Posted on 01/29/2012 11:01:12 PM PST by Anti-Hillary
What is this "bucket" I speak of? You know, the one that carries the GOP's water.
Rush in 2006 after the GOP was handed it's hat, it was you who said,
Wednesday, 11/8/2006 RUSH: “I Feel Liberated” (”from having to constantly come in here every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses for people who don’t deserve it.”)
Here’s Rush beginning approximately at the top of the third hour monologue
“Now, I mentioned to you at the conclusion of the previous hour that people having been asking me how I feel all night long. I got, “Boy, Rush, I wouldn’t want to be you tomorrow! Boy, I wouldn’t want to have to do your show! Oh-ho. I’m so glad I’m not you.” Well, folks, I love being me. (I can’t be anybody else, so I’m stuck with it.) The way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I’m going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don’t think deserve having their water carried. Now, you might say, “Well, why have you been doing it?” Because the stakes are high! Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country’s than the Democrat Party and liberalism does.
I believe my side is worthy of victory, and I believe it’s much easier to reform things that are going wrong on my side from a position of strength. Now I’m liberated from having to constantly come in here every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses for people who don’t deserve it.
I did not want to sit here and participate, willingly, in the victory of the libs, in the victory of the Democrat Party by sabotaging my own. But now with what has happened yesterday and today, it is an entirely liberating thing. If those in our party who are going to carry the day in the future — both in Congress and the administration — are going to choose a different path than what most of us believe, then that’s liberating. I don’t say this with any animosity about anybody, and I don’t mean to make this too personal.
I’m not trying to tell you that this is about me. I’m just answering questions that I’ve had from people about how I feel.
There have been a bunch of things going on in Congress, some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can’t even make the case themselves — and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs.
I’m a radio guy! I understand what this program has become in America and I understand the leadership position it has. I was doing what I thought best, but at this point, people who don’t deserve to have their water carried, or have themselves explained as they would like to say things but somehow aren’t able to? I’m not under that kind of pressure.
Am I making myself clear on this, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) No, I’m not lying. Snerdley’s concerned. I’ve not lied about anything I’ve said. Let me try this a different way. (sigh) I’m going to have to think about this. I tried to make it as clear as I can.
I’m not going to eat my own, and I’m not going to throw my own overboard, particularly in a campaign, and particularly when the country is at war — and I’m not going to do it for selfish reasons, and I’m not going to do it to stand out, and I’m not going to do it to be different. I’m not going to do it to draw attention from our enemies. I’m not going to do anything I do so that the Drive-By Media will like me or think that, “Ooooh, Limbaugh has changed! Ooooh, Limbaugh is coming around!”
That’s not my thinking. My thinking is: the left doesn’t deserve to win. My thinking is: the country is imperiled with liberal victory. We may not have the best people on our side, but they’re better than what we have on the left.
There hasn’t been in the ideology in the Republican Party, any conservatism for at least two to maybe four years. You could argue Bush was more of an ideologue in the presidential campaign of ‘04, but in looking at what happened yesterday, it wasn’t conservatism that lost. Conservatism won when it ran as a Democrat. It won in a number of places. Republicanism lost. RINO Republicans, country club blue-blood Republicans, this nonpartisan Republican identity, that’s what went down in flames.”
End of monologue
Okay, so you didn't like to carry the water but you did it because you thought you had to because a "Rebulican is better than a Democrat" any day. Well, tell me how Romney is a Republican? What has he EVER done for the cause of Conservatism? The answer is NOTHING!!! The man had the chance to vote for a Republican in 1992 and voted for Paul Tsongas for heaven's sake. He is the author of Obamacare! (There goes that issue being able to be used against Obama.) The list goes on. He will do more damage to the Republican party for decades then any one I can think of.
Then it was you Rush who said on Nov. 5th 2008 the following:
"Conservatism did not lose last night. Conservative was not on the ballot. The Republican Party has not sought to be conservative since the new tone was initiated by the Bush administration in 2001. "...
"What we are dealing with today, the opportunity that we have actually is the rebirth of principled opposition, an opposition rooted in conviction, not opposition for opposition's sake, not opposition for political expedience."...
"You win elections with core principles and beliefs that you stand steady on, and you attract people to them because they work. Like I say, we got a playbook. We have a blueprint. And there are people (for reasons that escape me, I don't care what the reasons are) who want to abandon all that and try to set up this new thing with themselves in charge, and they're going to do that. There's going to be a series -- you mark my words, there's going to be a series -- of conservative intellectuals and thinkers. They will convene a number of conferences among themselves to plan a new plan of attack. We got what they wanted! Everything they suggested that we do has come to pass, from compassionate conservatism to the new tone -- and now here we are.
