Hard to tell what side of $ he’s on
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well I understand what the guy is getting at, but just remember - the Republican party was a third party, once upon a time. A third party isn’t viable at the moment, but third, or even fourth parties, HAVE to be viable at some time, otherwise this representative democracy will be reduced to a same-choice popularity contest with as much intellectual content as “American Idol”.
BUT......
I disagree strongly.
We need a protest vote against McCain for conservatives, and I have two suggestions.
I can NOT ....
“They work at magazines with a subscription of 60,000”
Fred Friggin Barnes...i despise that maggot.
He’s wrong. I like listening to Rush, but he has always been something of a cheerleader for the GOP. While he’s been critical of the GOP in recent months, but doesn’t make the logical conclusion that the GOP is simply not a conservative political party. That’s not surprising. His show remains popular (and profitable) because it doesn’t go too far in biting the hand that feeds.
Conservatives are in denial. They want to believe that somehow the GOP is going to jump up and become the conservative political party that it briefly was under Ronald Reagan. It just isn’t going to happen. What conservative leadership that remains in the GOP is pretty much hamstrung.
The GOP is the Whig party of the 21st century. And that will become more evident after the election. But conservatives won’t believe that until they see the party completely and utterly defeated. And probably not even then. It’s kind of like watching the Monty Python “Dead Parrot” sketch, but with conservatives insisting that the GOP is merely pining for the fjords.
This leaves only 3rd party unless a miracle happens such as McCain being forced out - the only one of GOP candidates for whom I could not hold my nose and vote.
Neither are the two current so called major parties the way. Like the pied-piper they have gleefully led the nation into this depth of morass and corrupt principles and decadent way of life. Rush Limblows livelihood exists and thrives on confusion and fighting. I can remember my history, that the Republican Party once was the third party in this nation. They may just find themselves on the outside looking in once again.
Is the only way to shake these simpletons loose is to stand the party on its ear?
Rush, in my opinion, is an establishment Republican, rather like Sean ('You're a great American") Hannity. Elected Republicans closely resemble elected Democrats in that once they're elected they undergo some miraculous transformation into a zombie-like nitwit.
I've noticed that this week especially that Rush has ripped McCain apart.
We desperately needed a candidate and we don't have him.
Sorry, but Rush is wrong on this. A third party is the only way.
Cthulhu for President!
Why settle for the Lesser Evil?