Rush Reveals GOP's Endgame

Transcript of Radio Program ^ | February 2, 2004 | Rush Limbaugh

[Consort]

Hell, I've had a Bush/Cheney sticker on my car since 2000 and have been contemplating taking it off.

It sounds like a bit of Pyrric posturing going on by those who feel that Bush might lose in November just so they can say "I told you so."

[Keith]

I think that was before Rudy bowed out with prostate cancer...big difference.

[Zechariah11]

What bothers me is that there is a synergy between the Iraqi armed opposition and the Dems/Media. Each assault on American troops with resultant casualties is (gleefully?) ballyhooed by the Dems/Media as some sort of major setback. If Saddam successfully hides/moves his weapons, he wins in the US press.

[Jeff Chandler]

I think everyone, the press included that are misunderestimating the effects of the daily, monthly, hourly media attacks on GW.

At some point it must be countered. The Republicans in the House and Senate have to start becoming visibly, vocally defensive of him.

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

There is certainly a general distaste among conservatives right now.

Social liberals control most of the levers of power in the Senate, and the GOP House is replete with a bunch of pork-barreling get-along-to-go-along pols who have no problems spending the cash of voters, their kids, grandkids, etc.. In other words, at the margins in a closely divided Senate, and at perhaps 1/3 of the House, you'll find GOP liberals. They may have lots of different names for themselves, but they spend the voter's money like a drunken sailor spends cash in a whore house (...ah...speaking as one former sailor who knows).

I think Bush is fundamentally a social conservative, and a fiscal "moderate". Which means, he's willing to spend the voters cash to achive meritorious national goals. In fact, to ensure the politicial base exists to sustain these goals, he's willing to mimic the drunken sailor approach.

What do you think will happen when, and at this point certainly "if", Bush is able to achive something close to a super-majority in the Senate. When one or two RINO's cannot blackmail the entire GOP caucas, when one or two filabustering Democrats cannot be at all sure of sustaining their filabuster? When for the first time in ..what 60 years? a century? ... the GOP has real political power, what will Bush do with it?

Bush has said it in plain terms; political capital evaporates .. it is useless if not spent.

If Bush achives that goal, there will still be RINO's in the Senate, but they will be defanged. There will still be pork-barreling GOP House Leaders, but they will be on notice. (The Democrats, of course, will be relegated to life as a bunch of Dean-iac looneys, making many lies but little sense.) We may see:

• A Supreme Court and Judiciary that more reflects the electorate than Berkeley; more the founding fathers than an ACLU coffee klatch; that uses the Constitution as legal authority, rather than as judicial toilet paper.
• True fiscal restraint, pairing future expenditures with retirement of redundant, unnecessary, and failed programs.
• Tax reform, ending the IRS papermill.
• A change in national environmental policy from one of thinly disguised left-wing appropriation of private property and denigration of personal rights, to one which actually and positively benefits the environment, while respecting the rights of the individuals in that environments.
• A country where religion is truely "free", where men and women can act on conscience without politically directed, and government reinforced ostracism;
• Educational reform that finally, and mercifully includes real "school choice" in the mix, to break the $$$$ stranglehold of unions and professional administrators.
• Some really, really frustrated and increasingly bezerk social liberal Democrats.

If this fails to happen with the supermajority, then there will be no hiding what the GOP has become, i.e. the home of the "new Democrats", or the "right wing" of what used to be the Democrat party. The GOP will retain it's majority for about 4 more years, after which, between newly apparent bankruptcy of both the Democrats and Republicans, some new parties gain viable political ground. Bush has this year, and the next four years to succeed. The GOP Congress, perhaps, has even less time.

The clock ran out on the Democrats years ago, they just haven't figured out that they're already dead.

SFS where one can speak their mind without the po

[oceanview]

have you seen some of them lately? Lott and Hagel are the two favorite republicans, and their defense stinks.

the only visible guy out there doing a good job: Rudy Giuliani.

[Steel and Fire and Stone]

"SFS where one can speak their mind without the po"

hmmm...too bad there's not an "edit" button on this console, so I could fix that last post. :-)

SFS

[BlueAngel]

Thanks for reminding us. No way would Hitlery have won if Rudy had stayed in the race.

[WSGilcrest]

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[Revel]

"Expect Bush to respond to the Republican/conservative crowds as the campaign ramps up just as he answered the call when the country was in dire need after the attack on America."

Nice thought. asumming that he does...Then what do you think he will do after he gets elected ? Swerve left again ? Why did he ever swerve left in the first place ? So much damage has been done already. Don't you think ?

[SunStar]

Then who will you vote for or will you vote at all? If you go either way, chances are your vote or lack of one, will help the RATS. That is not wise!

I never said I wouldn't vote to re-elect President Bush... I'm just getting to the point where I don't want to advertise for his campaign. I've lost a bit of my enthusiasm due to his run to the middle vis-a-vis monetary pandering. Of course I will vote for him over any 'Rat bastard.

[bigfootbob]

I would not like to play poker with the POTUS.

[Zechariah11]

They're all excited about Kerry because Kerry is taking the race away from Dean. Dean had to be destroyed. The Clintons destroyed Dean. Let there be no mistake about it. Just as I told you, they had to destroy Dean because Dean was threatening to take the party away from them.

This is pretty Machiavellian. I wonder if the Clintons can really take the party back from Kerry.

I'll believe that when I see it.

[FranklinsTower]

Most people are forgetting that we set the agenda in the Senate. That should be the focal point in promoting the conservative agenda. It is in the Senate where we can force Kerry to vote liberal, conservative or not vote at all. The Republicans should be able to make him tap dance on a pin as he flip flops his way though his voting record. By the time October rolls around, nobody will know what Kerry stands for or against. The politically astute thing for Kerry would be to resign from the Senate -- the bonus being that we have a Republican Gov. of Mass!

In a nutshell, the Republican Senate if they play their CONSERVATIVE cards right can set the stage up for a Republican landslide of epic proportions. All they need is a set of 52 balls.

[SuziQ]

I'm just saying Bush has a chance to turn this around if he'll just start talking and speaking about things that energize his base.

Anything Bush would say right now would be lost in the Democrat noise. I'm sure the President will speak out when the time is right. I don't see him being laxadaisical about it like his Dad was in 1992.

[Jim Robinson]

"I don't see him being laxadaisical about it like his Dad was in 1992."

George W. Bush is definitely not his Dad's president.