We're All Mavericks Now, Senator (WE'RE NOT OUT OF TOUCH, DAMNIT, ALERT)

Rush Limbaugh.com ^ | 4/25/2008 | Rush Limbaugh

[PROTESTBYPROXY]

Our only hope is to work to make sure even the Dog Catcher is a conservative, McCain is an a** kiss.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Don’t see this as a bug, but as a feature.

Conservatives throughout the Republican party can now punish the Democrats, call them out, and not let them pretend away their hypocrisy and hatred anymore, for fear of embarrassing our candidate.

What will McCain do? He is only the Republican contender by default. And he will win the election only because his opponents are so utterly loathsome that Republicans would vote for a pumpkin just to keep them out of office.

Other than keeping those two Moonbats out, our only hope is if McCain picks a conservative VP. If he picks another RINO liberal, he may be president, but none of us will owe him anything.

Loyalty is a two way street. He gives us none, so he gets none in return. But the *important* thing is that we can take the kid gloves off with the Democrats.

Hillary’s a radical socialist fanatic. Obama can’t be trusted to do anything on behalf of America, only for some undeserving special interests and America’s enemies.

[Finny]

His own party, apparently, poses the greatest obstacle to Senator McCain.

Meanwhile, McCain poses the greatest danger to the Republican party.

I predict this election will have the lowest voter turnout of Democrats and Republicans in history. If McCain wins, it will be because enough Democrats voted for him -- Democrats who are more afraid of what Obama or Hillary would do to the nation than what McCain would do. The problem is McCain would be perhaps marginally better than Obama or Hillary in the short run, but infinitely worse for the Republican party, Conservatism, and hence the United States, in the long run.

McCain may be (God forbid) the first Republican president nominated and elected by Democrats.

[shrinkermd]

From HL Mencken:

"...At the bottom of all philosophy, of all science and of all thinking, you will find the one all-inclusive question: How is a man to tell truth from error? The ignorant man solves this problem in a very simple manner: he holds that whatever he believes, he knows; and that whatever he knows is true. This is the attitude of all amateur theologians, politicians and other numb skulls of that sort.

[mrsmel]

I have principles, too, McCain.

Exactly. And so far, McCain in all his delusions of grandeur does a piss-poor job of representing them. (And I'm stealing your quote for my tagline :) )

[mrsmel]

The problem is McCain would be perhaps marginally better than Obama or Hillary in the short run, but infinitely worse for the Republican party, Conservatism, and hence the United States, in the long run.

That is exactly the fix the party leadership has put us in, and I don't think that it was by accident. What a shame.

[sweetiepiezer]

He is bitter.

[garyb]

Why do you say the party leadership is responsible for McCain? Seems that he just outlasted the other bozos on the bus running for the nomination.

[NathanR]

Actually he is frozen up to his waist in the 9th circle of hell.

[garyb]

Thanks for the compromise analogy. If the liberals want a pound of bologna, they are happy getting it one slice at a time, and the conservatives think they are doing a good job keeping it to one slice. Next year.... next slice.

I vacillate regarding McCain. He is better than either of the Democratic party front runners.

But he is an appeaser. Amnesty is good, only after he was slapped down twice and wanted to run for President did he come around and say that better security is needed for the border(s) first. He performed a major attack on our collective first amendment rights with the McCain-Feingold beast. The gang of 14.

But I’m not happy with GW Bush right now either. He has signed away what ever cred he had as a conservative a long time ago, maybe with, what, the McCain-Kennedy education bill?

[Finny]

And you, shrinermd, like the "ignorant man" Mencken describes, believe that because McCain is a Republican, he's less dangerous in every way than Democrats Obama and Hillary, hence you "know" it. You are a living example the Mencken quote you post.

I, in the meantime, don't pretend to "know" anything except that conservative principles are the sole and ultimate preservers of freedom. In this race, I calculate the risks, attempt to anticipate consequences, and conclude that McCain is GUARANTEED to do untold damage to the Republican party and the principles of conservatism that are ultimately freedom's only guardian, while either Obama or Hillary in the White House would probably be weak within their own parties, have more people fighting them than not, quickly become pariahs, accomplish little of what so many fear they "will" do, and that backlash, combined with my and other conservatives' pointed rejection of McCain, would create an almost guaranteed benefit for the Republican party and conservatism.

From what I read of your posts on this thread, you don't know "truth from error" any more than a cat knows Vivaldi from Beethoven.

[Soliton]

did you notice my tag line?

[shrinkermd]

Well, you can spell Vivaldi, but can you spell "ad hominem"? It seems to be your chief, if not single, means of argumentation.

[mrsmel]

Not specifically for McCain, but in general because of the slate of candidates they supported--the few true conservatives in the primary were not the ones getting support from the party. It seemed that they were bound and determined to force us to choose from amongst a field of so-called "moderates". I really think that they thought they had to have a "moderate" as an eventual candidate for many reasons, including the sorry mid-term election results, the likely rat nominees (Hillary and Obama), etc. They never seem to learn that Republicans get fired up for a reasonable and rational, yet conservative, candidate, such as President Reagan was. Or maybe, sadly, there just aren't any more Reagans-God knows the cultural climate of the past few decades hasn't been conducive to producing them.

[mrsmel]

Short-term, yes, he’s better by a hair than the rat candidates. Long term—if he gets elected, it will signal the end of the Republican party as a conservative force, because once they realise we can be trapped that way, we will be forevermore trapped by the same equation-—”but he’s better than the rat candidate”. This could go on until we have for all intents and purposes, a one-party system—and it won’t be conservative.

[Finny]

My stars. How is my argument appealing to peoples' emotions or prejudices? You're quite right -- I'd never know how to spell "ad hominem" and had to look it up. Thanks for the new addition to my vocabulary, though you'd have been kinder to readers if you'd just come out said it in plain English. By the way, not only can I spell Vivaldi and Beethoven, I can play them both on violin and piano! Is that as impressive as being able to pull ad hominem out of my patoot in a FReeper discussion?

Again, please elaborate how my post 51 appeals to peoples' emotions or prejudices instead of their ability to think.

[WVNan]

If McCain believes that he can win the presidency with Independents and Reagan Democrats, he is truly delusional. He is alienating his base almost daily. What kind of politician spends his “face time” on television attacking his own party and defending his opponents?

[mimaw]

Do you think he wants Hagee ads run against him. Let the Clintons attack Obama during the primary. You all are not reliable voters for republicans. You get into a snit about any that don't tow your line all the way. He has to attract independents.

[LadyNavyVet]

Also from H.L. Mencken: "Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."

[beandog]

Seems to me you and McCain are the ones who are largely in a snit all the time.