Posted on 01/19/2009 10:24:06 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – This week may see the biggest presidential inauguration in US history, but conservative uber-pundit Bill Kristol has vowed to leave Washington until the Obama mania subsides.
For his part, right-of-center radio talkshow host Rush Limbaugh declares he will be "the last man standing," and will never give in to fervour surrounding new president Barack Obama.
While much of the United States is all aflutter about the inauguration of a Democrat, some conservatives -- embittered by losing the White House for the first time in eight years -- say they will sit out the inauguration festivities.
"I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, 'Well, I hope he succeeds. We've got to give him a chance,'" Limbaugh said on his program last week.
The arch-conservative radio commentator has said he is immune to Obama's message of hope and reconciliation, and said he has every reason to be unmoved, even if a large number of Republicans have joined the bandwagon.
"I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed," he said.
Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, took umbrage in a recent column in the New York Times at the "presumption" of Obama's handlers of linking the president-elect's inauguration to that of his idol, Abraham Lincoln.
"It might be a good idea if, when he takes the oath, Obama makes sure that the Good Book is open to Proverbs 16:18, and its reminder that 'Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall,'" he wrote last month.
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What shine?
What’s with the Lincoln train tour?
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Symbolism.
Photo ops.
He will no more unite this nation than did Lincoln (except by force) .. no matter how much the media spins it otherwise.
B.O. is an inherently weak man with no executive experience and only weak and ignorant people around him. The muslim scum of this earth will challenge him very quickly and seriously.
I expect him to fail that challenge.
major kudos for the “V” reference
From the beginning I have called bambi out as the marxist thug that he is. I was deeply pissed when he won on the irrational hopes of stupid white women and stupid white young voters.
But then I thought about it. Sooner or later the USA was going to vote in a socialist experiment. Sooner or later the left (and angry black America) was going to get a shot. We have been asleep at the wheel for too long while they were digging like termites into our foundation. If it had to happen, I'm glad it was this marxist at this time.
Here's why...
Bambi has no idea how to handle the economic tsunami that is about to crash on DC. He is taking all the wrong steps. He is bound to fail.
I am hoping for a recession that is deeper than the Carter recession. Those of us who were adults during that time know that it won't kill us and the younger ones among us can use the lesson.
The world is as close to the spread of inter-nation conflict as it has been in fifty years. Bambi has neither the diplomatic skills required to calm the waters nor the steel spine needed to swing the big stick. He is weak. Russia, China, the Arab Street even the small dogs in the EU will always be two steps ahead of him. The terror cadres are already woofin' at him, daring him to come out of the house and off the porch.
I want this administration to fail horribly on both the domestic and the international fronts.
Bring the pain. We can take it but those who voted for 'hope' cannot. When bambi fails they will fold (hopefully many will never vote again).
If the next four years see even a mild recovery and an easing of international tension then bambi will be painted as the re-incarnation of Lincoln, JFK, FDR and Gandhi in one package. He will get a second term. That is when he will run rough shod over us and change this country forever.
McCain was a non-starter for us. There is no reason to believe that he would do any better.
I repeat...bring the pain. We can take it and it is our last best chance to save the America we love.
Train trip, nothing! Just wait till tomorrow when he comes to the Inauguration leading Blackie O sitting on a Donkey while his followers throw palm branches in his path....
“I’m really gonna enjoy watching all those libs choke on their lil slice of humble pie when BHO doesn’t(can’t) pick up the tab for their light bills, cars, houses, etc.”
I don’t think he ever planned to “pick up the tab.” He plans on you and me doing it. The question is will he be able to pull that off? :-)
I will be one of the last standing, also.
As fas as I am concerned, NObama will NEVER be MY President...Not now—not later. NEVER.
Donkey ? make it a jacka$$ , How about Rev. Wright?
I couldn't agree more! We need to keep track of the 0bama collaborators, so we can show them the door.
And it’s not if it’s going to fade, but how soon.
The arch-conservative radio commentator has said he is immune....
Well, it seems she can't make up her mind about Rush.
Very cool (’V’ shops).
What is to celebrate here:
The people of the US have elected the least qualified candidate in over 100 years.
The media perpetrated a coup d’etat by ignoring all of Zero’s history and digging/making up anything on his opponents.
Electing the most liberal member of the Senate.
The Supreme Court ignoring the Constitutional duty to ensure a Presidential candidate meets Constitutional requirements.
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