"Better Put Some Ice On That! "
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
You can already see evidence of it on the forum. Truly pathetic...
And they would be wrong ... why?
Well, that's good!
You don't support us, we don't support you!
The Washington Republican establishment elite harbor a deep hatred for social conservatives.
Reagan ran on and helped to build the platform of Fiscal conservatism, national security conservatism and social conservatism - the three legged stool.
Rino’s like McCain come in the tradition of Ford and Dole - run as much as possible on fiscal and national security conservatism, while pretty much paying lip service to and throwing a few bones every now and then to social conservatives.
McCain is no conservative. I’ll vote in the March primary if there’s a conservative name on the ballot. I’ll not vote in November if there isn’t. Simply no reason to. Let the Good Ole Pinks think what they want.
I think what Rush is saying is true - the GOP leadership just embraced too many facets of “liberal” beliefs - tolerance, diversity, accomodation - that the Democrat Party itself never did. Now you’re hearing the sound of a big tent collapsing.
"Better Put Some Ice On That! "
Bring it.
You put up the guy who has the best chance of getting elected. Period. End of story. It’s politics, not Sunday School.
He’s right, but I wish he had said this months ago and kept pounding on it. I do blame him, as a contributing factor, at least, because he really stayed away from intra-GOP issues and spent most of his time talking about Hillary. I actually even stopped listening to him regularly a couple of months ago, because all he ever did was play recordings of Hillary’s latest mind-boggling speech and foam at the mouth about them.
Who cares about Hillary? I really wish Rush had put all that energy into helping conservatives define their priorities, particularly in terms of the GOP candidate, and left Hillary to shriek away on her own.
Maybe he avoided this because he didn’t want it to look as though he was endorsing anybody in particular, but a few nudges in the right direction might have helped. Now we’re stuck with an unelectable candidate, whom most of us probably don’t want elected anyway (unless he pulls a Dean Scream moment, and everything changes overnight...).
Actually, I've seen it play out among the RINO supporters here. They screech that we conservatives are always to blame when their liberal with an 'R' by his name fails. They never appreciate that it is their fault for running Democrats with an 'R' by their name that causes the failure in the first place. No...in their eyes, we conservatives are the bad guys because we won't drink their RINO Kool-Aid.
Well, that's too bad. The era of our holding our noses and putting up with these liberal RINOs is drawing to a close. It's now time that the RINOs were made to hold their noses and vote for conservatives for a change!
Let them save some time and start blaming me now.
I am not voting for John McQueeg.
And to hell with the GOP. Hillary is the biggest threat to the Republic since the Civil War, and the GOP puppet masters run McAmnesty?
How serious do you think they really are?
What is an Establishment Republican? Are there media Establishment Republicans?
I heard that monologue. Sure didn’t seem as long when Rush gave it.
He’s absolutely correct. He set the marker in media stone and now we know where to look for it when the Republican Elites pound the wrong bunch of people.
the Republican Party’s RINO establishment is set to blame the conservative base for the inevitable debacle.
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If all the conservatives stay home and McCain loses by inches who else is there to blame?
Sorry, Rush, you were very late to the dance. You could have made a difference over the summer.
You've used conservatives when you needed them. You've not led; you've not kept your promises, and now you're promoting a candidate who spent years leading the effort to marginalize the party and demean conservatives in a host of critical issues! You establishment Republicans created this mess.
Rush said it better than I ever could.
If McCain gets this nomination, he will have done it by getting votes from liberals and independents. No conservative would vote for this impostor!
George W. Bush was a bitter disappointment. But I'd vote for him again today if he ran against Al Gore or John Kerry.
McCain? I have absolutely no use for him.
Nevertheless, HIS folks showed up to vote. But this “conservative base” you speak of, where exactly were they on Tuesday? Out of town?
I know, I know, Hunter, Thompson and Tanc had already dropped. Well then, where was the “conservative base” before then, hmmm? I’m beginning to wonder if you can fit the “conservative base” into a phone booth any more.
Over? OVER? Not by a long shot. We'll just have to get 'em next time around.