We have just lost an election. Let me continue to add a caveat to this. Conservatism did not lose. In fact, when it was on the ballot, it won. How about Prop 8 in California? The people of California passed Proposition 8 telling the judges of California that you cannot override what we do in this ballot initiative, and marriage will be between a man and a woman. In California! When conservatism is on the ballot, and it's clearly defined, it doesn't have any problems. It is where conservatism gets watered down, where we tend to be moderate. "We need to explain that we don't hate people. We don't dislike people, that we're not racist, sexist, bigot, homophones." Then you get watered down, you have no identity."
End of monologue
Well, Rush I have listened to your words and I have read your words and now I am asking YOU to stand by your words and speak up.
I am not asking you to endorse Newt. I know that you will not. But what I am asking is that you do not carry Mitt Romney's and the establishments' water, so to speak. (I am NOT saying that you have not been critical of him. You have) I am asking you to EXPOSE him Rush. Romney is not in this for us, for the tea-party (he turns down their invites when asked). He certainly is not in this for the cause of conservatism. He is in it for ROMNEY! He has, over these last several days, sunken to the lowest of lows. He has outright lied about Newt Gingrich and did it with a smile. I have NEVER seen anything like it... Oh wait, I did see something quite similar in 2008. At the other end of those tactics was Sarah Palin. Oh, and when did she really get blasted? Let's see, that would have been AFTER McCain lost! Oh, and who was behind that crap? Oh, let's see... MITT ROMNEY! Had to clear the field for 2012, and all! You know that is true. Just ask her. (Privately of course, because a lady never tells) Anyway, I digress...
I am sure your answer to me about exposing Romney would be that it is not your job, but Newt's. Well, that would be great if the man could get a word in edge wise. The TV ads are 24/7 "Newt SUCKS!, and I am Mitt Romney and I approve this message". Romney is BUYING his way to the nomination and you know that.
I repeat your words from above; "You win elections with core principles and beliefs that you stand steady on, and you attract people to them because they work. Like I say, we got a playbook. We have a blueprint."
Well Rush, we have a candidate who knows the playbook, who holds the blueprint. That man is Newt Gingrich. Need real proof? Just listen to his speech last night at the Lincoln dinner. It literally moved me to tears. (Albeit, my eyes were still wet from pondering the words of Col. Allen West)
Is Newt perfect? No! Does he need to be? No! Seems to me the Bible is full of examples of imperfect men that have turned from their evil ways and have gone on to complete God's perfect will. If they are good enough for God, they are more than good enough for me.
Rush conservatism does win when when it on the ballot. You are right. The problem is, if Mitt Romney is the nominee, conservatism will be no where to be found.
Obama is destroying this country. We all know that. This is probably the most important election of our lifetime. But here is where, I for one, and many others, are going to add insult to injury if Romney is the nominee. Rush, for the FIRST time in my lifetime, I will NOT vote for POTUS. The mask of the GOP establishment has been ripped off for me and I will not allow them to force me to stay on their plantation.
Romney will lose! The base has had it. The GOP treats us like a cheap whore. They come to us when they need "a little" and then toss us aside. Who the hell do they think gave them their majority in 2010? Then they get behind a guy has no respect for true conservatism and join him in bashing a man who fought alongside Reagan? My eyes are open Rush and I dare say yours have been open for quite some time as well.
I implore you to follow in the footsteps of your fellow true conservatives, Mark Levin and Sarah Palin, and use your show tomorrow, just as they used Facebook this weekend, and inform the Florida electorate what a fraud Romney is. Join us Rush. Don't carry the bucket tomorrow. KICK IT OVER!!!
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Romney is the greatest threat to the cause of conservatism today because his nomination will guarantee Obama's November victory.
Ultimately, the cause of conservatism is really nothing less than national survival. The stakes could not be higher; to say this is the most important election in our lifetimes is accurate.
Kudos to you both and thank you !
Agreement achieved !
I like Rush but he is a GloBULList Free Trader. I call him an economic libertarian, borders and sovereignty don’t matter to him when it comes to making a buck. All that Patriotism and Conservatism goes out the window.
In fact Rush went on Levin's show which was 6 pm EST 2006 election night (3 hours later than his own show) to assure listeners that the polls were reversing (or not real) with a Republican wave and Republicans would have a good night. Levin didn't sound optimist but kept repeating "Get out the vote, save this country, get out the vote' and we could tell it would not be good.
Rush was tied to GWB the rest of his administration (being forced to defend his record) even though he acted at times like the above that he was not.
2006 to 2008 were very dark years to be a Republican voter.
And yet the (gay) judge did override it, and it is still overridden.
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