Rush Limbaugh Blasts Colin Powell in Continuing Interview with Greta Van Susteren

I think one reason this one works so well is he has plenty of time to work with. You can’t do a quick interview with El Rushbo.

I picked up on that too. Greta did not ask many questions. She gave Rush time to say what you wanted to say. I really appreciated that.

Hard to believe I’ve been listening to his show for 17 years now.

I hope that Rush will be on another 17 years.

By the way, I have never heard anyone describe the inner workings of the Republican Party as well as Rush did in that interview. He talked about the blue-blood Easterners who are really moderate Democrats. These country club Republicans think they should run the show with their Democrat friends.

And there there are the working-class people outside of Washington, New York, and Boston, who are the conservatives. These conservatives are the people who should be running the party.

I interpreted that as him never having ‘talked’ to her. ‘Interview’ does not equate to ‘talk’ in this context.

I respect Rush, too. He reflects back the feedback he is getting from his listeners. His listeners reflect the base of the GOP when the GOP was reflecting the ideas and culture of the base.

One thing that happened that was bad for conservatives is that once we got Bush in, we stopped evaluating and challenging the elite’s ideas and actions; the Rinos in the party. In fact we let them take over the party and let Democrats dominate the leadership of the US. Rush’s shows reflected this lack of brain thrust and care about what was going on.

For example, we had conservative Republicans pushing health care reform that would have assisted those who did not have access to health care and not taken over the industry; but we never heard about it. It was defeated by the Rinos and Democrats because they want socialized medicine. We let Bush enact that huge drug program in reaction to the Left. Rush and conservatives never talked about it; the media, ofcourse did not cover it and conservative ideas and reform stopped. We were not working an agenda of reform under the radar.

Conservatives stopped focusing on reforming and that is the whole purpose of our existence - to make this government smaller and make people freer.

We should have been after defunding planned parenthoood, ACORN, etc.

We should have opposed aspects of the Patriot Act as it unfolded and we should have fought back when the Left media screeched about FEMA’s action in N.O. which resulted in a huge expansion of power, spending and loss of freedom in police state power.

Lots of stuff and we spit at Rush like it is his fault or at the GOP like it is a disembodied organization exclusive of us, serving us. It only serves those who embody it with activity and action. Rush only reflects what he is hearing from the base. It is our fault for not having a reform agenda to constantly push and for not running and directing the GOP from the grass roots.

The only faithful conservatives have been the pro life groups and that is only one part of the conservative agenda for reform. We are not weak victims; we have the power and the brain thrust (Cato and Heritage) to take over the whole shabang.

Rush and conservatives never talked about it; the media, ofcourse did not cover it and conservative ideas and reform stopped.

That was one of my disappointments about Rush. I stop listening for a few years. Rush carried a lot of water for Bush. Rush was trying to be a Republican instead of a conservative Now that the Democrats are in power, Rush has gone back to being a conservative. I hope he has learned his lesson as well.

The only faithful conservatives have been the pro life groups and that is only one part of the conservative agenda for reform. We are not weak victims; we have the power and the brain thrust (Cato and Heritage) to take over the whole shabang.

I think that is true. But it will take a lot of work to dislodge the McCains and Crists and Grahams from the party. I think part of the problem is that when conservatives get elected and go to Washington, they so want to be part of the cocktail circuit of fashionable people. So they move left and become media whores like McCain did.

Rush and conservatives never talked about it; the media, ofcourse did not cover it and conservative ideas and reform stopped.

That was one of my disappointments about Rush. I stop listening for a few years. Rush carried a lot of water for Bush. Rush was trying to be a Republican instead of a conservative Now that the Democrats are in power, Rush has gone back to being a conservative. I hope he has learned his lesson as well.

The only faithful conservatives have been the pro life groups and that is only one part of the conservative agenda for reform. We are not weak victims; we have the power and the brain thrust (Cato and Heritage) to take over the whole shabang.

I think that is true. But it will take a lot of work to dislodge the McCains and Crists and Grahams from the party. I think part of the problem is that when conservatives get elected and go to Washington, they so want to be part of the cocktail circuit of fashionable people. So they move left and become media whores like McCain did.

When conservatives are present, organized and active, the Rinos ARE dislodged as a cranky minority standing in the way of reform. When we don’t go after an agenda of reform, they get to follow the Democrats’ agenda in the void we left in the GOP.