Posted on 01/30/2006 11:43:14 AM PST by smoothsailing
True enough; but none of which will do us any good if the country is bankrupt, or fully in the grips of socialism, or both. I have to wonder how one can be a strict constructionist on one hand and a believer in the nanny state on the other. It doesn't compute.
I agree with your last sentence. I heard Fred Barnes on talk radio say last week that we shouldn't be pushing to decrease the size and funding of the Federal government now because we aren't going to get it. If we forget about it now, it may be totally forgotten. A most alarming comment from Mr. Barnes. I am very concerned that Bush conservatism is going to win over Reagan conservatism.
FGS
Were Rush aware of it, he might have some additional reasons for not suppoting this plan, BUT Rush has said repeatedly he will NOT run for office because he is too uncomfortable with putting his hand out. He hates the idea of raising money.
Understand I understand you are NOT suggesting Rush run, but you are suggesting he could raise the money. Rush HATES the idea of raising money.
Really? I had no idea. He sure has made a sizable pile of it, so it's not like he as an aversion to it. I suppose I can understand his reluctance to plow new ground; he certainly doesn't need to. He would be stepping out of his comfort zone, so to speak. Maybe that's the problem for many on FR as well???
FGS
Stepping out of one's comfort zone can be most unpleasant. It can be worth doing for a good cause.
There are those days when I want to choke Rush for not going far enough, but then I remember that his audience is wide and that many people are new to the ideas that he articulates.
Rather than being the doctorate level that many of us would like, he must appeal in many ways as the Conservatism 101 course. Those that he does reach, he whets their appetite to learn more on their own.
I wonder if he has ever considered the fact that having probably succeeded beyond his wildest dreams with his God given gift for gab, he may owe somebody something??? Not being judgmental; just asking.
Campaign Fund Raising is the almost insurmountable deterrent that keeps almost every independent conservative from seeking public office. Asking for money is degrading and humiliating. Promising something, even promising to consider or to think about something in order to get money is degrading. Career politicians have no problem turning themselves into prostitutes, ("Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I’ve come to realize there is a very close resemblance to the first,”) but for conservatives this is an insurmountable challenge to their own principles and character.
The single most important facet of this plan is that it makes campaign fund raising unnecessary and a non-issue for the Reagan Wing Republicans. The beauty is that Rush will be able to provide the $600 million to our Founder-like candidates without any fund raising at all. Rush won't be raising money for himself; Rush's role in this is that he can effortlessly raise and provide it to our Reagan Wing candidates. He will be raising it for them. Rush, and maybe only Rush, can painlessly tap the two separate and independent sources of income that make this possible.
Call it fate, but through a long complicated series of events lasting almost five years, I discovered an idea that has a greater than 90% probability of being true, but it is an idea that might not be possible to protect by patents. Warren Buffet likes businesses that have what he calls "sustainable competitive advantages". Patents offer genuine sustainable competitive advantages. Coke is the model for some other forms of sustainable competitive advantages. The Coca Cola formula was never patented; in the early years of the company it was protected as a "trade secret", another form of sustainable competitive advantage. No one has ever marketed as much or as successfully as the Coca Cola company. Over the years, "Coke" has spent more than 100 billion dollars establishing their "brand name". Brand name is yet another form of sustainable competitive advantage. How does all this relate to Rush?
Scientifically, based on my medical knowledge and training of how the brain and body work together to swing the golf club, there is a greater than 90 percent probability that I know how to build a better golf club than anybody has ever been able to build, but it may not be possible to patent either my theory or their resulting designs. Brand name protection is my best bet for achieving a certain sustainable competitive advantage for my designs. The problem is that I am a nobody with no realistic possibility of branding in my own right. Rush Limbaugh is a wonderful brand name as Excellence in Golf would be. In my hands, my ideas are virtually worthless. In Rush's hands, they form the foundation of a billion dollar business capable of generating more than $100 million dollars of free cash flow each and every year. Rush could use that free cash flow to fund the campaigns of our Reagan Wing candidates. Rush could also turn the company into a publicly traded corporation using the billion or more dollars raised from the IPO to fund campaigns for our Reagan Wing candidates.
