DING DING DING -- we have a winner!
Rush CORRECTLY pointed out that Michael J. Fox was using emotionalism to sell snake oil, yet not a single stupid MSM source had the guts to point that out! Since when do conservatives put the truth second to winning? That's what DEMS do and look what they've won: a country so mired in liberal policy that it's dragging down everyone, even those willing to fight against it. The GOP deserved to lose for so many reasons, and blaming Rush is another reason why.
My family has a lot to gain from stem cell research. My mom survived cancer thanks to a stem cell transplant, and NO BABIES WERE MURDERED in the process. I battle chronic pain and could benefit from future discoveries. I REFUSE to buy into the latest version of snake oil, and for Fox to have done what he did was criminal.
I would respectfully suggest to you that Conservatives didn't. However, the GOP leadership did put conservativism second to winning. The Party leadership has been driving the GOP to the left for twelve years.
Conservatives have been browbeaten by the Party leadership for being "unrealistic," "crazy," "extremist," "outdated," and "on the fringe." What the GOP forgot was that they were insulting the same people who braved the hatred and violence of the Democrats and their anarchist pals to promote the Republican platform.
You want to know what cost the Republican Party the majority? The Republican Party cost the Republican Party the majority. Mehlman et al bet the political life of the Party on the same limpwrists who caved in to the minority after 2004. As I predicted, tens of millions of angry Americans were not about to buy the same bill of goods that they were sold two years ago.
I will bet you a pizza that if the Party casts aside the RINOs who cost them the majority and begins to boost candidates who reflect the traditional values of the Party, they can regain the majority and retain the White House in 2008. But if the Party leadership continues to stupidly endorse "electable" RINOs and stiffarm traditional Republicans, they will lose even more seats.
That's just my observation. I don't care if you agree or not. We need to undertake some sober reflection on this instead of throwing rocks at Rush Limbaugh or any other talking head. Our Party has lost its way, and we won't save the ship until we finally throw overboard the people within the Party itself who have been drilling holes in the hull for years.