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.
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"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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The RNC/DC elites have ruined a home for conservatives. This has been going on for years and soon we will have to decide for a new party or take control of the GOP.
But maybe we all need to share some of the blame...we elect/re-elect someone because they carry an R assuming they will do the right thing. This hasn’t been the case now for several elections.
One thing for sure is the conservative base is in an ugly mood and its getting worse(better?) by the day.
Rush has been hysterical the last couple of days and I don’t mean in a comical way. He is blaming a lack of leadership for our (Conservatives’) problems when the real blame is much wider. George W. Bush and his father have always represented the middle ground in the Republican Party and were a compromise (of sorts) between the old remnants of the Moderate Rockefeller/Nixon/Ford wing of the party and the Goldwater/Reagan Conservatives.
Much of the criticism of W. Bush echoes the criticism of Reagan at the end of his second term. We as Conservatives haven’t done the job to elect Conservatives and it shows when a McCain is nominated. We’ve had better choices and we have failed. Fred Thompson, Duncan Hunter, Pete DuPont, Steve Forbes, and even Jack Kemp had better credentials than the men that won the nominations. Are many so-called self-described Conservatives really closet Moderates? Do we have true thinking Conservatives cutting off their own noses to spit their own faces by voting for moderates?
Any Conservative that votes for a democrat that supports the national democrat party with some mistaken idea that by doing so he will advance Conservative principles is a Fool. We need as many true Conservatives as we can get in Congress to roadblock any irreversible progress by the left in the next two years. There are no Conservative democrats left running for congress and the idea that Woody Jenkins and the fellow in Mississippi are less Conservative than the democrats is just plain stupid.
Seeing the promotion of conservatism dissipating via political dictate does have a tendency to create this scenario.
Yup, you nailed it! They did not have the White House but they had the momentum. They tossed it all away.
Vote Republican: We promise not to piss away another 14 years.
You tell me, Bub. I’m not a single issue voter and I’ll take what I can get, when I can get it. You’re not going to get a touchdown every play and the game isn’t lost just because you don’t.
The real problem is that a politicians reason for being, is to write laws and spend money.
A good conservative should do neither, that is why we have so few good conservatives.
For me, I'd write in Mickey Mouse before voting for a Bush, any Bush from any State, anywhere, anytime.
BTW, what's Bush been doing his last year in office? Hmmmm? It seems that Bush's #1 priority is to create a Palestinian State. Carter catches flak for meeting with Hamas, but Bush is one of the funders and armorers of Hamas. Setting up a terrorist Palestinian State is the worst idea, since God invented ideas. Bush pushes it.
Rural Americans are still close to half the population, Rural Americans can still demand that the government not trample their rights because the cities don't work. Rural Americans can still demand that interaction with government not have to be part of everyday life.
Think about how often in your life you intersect with government. See Mass Transit? Your taxes at work. You local school? Federal dollars come with federal strings attached. Hear the weather on the radio? National Weather Service competing with private weather companies. Drive a car? Massive federal regulation on those puppies. Want to paint your house? Government controls the kind of paint we are allowed to use (no VOC's, no odor, no oil base, no staying power). Want to build something on your land? If you have zoning and building codes it's probably because your community isn't eligible for government grants to complete government mandated projects (like ever increasing water standards so your water tastes like a swimming pool) unless they meet certain requirements like having "planning". Used to be only the communist countries had 5-year plans.
Government is massively involved in our lives today, because we have allowed our representatives to cede their power to the unelected bureaucracy - the people who have to increase their programs to claim success and increase their funding. My grandparent's remembered a different world, one where your main contact with government was the Post Office and the tax collector. Government didn't tell them what to feed their children, or what they should feed their horses. They didn't have to ask the Army Corps of Engineers if they could fill in the low spot in their back yard (today you are ok with that as long as no one complains - if they do complain the full force of the federal government lands on them).
Can we turn back this massive government intrusion into our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness? If we can, it will be the rural people who lead it. The next "unpleasantness" will be rural vs urban, and rural folks do hold the upper hand, if only they'll take time to notice it. Cities don't grow their own food, and they can't get supplies from somewhere else without it traveling through "flyover country".
Can we start again with the republican party? Do we take back the democrat party from the Soros wing? Do we let both those collapse and form a viable third party? Or do we st back and keep watching as we incrementally become every bit as enslaved to the government as the citizens of Cuba?
Of course, smaller government (not almost no government) and less government employment works.
Problem is that the Democrats grow dependence and government employments to secure a permanent voting block.
Don't you think that has anything to do with the massive number of illegal immigrants that arrived in the last 10 years? There is no question that illegal immigrants drove down the wages of the average non-union construction worker - my father was a contractor, and I've seen what's happened in the construction industry since he's been gone. What about landscaping services? Also driven down by a huge number of people willing to work for much lower wages than their predecessors. Decreasing supply of labor should have increased the value of laborers and increased their wages; instead we allowed our borders to be violated by tens of millions who would increase the supply of labor and DECREASE their value. Both parties joined forces to allow this, but the democrats are better at pinning the blame on the republicans...
You're right there. I couldn't vote for Paul because he doesn't believe in defending our country. Yet, from hearing the young people who support him, they appreciate his "get government out of the way" message, especially in contrast to Hillary's and Obama's "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" message.
Post #23.......Do we have true thinking Conservatives cutting off their own noses to spit their own faces by voting for moderates?
Post #26.........I’m not a single issue voter and I’ll take what I can get, when I can get it.
So, which is it, are you willing to cut off your nose, or are you willing to vote for a moderate?
I disagree. Getting reelected is the politicians reason for being. I believe most start with some simple and pure issue or cause and get prostituted sooner or later. Getting one’s name on a law and/or spending money have been traditionally successful for getting reelected. Our GOP leadership has been awful for years - gutless, inarticulate, wimpy, and panderingly ignorant. The whole bunch of them enjoy a lifestyle of elite detachment. I’ll continue to vote for conservatives - if I can find any. This year will be very sad. I was thankful to Rush today cause I thought I was the only one going appoplectic(s?) but I don’t want to start drinking again. As long as Rush is paid to channel my emotions, perhaps I have a chance.
You are right. Getting re-elected is the most important point, that and building campaign war chests (bribes).
It still boils down to the same thing though. To get bribes (their lifeblood) they have to spend your money and write laws that benefit someone somehow.
Everything about the process is not conducive to producing conservative candidates.
With the franchise expanded to every idiot in the nation and now illegal aliens voting to boot this Republic is doomed anyway.
It was a nice try, but the Founders warned against expanding the franchise to the landless, women, and those under 21, and we just didn't listen.
The GOP needs to get some guts.
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