Posted on 10/25/2006 4:21:32 PM PDT by goldstategop
RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I want to talk to you for just a second about Republican Senate candidate Thomas Kean, Jr. in New Jersey. This is a brave man. This is a man who deserves your attention and your support. This is a man who in the midst of the war on terror and the war in Iraq, has demanded the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld.
That's so courageous!
I was so moved when I heard this demand from this Republican. It's not many Republicans that have this kind of courage and have these guts -- and he wasn't through there! He then demanded the resignation of Speaker of the House Denny Hastert and any of the Republican leadership -- just off the top.
This is courage!
This is political leadership that the Republican Party has long needed! This is the kind of foresight, this is the kind of vision, this is the kind of independence that the Republican Party needs: to join with others in making sure that the Republicans in power quit. Few Republicans have the kind of guts here being exhibited by Republican senatorial candidate Tom Kean, Jr. in New Jersey, but then he did something yesterday that really impressed me and really demonstrated his bravery and his encourage under fire. Without being asked, folks, he issued a statement denouncing me over "press reports" he had heard -- he had not heard me; he had heard press reports -- regarding my reaction to the Michael J. Fox ad.
He said, "There's no reason for this in our politics, and I don't subscribe to it," and he wanted no part of it, and then spent a lot of last night trying to get himself invited on television shows to announce his distance from me. This is the kind of man we need in the United States Senate! I rarely see this kind of backbone and courage! This is a man whose two feet are firmly planted in the air. He will end up wherever he needs to end up to protect himself, and that's what we need in American politics is more self interest, more politicians and senators on the Republican side who care about themselves than they care about issues or their party or anything else. This is true independence, ladies and gentlemen! People like Tom Kean, Jr., may hold the key to Republicans securing that valued independent or moderate vote!
Thomas Kean, Jr.!
I sent his staff a note last night, to which I've not gotten a reply. I said, "I can certainly understand the panicked, reactionary and opportunistic stance of politicians and their seizing on any chance to distance themselves from what they think is harmful to them, but I thought you might want to see what a actually said on my program as opposed to what's being reported. Here's a link to my website. In the meantime let me know if you'd like me to endorse either you or Senator Menendez in my efforts to help the Republicans hold the majority in the United States Senate, which is not something you seem to be interested in yourself," and that's what we need. We need Republicans in the Senate who don't care about whether Republicans run the place. We need Republicans in the Senate like Thomas Kean, Jr. who have no interest in the party or causes or issues. We need the selfish self-interest of Tom Kean, Jr -- and so today, ladies and gentlemen, I, Rush Limbaugh, officially and proudly endorse Thomas Kean, Jr. for Senate in New Jersey.
Please do hold your nose and vote Kean.
Democrat/criminal/liberal is worse than a RINO.
Exactly correct. We got almost all of them without breaking a sweat - - Roberts, Alito, Priscilla Owen, Janice Rogers Brown, William Pryor....
Frankly, it astounds me that some people STILL haven't figured out what a masterpiece that "Gang of 14" con job was. The rats never knew what hit them. The Republican Senators who helped the sting work, especially Graham and DeWine, deserve the heartfelt thanks of every conservative.
That's funny! I was on the road, too, coming out of West Philly and across town, and several Penn and/or Drexel student pedestrians looked at me like I was nuts.
1. Vote for the Dem
2. Stay Home
3. Vote for the RINO
4. Vote for third party (I guess there is one or you can write one in)
Any decent conservative has to rule out 1 and 2. I'd probably go with 3 as it seems the most productive thing to do to advance our cause, but I couldn't condemn anyone going for 4.
Similar sire, similar scion!!!!!!
I think the only con is the one they pulled to get you to believe that Graham deserves anything other than to be run out of office. He still trying to give Hawaii away?
I listened to Rush giving his "endorsement" speech. Knowing that he was mocking Kean throughout the speech, I was fully expecting him (until the last seconds) to end the speech by endorsing Menendez. In fact, I thought that would have been fitting. If New Jersey must have a Dimorat Senator, why have a fake one.
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Why is Rush suddenly Mr. Pro-GOP, when he's spent years distancing himself from us Republicans? For the past few years it's been a 24/7 harangue against the party from one talk show pundit to the next. Bash bash bash.
Now suddenly, "we" need to stick together in order to retain "our" power.
No thanks.
This is the same apologetic tripe some FReepers keep throwing at us in CA about RINO Schwartzenrenegger, the political hermaphrodite!!!
I'm with YOU, Doc!!! (Bleep) 'em all... The long and the short and the tall!!!
I listened also. Didn't Rush also state that he wrote an e-mail to Kean offering to either endorse Kean or endorse Menendez, whichever would do Kean the most good? I thought that was a nice touch.
He's doing what he thinks he needs to do.
Can't say I approve of it.
Can say with pretty good certitude that, assuming I had the money and the sort of "presence" required to be a credible candidate, and ran just on what I believe, straight-up, that I'd lose in the liberal Northeast.
It is also certain that if all of the many Northeastern moderate and liberal Republican Senators and Congressman (the "RINOs" of conservative parlance) were to run on Southern Conservative values, that every one of the seats in the Northeast would be lost, and the Democrats would have a crushing, permanent majority in the House and Senate.
Northeastern Republicans are not very conservative. They're MORE conservative than their liberal Democrat neighbors, but they'd be considered flaming liberals in Texas. Southern Conservatism is NOT the majority party of the country. Republicanism is, and that's a blend of Southern Conservative and Northeastern moderate-to-liberal.
If you want no RINOs, you want permanent Democrat rule, because that's what you will certainly get, without any question.
If it's as close as I have read then the gay marriage initiative that came out today will probably tilt it in Kean's favor.
Unless, of course, Kean endorses the decision.
Which, by all accounts, he is blue enough to do.
You may be correct.
Perhaps I jumped th gun!
Indeed it is, and it is getting very, very old.
If they don't reverse course soon, there won't be a single conservative (real conservative, not the pretend-conservatives we're used to seeing around here) left in the GOP base.
And, maybe, I was wrong.
I understand that Kean has stated he a.) opposes the decision and b.) would support a constitutional amendment.
Whereas Menendez has come out a.) in opposition to the decision and b.) NOT in support of a constitutional amendment.
Let's hope Menendez, in trying to please both sides, pissed off just enough voters to elect the RINO.
He opened up a whole can of pressurized whup-ass on Jerry Brown's daddy!!! You're way too heavily invested in current "CONventional wisdom!"
I meant to ping you to #58, too!!!
Do tell. What are "Southern Conservative Values?"
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