Posted on 03/11/2013 4:32:02 AM PDT by IbJensen
I realize there are those within the Republican Party who do not like Rush Limbaugh. Some of them even think the GOP is worse because of him.
Likewise, there are those within the GOP who say they like Rush and see “a use” for him, but they themselves do not like listening to him. He’s just not their cup of tea or something.
These people should really spend a week listening to Rush three hours a day and perhaps they would not be so stupid.
Most of the people who fall into these camps have been mouthing off on two topics about which their commentary has been decidedly stupid. Perhaps if they were students of the Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies they’d wise up.
The first, of course, is CPAC, put on by the American Conservative Union.
The ACU gave Mitch McConnell a 100% rating and gave Renee Elmers of North Carolina, one of the most worthless members of Congress to ever be elected as a tea party candidate, some award to prove her bona fides. That basically means the award is her conservative bona fides because she doesn’t have a record to show for it.
Basically, ACU is good at giving people cover.
And now they’ve given Chris Christie cover. They haven’t invited him to CPAC.
Boo-freaking-hoo.
If you listen to the libertarian leaning serial whining twitterati of twenty-somethings, this is an outrageously outrageous insult. They’ve invited Donald Trump to speak and his positions and Chris Christie’s are a lot alike, but for Trump actually taking the fight to Obama.
If you listened to the average Republican — not conservative — pundit on the right, it has been just ridiculous that Chris Christie was not invited. These people are more outraged over that than the ACU giving Mitch McConnell a 100% conservative rating. The adults in the GOP just cannot get over it.
The fact is, and to repeat myself, the ACU is good at giving people cover. They have given Chris Christie cover. Do you really think it is hurtful to Christie, headed into a campaign year in New Jersey, to be dissed by the conservative political action conference?
Come on people, smarten up.
But there is an even bigger issue.
The number of notable Republicans critical of Rand Paul’s filibuster is really amazing. Rand Paul put serious points on the board against the Obama Administration and John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Bill Kristol, National Review, and others are out dismissing him.
If they had paid attention to the crux of his argument on Wednesday, he worked hard to find common ground on the right. His filibuster was premised on the Obama Administration claiming it could use drones to kill Americans in the United States without due process of law after defining “imminent harm” in a way that was not imminent.
I support killing bad guys with drones overseas. Hell, I’m okay with killing bad guys in the United States with drones if they are about to cause imminent harm. But the administration’s standard was far too nebulous. It is opposed by a majority of Americans. Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, and others who are okay with drone attacks on bad guys supported Rand Paul because Paul found the sliver of ground on which they could all be opposed to an Obama Administration policy.
The act drew headlines. It united conservatives, independents, and even some progressives.
But then the so called adults within the Republican Party had to weigh in. They had to rain on the parade. They had to criticize Rand Paul.
The fact is Rand Paul put more points on the board than Bill Kristol, National Review, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, or pretty much any other Republican over these past few months. He did so on ground the GOP rarely fights on in a way that those who do not share much of his view on drones could find common ground with him.
But he took the spotlight away from the adults in the room. That was his sin. He had to be rebuked.
The adults in the GOP’s big tent have been complicit in getting us to $16 trillion in national debt and have never met a victory from which they could not snatch defeat.
Perhaps if they spent more time listening and learning from Rush Limbaugh and less time trying to show the world they’re better than him or the base he gives voice to they’d be more effective. Right now, they’re just stupid.
Like in Middle Earth, the so called leaders and wise men really should just let the filthy Hobbits take care of things.
'Reaching across the aisle' is a term that describes the clumsy perverted groping by RINOs of the leftists who are ruining the nation now with their three ring circus that attemps to focus America's mind on obfuscation rather than what's truly happening. The ruler and his minions are busily concocting their construction of a pedestal for homosexuals and other gender-confused types, of inventing crises they claim result from 'sequestraion' that involves under $50 billion out of $16 trillion of debt we're currently saddled with. Those on the opposite side of the aisle should be considered America's worst enemies with each member of the 'opposition' possessed by satan and his evil disciple, the phony, non-American Obama whose goal is the complete destruction of America and the rising of a communist Eden in its place.
I already know what Rush blabs about for 3 hours and I don’t have to hear him making love to himself. He has some strange problems with his ego.. That alone is not worth my time. 3 hours a day you want us to listen? I don’t think so.
Excellent. Five stars, two thumbs up, and a double high five.
Erick Erickson is dreaming. Rand Paul did not score anything except media points by libertarian and liberal media talking heads.
