Rush, thank you. You're work is truly Inspired by our Heavenly Father.
Rush, I want to add so much to this.
First, Damn those "Establishment Republicans" for caving on this issue!
As someone recently reminded me, and I
quote:
"For many deceivers are entered into the world, ... he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds..."
Let's battle this evil together, including the evil of the "Establishment Republicans".
Let's remember that the ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF, Barack Hussein Obama II is a
Fascist, a
Fabian Socialist.
We need to remind people just how dangerous Fascist are, their crimes and their hand in the start of World War I and World War II.
Watch and read
MUST WATCH: C-Span Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) Exposes Obama's $100B Plus $260 Billon Social Security Trust Fund Cut.
Then let's remember:
Only idiots and the evil vote for Obama.
It's not our fault that DEMOCRATS raided the Social Secureity Trust Fund.
Let's remember ...
Oh, and for the record...
Sen Mark Kirk's statement Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 ... "There are 55 million Social Security beneficiaries that will see little or no extra cash from this 2012 tax holiday; instead, the dedicated payroll contributions meant to pay for future benefits are being diverted from the Trust Fund
and replaced with Treasury debt that does not even have a AAA credit rating.
Social Security was designed to be independent and free from the danger of Congressional manipulation,
and maintaining the firewall between the Social Security Trust Fund and general government funding is the best way to maintain the solvency of this important program.
Neither bill protects the Social Security Trust Fund
so I voted no. "
Now, someone once asked:
"DO CONSERVATIVES WANT TO WIN IN 2012 OR NOT?"
DO
CONSERVATIVES "ESTABLISHMENT REPUBLICANS" WANT TO WIN IN 2012 OR NOT?
Palin was my first choice
Bachmann is now my first choice, and Cain was my second.
Now ... Newt is my second choice, and I might consider Rick Santorum, third.
But Romney, Perry, Ron Paul, Huntsman, and Johnson are NOT acceptable,
and if on the ballot for the general election for President or V.P., would cause me to do a write in.
There's no way in hell I can compromise my values.
Jack Kerwick wrote an article on May 24, 2011 titled
The Tea Partier versus The Republican and he expressed some important issues that I agree with.
Thus far, the field of GOP presidential contenders, actual and potential, isnt looking too terribly promising.
This, though, isnt meant to suggest that any of the candidates, all things being equal, lack what it takes to insure
that Barack Obama never sees the light of a second term; nor is it the case that I find none of the candidates appealing.
Rather, I simply mean that at this juncture, the party faithful is far from unanimously energized over any of them.
It is true that it was the rapidity and aggressiveness with which President Obama proceeded to impose his perilous designs upon the country
that proved to be the final spark to ignite the Tea Party movement.
But the chain of events that lead to its emergence began long before Obama was elected.
That is, it was actually the disenchantment with the Republican Party under our compassionate conservative president, George W. Bush,
which overcame legions of conservatives that was the initial inspiration that gave rise to the Tea Party.
It is this frustration with the GOPs betrayal of the values that it affirms that accounts for why the overwhelming majority
of those who associate with or otherwise sympathize with the Tea Party movement
refuse to explicitly or formally identify with the Republican Party.
And it is this frustration that informs the Tea Partiers threat to create a third party
in the event that the GOP continues business as usual.
If and when those conservatives and libertarians who compose the bulk of the Tea Party, decided that the Republican establishment
has yet to learn the lessons of 06 and 08, choose to follow through with their promise,
they will invariably be met by Republicans with two distinct but interrelated objections.
First, they will be told that they are utopian, purists foolishly holding out for an ideal candidate.
Second, because virtually all members of the Tea Party would have otherwise voted Republican if not for this new third party, they will be castigated for essentially giving elections away to Democrats.
Both of these criticisms are, at best, misplaced; at worst, they are just disingenuous.
At any rate, they are easily answerable.
Lets begin with the argument against purism. To this line, two replies are in the coming.
No one, as far as I have ever been able to determine, refuses to vote for anyone who isnt an ideal candidate.
Ideal candidates, by definition, dont exist.
This, after all, is what makes them ideal.
This counter-objection alone suffices to expose the argument of the Anti-Purist as so much counterfeit.
But there is another consideration that militates decisively against it.
A Tea Partier who refrains from voting for a Republican candidate who shares few if any of his beliefs
can no more be accused of holding out for an ideal candidate
than can someone who refuses to marry a person with whom he has little to anything in common
be accused of holding out for an ideal spouse.
In other words, the object of the argument against purism is the most glaring of straw men:I will not vote for a thoroughly flawed candidate is one thing;
I will only vote for a perfect candidate is something else entirely.
