[Miss Didi]

From Rush on Thursday:



RUSH: I want to hit you between the eyes here. I keep hearing from people who say, "Rush, we're screwed. We are screwed, no matter what happens here. Whatever scenario you just announced, we're screwed. If McCain is the president, big-time Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed. If Obama's the president, big-time majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed." I don't think we're screwed.

If I thought we were screwed, I would retire. What would be the point here? A friend of mine runs a business. In this business he's got a lot of egos. He's got a lot of prima donnas, a lot of divas, a lot of people who think the world revolves around 'em and they aren't getting enough attention. He sent a memo out. "I hate negative people. Negative people make positive people sick. Don't think I'm not talking about you," he said. I don't know what the end result of that was, but I assume it shook a lot of people up. I don't like negative people, either. I used to be one. I used to look at it typical: glass half empty. When I got a massage, two minutes in I'd say, "Darn it, this is going to end," and I'd spend the rest of the 58 minutes in anticipation of it ending and being disappointed, rather than sitting there and enjoying it. If I bought a new car, I'd sit there, "Yeah, this is great, but someday this new car smell is not going to be here." I used to do this. I don't anymore, for a host of reasons.

But I can't stand being around negative people. I can't stand being around fatalists. I can't stand being around defeatists. I understand it, but at some point I lose my ability to respond to them. How many times can you say, "I'm sorry you feel that way," and what does that accomplish? I don't want to sit here, "Yeah, we're screwed. Damn it, we're really screwed! Yeah, you're right. We are so screwed. Bend over forward, backgrounds, grab the ankles. We're screwed," and then what do you do? I'll never forget Ronald Reagan. The Soviet Union had been around since the end of World War I, and they kept asking Reagan: What are you going to do about it? He said, "If we just wait 'em out, they'll fail. They will collapse of their own immorality." He gave 'em a little nudge, but they did collapse in their own immorality. I don't think conservatism's finished. People in the Republican Party who are not conservative running for reelection, deserve to lose. Just get rid of the dead weight and start over. Screw them!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I hope Rush is right, but even he doesn’t deny where we’re going in 08.

[Alas Babylon!]

Hey that's pretty good, for a life philosophy.

Politically, we're still screwed, though.

The pendulum will swing back someday, but not this election. See, I'm not entirely negative!

[rodguy911]

Excellent post Didi!!

I hate being pessimistic as well! It pays to point out absurdities from time to time but the best course of action is always to stir up and support more conservatives both locally and nationally.

Last week I got a chance to jump on the bandwagon of a new candidate locally who has a stellar resume and is wiling to get things done locally. I shall and will support him as best I can and urge everyone to do the same in their own hometowns.

Ronald Reagan II is out there. It's up to us to find him and support him/her!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

"If I thought we were screwed, I would retire."

Riiight.

[padre35]

Nice Miss Didi, some sage advice from Rush.

We may be screwed, we may not be.

[Fishtalk]

I agree with Rush on this so much. Except he was so down himself for last Tuesday’s show and I loved the show!

I’m not surprised that the pubbies lost three important, once tight, GOP elections. There’s a price for the pubs nominating such a lacklusterly received candidate as Juan McCain. There’s a price and it goes beyond sticking it to the conservative base.

For the crowds do not roar with the enthusiasm and cheer for a candidate they love and support with both money and time. The morale drops, action waffles, Delaware doesn’t even bother running a candidate even though a good pubbie would be a shoo in for Governor. Oh yeah, they finally got Bill Lee, the last guy who lost the election, to step up but the crowds do not cheer, the smiles are gone.

All these past two weeks I’ve been getting emails from the Sussex county Women’s Club, a group I’d once belonged to so proudly and was, forgive the lack of modesty, quite enjoyed by the members.

Well I don’t want to write them and tell them that I have no more enthusiasm, my drive is gone, that I feel betrayed by the GOP’s choice of a nominee and that even those so dedicated as to hold their nose and vote for the man have not one whit of joy.

THERE’S A PRICE FOR THIS, DAMMIT!

But hey, they are the political elites. They KNOW better than you an I.

Like Rush says, just sit it out, wait for the train wreck we all know is coming, then we can go in, pick up the pieces, and start anew.

[plain talk]

I can't stand being around defeatists.

So true. Those of us with resolve have to double our efforts to compensate for the whiners on the sidelines who have given up.