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Rush Limbaugh: "Beware, Folks: A Third Party Will Reelect Obama and the Democrats"
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 14 Sep 09 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 09/14/2009 5:01:13 PM PDT by seanmerc

RUSH: And you enjoyed it for all the reasons that you've mentioned. But we've gotta be really, really careful here, Dana, about this left versus right government thing. You mentioned third party, and we've been through this with Perot.

CALLER: I know that. I know that. And I think Perot helped Clinton get in, I don't doubt that. I do believe there has to be a huge movement before people can vote that way.

RUSH: But a third party is not going to do anything other but ensure the reelection of Obama and every other Democrat running for office because even if you come up with a charismatic third-party presidential candidate, still isn't going to have anybody of any significance running in that party for seats in Congress of the US Senate unless this movement happened to become the majority movement in the country, and that's not what's happening. I respectfully disagree with you here. I understand the anger at the Republican Party. Hell, I've got it, too. I've had it for a long, long time. But don't make the mistake of thinking this is not a left versus right thing. This is a conservative ascendancy that's going on out there. You didn't show up and protest like this when the Republicans were in power.

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To: FredZarguna

Glenn Beck sees the Republican party has become just the other Washington party, and he is right.
The only way for the GOP to redeem itself is for it to find its purpose again. That may be happening now.

Congressional Republicans need a grand gesture to signal that conservatism is once again their guiding principle.
I believe that gesture would be elevating Mike Pence to Republican Leader in the House.

There is just no way that John Boehner should still be the Leader after two consecutive historic losses at the polls.
The American people were giving the Republicans under the leadership of Biehner a vote of no confidence, but the Congressional Republicans were too stupid or too much in denial to interpret it correctly.

I believe this is the major source of discontent with the GOP. Boehner has to go.


61 posted on 09/14/2009 5:23:11 PM PDT by counterpunch (In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.)
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To: DRey
Rush is right. It's like saying: well, they've taken over America, so let's go build a new one somewhere else.

Uhm, not only no, but HELL NO. This is our country, and it's our Republican party. It's time to take BOTH of them back.

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I agree!

62 posted on 09/14/2009 5:23:18 PM PDT by elizabethgrace ((from Drudge) DOW on 9/11/09 = 9605 ----- DOW on 9/10/01 = 9605)
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To: stayathomemom
I think the MSM gave us McCain.

Even so, he was what the GOP has in 2008.

[I predicted in Feb 2008 that, if the nominated him, he would probably lose by about the same number of electoral votes as Dole in 06. He got a few more, but still lost the EV by 2-to-1.]

Of the ones making noise about running in 2012, I don't see any who would mount a real challenge, unless Obama screws up so bad that his own party dumps him.
63 posted on 09/14/2009 5:23:40 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: 9YearLurker

Reagan didn’t just go to the people. He did indeed compromise on policy when he had to, and furthermore he refrained from alienating anyone he didn’t have to. His administration was quite eclectic besides.


64 posted on 09/14/2009 5:24:08 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: seanmerc

I will not vote for another RINO. If Palin is not the GOP nominee in 2012, I’m voting 3rd party, or staying home.

I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils anymore. Deal with it, Republicans.


65 posted on 09/14/2009 5:24:14 PM PDT by saluki_in_ohio (I got news for you folks: Republicans aren't conservative.)
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To: Soothesayer9
My brother supports Ron Paul. And he helped Obama into the WHite House by supporting him.

What? The GOP nomination of McCain, and the selling out of the GOP by the Bushes, is the reason Obama is our president. Further, the second runner up, McRomney from Massachusetts, did to his state as governor what Obama is doing to the USA.....socialized health care.

66 posted on 09/14/2009 5:24:20 PM PDT by Engineer_Soldier (Returned home from Iraq and found our republic a mess! Just joined the Libertarian Party.)
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To: mquinn
How many times have we seen the following unfold though? Many elections of the last few years seem to wind up as “conservative vs. RINO” in the primary, and when the RINO wins, out come the demands that the conservative’s voters now support the RINO vs. the Democrat Party candidate. RINO gets elected, pisses off conservatives to no end while in office, then comes fund-raising to said conservatives at reelection time. And when the conservative wishes to challenge the RINO again in a primary, he is actively discouraged by party leaders to avoid going into the general election battered and broke. How do we break this cycle?

Work to promote a conservative candidate in the primary. Get enough voters to vote for that candidate.

67 posted on 09/14/2009 5:24:25 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: marron
Because if he won’t or can’t do that, he isn’t going to win the election, and if he does you still haven’t won anything.

Because if she won’t or can’t do that, she isn’t going to win the election, and if she does you still haven’t won anything.

citisen palin for president! there, fixed that for you ;)

68 posted on 09/14/2009 5:26:31 PM PDT by musicbymuzak
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To: counterpunch

No, you are wrong, corporatism is what has been the economic model BEFORE Obama and is what the Republican elite embrace. You’re just confused because Rush calls it “capitalism” when Repubicans do it. Taking over 1/6th of economy, taking over GM/Chrysler, and firing the CEO is the very definition Marxist.