But there is an even larger more reliable source of funding that Rush can tap, and only Rush can tap this one with certainty. In an average week, there are 22 million Americans, mostly conservatives, who tune in to listen to Rush. How many of those 22 million would be willing to send Rush a ten dollar bill every year to fund our Reagan Wing candidates? How often or how many times during his three hours of broadcasting every weekday would he have to ask? Admittedly, he has never done anything like this before and clearly his thinking has opposed any asking for contributions except for his annual leukemia fund raising effort. New information and new ideas change the way intelligent people think.
No one in the last seventy years, not even Ronald Reagan, has believed that the Constitution can be completely restored and socialism in the United States ended completely. The Reagan Wing of the Republican Party offers this potential. The Democratic Party belongs on the ash-heap of history right beside their socialistic brethren in the Soviet Union. Ever since Plutarch warned the Greeks, Bastiat, Von Mises, and the Founders have warned the world that unless it is abandoned completely, socialism will bring about the fall of civilization itself.
From the words of Ronald Reagan, "We have come to a time for choosing; we will preserve for our children this the last best hope for man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness." It is socialism that has undermined the ability of Americans to save. It is socialism that has prevented the compounding of those savings that would have allowed Americans to invest in themselves in order to maintain our productive advantage. Now without the benefits of those invested and compounded savings, American jobs are being outsourced to cheap labor in China, India and elsewhere. Socialism and capitalism are incompatible. Socialism consumes the capital base fostering dependency and a disincentive to both investment and to production. Socialism is a failed and doomed economic model that will inevitably fail every time it is tried. Socialism can only exist as long as there is saved capital to consume and income from entrepreneurs to confiscate.
Gokhale and Smetters have provided substantial evidence that the US is nearing the end of its ability to support the current level of existing socialism, and that it is a mathematical certainty that it will not be able to meet the socialistic obligations of the boomers. History is unambiguous; all democracies end in bankruptcy or hyperinflation whenever the public learns to vote itself benefits. Gokhale and Smetters tell us that we could be as little as a decade from that point and probably no more than two. If you believe that President Reagan was right, "We have come to a time for choosing; we will preserve for our children this the last best hope for man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness," then Rush Limbaugh and the Reagan Wing are the last best hope for the United States.
And if Rush thinks he is having more fun now than a human being should be allowed to have, wait until he is building the best golf clubs in the history of the world and using his evil "PROFITS" to build the Reagan Wing that will restore the Constitution by sending the Democrats and other socialists to the ash-heap of history where they belong.
Do you bother to listen? I don't think so. Long live Rush Limbaugh.
Yes I listen when I can. The one thing that can be said about him is at least he's not as shrill as Hannity
bttt
I would hope and think that Mr. Levin and his listeners will find this and the rest of your posts on this thread to be extremely intriguing and worthy of their careful consideration.
Republicans have no fire in the belly. At best any more, they are backslidin' 1960's democrats.
That's my opinion.
You are not going to get a valid argument from a genuine Constitutional conservative (don't worry you aren't one if you have to ask). I pinged you and the others in hopes that you would read and understand that HopefulPatriot's plan contains the very elements needed to replace Democrats and RINO's with genuine Constitutional conservatives. If you don't look, you will never know what you are missing and neither will Mr.Levin or his friend Rush. If we are going to get over this hump, somebody has to keep pushing the ball up the hill until it gets to the top. Once we get the people at the top involved, restoring the Constitution will be an all downhill trip from there. Mr. Levin is right next to the top of this food chain or the top of the hill (Rush).
As with most organizations, it's the little guys at the bottom of the heap that are closest to the action where the problems and working solutions are perceived first. But to implement policy and add permanence to the solution, somebody has to get it up the hill. Please help, if you can.
bump
Amen to that..!
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