Posted on 03/10/2010 12:50:12 PM PST by se_ohio_young_conservative
I don't know what it is going to take to clean the elitists and the sexists out of our party.
But I have a pretty good litmus test.
Sarah Palin.
Odds are if you see a Republican trashing her or keeping their distance from her, they are really bad news.
We need to make sure every candidate in any upcoming primary is on the right side of this.
Those who dislike Sarah Palin tend to either support abortion, hate evangelicals or they have a problem with a female President. There are very few in betweens.
We have to clean the party out THIS YEAR. If we don't want to bring back the Republican party of 2005 and 2006.
Another point.
The woman is not stupid. And some people on FR and in our party believe she is because the MSM says so.
That was her absolute best interview ! are you serious ?
Tell me, how would you feel if the Obama admin came out and said, everyone who doesn’t worship Obama and anyone who criticises him should be eliminated?
be careful you do not become what you hate the most. Emotions will do that to people.
I happen to support Sarah, but what you just did goes across the line. We have enough trouble fighting the cult of Obama without forming a cult of Sarah.
If you believe in her, then she doesn't need arm twisting or thug tactics.
I don’t know how else we can fight back against the MSM. If we let them destroy Sarah, they can destroy any of us.
To support her during the 2008 election like most in our party did and then abandon her is COWARDLY.
She’s not our answer. Trashing her isn’t the answer either. She’d make a good Secretary of State, but she is not WH material IMHO.
Why do you believe that ? because of the MSM portrayal of her ?
Nope. My own opinion.
Based on... ?
Reading about her, her experience and listening to her speak. But time will tell. If she is picked, I will support her without a doubt, but I think Michele Bachmann is a better pick if a woman is the pick.
fair enough.
I think she is just as smart as Michele, but with more charisma.
CALLER: I'm trying to stop laughing after that one. You may be able to help me, Rush. Most people I know are absolutely convinced that I'm a full-fledged conservative because I've been listening to you for about ten years, and I agree with you about 98 and a half percent of the time --
RUSH: Well, that pretty much seals the deal.
CALLER: Well, see, I only disagree with you on the rare occasions that you're wrong, but, you know, I grew up in a very liberal Democratic background and what I've learned especially in the last ten years or so is that everything I was taught to believe about liberals and conservatives turns out to be exactly the opposite. When you grow up being a liberal, you think that liberals are in favor of individual liberty and freedom and are opposed to oppression and tyranny and all that, and what I've learned more and more is that it's really just the opposite. If somebody had said to me in 1992, "Rush Limbaugh," I would have said, "Oh, he's just some right-wing nutcase, isn't he?" Of course I had never actually listened to you in 1992 and I think that one of the things about liberals is they kind of parrot stuff that they've been taught almost robotically without ever questioning it or analyzing it.
RUSH: Oh, yeah, there's no question about that.
CALLER: So here's where I need your help. This is the question. Can I be a conservative and yet be opposed to amending the federal Constitution to prohibit abortion and to prohibit homosexual marriage?
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: I can?
RUSH: Yeah, conservatism is not something that excludes -- there's no litmus test here. I tell you, abortion, the only choice that the Democrats and the left are going to allow before it's all over is abortion, it's the only choice they're going to allow. But, you know, gay marriage, both of those things are not going to be solved by amending the Constitution and nobody is trying to. Those things are going to be solved or dealt with at the state level, and they're not going to be pleasing to people. Those are cultural issues, the so-called social issues which a lot of Republicans want nothing to do with. But still, those are things the people of the country ought to vote on via the elected leaders that they send to various state legislatures around the country. We've never voted on abortion. You know, abortion does not nearly roil the British society like it does ours because they voted on it there. It was not imposed by a Supreme Court, nine people wearing black robes. Gay marriage, there's a political issue behind gay marriage, the militant homosexual community has been pushing the envelope on a lot of things, but the way to deal with all of these is to have the people of the country or various states vote on them, and that's --
CALLER: Yeah, I agree with you at the state level, not at the federal.
RUSH: Right. Of course you're going to get people arguing, "Well, if one state allows gay marriage and 48 don't, are you saying every gay that wants to get married has to go to that state?" Well, yeah, at some point. That's what the practical end result of it would be. It's still going to be a controversial issue because where the states that have voted to make it illegal the gays are going to continue to press and force the issue so that they can change the vote there, which is what the country is all about.
CALLER: Okay. Well, you've relieved me. Just tell me one other thing. Why is it called conservatism, and not conservativism, we don't have liberism, we have liberalism.
RUSH: Well, that's just word structure, that has nothing to do with changing the meaning or deflecting it or hiding it, it's like why do we call the Democrat Party the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party not the Republicanic Party.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: See, I call the Democratic Party the Democrat Party, and they get ticked off because they like the illusion of Democratic. Democratic Party, Democratic National Convention. So I call 'em Democrat Party, Democrat National Convention and they get livid about it all the time.
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You still have not explained why Romney supported Universal Health Care. Thats not conservative !
“To support her during the 2008 election like most in our party did and then abandon her is COWARDLY.”
No, let me tell you what is cowardly. Supporting a socialist statist scumbag like McCain, instead of telling him “ I will whole heartedly support the winner of the primary”
That is COWARDLY.
oh come on. You didn’t like Sarah Palin before that..
You are intellectually lazy. Back in 08 I was one of her biggest fans.
I don’t buy it dude.
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