RUSH: Senator McCain Thanks Democrats

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[Yosemitest]

Senator McCain Thanks Democrats
March 5, 2008

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RUSH: Listen to this, Snerdley. Listen to this, all of you.
A portion of Senator McCain's victory speech.



MCCAIN: I want to thank all of you here, all the Republicans, independents, and independent-thinking Democrats in all parts of the country who supported our campaign for the nomination and have brought us across the finish line first, an accomplishment that once seemed to more than a few doubters, unlikely.

RUSH: All right.

So apparently McCain can thank the Democrats for making him the Republican nominee,
can thank independents for making him the Republican nominee,
and yet they say we,
I am subverting democracy by suggesting that our side vote for Mrs. Clinton in Texas and Ohio.
McCain is praised because he's a maverick, he attracts Democrats and independents.
See, it's a two-way street.
I should have played this sound bite earlier on in the program to put all this in perspective.

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RUSH: Last night, as many of you were, I'm sure, flipping around watching the various analysis of the returns that came in last night, Bill Kristol on the Fox News Channel said that this campaign is nowhere near as divisive as McCain-Bush in 2000.
And while that was true, I think it misses the point by a long shot. In 2000, McCain versus Bush, it was the candidates who were deeply divided.
In 2008, our candidate is deeply divided from the base of his party. That is a problem.
Last night in Texas, I think when it all was said and done, what did Senator McCain get, 52, 54% of the Republican vote in Texas, when he really has no opposition. In Ohio and Texas, the conservative and very conservative vote split 50-50 between Senator McCain and Governor Huckabee. But you can look at it and say,

"Our guy McCain lost something like 44%, 42% of our voters in a race where he has no real opposition.
The Fox boys were trying to spin this as some great victory that had just been achieved.
That's wishful thinking. Hope it turns around. I really do.
Listen to Senator McCain himself. This is Senator McCain last night in Dallas, a portion of his victory speech, thanking Democrats and independents.
MCCAIN: I want to thank all of you here, all the Republicans, independents, and independent-thinking Democrats in all parts of the country who supported our campaign for the nomination and have brought us across the finish line first, an accomplishment that once seemed to more than a few doubters, unlikely.

RUSH: So once again we, ladies and gentlemen, subverting democracy by suggesting that Republican voters vote for Senator Clinton in Ohio and Texas, Senator McCain thanking independents and Democrats for voting for him. We're mavericks, too. We just don't get the credit for it.

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RUSH: Now, moving on to the Charlie Rose Show on PBS last night, David Brooks of the New York Times was a guest. Charlie Rose said,

"What is McCain's answer to those Democrats that want to wrap George Bush around him?"



BROOKS: He does have to run against Bush, and to some extent run against the Republican Party, and believe me, he owes the elders of the Republican Party, and by that I mean the Rush Limbaughs and some of the Washington interest groups, he owes them absolutely nothing. And so I think he should feel some freedom to do what he needs to do and what is actually in his nature to do. He is not an ideological orthodox Republican by any means. He's never been one.

RUSH: That's exactly right.
But I am an elder of the Republican Party?
The elders of the Republican Party got their nominee. This is absurd! It's surreal.
The elders of the party got their nominee.
But listen, this is David Brooks, who is the author of the thought that we need a new political party,

the McCain-Lieberman party,
advocating that McCain run against the Republican Party
and run against the elders, the Limbaughs,
doesn't owe us anything.
He should feel some freedom to do what he needs to do
and what is actually in his nature to do.
He's not an ideological orthodox Republican by any means, and never has been one.
And that's why we support him.

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[Yosemitest]

Thanks again, Rush.

But I'm still voting against McCain!!!

[lesser_satan]

Yeah, enough with the open primaries already. Let the dems pick their best, we’ll pick our best, and fight it out from there. I’m sick of intrigues and political skullduggery.

[Yosemitest]

Maybe it's time to have all State Primaries and Caucuses on the same day.

[skimask]

That is not a bad idea.

[lesser_satan]

Absolutely. I’m sick of my vote meaning nothing because some a-holes in IA or NH or SC or wherever think the universe revolves around them.

[Just mythoughts]

I think it has become clear that the moderate elites could care less if the Conservatives vote for them. This is their year and to them the only thing they have to offer conservatives is FEAR of what Hillary or Obama will do to the military. Funny thing about lord McCain's history, I do not recall him ever telling these moooolah hate America most liberals to Calm down let alone to sit down and shut up.

[uptoolate]

That is not a bad idea.

The "Coulter" idea or the "same day" primaries?

