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The GOP Dumps on Conservatives, Then Blames Us for Their Losses
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051408/content/01125108.guest.html ^

Posted on 05/14/2008 6:04:41 PM PDT by newbie2008

RUSH: I've been waiting for this, and I am prepared for this. I just got an e-mail, not a subscriber. This is in the general e-mail account at ElRushbo@eibnet.com. It's from a woman called Sandy Bose. I guess that's how you pronounce it.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

"Dear Rush: Since Operation Chaos, the GOP has lost three congressional seats. I'm a conservative. I have nothing. I have no candidate for president. I have no national party unit, and no Rush, who is consumed with Operation Chaos. Enough is enough. Sandy Bose." I've been waiting for this. I've been waiting for somebody to try to blame me for the Republican Party's inability to win in a district that George Bush carried by 20 points in 2004, talking about northern Mississippi.

Ladies and gentlemen, go ahead and attack me. Don't attack the moderates in the party; don't attack the Republican establishment; don't attack the country club types who are in the process of destroying the Republican Party. No, no, no, no, go right ahead and attack me. Operation Chaos has nothing to do with voting against conservative

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1 posted on 05/14/2008 6:04:41 PM PDT by newbie2008
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To: newbie2008

The long decline of the Bush administration has been horrible for the Republican Party label. We should have never lost the Congressional race last night.


2 posted on 05/14/2008 6:09:18 PM PDT by RKB-AFG (1133)
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To: RKB-AFG

Could it have been votor fraud?


3 posted on 05/14/2008 6:14:00 PM PDT by make no mistake
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To: newbie2008

Rush may have inadvertently stumbled on something very important: if in an election, conservatives can vote for a conservative Democrat instead of a liberal Republican, who should they vote for?

Since 1968, when the leftist radicals took over the Democrat party, conservatives have had no real choice. Either they voted for Republicans, no matter how lame, or else a leftist radical might win. Time after time, it was just the case that the lesser of two evils is still evil.

Conservatives have had to grin and bear it for forty years, as the country club Republicans and the RINOs, and a few wealthy liberal Republicans kept choosing the path of weakness, fiscal irresponsibility, and creeping socialism for the party they controlled.

But now, out of the blue, the Democrat party is starting to get a serious block of “blue dog” Democrats. Already, in many ways, there are more conservatives on the Democrat side than on the Republican side. Or at least they have far more discipline, and act as a bloc.

So let me propose the obvious: conservatives taking over the Democrat party!

If the Democrat party becomes the conservative party, then to heck with the liberal, RINO, and corporate Republicans.

They can still have the party they stole, but no longer will they have more than a few seats. The Republican party will wither until it is of a third party status.

The Democrat party will be the conservative party.


4 posted on 05/14/2008 6:19:13 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: make no mistake

No, it’s all Bush’s fault. The most hated man in all the world is Bush and everything is bad that happens is Bush’s fault. /S


5 posted on 05/14/2008 6:19:46 PM PDT by BARLF
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To: RKB-AFG

>We should have never lost the Congressional race last night.

“We” as in the RNC should never have endorsed and propped up Snarlin Arlen Specter either.

If the GOP had supported K Harris, we may well have had her instead of Nelson and Martinez.

And Casey should not have sent a fine conservative Senator like Rick Santorum packing.
No support for Conservatives is the new GOP mantra. - and they can live with it.
No more money or support from me for any National organization - just individual Conservatives.


6 posted on 05/14/2008 6:20:33 PM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: newbie2008

the 2006 elections, on the other hand...


7 posted on 05/14/2008 6:25:46 PM PDT by Third Order
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To: RKB-AFG

Oh please. The GOP lost it after 94, not 2000. in 94 they had everything, and they blinked. They never learned how to govern as the majority party. They knuckled under to the dems when they didn’t have to.

So you think Gore would’ve been better, huh?


8 posted on 05/14/2008 6:27:31 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: newbie2008
if the Democrat Party were not so controlled by a bunch of radical leftists, do you realize the wide-open shot they have at taking over the Republican Party?

One has to ponder if the Republican party were controlled by a bunch of right wing driven people and promoted their agenda formidably, do you realize the wide-open shot they would have at taking over the democrat party?

9 posted on 05/14/2008 6:27:35 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

The Democrat party IS the Socialist Party ever since the radicals took it over 40 years ago.

The Republican Party is the RINO party as the political “middle” has been ever shifting Left. Not by popular support but by infiltration of both parties by Lefty candidates.

There is no UPSIDE to voting for someone “conservative” with a D next to his name. He will not have any power within Congress. No oversight. Just a “vote” that he owes to the majority whip.

The control of Congress is held by the majority party. Democrats realize this and will play to the middle to keep control. They’ve also turned some politicians after losing an election.

We should be working to get the DINOs conservatives to change party affliation to Republican after they are elected as Democrats. Alternatively, after the 2008 election, ALL conservatives should abruptly change party affiliation to a new third party and abandon the Republican Party to the Democrat insiders who dilute it. Wait until after the election to avoid having RINOs run against you in the fall and to spend the party’s money that you rightly collected for them.


10 posted on 05/14/2008 6:30:05 PM PDT by weegee (Vote NO on Marxism in 2008.)
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To: make no mistake
Could it have been votor fraud?

Perhaps you mean defraud. As in the gop has been attempting to defraud the people out of their votes by pretending to be something they are not.

