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Posted on 08/12/2008 8:02:26 PM PDT by Graybeard58
RUSH: See, the liberals have to blame this Russian attack on Georgia on Bush, and then, by association, McCain, otherwise Obama has no chance. I don't think he has much of a chance, and I think the dirty little secret is that McCain could win this in a landslide. I actually do. I think there is so much huff and puffery here about Obama, and the bloom has long ago gone off that rose. It happened during the Democrat primaries.
Thomas Sowell has a great column. He once attended a course taught by John Kenneth Galbraith, the noted liberal economist, and he came in and did his first lecture to the class, and it was so good they all stood up and applauded, but every other lecture was just more and more generalities on the first lecture, and as the course went on, the class kept dwindling in size and finally people stopped showing up because there was no substance. That's exactly what's happened to Obama. His first speech, his first series of appearances: "Oh, man, new, unique, messiah, change, hope, future." But now there's no substance. You can revive the old Fritz Mondale question of Gary Hart(pence), "Where's the beef?" And it's happening, folks. I'm telling you, it's happening. There are all kinds of doubts throughout the Democrat Party about this guy, 143 days in the Senate, for crying out loud. He's a neighborhood activist; he's a street activist that they have nominated. By the way, ladies and gentlemen, the Georgian Security Council today says it has filed a lawsuit in the International Court of Justice for alleged ethnic cleansing against Russia. Well, there you go. Right alongside the House Democrats' suit of OPEC for selling us oil in the first place. Man, oh, man, the libs get exactly what they want here, take every one of these things to court?
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RUSH: We go to Aston, Pennsylvania. This is David. You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.
CALLER: (silence)
RUSH: (drumming fingers) Dee-doo-bee-doo-bee-doo. David in Aston, Pennsylvania, are you there?
CALLER: Yes, Rush, how are you?
RUSH: Fine, sir. Thank you very much.
CALLER: Good. Thank you very much. Listen, this kind of has to do with Obama and the Georgian conflict and all these things. My question was, if we were on his energy plan of we're not allowed to drill for oil, we can't do anything at all, how would we ever wage a military campaign against Russia? Would we be having like destroyers running on sunflower oil?
RUSH: Let me see --
CALLER: How can we do that?
RUSH: You miss the point. We wouldn't need to wage military campaigns because with Obama there wouldn't be any more.
CALLER: Oh!
RUSH: He would talk everybody out of them.
CALLER: Of course.
RUSH: Like according to Tim Kaine, the governor of Virginia, Obama is the one who got the ceasefire in Georgia and South Ossetia because he asked the Russians to stop it, and Tim Kaine said he's happy that the Russians listened to Obama, so... I mean, that's what the Obama camp is saying.
CALLER: Do you understand where I'm coming from? I mean, how can he possibly think this?
RUSH: It's called the audacity --
CALLER: I have no idea what he's talking about.
RUSH: It's called the audacity of audacity. And what it is is Tim Kaine, who's trying to be selected as Obama's veep. He's just groveling.
CALLER: Humph. RUSH: But, no, your rhetorical question is just right on the money. If we're not going to have our own independent sources of energy, how in the world are we going to maintain our status as a superpower? See, this is the problem. We've been in a jocular mood for much of the day today, but I'll tell you, I made a speech last night in Aspen, Colorado, which is why I was not here yesterday. I had to fly out there in the afternoon to get there in time for the speech, and I spoke about what we face here. There's a war going on in our country for the definition of our country and its structure in the future. On one side of the war is us, and we want to preserve this nation as it was founded.
On the other side are people like Obama and the leftists, who don't like this country as it was founded. They have a problem with too much individual liberty and freedom. They want bigger governments, higher taxes and more individual control over as much of the way people live as they can get. It's very, very serious, and our legislators on our side, we do not have any elected leadership in Washington. Our legislators do not understand that we're in a war. It's like this Gang of Ten thing that happened last week. The Republican senators in that deal do not understand how they just almost took away the one winning issue Senator McCain has and that we have over the Democrats, because they believe -- mistakenly so -- that what the American people want is for Republicans and Democrats to get along. As I told Senator Chambliss last week: That's not what the American people want.