[ARE SOLE]

Yeah, enough with the open primaries already. Let the dems pick their best, we’ll pick our best, and fight it out from there. I’m sick of intrigues and political skullduggery.

Bingo. All states vote on the same day, no more open primary's. Enough of this crap. We are being manipulated.

Regards

[levotb]

Excellent point, Just mythoughts!

[beachdweller]

Disagree a bit. I think 6 or 7 states should vote at a time (scattered in different regions of the country) with a week or two between each until we’re done. Otherwise some jerk with name recognition and money would always win. If we’d had a 50 state primary this time I’d guess we’d either have McCain or Giuliani anyway, and neither is acceptable.

[ARE SOLE]

Which states do you propose go first?

[levotb]

For many of us, they “did away with”/were able to get our man Romney to bow out after the Florida and then W.V. debacle. Don’t ever forget that McCain, Huckabee and Paul got together and prevented Romney from winning W.V., a key state at that time. Huckabee, that b****ard, kept Romney from winning FL, handing it to McLame. Romney was really outskunked in those two primaries. He would have won CA too had the absentee votes not been cast prior to McJerk’s disgusting performance in the Simi Valley debate. All of this had the secret hand of GOP higher-ups all over it. I just can’t believe that McQueeg and Suckabee engineered this themselves.

[lentulusgracchus]

...no more open primary's. Enough of this crap. We are being manipulated....

Ding! Ding! Ding! No more calls, please, we have a winner.

If I had a Macanudo handy, I'd give it to you.

[beachdweller]

That I don’t know, but we could come up with some way to decide it. It would make sense to start with smaller states in every region and work up to the largest though. That way candidates could still have a chance even if they didn’t have as much name recognition and money, but wouldn’t leave so much up to two or three states and wouldn’t drag things out as long as we do now.

[lentulusgracchus]

Concurring bump.

The thinkpieces that called for all this skulduggery were turned in by Christopher Caldwell, neocon editor of the Weekly Standard, in a series of articles and speeches he gave between 1997 and 2001.

Basically, his argument was that the Southern social conservatives are repugnant and an affront to God and Midwesterners, and the GOP needs to get rid of them. The South needs to be pushed into a corner and allowed just to vote on national election day. He called for a full purge of the GOP, of the offending presence. Mind you, the reason he wrote his manifesto, was to contradict and argue with the blatantly obvious success of the conservatives in 1994, in articulating the Contract With America.

Caldwell couldn't argue actual failure; he had to argue that the MSM hate-puppet campaign would always be successful and that the GOP had to conform its policy contours to what the MSM would permit. That was the basic content of his argument......which just happened to agree with the agenda of Yacht Clubbers (the Bush-Rockefeller-Dole wing of the GOP), who didn't want to see their clubby insider roles diminished on merit by a bunch of yahoos who had only, after all, won a few crushing victories over liberal Democrats.

The rub for the neocons is, they're really social liberals and have never stopped being social liberals, ever since the days before their Trotskyite progressive forebears split from the progressive/fellow-traveler wing of the Demolib Party.

[ARE SOLE]

All of this had the secret hand of GOP higher-ups all over it.

Well put levotb. I completely agree.

The election shouldn't be a chess game with certain players acting as pawns. You gotta laugh (or maybe cry) when they hand young men the flag and tell them the country needs them to defend it and leave the borders open at the same time. We are being played.

Our Democracy is being stolen from us. McCain is being rammed down our throats. I'm not buying it.

Regards

[DoughtyOne]

If that LA refers to Los Angeles, you better think again.

By the time we got to vote Hunter, Thompson and Giluliani were gone, Huckabee an extreme long shot, even Romney not looking all that solid.

We’ve got too many tiny states making the meat and potatoes choices for the nomination every four years, before most of the nation gets a shot at it.

I agree that a one day primary would be far more preferable to the nonsense that is taking place today.

Crossover voting must be put to an end.

I would also recommend a 24 hour period for all national elections, where each state would vote over the exact same 24 hour period.

This would prevent the news media from announcing election data early and swaying the last states to close their voting.

Further, any media outlet (counting an affiliate to be acting on behalf of that network) that chose to announce exit polls before the election was over would lose their broadcast license for three months on the first infraction, one year the second, permanently the third.

[Imperial Warrior]

McLamebrain just can’t stop dissing conservatives even when they grudgingly came to his defense when his old liberal buddies at the Al Qaeda Times stabbed him in the back McCain style and ripped him as a corrupt Washington backroom dealer.

The McCain camp believes that conservatives are a tiny minority within the Republican Party that they can be easily ignored and replaced with a collection of “independents”, “moderates”, “centrists”, and of course disaffected Democrats who don’t like Hillary or Obama. Juan McAmnesty’s suicidal assumption is that so-called moderates form a vast and large voter constituency while political conservatives are few in number and marginal in importance.

