Posted on 11/19/2012 1:07:19 PM PST by drewh
The conservative talk show host, who had been an upbeat, if initially doubtful, Romney supporter throughout the campaign, was on a post-election downer:
In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins? And say what you want, but Romney did offer a vision of traditional America. In his way, he put forth a great vision of traditional America, and it was rejected. It was rejected in favor of a guy who thinks that those who are working aren’t doing enough to help those who aren’t. And that resonated.
Limbaugh echoed a Republican theme that was voiced before and after the election: Barack Obama has unleashed a coalition of Americans “who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it — that that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them” — as Mitt Romney put it in his notorious commentary on the 47 percent.
You can find this message almost everywhere on the right side of the spectrum. The Heritage Foundation, for example, annually calculates an “Index of Dependence on Government,” which grows every year:
Today, more people than ever before depend on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid, or other assistance once considered to be the responsibility of individuals, families, neighborhoods, and churches. The United States reached another milestone in 2010: For the first time in history, half the population pays no federal income taxes. It is the conjunction of these two trends—higher spending on dependence-creating programs, and an ever-shrinking number of taxpayers who pay for these programs—that concerns those interested in the fate of the American form of government.
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Indiana has earned the right to be Southern state, ideologically speaking.
I am a firm believer in karma and I do believe that what you typed will happen at some point in the future. Still, as you pointed out, I’m afraid innocents will suffer first.
I read the comments and wanted to cry for our country.
That was a crime what happened to the Tsars. Unfortunately, some of my ancestors and family fought on the Red side in Russia, my great-great grandfather, supposedly he knew Lenin. If I was around then with the mind I have now, I’d say, “sorry gramps, but I have to fight you because I fight for what it right.”
I think many of the yung’uns will get it. Most of the ones I know do, at leastm ost of them say, “too many people think the world and society owes them everything.” As to things like same sex marriage, well, perhaps not as strong, but if they figure things out where we are all entitled to be left alone as long as we don’t harm others and we keep our stuff we work for, I would consider that a win.
You a lot more hopeful than I. When I deal with the Thirty and Unders, not only am I struck by their total and complete ambivalence on any issue of real substance, but by the gaping holes in their knowledge base.
I am the product of a far-from-wealthy public school district and a fair to middlin’ public university. And a lot of these kids have expensive private school degrees. And I am continually blown away by how I appear to be WAAAAAAYYYYY better educated than any of them.
Most of what I deal with are working class although I’ve seen a few that come from wealthy backgrounds but most of them are pretty much the same where they think that no one owes them a living and they have to work for it. Hopefully for the rest, reality will step in and teach them a lesson.
In broader terms, the political confrontation [now underway] pits taxpayers, who now form the core of the center-right coalition, against tax consumers who form the core of the center-left.
No indication here of how the tax consumers are going to respond if the taxpayers resist. But they are not expected to resist: As Edsell rightly notes, they are a permanent and diminishing minority, quite unlikely to regain power in the increasingly socialist future.
“I am a firm believer in karma...”
Same here, and nations have karma too.
We are a different country; a different demographic for sure.
I found it interesting that the race for 2016 has already begun. Rubio is already in Iowa and Christie is on SNL.
I can’t ever imagine Christie as president, but his tactic is more effective to this new demographic than Rubio’s rubber chicken circuit.
The Marxist did most of his campaigning on the late night shows and the moronic afternoon programs like the View and Ellen. The guy is an idiot, but he knows his voters.
The Marxist knew where his voters were.
At home, because they didn’t have a job.
I enjoyed your comments Nowhere Man, and I hope you find that job soon. Does this qualify you for an Obamaphone ?
As to your ‘jerkass’ suggestion, I’ve been posting more than half seriously that one of the coolest guys the republicans could put up for 2016 is Dennis Miller. He’s conservative, dishes it out, looks kinda latino, can jive talk, and knows his way around the glitterati and illuminati.
The republican party just isn’t hip, and, sad to say, you got to be hip in the brand new exciting dumbed down Amerika.
Yeah, I like the irascibility of Gregory House but he’s British. I always loved his un-PC quips. Check my tagline by the way.
Maybe we can get a curmudgeon like Pat Cadell to run. Also liked the way John Sununu handled the MSM idiots.
I still feel bad for Romney. Romney and Ryan was just what this country needed. Green eye shade guys.
One more suggestion. Allen West. He just conceded his House race, and the guy has nothing to do for the next few years.
The guy takes no prisoners. Would love to see him chewing up media guys who ask gotcha questions like ‘How old is the earth?’ to Rubio recently.
Still don’t think he can pull many votes from the dem plantation. The blacks are as bad off as they were 150 years ago - just with more attitude.
We? You got a mouse in your pocket? Who did? I certainly didn't......Why not accept the fact that Rush is merely a conservative talk show host who talks politics and tries to analyze current events rather than make him the cause celebre' for the outcome of this election cycle?
If you want to unjustly criticize him for this election then the least you can do is give him credit for the mid term 2010 election that resulted in over 600 new Republican seats across this country.........
But it's easier to dwell on dirt and put the blame on Rush isn't it?
Ah, read my remark again, please.
Note the ? mark at the end of the sentende. My intention was to express just about exactly what you just did. Very well, I might add.
I pinged you to the response to tweak you for posting that zombie pice. Ew.
I thought I was well aquainted with most words in the language. I had to go to the dictionary for that one. A well chosen word indeed.
I thought I was well aquainted with most words in the language. I had to go to the dictionary for that one. A well chosen word indeed.
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