree to this Delaration of Independence from party politics as usual.
We affirm our independence by delivering our support to only those individuals within the Republican Party, who aspire and inspire our core Conservative beliefs and Values.
If the Republican Party does not field, or will not recruit Conservative candidates, and support them in every way possible, count us out.
We will no longer trust you to pick and choose our candidates with impunity while you wilfully disregard us even as you take our support for granted.
Those days are over.
Your time has come and gone.
We are Americans who still believe that the Constitution is the set of rules that we live by and die for.

In our in our founder’s own words:

We are fed up and mad as hell! We grassroots Americans are delivering a message to the ruling class: NO MORE!!

No more big government! No more high taxes! No more government bailouts! No more government takeovers! No government healthcare! No more corruption! No more global baloneyism!!

We’re sick and tired of liberals and RINOs running roughshod over our God given Liberty!

We want our country back! We want our freedom back! We want it all back!!

No more socialism!!

Cut the taxes! Cut the spending! Cut the government!

Restore the constitutional limits on government! Restore our freedom!!

And not only no, but HELL NO to liberals and RINOS!!

Free Republic will not support RINOS!!
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WE are the roots of a SECOND party. Think about it.

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