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RUSH: WE NEED TO PUSH OUR NOMINEE TO THE RIGHT, NOT THE LEFT!
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| January 10, 2012
| Rush Limbaugh
Posted on 01/10/2012 6:21:53 PM PST by Yosemitest
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To: livius
This is called vulture capitalism and its not a good thing. Driving a company into the ground and then feeding off it is not capitalism, except in the most distorted of worlds. But that isn't true here. It was mainly a venture capital firm. The Staples investment was just that, as Kleiner Perkins invested in Google early on. I despise Mittens, but Newt never worked an honest day in his life, and it is a little rich for him to tell us when a capitalist makes "too much". No thank you. We need fresh blood in this race. There is plenty to shred Mittens about with his Mormonism, his illegal alien polygamist grandfather, his being an LDS leader at the time they had a viciously racist doctrine, RomneyCare, gay stuff, etc. We don't need these Occupy Wall Street talking points from Gingrich.
To: Yosemitest
Haven’t listened to Rush in a while, but as usual, he is right on the mark.
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posted on
01/10/2012 7:44:18 PM PST
by
PAR
To: montag813
Utterly unfettered capitalism is monstrous. All here would agree if they were confronted with it.
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posted on
01/10/2012 7:49:47 PM PST
by
Psalm 144
(Voodoo Republicans: Don't read their lips - watch their hands.)
To: PAR
The really perverse result of this episode is that the end result is that due to their disdain for Romney some people on this website are allowing themselves to be pushed to the left by agreeing with Newt’s anti-capitalist sentiment.
I think it is possible to continue to support Newt but disagree with his comments about Romney’s Bain career. Rush mentions that only 2 of 100 company’s were forced into bankruptcy - and do we know the specific circumstances of those companies? My suggestion is to continue to dislike Romney for his flip flopping and liberal positions, but not be suckered by Newt into adding capitalist behaviour to what is already a long list.
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posted on
01/10/2012 7:53:03 PM PST
by
PAR
To: fatima
Probably his clever way of saying he's a paid premium member of Limbaugh's website.
-PJ
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:06:17 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
To: Pelham
The traditional conservatism of Southern Agrarians, are you kidding. They were lock step in line with the New Deal as long as Roosevelt looked the other way on Jim Crow. Who was to benefit from the giant boondogle called the TVA. Hell, guys like Huey Long were even further to the left than FDR. The so-called traditional Southern Agrarian was conservative on Social Issues, but economics, he was a major partner in creating the New Deal. The South was no bastion of Conservatism until recently. Do not buy in to the Liberal story that the old Southern racist pols were Conservative. They were as Left as their Northern compatriots on any issue dealing with Economics.
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:11:34 PM PST
by
gusty
To: gusty
Hell, guys like Huey Long were even further to the left than FDR.He was a frickin' Fascist is what he was....thank God for Mr. Weiss.
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:13:20 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
To: CainConservative
“All the sweeter it will be when Newt wins SC”
Here’s hoping!
To: Yosemitest
Rush you know not one of the candidates are anything near the right; therefore a waste of time to try and push. They won’t fit.
Stop now and hold our own election. Elect Scott Walker, the only proven conservative.
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:17:39 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: freekitty
We are pushing back Rush because we are tired of the BS as you call it of being marshaled into a vote for one that is not our own.
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:18:49 PM PST
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
It is fascinating to read about “good capitalism” and “bad capitalism” here on FreeRepublic, all to justify Newt’s attempts to strike a populist nerve.
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:19:12 PM PST
by
VegasCowboy
("...he wore his gun outside his pants, for all the honest world to feel.")
To: Utmost Certainty
I don't
think Rush
"misunderstands big time what Newt is really saying".
To really get a thorough view and understanding of what Rush is complaining about, you need to read:
Rush's main point is
Bottom line is this, folks.The Republican nominee, whoever it is, is only going to win the general election
You know it and I know it.The Republican establishment does not know it.
The Republican establishment is going to have to be pushed to the right.
Whoever the Republican nominee is, is going to have to be pushed to the right in the campaign, if we are to win.
We are not going to win when we say things about ourselves that the Democrats are also saying.
There will be no difference.
Since when do Republicans hate capitalism?
We don't.
And we're not gonna start now. Not on my watch.
IF Newt's case is as you stated, I'm inclined to agree with you,
BUT, listen closer to Newt's answer to Steve Doocy on
Fox & Friends.
GINGRICH: I don't think I'm using the language of the left.
I'm using the language of classic American populism.Main Street has always been suspicious of Wall Street.
Small businesses have always worried about big businesses.
People have a natural concern when they see financiers come in from out of town,take over a company, take all the profits, and then leave people unemployed behind.
There's a big difference between people who go out to create a company, even if they fail,if they try in the right direction, if they share in the hardships,
if they're out there with the workers doing it together, that's one thing.
But if somebody who's very wealthy comes in,takes over your company, takes out all the cash and leaves behind the unemployment,
I think that's not a model we want to advocate
and I don't think any conservative wants to get caught defending that kind of model.
Now read Rush's response.
RUSH: Well, but that's not the model. That's not what happens.
See, this is why my old buddy Jay Nordlinger in Impromptus at National Review is pulling his hair out, because that is language of the left.
