Posted on 01/16/2012 3:22:24 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Amy in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, great to have you on the EIB Network. Welcome.
CALLER: Whoa. Thank you so much, Rush. It's a thrill to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Yeah, I just wanted to call and let you know and your listeners know that there are some of us out here that are enthusiastic about Mitt Romney. You know, they're not all vote-by-default.
RUSH: I know there are a lot of people enthusiastic about Romney.
CALLER: Well, I mean the pundits just carry on as if it's all by default. And even, you know, the other Republicans running against him keep coining him as this terrible moderate Republican in Massachusetts, and I look at that and I say, "Well, the point is when he was in Massachusetts he ran on those issues and he kept his promises. He kept his commitment, and he governed in that state the way in which he was elected." And I think, you know, as hard as it is to trust politicians, we have to at some point, and so we do, we look at a person's character and the way that they -- you know, have they kept their commitments? Have they done what they said they would do? And, you know, I'm gonna trust Mitt Romney --
RUSH: What is the one -- well, top two criticisms of Romney that conservatives make that you don't like to hear?
CALLER: Hmm. Well, some of the people in my circle of friends, the Mormon thing comes up and they seem to think that the evangelical people will not vote for him because he's not conservative enough.
RUSH: Yeah, but that hasn't been a part of the campaign yet, nobody's talking about his Mormonism, yet.
CALLER: Well, that's true, and that's what I tell them as well, but --
RUSH: Well, what I'm getting at here is that people that don't like Romney have heard him say, "I'm not a conservative Republican, I'm a moderate." They see he will not back off at all his support for Romneycare, which two of his advisers are now saying that the Obama administration has used as their model for Obamacare.
CALLER: Yeah, but he's clearly said the first thing he's gonna do is repeal Obamacare. And I think he's made that clear, and I believe that's what he'll do. You know, I believe he has the vision to, you know, bring our country back on track and make some important, tough decisions.
RUSH: Well, how long have you been a Romney supporter?
CALLER: Well, I voted for him in 2008. I thought he was the best choice then.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: Then the primary, of course.
RUSH: Well, I'll tell you, you're about to be tested.
CALLER: (laughing)
RUSH: No, no, you are. I just want to tell you now, I just want to prepare you, if Mitt Romney's the nominee, get ready, because the media, the Democrats, are gonna be attacking him as a wishy-washy moderate. They're gonna claim that they got the idea of Obamacare from him. They're gonna praise him, they're gonna tie him to Obamacare like no other Republican could be. At the same time, they're going to attack him as a far-right kook on a lot of things, and they will bring up the Mormon business. The Mormon business did not come up with Jon Huntsman, either, and he's a Mormon. And it never comes up with Dingy Harry, and he's a Mormon.
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In 1996 we got Dole because it was his turn and we lost. In 2008 we got McLame because it was his turn and we lost. Now we get Romney because it is his turn and we could very well lose.
Conservatism is dying
Super Tuesday? What’s that? I thought the whole election was determined by IA, NH, & SC. The rest of us are irrelevant.
Indeed it is. And the worst part? It is being killed from within. It’s bad enough to die while being attacked from without, but the cancer know as RINO is killing us from within.
I hope EVERYONE that’s not a Mormon that voted for Romney last time will check his record as ObamneyCare creator this time.
Although you would think the $50 abortions alone under Willard’s watch would have been enough to disqualify him.
This is why he must not become the nominee
“Conservatism is dying”
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It is not dying or loosing strength, but it is being
outnumbered by the Marxist/Leninist/Communist.
Strength does not count in elections, numbers do.
These kind of ( I am so happy with anyone but Obama) voters are doing more harm than good over the choices that we have. I wonder how many more election cycles until people become so angry they stop allowing the media to pick the candidate. Very disappointed in Rush. There is no conservative voice who fights for a change. Rush goes along with what is. After he hurt Newt, for 2 days, he lost my respect. Palin should get in this and endorse Newt if she wants a change. At least, Newt is willing to try.
Yeah this is what the LSM and their pundits wants us to believe. I say f them
Conservatism shifted to the left, that is all. The conservatives have become liberals, the liberals have become marxists, and the marxists have the presidency.
If Romney wins the South, that would be an indicator.
And it would be time to treat the GOP like the Whigs.
Let it become extinct.
If Romney wins, I'm going Independent...and probably for good.
It'll show that people are voting for somebody who's willing to give our offspring to research -- as Mitt told Katie Couric December of '07...what Mitt conveyed a full YEAR into his previous campaign.
I'll never support a pro-abort in sheep's clothing...
And neither will I support a gullible GOP trying to sell America on a candidate who isn't viable.
No, the numbers of people who describe themselves as conservatives are growing, but that doesn’t mean that there are more conservatives this year than there were last year.
What’s happening is moderates — and even some liberals — are calling themselves “conservatives.” Look at the phony conservatives in the punditocracy — Ann Coulter, David Frum, Jennifer Rubin, Michael Medved, Peggy Noonan, George Will — just to name a few. Even Andrew Sullivan calls himself a conservative, and he’s a screaming liberal.
Will supported Gerald Ford against Ronald Reagan in 1980, and when Ford dropped out of the primaries, Will endorsed not Reagan, but George H. W. Bush.
Conservatism is being defined down.
No, it is not dying. We do not have a leader, a fighter, a patriot who will put their country before all else. The country is starving for a leader to get behind. If that person with those ideas stands out, we would turn around the country from the damage from both parties.
Now there is no McCain; however, that manchurian candidate still sits in the senate to Arizona's undying shame.
You are a Flip-Flopper!
Dont' leave out Hugh Heeeeeeewwwwitt.
—>Conservatism is being defined down.
A win/win for liberalism. Those people in which you listed have been a huge part of why there is no conservative being supported by the (their) party. They live among liberals so it seems they don’t mind changing the views so they can feel good about being accepted) We have to get the control back to we, the people, not the elites.
BS. The GOP because of RINO's is dying s it rightly should. Conservative thought is the majority of this Country.
The tea Party and 2010 proves it.
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