What the Republicans, what conservatives in this country want is to mop the floor with Democrats! We are tired of accepting their premises and then going along with them to show that somehow we're not the bad guys. We are the good guys. We just don't have any elected leadership. So this is going to be a grassroots, a series of grassroots operations that build conservatism back. For example, this is not a big deal, but it was announced today that three Republicans have decided to endorse Obama. They are former Iowa Republican Congressman Jim Leach, former Rhode Island Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee, and lawyer and former White House intelligence advisor Rita Hauser. Now, Obama is out there, and the Democrats are saying, "Woo! Wow! We've got three Republicans endorsing Obama."
But come on, Jim Leach? Chafee stopped being a Republican a long time ago. Jim Leach was never a Republican, he was a moderate; and this Hauser babe, nobody ever heard of. The dirty little secret about this, the way I see it, is these are exactly the kind of moderate Republicans in Name Only that, McCain courted all these years. Jim Leach, Lincoln Chafee, Rita Hauser, why, they ought to be the first to be endorsing...McCain! That's the exact kind of Republican he's going after. And look, they've signed up with Obama. It's pathetic, but it's funny at the same time. So, we're in this war for what kind of country we're going to have and what kind of future people's children and grandchildren are going to have. We are a nation, a great nation, at great risk in a dangerous world, with a bunch of sophists who want control.
The Democrat Party has actually nominated a neighborhood activist, a street activist, as its presidential candidate who is clueless. The man doesn't think. He simply is able to reiterate what he had been taught, and if you look at the people he's hung around and the people who have taught him, it's all the Blame America Crowd that you find in academia. You've got Jeremiah Wright poisoning his mind. He's got his wife. He hangs around with his wife, and she's mad every day of the week, too; and then you've got this lunatic Father Pfleger, and then you've got this terrorist guy Bill Ayers. That's why these people's associations matter. It's why their character matters. If you look at who apparently has structured the Obama character, it's...
How else do you explain this guy telling a 7-year-old kid who wants to know why he wants to be president, because my country is "not what it once was"? Where in the hell...? When has it been better? When has it been worse? When's it been better, either way? He's just mouthing these things because that's what he thinks people want to hear, he thinks people are like him. This is the arrogance and the condescension. He thinks most people look at their country and find immediate fault with it. But I'm just telling you: All these people that did not vote for him in these late state primaries, these blue-collar white traditional Democrat voters? I'm going to tell you something, folks. They're not being interviewed on television; the Drive-Bys around talking about them.
But these people, I don't care if they're Republicans or Democrats or whatever. They do not want to see a rookie presidential candidate in Berlin or anywhere else in the world run down their country, especially a Democrat presidential candidate who ought to be thanking God that he is an American, that he lives in this country, and that it has provided him and his wife such a wonderful life and a great opportunity. He's running for president, for crying out loud, and he still sees fit to criticize this country! I'm just going to tell you: All of these blue-collar white Democrats, Pennsylvania, Ohio, you name it -- wherever Obama was unable to close this thing against Hillary -- they heard it, they saw it, and they don't like it. They may not tell a pollster that, but when they get a chance to vote, I guarantee you, it is not going to be for The Messiah.
I think that we are in accord on probably most things.
When it comes to Senator John McCain’s Presidential aspirations and our options as voters in November, we seem to diverge on what we believe/feel is best for the Nation.
I ain’t voting for that guy, I ain’t alone, and let the chips lay where they fall.
We shall see what happens.
No offense intended.
I don't see the point in voting for a liberal, regardless of what letter comes after his or her name. And, frankly, I would be ashamed to call myself a conservative if I willingly and knowingly voted for a liberal. Furthermore, I would have to admit that I am an idiot, to vote for someone who repeatedly spits in our collective face and sides with our opponents.