Rush has a point, the gop has dove to the left and conceded terrain that the dnc is making a calculated effort to seize.

The right isn't losing because they are conservative while the country has gone left, they are losing because they are swinging away from what the people want and now some wily democrats are pretending to be what the republicans previously pretended to be.

And Le Théâtre de l'Absurde continues.
11 posted on 05/14/2008 6:30:15 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg ("Shut the hell up, New York Times, you sanctimonious whining jerks!" - Craig Ferguson)
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To: make no mistake

Not in this case.


12 posted on 05/14/2008 6:31:15 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: bill1952
“We” as in the RNC should never have endorsed and propped up Snarlin Arlen Specter...

ANYONE who doesn't promote conservative values.

13 posted on 05/14/2008 6:32:13 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: newbie2008
The hack politicians of the Republican party abandon the conservative principles that gave them the majority, then panic and point fingers elsewhere when their own antics decrease their successes and numbers.

I think some grass roots conservative candidates need to get built from the ground up, we retire the old spineless gas bags and start again.

This is an opportunity.

The only reason for the problem is Republican Politicians leaving the path that got them in power.
They have instead been sleeping with Democrat dogs and are infested with fleas.

14 posted on 05/14/2008 6:33:49 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: newbie2008
Conservative fantasies they are neglected is not the problem Republicans face. Thomas Frank (a liberal)writing in today's WSJ states:

"...It's not a mistake anyone can make any longer, whether they are pondering the voting patterns of working-class Hoosiers or the driest statistics in the record book. Median "nonelderly" household income, we find, fell consistently through the first half of this decade, despite the solid economic growth enjoyed by the country as a whole.

"...Some nonmedian folks did just fine, of course: The top 20% of households earned more, after taxes, than the rest of the country combined in 2005, while the topmost 1% of the population took home more than the bottom 40%. The top-earning hedge fund manager of 2007, in fact, made about as much last year in nominal dollars ($3.7 billion) as J. Paul Getty, one of the richest men in the world, was worth in the mid-1970s.

"Real hourly wages for most workers, on the other hand, have risen only 1% since 1979, even as those workers' productivity has increased by 60%. What's more, American workers now clock more hours per year than their counterparts in virtually every other advanced economy, even Japan. And unless you haven't read a newspaper for 15 years, you already know what's happened to workers' health insurance and pension plans.

I confess that I am fascinated by the mechanics of this huge social reconfiguration – in the same sense that I am fascinated by the industrial procedures of a slaughterhouse, or by the strategies that enabled small Confederate armies to win victories for slavery over much larger Union forces. How the big change was brought off is the subject of Steven Greenhouse's important new book, "The Big Squeeze," which is also my source for many of the statistics in the preceding paragraphs. Aside from the outsourcing, offshoring, and firing-at-will that make up the best-known weapons in the corporate arsenal, Mr. Greenhouse reveals how managers extract unpaid work through an array of ingenious tricks, from eliminating bathroom breaks to electronically erasing hours from workers' records.

I hope these statistics are wrong, but suspect they are true. I do note that he has not included the catastrophic increase in employer health care costs as part of worker's pay.

In any case with 11 cents of every consumer dollar going for gasoline vs. the 10 year average of 4%, the electorate is angry, upset and in a blaming mood. It will take a while for them to figure out that the Democrats are not going to return this country to its traditions of cheap energy, cheap food and cheap housing.

15 posted on 05/14/2008 6:36:47 PM PDT by shrinkermd
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To: RKB-AFG

Sept. 16, 2002
GOP Left Holds Right Hostage

Running to the middle — whether by actually moving left or by sticking to mushy, vague platitudes — fails because it ignores simple math. In elections where less than one-half (and often less than one-third) of the people vote, simply turning out all your own people will win time and again. What’s more, the “middle” largely is irrelevant. Most people who vote are, by definition, interested, and therefore have an opinion; thus, running to the undecided middle means trying to convince people who probably won’t vote, while turning off the people who would elect you, if you gave them a reason to do so.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/753055/posts


16 posted on 05/14/2008 6:36:52 PM PDT by donna ("Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy.")
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To: newbie2008
Ladies and gentlemen, go ahead and attack me. Don't attack the moderates in the party; don't attack the Republican establishment; don't attack the country club types who are in the process of destroying the Republican Party.

Paging Senator Luger. Senator Lugar, please pick up the white courtesy phone; we have a message for you.

17 posted on 05/14/2008 6:37:15 PM PDT by HoosierHawk
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To: weegee
ALL conservatives should abruptly change party affiliation to a new third party and abandon the Republican Party to the Democrat insiders who dilute it.

Fear and lack of understanding by most of the true reason behind the creation of two political parties prevents this from happening.

18 posted on 05/14/2008 6:37:55 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: HoosierHawk
Paging Senator Luger. Senator Lugar, please pick up the white courtesy phone; we have a message for you.

HEH...HEH...HEH...

19 posted on 05/14/2008 6:41:46 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: weegee
In the last election, the suburbs of Philadelphia voted in the supposedly-conservative-Democrat Joe Sestak to replace Republican Curt Weldon.

Sestak is now sponsoring a return of the "Assault Weapons Ban"

There is no such thing as a conservative Democrat. Any Democrat who does not bow to the party leadership will be disciplined.

20 posted on 05/14/2008 6:42:14 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." — George Orwell)
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