Let he who has ears hear ...
“So, they will all identify with him. Apparently Rush sees conservative evangelical voters as lemmings of some sort who all group together.”
Lemmings is as Lemmings does...
Does this mean if Hillary doesn't win the presidency, then all women for all time are DOOOOOOMED!? I think not.
Lemmings get a bad and totally unjustified rap from infamous film makers giving the lemmings nowhere to run but over a cliff and then terrifying them. The poor lemmings were intentionally slaughtered for the sake of a fake documentary. They had no choice but to run over the cliff.
Many conservatives running over the cliffs willfully today by supporting fake conservative candidates can’t make the same claim. They could think it through but choose not to, preferring instead the addictive rush of blind panic.
18 to 24 months from now, these same people will claim to have never supported the candidate they are supporting today.
Now would be a good time to remember 1992 and what supporting a fake conservative cost the country.
Those who forget the past slander of the noble lemming will be doomed to repeat the caricature over and over and never get the joke.
The GOP is happy to engage in Christian identity politics to woo Evangelicals, so long as the latter mind their place as footsoldiers, never seeking to join the establishment.
Nor will they be won over to a model of the market which forgets that it is a servant and not a master.
These folks care about those who have not experienced the benefits of the engine of freedom that is supposed to be the market economy; the poor, the marginalized, the forgotten. They see a proper role, limited though it may be, in the exercise of “good� government in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity.
They are not “anti-Government.� They believe that we are, in a real sense, “our brother’s keeper� and want to serve the common good by not only caring for their own families but reaching out in solidarity to the poor and the needy.
What else is there to say but the split is well underway. Let the realignment begin and see what happens.
I don’t think most of the punditry understood rush’s comments because they are too in love with themselves.
They say the TOTAL turnout was 250,000
What percentage is 250,000 divided by 300,000,000?
answer .000083 percent!
The huckster NARROW CAST his message as “one of you” despite the televagalist stink of his message it played for the LESS THAT 100,000 that voted for him.
Conservatism WINS, it was shown again and again and recently (as Rush pointed out but the MSM refuses to report) in 2006 when DINO trumped RINO.
Here's his closing line:
"Now, I have to go back to work on my New Hampshire debate opening speech. And I worked on it until pretty late last night. But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I’m going to say this again. I did not raise taxes in that state, Arkansas. I never told anybody to harbor illegals, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people."
(with apologies/thanks to FR poster nhoward14 who originally crafted the above brilliant parody of Huckabee's scary ability to channel Bill Clinton)
Supposedly people voted for Huckabee because he is pro-life. Well so is Fred Thompson, but Thompson only came in third and not a 10% leading first.
Supposedly people voted for Huckabee because he is a strong supporter of the 2nd Amendment. Well so is Fred Thompson, but Thompson only came in third and not a 10% leading first.
Supposedly people voted for Huckabee because he is for changing the tax code. Well so is Fred Thompson, but Thompson only came in third and not a 10% leading first. I don’t think this was a big voter decision issue but whatever it’s there.
After those three issues Huckabee really has nothing, that’s all he’s got. Fred Thompson is the real conservative in the race (yes Duncan Hunter too, but I’m holding out for a Thompson/Hunter ticket).
Even if someone is voting single issue on pro-life they still have Fred to go to, guess Fred just isn’t Christian enough. Every issue that Huck is conservative on Fred Thompson (or someone else) is also conservative on.
I submit that a large portion of people voted for Huckabee because he is a Baptist Minister and not because of his actual stances. Past pro-life and Baptist Minister a lot of people didn’t even ask.
Welcome to the Carter Part Deux: The GOP Edition.
Of course my State the GOP nominee will pretty much already be chosen before I get to vote (May GOP primaries in Idaho...WTF).