Posted on 05/29/2008 11:42:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hard to tell what side of $ he’s on
he’s right
our political system is set up so that it naturally favors two parties. But that doesn’t mean that they have to be the Democrat and Republican parties. It just means that if a third part ever gains traction, it will be at the expense of one of the others, which will fade into obscurity.
Rush, of course, knows this. But he’s a little too invested in the status quo to say it publicly.
Operation Chaos: Why Rush Limbaugh Was Right
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011242/posts
status quo ... right. There is no viable third party. That’s reality
Fred Thompson was an impediment to Fred Thompson. His campaign was rubbish and that had nothing to do with Limbaugh.
He is absolutely right. It’s more reasonable and (yes) feasible to make the GOP into the conservatives’ party again by supporting conservative candidates in the primaries on all levels. We will march into political oblivion, if we continue to splinter our forces or waste them by supporting multiple small parties (Constitution, Conservative or Falcon Party) with absolutely no chance of ever winning anything.
At one time the Republican Party wasn’t viable, either. It was the Whigs and the Democrats. I’m not saying conservatives should bolt, just that things change and nothing lasts forever.
I disagree with Rush on this. If McCain wins, and especially if he wins big, future Republicans will run on the same liberal issues as McCain figuring this is the only way they can win. In the end conservatives lose and lose big time. It doesn’t take many more RINOs to shut down conservativism.
Wrong. Only if conservatives let them. The time to decide this is called primaries. Support conservatives in the primaries. That's the logical and intended way to go. The point is that this Presidential elections are the wrong time to "teach a lesson". We should have been united on one conservative in the primaries. We were split and McCain sailed through. He is our candidate now. If we want to prevent future RINOs, weed them out in the primaries. It's really not that difficult.
These idiotic third partiers are running around FR like a bunch of petulant children threatening to hold their breath until they turn blue.
We had our big third party blow out in ‘92 with Perot. It got us the Clintons for eight years and if it wasn't for black barack running we'd be facing eight more.
Hell, if it wasn't for bill not being able to keep his penis in his pants we wouldn't even have a Bush presidency. That would make it 8 for bill, 8 for al and eight more for shrill.
24 years of dem control of the White House AND the Supreme Court because a bunch of bone headed conservatives had a hissy fit “to show the republican party they can't take out votes for granted”.
And now history repeats itself. People say the pubbies are the stupid party, I say conservatives are the stupid ideology. Sometimes I don't want to even get up in the morning due to conservatives being so freakin brain dead.
Yes, we split between Hunter, Thompson, even Ron Paul. . .any others? (It’s late, I’m fuzzy). I hope we (conservatives) have learned our lesson and unite behind ONE candidate in the primaries next time.
Divided and conquered, that’s us.
I’ll be voting for McCain in November. I don’t think he’s all bad.
I assume you've been reading your fair share of articles on Barack Hussein Obama. Having said that, how in the world could you, for even one minute, ponder letting someone like that near the Oval Office? Were you around when Jimmy Carter was president? Think of Obama as President Carter, with less judgement, experience and military background, surrounded by the furthest left advisors in American history, while we're at war overseas and at home, energy prices are skyrocketing, housing is tanking and Congress is run by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi!!
Exactly.
I’ll be voting for McCain in November. I don’t think he’s all bad.
Ditto. He is quite bad on some issues, but he isn't significantly different from President Bush. Anyway he is infinitely better than Obama or any other Dem. That's the minimum requirement and McCain fits that. He'll make a decent President with whom we won't agree 100% at all times, but that's also not different from Bush or even Reagan for that matter.
If we don't vote for McCain, we are turning the country over to the RATS with their 100% socialist / marxist agenda!
2nd, they don’t care. All they Do care about is one thing, illegal aliens and because of McCains stance they will allow the country to be taken over by the enemy, the WOT to be lost and all our men in uniform who gave their life for this effort will have died in vain.
They’ll sit in the corner holding their breath and when they turn blue and obama is elected they’ll exhale an “I told you so”...as if they had any hand in a victory other than insuring defeat.
For some reason that makes them feel good an moral.
You have it backwards. It's YOU and ME who have to field conservative candidates. How? By voting for them in primaries! *surprise* The political process isn't that difficult, isn't it? If conservatives can't decide which candidate they should support in the primaries, you will get RINOs or moderates. The problem is conservative disunity, not the Republican party.
What’s the point in saying that McCain should be the next POTUS because he’s for continuing the WOT when the next Congress will probably be such a socialistic majority in both Houses that the next Congress will just vote against and just overturn anything and everything that McCain wants done and needs to be done that involves the WOT as well as also voting against McCain on all other issues that the next Congress has disagreements with McCain about(such as having the socialistic U.S. Senate voting against any and all possible conservative judicial appointee candidates)? Whew! The political makeup of the next Congress will truly determine what happens with both the short-term and the long-term future of the U.S. as a country, and it’s truly more important than who the next POTUS is. This is why I don’t mind voting for Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party as a protest vote against both socialists Obama and McCain while also voting for any possible conservative choices for other political offices (such as voting for Jeff Beatty for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts). It’s truly almost impossible to vote for anybody who really is a conservative when talking about “blue” states like Massachusetts. I feel like I could name and count all conservatives who are still living in Massachusetts on just one hand! Even the “still very weak” Massachusetts GOP is mostly very leftist politically with a small handful of truly conservative Republicans still in existence.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.