As for the second objection against the Tea Partiers rejection of those Republican candidates who eschew his values and convictions,
it can be dispensed with just as effortlessly as the first.
Every election seasonand at no time more so than this past seasonRepublicans pledge to reform Washington, trim down the federal government, and so forth.
Once, however, they get elected and they conduct themselves with none of the confidence and enthusiasm with which they expressed themselves on the campaign trail,
those who placed them in office are treated to one lecture after the other on the need for compromise and patience.
Well, when the Tea Partiers impatience with establishment Republican candidates intimates a Democratic victory,
he can use this same line of reasoning against his Republican critics.
My dislike for the Democratic Party is second to none, he can insist.
But in order to advance in the long run my conservative or Constitutionalist values, it may be necessary to compromise some in the short term.
For example,
as Glenn Beck once correctly noted in an interview with Katie Couric,
had John McCain been elected in 2008, it is not at all improbable that, in the final analysis,
the country would have been worse off than it is under a President Obama.
McCain would have furthered the countrys leftward drift,
but because this movement would have been slower,
and because McCain is a Republican, it is not likely that the apparent awakening that occurred under Obama would have occurred under McCain.
It may be worth it, the Tea Partier can tell Republicans, for the GOP to lose some elections if it means that conservativesand the countrywill ultimately win.
If he didnt know it before, the Tea Partier now knows that accepting short-term loss in exchange for long-term gain is the essence of compromise, the essence of politics.
Ironically, he can thank the Republican for impressing this so indelibly upon him.
I'm fresh out of
"patience", and I'm not in the mood for
"compromise".
"COMPROMISE" to me is a dirty word.
Let the
RINO's compromise their values, with the conservatives, for a change.
The "Establishment Republicans" can go to hell!
It may be worth it,
To: Yosemitest
The King has spoken. Why no Politician never discuss this as generational thief is beyond me.
If I see the Mc Cains on TV again I will puke that I voted for him no matter if Sarah was his running mate.
2 posted on
12/23/2011 2:59:30 AM PST by
scooby321
To: GOP_Harley_Guy
To: Yosemitest
No Rush, standing on principal is what the signers of the Declaration of Independence did.
"WE, THEREFORE, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
That is standing on principal.
6 posted on
12/23/2011 4:44:39 AM PST by
JakeS
(This would be a good time to read John chapter three 1-21)
To: Yosemitest
The beauty of the TEA party is that it has no ‘power base’ of self-appointed ‘leaders’.
That is also its weakness.
Had there been an organization in place - for vetting, recruiting and promoting a ‘pure’ conservative candidate for the past two years - he/she would be well financed, familiar and have a huge base of support.
We still have to depend on the candidates who have the gonads to put themselves in harm’s way under the GOP label with all the pros and cons it entails.
8 posted on
12/23/2011 5:02:08 AM PST by
sodpoodle
( Newt - God has tested him for a reason..)
To: Yosemitest
9 posted on
12/23/2011 5:29:11 AM PST by
SueRae
(I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
To: Yosemitest
Principle?? The same ones that caved last night and announced surrender?
I see the above is from Wednesdays show.
10 posted on
12/23/2011 6:16:58 AM PST by
sickoflibs
(You MUST support the lesser of two RINOs or we all die!)
To: Yosemitest
Our principled GOP leadership caved to the marxist in chief, gave Dingy Harry his loopy 2 month tax goodie bag, and is heading home for a months vacay
while barry heads off on his 4 million dollar vacay with frostie the wookie to sip slurpies, romp in the surf and spike the football as the tough black man who stared down the evil grinch rasist republicans
Merry Christmas
And while they are gone, before this den of thieves hypocrites and cowards all returns, will some patriot please wrap the US Capitol in yellow tape as a crime scene?
11 posted on
12/23/2011 6:23:51 AM PST by
silverleaf
(common sense is not so common- voltaire)
To: All
13 posted on
12/23/2011 7:02:09 AM PST by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die!)
To: Yosemitest
15 posted on
12/23/2011 7:55:48 PM PST by
FastCoyote
(I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
To: Yosemitest
Rush has no principles either. When it comes down to it...he will vote the establishment in Novemeber. AND he will encourage all us to do the same for the supposed good of the country.
16 posted on
12/24/2011 7:17:00 AM PST by
EBH
(God Humbles Nations, Leaders, and Peoples before He uses them for His Purpose)
To: Yosemitest
21 posted on
04/06/2012 12:37:53 AM PDT by
skinkinthegrass
(Kill all the terrorists; protect all the borders, ridicule all the (surviving) Liberals :^)
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