I expect the McCain cabal to continue urging conservatives to join their ranks on the one hand, while simultaneously condemning them and distancing themselves from them every time a biased liberal media dirtbag expresses outrage against a legitimate conservative criticism of the Democrat candidate’s record or positions.

A lot of Republicans and some conservatives can be heard agonizing about whether or not to support McCain who they detest lest Hillary or Obama be elected. I am here to tell everyone now that McCain isn’t going to win with or without the support of conservatives because his campaign is already dead on arrival due precisely to the lack of a fresh, unifying, cogent, and inspiring message desperately sought by Americans who are sick, tired, and thoroughly disgusted with the endless lies, BS, broken promises, betrayals, and continual failures of the federal government itself, the White House, Congress, and his own worthless body of crooked and incompetent bums, the US Seante.

The greedy, self-serving, RINO maggots who run the RNC and infest the ranks of the Republican Party leadership chose this individual, not the majority of the Republican and conservative voter constituency. When Juan McAmnesty loses this election just as every other uninspiring, two-bit, liberal RINO they have put forth out of stupidity, fear, and desperation; conservatives cannot be blamed as the reason for this as this loser couldn’t win even if he weren’t disliked by a huge segment of his own party because he is the epitome of the elitist career Washington beltway insider out of touch with America who offers even more government as a solution to the inherent and abject failure of government just like his liberal socialist Democrat opponents he refers to as esteemed and honorable colleagues while referring to conservatives as racists, bigots, and hatermongers whenever they object to having their country carved up and saddled with supporting the third world ahead of their own damned families.

[Tut]

Oy! *laughing*

[ByteMercenary]

... a Blue Ribbon post if I ever saw one! A bit too large for a bumper sticker but it addresses exactly my feelings about this election cycle and the incompetent, self serving poltroons that infest DC.

Mr Moderator, this one deserves it’s own page!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

We have some ding dongs trying to make Oregon an open primary... and they are supposedly Republicans!

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

All of this had the secret hand of GOP higher-ups all over it. I just can’t believe that McQueeg and Suckabee engineered this themselves.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Team Juan, in action -- !:

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I expect the McCain cabal to continue urging conservatives to join their ranks on the one hand, while simultaneously condemning them and distancing themselves from them every time a biased liberal media dirtbag expresses outrage against a legitimate conservative criticism of the Democrat candidate’s record or positions.

Here's the summary of Juan's most recent FEC report, listing all cash-on-hand as of 1/31/08:

A pitiful 5.2M in cash... and a humiliating 5.5M in debt (!!!).

What was that we've been hearing all throughout this very site, these past few weeks, about this "exciting new electoral coalition of moderate Democrats, independents and Hispanics," all of 'em just dying, just friggin' DYING for the opportunity to sweep Juan McCain into the highest elected office in all the land...? ;)

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Caldwell couldn't argue actual failure; he had to argue that the MSM hate-puppet campaign would always be successful and that the GOP had to conform its policy contours to what the MSM would permit. That was the basic content of his argument......

[tlb]

Rush is becoming one of his own parodies. He is beginning to remind me of the Japanese soldiers hiding out of Guam 30 years after they lost the war. He lost this round, it’s over.

His continued petulance and McCain-rage isn’t going to do him any good. Only Rush-haters and democrat candidates are benefiting.

[lentulusgracchus]

There you go. What was it someone once said about "the art of the possible"?

Media's role being defining some possibilities as "impossible" for the purposes of containing the possible within the bounds of What We Like.

[Son House]

Remember ‘polls’ spouting McDole is the only one who can beat Clinton, there seemed to be a lot of suckers falling for that too.

[David Isaac]

Your are correct about the most money and name-recognition (granted by our friends in the media) being the winner, if all states vote at once. The order of the states should also be rotated each cycle.

[David Isaac]

BINGO!!!

[libbylu]

mccain and huck were downright nasty to Romney.
The dems will be able to make lots of commercials showing mccain’s nasty side.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

>>Senator McCain Thanks Democrats<<

And Democrats may end up thanking McCain for millions of new Dem voters if he is elected POTUS and pushes amnesty through.

[libbylu]

I am sure I don’t know what you are talking about. When I get a chance to listen to him he makes me laugh. THAT is his job, not getting politicians elected.

[Perdogg]

McCain did thank Republicans Tuesday night, he said he would like to thank “Republicans, Independents, and Independent thinking democrats”.

[Does so]

When I hear of a poll showing "my guy" down two points, it makes me want to run out and vote. When he's "up" two points, I stay home.