He filibustered for a grueling 1/2 day, thrived on candy bars, and lost not a wink of sleep. 13 whole hours...omigosh...can humans actually survive such deprivation?!!
The then was his so-called victory over "can the government kill Americans on American soil."
The Obama response: "Yes, if we deem it a combat situation."
Rand and his media pals declare a clear loss to be a victory and Rand gets to quit that extreme, survivalist-level filibuster of 13 hours.
Pure spin and media hype.
GOP is full of Leftists hence the well-earned ‘stupid’ moniker.
The GOP should stay with the tried and true members of the party.
McCain/Boehner 2016
The GOP should put its leaders in a position to win. The leadership of the GOP is the future of the party, so put them on the ticket.
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The GOP should change leadership, modernize by removing these GOPe fossils.
Can you imagine how bad McCain/Boehner would lose the election?
The GOP should stay with the tried and true members of the party.
McCain/Boehner 2016
The GOP should put its leaders in a position to win. The leadership of the GOP is the future of the party, so put them on the ticket.
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/Sarcasm
The GOP should change leadership, modernize by removing these GOPe fossils.
Can you imagine how bad McCain/Boehner would lose the election?
The GOP should stay with the tried and true members of the party.
McCain/Boehner 2016
The GOP should put its leaders in a position to win. The leadership of the GOP is the future of the party, so put them on the ticket.
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The GOP should change leadership, modernize by removing these GOPe fossils.
Can you imagine how bad McCain/Boehner would lose the election?
Yepper, egos are unusual things, aren't they? So please tell us, just where did you check yours at what door?
Yes, listen to Rush, he is ALWAYS RIGHT!
Talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh says that Sen. John McCain will score a stunning upset over Sen. Barack Obama and win the presidency on Nov. 4
[Rush] Limbaugh Predicts McCain Victory (NewsMax ^ | October 31, 2008 | David A. Patten, FR thread link )
I almost forgot this one :
We Could See a McCain Landslide (Rushlimbaugh.com, August 12, 2008)
“The enthusiasm that got people out in 2010, I'm seeing at every Mitt Romney rally. Romney's drawing crowds of 20,000, 25,000, 30,000, 15,000. “The enthusiasm that we all saw in 2010 is there. The same issues that existed in 2010 exist today. There hasn't been anything that's gotten better.”
Rush: Everything But Polls Say Romney Landslide (Newmake Monday, 05 Nov 2012)
Amen. He really thinks he is God's gift to us underlings. "Talent on loan from God." My goodness. You don't get more conceited than that.
In 1990, the Republican elite decided that Conservatives were not welcome in the THEIR party. You may argue with my timeline, but you cannot argue with my facts.
What has Rush had to say for the last twenty years on massive non-white immigration that has given the Rats massive numbers of votes?
Nothing. Rush is part of the problem.
“I already know what Rush blabs about for 3 hours and I don’t have to hear him making love to himself. He has some strange problems with his ego.. That alone is not worth my time. 3 hours a day you want us to listen? I don’t think so.”
I like the way you put it. Rush is an establishment based program of gibberish and nonsense. It is nothing but the GOP take on inside the beltway issues, with the tiniest bit of humor thrown in.
Without Rush I would be a “low information” voter. Of course he sounds full of himself, but that is his style on the air. I don’t think he is that way personally! I look forward to listening him. He is about the only thing in this world that makes me laugh and relax. If you don’t like him, turn him off—Obama would like to turn him off permanently.
LOL... you must not actually listen to Rush much. THAT, is probably the LEAST conceited thing he ever says.
That statement is designed to remind us ALL, that our talents are "given" to us by God... and, it's just a loan. We have a time limit.
I absolutely LOVE that line... and, here you are using it a evidence of Rush's ego?????
Laughable..
Yet Erick Erickson reserves the right to ban Redstate posters who advocate breaking away from the Republican Party.
How’s it feel to talk out of both sides of your mouth, Erick?
Ditto! His broadcast last Friday was a very good education about the dem tactics. He played sound clips from the Clinton years about cutting government spending, I think it was the time around the government shutdown. The clips of Al Gore, "saying what is up is down and what is down is up..."
It was funny to hear the same apoplectic words and phrases from 20 years ago to now, same words, same tactics from the fear mongering Democrat party.
It is fun to ridicule the opposition party and laugh at them for their ridiculous statements, they deserve it, .
I would not know about “current services baseline budgeting” without Rush.
I don’t think establishment repubs know what it is to this day.
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