Posted on 10/24/2006 5:24:00 AM PDT by Jon Alvarez
Dear Rush:
Pardon my French, but you’re full of s***! As I listened to your show last week, you chose to criticize and attack conservative Americans like myself who feel the Republican Party does not deserve to win in November. Rush, since when did you become such a shill for the GOP? Choosing the party over the base is a very disappointing move to this long time listener. I’m very disappointed in you, Rush Limbaugh, you’ve lost touch with the reality that is life for the common man in America. I heartily recommend you take pause and reconsider your programming strategy. Do you really want to attack those of us on the front lines versus liberalism? Rush, you yourself have become one of the elite of our society. Perhaps I need to give you some perspective, so you can better understand our anger, or at least mine.
--that will invite far more attacks--
A stubborn mule needs a few whacks in the noggin to make it see the light.
And which cities would you like to see get hit? Please list them in order of their importance to making your point, along with the individuals' families you'll be notifying that this is "all for the sake of teaching the Republicans a lesson".
Tito Francona, Rocky Colavito.............sigh.............. :)
And, I didn't recognize any of the names! LOL
--And which cities would you like to see get hit?--
I'll leave such decisions to the goathumpers. Seriously, it's not about "teaching the Republicans a lesson". It's about:
1. Coming to grips with the fact that the so-called two-party system is really a one-party system with two-wings.
2. If the American electorate is (literally) hell-bent on sending the left-wing of the "demopublican" party to congress, then it will have to suffer the consequences of that choice for the next two years. Somehow, I don't see airliners nose-diving into various cities across the fruited plain as a result (although I could be wrong, of course).
3. As I said before, "republican" does not necessarily equal "conservative."
Uuuuuughhh......So you spend a few more billion?
If spending truly is your issue, you would be looking into that.
I am a fiscal conservative. I looked into it and found the spending for this fence to be excessive and wasteful, which is primarily why I'm not in favor of it. It will do little to stem the tide since most illegals are on overstayed legal visas and came in legally.
But no, you tout spending as another issue and don't bat an eye over this waste of money.
Like I said, you must be one of those political novices who really don't know much about how politics work, and that political parties are not, and never will be in agreement on all sundry but relevant issues like immigration, Medicare, and even guns.
We are not one liners or group think liberals. We never will be, but we must respect each others opinions, right, wrong or indifferent.
You cannot expect to be pleased all the time. If you think that to be possible, then you are a fool.
I am not at all happy with some of the things the Congress has done in the past six years, and I have been very vocal about it. But when it comes time to elect, I know that if we loose the House we have little chance of enacting anything we want or need, and the Dem's will be running the store. We will be the loyal opposition, and be relegated to what scraps we can bribe them out of, or what parliamentary maneuvers we can win.
Get thee to the polls grasshopper! Or, you will be on the outside looking in, once again. A position we endured for decades, and accomplished nearly nothing in all that time.
Oh, btw, my remark about "seeing the light" was not (primarily) about teaching the "republicans" a lesson, rather it pertained to teaching liberally-inclined voters the error of their ways.
No one that I've ever heard of says that it does.
But within the two parties that can actually WIN elections, there is only one choice for those of us who actually care about conservative values to make.
And that choice is with the Republican party. If you look at the party historically, it's actually far more conservative-friendly than it was, oh, say, 50 years ago.
The choice you are making in 'coming to grips' is that by not supporting the Republican, you are supporting the enemy.....TRULY the enemy.
Most of us can't live with that choice.
The Libertarian's are losers....they're looking for people like you.
--I am not at all happy with some of the things the Congress has done in the past six years, and I have been very vocal about it. But when it comes time to elect, I know that if we loose the House we have little chance of enacting anything we want or need, and the Dem's will be running the store. We will be the loyal opposition, and be relegated to what scraps we can bribe them out of, or what parliamentary maneuvers we can win.--
This ignores the primary (no pun intended) problem, which is that BOTH parties are bascially worn out. They are both berift of ideas and/or cohesive governing philosophies, and are essentially for sale to the highest bidder. Just look at the effect that 12 years of majority rule has done to the Republicans. Lord knows the dems will be worse; this is what it has come to, hoping the party that sucks less stays in power. So long as the "republicrat" apparatus has a stranglehold on state election law, no third party with fresh, new ideas has a chance to salvage the process. Inbreeding not only breeds idiocy and weakness in humans and livestock, it breeds idiocy and weakness in politics, too.
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The majority party holds the chairmanships and determines which bills and legislation are brought to the floor.
Whenever we're not totally happy with individual candidates, it is imperative to vote for the party we want to make the decisions.
We would have never gotten the border fence passed, which President Bush is going to sign on Thursday, had the democrats been the majority.
Third parties are pipe dreams. We vote pragmatically in general elections.
Honestly, I think things will only get worse, but then the GOP or Conservative Party can run true reformers...otherwise, we continue to see continued growth of gov't and taxes under the GOP flag. The only way to reform the system is to get those benefitting most from its dysfunction out of it. Period. Otherwise, what, y'all expect them to reform themselves? LMAO.
I find it interesting to see how quickly Freepers turn on one of their own...
it's not defeatist at all...it's strategy. What have the career politicians done for you? Sealed the borders? Kicked out the illegals? Lowered your taxes? Lowered spending? Dealt with Iran? N. Korea? Come on, what's the difference b/w the two anymore? If the Dumocrats take over, then at least they will have to lead...then their true colors will come out. We need true, conservative leaders in office, not career opportunists benefiting only themselves.
But what you are talking about is in the realm of the intellect and not the real world we live in.
You can wish and hope and philosophize all you want, but we live in a real world with real danger, and the real deaths of the unborn, and real threats to the very fiber of our families, and none of those things can be sacrificed to what we wish would be.
I am not going to, because of my discontent with Mike DeWine, allow a Marxist like Sherrod Brown become our Senator.
The stakes are too high to play games.........even intellectual and ideologically sound ones.
If you don't vote Republican in THIS election, you are risking the very survival of our country. I couldn't live with myself if I did that. Perhaps you can.....
so how do you fix that which ails us? continue with the same old, same old?
--The only way to reform the system is to get those benefitting most from its dysfunction out of it.--
There is a phrase political scientists use: "heightening the contradictions." When you get past all of the dialectic mumbo-jumbo, it boils down to things getting so bad that the electorate decides "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore." Kind of a boiling point, you might say. The 1980 election was a classic example; so was the 1994 election in its way.
amazingly, I'm finding the FR faithful to not be so faithful...taking Rush to task for one of his positions is verbotten?
but only then will their hand be forced...if that's the case. no bitchin then, as I've been bitchin' about the drunken sailors currently leading us...
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