69 posted on 09/14/2009 5:26:32 PM PDT by Nephi ( Who is Jane Burgermeister? Hint: youtube)
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To: Nephi

BEAUTIFULLY SAID!


70 posted on 09/14/2009 5:26:47 PM PDT by Engineer_Soldier (Returned home from Iraq and found our republic a mess! Just joined the Libertarian Party.)
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To: Lou Budvis

McCain almost pulled it off actually. Palins pick was brilliant politics. The Republicans were soaring for several weeks.

The financial meltdown was the decisive factor, it ended all their momentum. It didn’t help that McCain handled his response to it very badly.


71 posted on 09/14/2009 5:27:21 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: counterpunch
Glenn Beck sees the Republican party has become just the other Washington party, and he is right.

True of the national leadership, and not necessarily true of the state GOPs, and certainly not true of the ideological party, which remains a conservative party.

72 posted on 09/14/2009 5:27:47 PM PDT by FredZarguna (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47. In leather.)
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To: seanmerc

This is what concerns me about Glenn Beck. His whole pox on both their houses schtick presupposes a third party. Instead of saying the Republicans lost their way, he treats the DemoRAT and Republican parties as though they are the same...they are not.


73 posted on 09/14/2009 5:28:01 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: rbmillerjr
Rush is absolutely correct, third Parties don’t work.

However, if the Repubs nominate another RINO, I’ll sit it out.


Well, the choice is Leftist-Dem or Dem-lite-leaning-leftist.

Bush certain didn't push the GOP to the right. Neither did McCain, except for his selecting Palin.
74 posted on 09/14/2009 5:29:24 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: meyer
Ross Perot helped bring us Clinton.

It took until your post 24 to mention President Ross Perot--

Oh, that's right--Clinton got in with less than 50% THANKS to Ross Perot.

We the conservative heart and soul of the Republican Party are now in the position to go Patton on its effete leadership--

Holding it by its throat; kicking it where its nuts WOULD be.

It's OUR Republican Party.

It's our America, too.


75 posted on 09/14/2009 5:29:26 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: seanmerc
"Beware, Folks: A Third Party Will Reelect Obama and the Democrats"

This is probably true, and it just proves that the country has no real choices - except those funded by Saudi money. If you don't vote for the Rapist, then they will elect the Gay Rapist.

76 posted on 09/14/2009 5:29:40 PM PDT by ghostrider
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To: seanmerc

A third party helps the Democrats every single time. That’s how we ended up with Pelosi — all the holier-than-thou Republicans sitting home saying that no one was good enough. Well, how did THAT work out??

Like it or not, and I do NOT like it, most of us only have the choice between a RINO and a pure, 100% Democrat. That is it. That’s the reality. What does someone in a John McCain state do when we know he has that Senate seat for as long as he wants it? There has yet to be a viable conservative oppose him in the primaries. So, do I vote for McCain or sit back and let a Democrat take yet another Senate seat?

I admit it’s an ugly mess and we should continue to fight and support the conservatives that are out there, demand the GOP support the conservatives that run, but staying home and not voting is *one* of the reasons we are in our current situation.

Flame away. I’m ready. LOL


77 posted on 09/14/2009 5:29:58 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (When a president must hire out his real job to 32 czars, he was never CEO material.)
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To: EGPWS
” ... the GOP is wrong for not being a conservative party!”

That's the PROBLEM.

The GOP stands for nothing.

Then we have the McPain in the arse types that are mindblgglingly eager to COMPROMISE ON PRINCIPAL. CONSTANTLY!

78 posted on 09/14/2009 5:30:25 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: seanmerc
IMHO I have been saying since she left the Governor's Position she will run as an Indy. A couple of my friends who think my instincts are as crazy as a fox, agree.

It is Right and Wrong, Truth vs Corruption. and how the hell do we stand by the Lindsey Grahams, McCain, Snowe, Collins etc, they all make me want to puke, I am done with them. Yes I know they are RINO's but they are sucking all the air out of the room and the RNC is more like them than they are like Pence.

As far as Rush today, he wants to be the Republican Party Reptile, knock your socks off El-Rushbo.

Some things are not worth fixing....

Years ago a Shelby Cobra was crushed, flattened like a pancake by a Crane Boom that fell on it on a movie set. Like this Cobra, Rush doesn't get somethings are just not worth fixing....

79 posted on 09/14/2009 5:30:44 PM PDT by taildragger (Palin/Mulally 2012)
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To: pissant; All

How is your turd party doing??


80 posted on 09/14/2009 5:31:16 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Can't Stop the Signal!)
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