You could say that Newt actually compounded this and made it worse with these comments on Fox this morning.
Small business have always worried about big business.
Main Street's always been suspicious of Wall Street.
People have a natural concern, they see financiers coming from out of town, take over a company, take all the profits and leave unemployment behind?
My gosh, that's what the people who indict capitalism say.
So it continues to make me uncomfortable.
There's a lot more to read, but it's better to go to Rush's article and
read it there,
for it will provide Rush's reasons for not liking
the way Newt has stated his position.
Rush is right, and this is not good. This is
not conservative. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/01/10/newt_sounds_just_like_obama
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:22:14 PM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die!)
To: montag813
Venture capital companies invest in the future, and there’s a lot of risk involved. A company that devotes itself to seeking out a weakened company and then savaging it and draining its resources is not a venture capitalist company.
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:30:35 PM PST
by
livius
To: Pelham
Bingo to you.
Definitely overlooked by many.
Thanks for posting.
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:31:54 PM PST
by
onona
(FR is continuing education)
To: xzins
Probably only John Corzine...who is still walking around and not in jail...knows.
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:32:30 PM PST
by
livius
To: Yosemitest
"Mitt Romney needs to be pushed to the right...So whoever's gonna win this thing has got to be pushed to the right...The Republican establishment is going to have to be pushed to the right...Whoever the Republican nominee is, is going to have to be pushed to the right..."
What a creep. Rush sided with feminists against fathers and families for the divorce/cohabitation industry during the '90s, too, so he would naturally be on the side of more spending from debt for socialists like teachers, building officials, land use regulators, social workers, pensioners from such positions, all. Thus, his support for Romney and dishonesty about it.
There can be no lasting fiscal conservatism without moral conservatism. Thievery--even legalized thievery is not a tenet of conservatism.
Capitalism is a system--not a philosophy. It can be used for good (conservative) purposes or evil ("progressive") purposes.
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:46:02 PM PST
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: livius
You need to read the supporting information to Rush's article, and read:
Yes, it's possible that Rush's hearing loss might be a small factor, but I don't believe there's any "misunderstanding" on Rush's part.
It's hard to take
emotion out of this, because we all get very emotional when we see what this ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF,
and his minions are
intentionally doing to OUR country.
But we must keep emotion out of it.
Listen and think. Don't just react.
We mustn't try to play on other peoples' emotions, like the left.
We're better than that.
We can't win if we're NOT conservative.
Like
Rush said:
This is so simple.We got a Marxist in the White House,
come up with a conservative nominee,run a campaign, win in a landslide, and save the country.
Instead what happened? The establishment Republicans get scared to death of conservatives,thinking it's gonna result in a Goldwater landslide,
and they figure Obama can't be beat anyway,so let's find a moderate that doesn't tick off the independents.
Let's try to win the Senate
and get ourselves in charge of the chairmanships and the money,
and we'll call it a day.
Any conservative that got in the race, the establishment [Republicans] is set out to destroy.
That's where we are.
That's why all this is happening.
Because we got a bunch of people in the Republican establishment who don't think the Marxist in the White House can be beat anyway
and really care more about getting themselves in charge of the money than anything else.
And they do not share our view that the country's future is in peril.
They don't.
That's where we are.
Operation Chaos worked like it was suppose to, keeping the Democrats at each other's throat for an additional 6 months.
Try a little harder to understand what Rush is saying.
Read
Jay Nordlinger's articles
We don't need to
use the language of the left, or
sound like the left.
We need to
BE ... CONSERVATIVE!
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posted on
01/10/2012 8:59:25 PM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die!)
To: familyop
"Rush sided with feminists against fathers and families for the divorce/cohabitation industry during the '90s, too,
so he would naturally be on the side of more spending from debt for socialistslike teachers, building officials, land use regulators, social workers, pensioners from such positions, all."
WHAT?! You got any
proof of those accusations, and
links?
Take a
chill pill, then take a few breaths, relax a little, and read it again.
It's not that difficult to understand what Rush is saying, and where he's comming from.
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posted on
01/10/2012 9:06:00 PM PST
by
Yosemitest
(It's simple, fight or die!)
To: Pelham
Romneys vaunted private sector experience, is of a particular kind Bill Gross of PIMCO and Eric Janszen of iTulip, neither of whom could be accused of being anti-capitalist, both have written of a distinction between the finance sector and the productive sector of the economy. Bain Capital belongs to the finance sector.
The productive sector of the economy grows as more things are produced. The standard of living of the middle class historically rose along with the productive economy.
The finance sector grows as asset prices increase. Its growth doesnt always correspond to an improved life for the middle class. The finance sector used to support the productive economy, but in recent decades their interests often diverged. Instead of fueling the growth of the productive economy the finance sector could make money dismantling American manufacturing or shipping it overseas
Nice explanation, but too many of the electorate ( and the MSM) will not take the time to understand that.
To: montag813
Newt never worked an honest day in his life,
That's just boiler plate talking point stuff from the GOP establishment. Gingrich had a doctorate and years as a professor before he ever entered politics.
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posted on
01/10/2012 9:24:44 PM PST
by
xzins
(Pray for Our Troops Remaining in Afghanistan, now that Iran Can Focus on Injuring Only Them)
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