Posted on 09/14/2009 5:01:13 PM PDT by seanmerc
RUSH: And you enjoyed it for all the reasons that you've mentioned. But we've gotta be really, really careful here, Dana, about this left versus right government thing. You mentioned third party, and we've been through this with Perot.
CALLER: I know that. I know that. And I think Perot helped Clinton get in, I don't doubt that. I do believe there has to be a huge movement before people can vote that way.
RUSH: But a third party is not going to do anything other but ensure the reelection of Obama and every other Democrat running for office because even if you come up with a charismatic third-party presidential candidate, still isn't going to have anybody of any significance running in that party for seats in Congress of the US Senate unless this movement happened to become the majority movement in the country, and that's not what's happening. I respectfully disagree with you here. I understand the anger at the Republican Party. Hell, I've got it, too. I've had it for a long, long time. But don't make the mistake of thinking this is not a left versus right thing. This is a conservative ascendancy that's going on out there. You didn't show up and protest like this when the Republicans were in power.
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A third party will ensure even more that 0bama wins reelection, even while a true conservative like Sarah Palin could take out 0bama.
“The GOP is a national party, but it is certainly no longer a conservative party. “
So vote for conservatives in the Republican primaries in 2010. In the present climate with angry voters against government waste, truly conservative candidates are going to end up winning a lot f the Republican primaries.
Retake the GOP!
We had a conservative takeover. They went to DC and spent more than any Democrat could.
The Republican Revolution or Revolution of 1994:
-net gain of 54 seats in the House of Representatives
-pickup of eight seats in the Senate
-day after the election, Democratic Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama changed parties, becoming a Republican. (Big tent starts to murder conservatism)
The gains in seats in the mid-term election resulted in the Republicans gaining control of both the House and the Senate in January 1995. Republicans had not held the majority in the House for forty years.
-GOP picked up twelve gubernatorial seats
-472 state legislative seats
-it took control of 20 state legislatures from the Democrats
This was the first time in 50 years that the GOP controlled a majority of state legislatures.
So do I, but the Republican party needs to be torn down to the foundation and rebuilt. It’s suffering from a combination of dry rot in the upper levels, water damage in the lower, advancing mold, and termites.
Here is another Reagan quote from the 1970s.
” Well, third parties have been notoriously unsuccessful; they usually wind up dividing the very people that should be united. And then we elect the wrong kind–the side we’re out to defeat wins.”
I believe this is the truth.
We’ve seen it before and a third party does not teach us anything accept.......
DO NOT VOTE THIRD PARTY!!!
The GOP was never a conservative party as people here would like to understand it.
US political parties have always been ideological coalitions. This is necessarily so because we do not have a parliamentary system.
Ideological purity, or even consistency, is an absurd demand. It is rather a petulant whim, a denial of reality.
I can’t stand McCain and have voted against him in the past. My point is that many of these RINOS have their seat forever, if they so choose.
Grow more conservatives.
Can that be substantiated with the likes of "republican" Snowe, "republican" McCain, "republican" Graham, or "republican" Lamar Alexander?
You can conclude as to how we got O by reading FR.I just can’t see how letting the country go totaly communist is standing on ones principals.
We couldn't get a winnable candidate to agree with the base on even 50% of the issues. Let's take a look:
John McLame - McAmnesty, Pro Teddy Kennedy, compromiser-in-chief....need I say more?
Guiliani and Romney....WTH......we really contemplated nominating two northeastern liberals that were both pro choice and one of them (Romney) signed socialized healthcare into law in Massachusetts.
Freddy: I like Fred Thompson, but he had to actually ask for his own applause at one of his "rallies" because the man was such a bore. I don't think he ever really wanted it anyways.
Duncan Hunter: I don't know much about his except that he is supposedly a true conservative. But his problem is that NOBODY knew much about him.
Huckabee: If you were going for electability, he was our only hope. However, although far to the right of Rudy, Mitt, and McLame, he was still a tad too liberal. But, I would have punched the ticket for him had he been nominated.
Ron Paul: He was the only guy who understood the true intentions of our forefathers and is VERY PRINCIPLED. He even voted against hurricane relief in his own district because of his constitutional convictions. His only problem, I believe, is that a lot of "alternative" kooks came out in support of him and the GOP used them against him, despite Ron Paul being the true small-government conservative.
Yes, promoting somebody like Mitt Romney was really great for the “conservative” movement. McCain was a wet rag with a bunch of country-clubbers as advisors, but Romney? Rush’s candidate, Mitt Romney? CONSERVATIVES AND LIBERTARIANS ARE FIGHTING EXACTLY THE B.S. THAT ROMNEY CONSIDERS HIS PROUDEST PUBLIC ACHIEVEMENT! Get real and wake up. I’m sorry to say it and I never thought I would, but Rush sold out. And he’s going to sell us down the river by trying to prop up the decaying center-left mess that the GOP has become.
I suspected that McLame got the early headstart from Dems crossing party lines to vote in the Rep primary. I don’t have any proof, but SO many of were unhappy with the choice...
Then again, out of the frontrunners there wasn’t really much of a choice last time anyway.
I see the Third Party Democrat Enablers have their talking points from the DNC and flapping away.
The Third Party anti war Paulite types hate Conservative Republicans including Sarah Palin.
The Third Party try to live with their conscious voting for their candidate who only receives 2% rather than vote directly for the Democrat Candidate. All the same.
Beck is bipartisan. No it isn't the same kind of bipartisanship as BOR's bipartisanship but it's just as bad.
Yep. He is right as usual. We need to work on the GOP and bring it back to Reagan conservatism by kicking the RINO’s out of it.
Well then, we will get 4 more of 0bama. If we continue to entirely sacrifice our principles, then so will the RNC. With McCain, we would still have amnesty, and Cap and Tax.... what is the difference? It is still big government, big government etc. We would still have the push to close Gitmo, and a knife in the back from someone that supposedly supports veterans.
If the RNC continues down this road they will be penniless and empty. 2 million people in DC, demonstrations across the country and all the majority of republicrats care about is how bipartisan they look. One man had the balls to call 0bama what he is... A LIAR. And McCain't and the rest of the spineless jellyfish RINOS stammered Joe should apologize.
I am so sick and tired of skipping along carrying the handbasket on the way to hell because the 3rd party idea is so bad. Well, eventually the pubbies and dems will run out of other people's money. My currency and savings (for this world) is in tangible items like gold, lead, brass, and silver. If this is the only way to purge the entittlement class then so be it. According to MY ABILTY, ACCORDING TO MY NEEDS. They will starve long before me and mine.
What's the point of morals and values if you won't stand for them?
Huckabee arguably was the most talented campaigner of the buch, and the nicest personality to boot.
Unfortunately he got nowhere with the Republican primary voters in most places because he was seen as a rather regional character. Thats one man who could profitably work on an image adjustment.
Support the “lesser of two evils.” Act shocked when evil prevails. Rinse. Repeat. The Republican formula for irrelevancy to actually saving the country.
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