We ARE being manipulated, and at least one pollster bragged about "electing Democrats".

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

I haven’t been listening to Rush lately. Not since he started calling for Republicans to vote for Hillary, when he should have been calling for Clinton to release her tax returns.

[Beagle8U]

“That I don’t know, but we could come up with some way to decide it. It would make sense to start with smaller states in every region and work up to the largest though. That way candidates could still have a chance even if they didn’t have as much name recognition and money, but wouldn’t leave so much up to two or three states and wouldn’t drag things”

All red states vote BEFORE any of the RAT states. The order of primaries to be determined by the % that the state voted Republican in the previous POTUS election.

No open primaries. Must be registered Republican no less than 45 days before the primary. No caucus will be used to award any delegates. Only closed primaries will count.

Problem solved!

[shadowgovernment]

“The greedy, self-serving, RINO maggots who run the RNC and infest the ranks of the Republican Party leadership chose this individual, not the majority of the Republican and conservative voter constituency”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.................
Many here on FR are years ahead of the public..we see that
running the country must not be left in the hands of the people. the elite in our shadow government run it all..to look at all the facts in just this election process or the response to the open borders issue what other explanation do we have?
Folks the USA is now run by and for a small group..what can we do short of open revolt? I have no answer as the republic
is in fact dead. Those who do not understand this are being set up for the sorry day when they see the curtain pulled back on the stage and those in true control are revealed.
beware putting too much effort into a manipulated political

[shrinkermd]

Rush often pictures McCain as having an out-of-control temper and a personal penchant for excoriating his opponents and, especially, those opponents he loses to.

Probably true. But also true is that Rush has shown great, consistent contempt for McCain. So much so, one can wince.

No doubt Rush has also responded to McCain’s description of him as a “clown” and then retracting that since he didn’t want to disparage clowns.

But Rush is wildly popular as the conservative spokesman of our times. The only problem I see with this is he really doesn’t live conservatively—three marriages, no children and one drug plea. Never noticed by any of his acolytes is Rush’s personal flaws that contradict his views.

It is generally a mistake to assume one can believe one way and live another. Sooner or later there has to be congruence and affirmation of one’s life and one’s beliefs.

[kindred]

[“The greedy, self-serving, RINO maggots who run the RNC and infest the ranks of the Republican Party leadership chose this individual, not the majority of the Republican and conservative voter constituency”]

That is what I beleive also and now have come to the conclusion that American freedoms once secure in the Bill of Rights is now at an end, the marxists and rinos have destroyed our God given rights of freedom and only the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ (after the 7 year tribulation) will bring an end to world wide atheism of those who do not believe the Word of God, Christ Jesus.

[kindred]

[The McCain camp believes that conservatives are a tiny minority within the Republican Party that they can be easily ignored and replaced with a collection of “independents”, “moderates”, “centrists”, and of course disaffected Democrats who don’t like Hillary or Obama. Juan McAmnesty’s suicidal assumption is that so-called moderates form a vast and large voter constituency while political conservatives are few in number and marginal in importance.]

He may be right, but that does not change the fact that conservatives should find a new conservative party as the rinos and liberals now own GOP.

[sergeantdave]

Good one. Stamp it on McCain’s forehead.

[Catphish]

This is typical boilerplate after winning an election or primary.

Obama thanks Republicans and Independents, Bush did it, every politician does it. Even the most liberal politician thanks Republicans and Independents and vice-versa.

I’m not sure Hillary thanks anyone but her wonderful self, however, I know she never congratulates Obama after she loses.

[shadowgovernment]

“That is what I beleive also and now have come to the conclusion that American freedoms once secure in the Bill of Rights is now at an end”
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>..................
Many in Government, Military, and public do not wish to face this fact. Those that post here on FR for McCain and party loyalty may be sincere ..but they will come to hate themselves when they see that they were “agents” of our lost liberty. The only way out of this is going to come not FROM MAN but from a far greater source. and as the bible shows many will suffer for that change to come. may he not turn away his grace from this once great country that has fallen in so many ways.

[wolfcreek]

alphabetical order?

[ARE SOLE]

alphabetical order?

That would make it Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansaw, California??

[wolfcreek]

Take a breath, Man!

I totally agree.

[wolfcreek]

Sure. No more caucuses either.

I spoke to a lady who was involved in the Texas caucus the other evening. As a Democrat, she told me she was ashamed to be involved in the political process. It was a complete sham.

[ARE SOLE]

I wouldn't want those idiots in California setting the political table. Arkansaw has sent out more than share of bozos as well.

(and I live in LA.)

Regards