In which state will you be voting?
The same state in which I live...Virginia.
Call me narrow-minded but McCain is
anti-abortion,
anti-same sex marriage and
anti-Congressional earmarks for porkbarrell projects.
Those three things are enough for me to vote for him and to vote against the narcissistic, arrogant, Marxist, big-eared, closet-Muslim, little punk, bi-sexual, crack-smoking B. Hussein Obama.
I agree with you. I think anybody who helps Obama by not voting for McCain should be ashamed to call themself a conservative.
That worries me as well. There is actually one area wherein Obama has some experience: street organization ala ACORN. These groups are notorious for perpetrating vote fraud in their "GOTV" efforts. With street-level organizing and Soros money I wouldn't put it past the dems to turn many states into Florida 2000. Is there already a plan in place to "go nuclear" if it looks like Obama is going to lose? The possibility should frighten the bejeezus out of anyone who cares about our country.
Can you imagine the race-baiting that will go on? Saints preserve us. With enough organization and money, the dems could make the Florida recount look like a garden party.
No, you don't. You did, however, twist my words in order to attempt to paint me as something I'm not.
By voting for a candidate, I give my stamp of approval to their campaign proposals. And, frankly, if there is no way I can avoid voting for amnesty for illegals, carbon credits, and more government, then conservatism is dead, and so is the Republic.
The problem with McCain's gang of useful idiots is that they believe that a Republican must win, regardless of the Republican's actual political profile. Would you vote for Lincoln Chafee if he was the nominee? And what if Hillary Clinton was the Republican nominee? Furthermore, they also tend to ignore and even whitewash McCain's horrifically non-conservative record. And, if that doesn't work, they accuse us of being purists...or tell us that unless we vote for McCain, our children will suffer. They hold up the spectre of Obama because, the truth is that McCain has nothing going for him. He's as much a post turtle as Obama is. And, as a last resort, they then twist the rules of logic to accuse us of being closeted Obama supporters and DU/Kos trolls.
If you believe that Americans are too stupid, too insecure, and too dependent on their government, and that they are incapable of surviving without a Republican presidency, then, by all means, go ahead and continue the name-calling and accusations. It only shows how desperate and scared you and your fellow McCain supporters are, because, literally, McCain has nothing else. (And, don't even try to talk about his "experience" unless you want the topic of his "experience" as "the original maverick" to be fleshed out in detail.)
Really.
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I both agree and disagree vehemently with everything written so far on this thread. I can’t condemn or promote the argument of either side.
On the one hand you don’t want this Marxist in charge of your country and then on the other hand, if Conservatives show up and vote for McCain, will that be used as proof that a more moderate candidate is always the best fit for republicans?
I have no doubts that McCain will alienate us and throw us all under the bus in short order. He has never shown any desire to work with us, but on the contrary, against us.
I am lost somewhere in the ether and I think many of my fellow conservatives are lost with me. I find Obama repugnant, but I can see where in the long run McCain could be just as bad for Conservatives.
I think much of this will ride on who McCain selects as VP. The VP choice doesn’t usually matter a great deal but this election will be a bit different I think. The names being tossed about will not hack it. McCain will win this election by giving the conservative base hope for 2012. IF they feel they have no hope in 2012 then they may decide to go for broke and fight the battle in 2012, hanging the Maverick out to dry as he has us so may times.
May God grant you all the wisdom to make the right decision. I still haven’t a clue.
I do not want Obambi as our next president.
Therefore, I will vote for McCain.
We are not doomed.
GOOD catch!
If you feel that strongly that McCain would be worse for the nation, then you certainly must vote for Obambi, since that is the only way to stop McCain.
Pretending that refusing to vote for McCain makes you not culpable for helping Obambi get elected is what is supremely unhelpful.
But suit yourself.
Please don’t help throw VA to Obambi by refusing to vote for McCain.
Brilliant.
Frightening, but brilliant.
why?
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