LOCK AND LOAD
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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Numbers is what will take out the RINO’s. Over run them with conservatives who appeal to the public.
Why let the Rino’s have our political party.
If we can’t even over-rule the rino’s in the GOP, how can we even think we can win over the democrats.
Rush will not give us anybody. He is not in the business of picking candidates.
We are in the business of picking candidates.
Rush is the teacher and the fabulous analyst.
I don’t care! I’m not voting for another RINO!
Thank your brother for keeping Jaun out.
Excellent post!
“Political parties are shaped by their members.”
That’s logical but have you seen what’s happened over the last 8 years?
As we are poised for huge gains in the 2010 elections another newby signs up to fight to convince conservatives to not vote for the GOP, we are seeing more and more of that lately and my guess is that as republican momentum over the democrats for the congressional races build, that we will see more of it.
Thank all those people who stayed home and didn’t vote for McCain. Would we have the townhalls and tea parties if McCain had won? NO! We’d be marching to socialism a little slower, like we did under Bush, and the pretenses would look better to the average American. Too few would recognize it and fight it because McCain is “our guy”.
The only reason you were foolish is because Perot was a sorry elitist idiot.
My personal line for the rnc is nov. 4th. No rinos.
The primaries have got to change.
We need a clean slate, No Goldman Sachs, George Soros, CFR, SEIU, other shadow powers.
Our country is going down the greased skids faster than anyone could have imagined under this socialist, marxist, racist president.
We already have had a racist with no reasoning skills and a record of even shakier judicial conduct appointed to the Supreme Court. There is another person along these lines being set up for the next vacancy. These are lifelong appointments.
We have unelected czars implementing policy. We have half-baked, unbelievably destructive legislation being forced down our throats, and only the tea-parties and people like the crowds who were in Washington (along with the few conservatives in the public opinion arena like Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin et al) have kept the legislation at bay.
There are a lot of people, including many on this thread, to whom the sanctity of keeping their hands clean is so much more important than limiting the damage done to the republic.
They won’t run for office themselves, they promise to go home with their ball and sit out the next election if the exact candidate they want isn’t in the list, or decide they are going to vote for candidate “X” because “he isn’t a RINO”, even though discerning people can see the person’s favored third party candidate may be right on one issue, but is a complete dog’s breakfast on some other issue.
When it is over, and the Obama candidate is re-elected and health-care and Cap-and-Tax is implemented, tens or hundreds of thousands of new government employees are added to the metastasizing government never to be removed, and the Road to Serfdom is fully paved, at least those good people will be able to defiantly say: “I was a real man. I voted my conscience.”
And they can stand clean-handed, proud and tall in the brown-out darkness of their house due to years of liberal energy policy while they wait a year or two to have a hip replaced under socialized medicine, assuming they don’t have to take the pill.
I am willing to concede that perhaps the victory of Obama has done something to wake up people, as the Taxpayer Revolt on 9/12 showed, but at some point, people must cast a vote. So, you pissed away your vote in 2008 to “send a message to the Republican Party”. Okay, now we have a Democrat controlled house, senate, executive brance and a judiciary that is teetering.
We have a mid-term election in 2010 and might pick up some seats (as long as enough people don’t brand them RINOs and simply sit out the election. Then, barring a conservative takeover in 2010 and 2012, we will likely have the existing situation along with a liberal-friendly judiciary with little restraint, and a worn down conservative grass roots movement that has been fighting against the administration and media.
Some people are sure to piss away their votes again or stay home. Because after all...there is always the next election where the perfect candidate that matches all my requirements will appear. At least, we hope so.
Throughout my life I’ve thought something to be true, I thought about it a little more and thought I was wrong, then went one more step in my thought and found my first thought was right.
You want to vote for the guy you like but have no one to vote for. Then you think, “Well, I really don’t like B so I should hold my nose and vote for A.” Then you see what A does and realize it’d been better to have 10 enemies in front of you rather than 1 behind you.
If McCain had won, we’d get smaller versions of everything 0 is doing. EVERYTHING! He’d have a better chance of getting it done and we wouldn’t have the 10th amendment movement, Townhalls, Tea Parties, etc. We’d continue the slow slide to Marxism which was sped up by 0 to the point that it’s now recognizable as such.
Gingrich could never rise above being elected a southern congressman in a national election because he doesn't have that kind of appeal, in 1994 he was playing the role of speaker just like a Nancy Pelosi.
The "Grinch that stole Christmas" was not appealing to the national electorate, he was appealing to a passionate base during an off year election when turn out from moderates and democrats would be low, and his real power was in being part of a grass roots movement, not in his wooing of non-dedicated voters.
Gingrich has never had mass appeal. That is why he turned out to be a disaster when after 1994 he did become the face of the GOP.
I didn't like Bush in 2000 but I watched as he was more likable than the man I supported which was Steve Forbes,and Bush was more likable than him and the angry McCain and the others. In 2008 I do think that McCain was more likable than the greasy Romney which is why he could beat him with no money.
It is the likeability factor that holds back candidates like John Kerry and Mitt Romney.
Isn’t that the truth ansel12.
The Republicans and Democrats are exactly the same, the Republicans just despise their constituents more?
That sounds a lot like projection, something liberals are masters of.
I agree but the GOP needs a cleaning and overhaul at all levels.
Thanks for the ping!
sadly, the power of the incummbent is gonna be the deciding factor of whether we live or die vs the onslaught of commies...2010 will be 'make or break' for both sides IMO...
there simply comes a point where you gotta stand fer somethin...personally, I will NOT compromise again...
if that means my only recourse is to literally fight, so be it...
I agree. But the GOP should be put on notice—they have one more election cycle to get it right. If they fail to give us a solid conservative candidate in 2012, all bets are off.
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