Posted on 06/11/2014 5:40:08 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
Transcript of Mark Levin, 6/10/2014
You know what I've heard? On good authority, that Mitt Romney and Orrin Hatch want one of Mitt Romney's sons to go after Mike Lee in the Republican fight -- should there be one -- because they want to get rid of Mike Lee.
Who are the purists, exactly?
Who are the "Big Tent" guys, exactly?
Now let me tell you what I'm gonna do if these fools pull that. Listen to me, Orrin, I'm talkin' to you.
I'm going to go into your state and expose you. For your lies on this show.
I'm going to go into Utah, Mitt Romney, and expose you for the incompetent campaign you ran. The fact of the matter is, Mitt, while you play Mr. Nice Guy, you were behind the scenes trashing Republicans all the way to your "victory".
Let me tell you something, Mitt: You cost us. You cost us four years of Obama with your feckless campaign. Attacking one Republican after another in the primary... and it's like you surrendered in the general election. You're no Mr. Nice Guy... and, I know, the Republicans listening to me... folks, behind the scenes, this guy is trying to crush the conservative movement.
This "severe conservative"... he's going around the country endorsing every single establishment Republican he can against citizen candidates. It's time to wake up!
But if they... and you know I barely travel for anything... but if they.. I will go into Utah myself --and bring everyone I can find -- we will expose these people -- and let's have it out!
I'm not so sure. Remember Fred Thompson? Do you remember that in a very short time and on a fraction of the budget, he caught up to Romney, even entering late? He even placed ahead of Romney in one state primary and rode his butt pretty closely in the rest of them. And on that day that he actually beat Romney in the state (I forget) primary, on Fox News, Britt Hume mentioned it exactly ...
ZERO times.
Britt Hume never even uttered Thompson's name. I remember clearly. I watched as in about one third the time, on about one third the budget, Thompson was working his way up in the polls -- and eagerly tuned to Fox to see the phenomenon reported. Instead, Thompson was the invisible man. It was a real story, and Americans tuning to Fox News would liked to have known more. They tuned to the wrong place.
That was when I realized how Faux Fox News is. They OMITTED Thompson. He was invisible. It was maddening to watch. And enlightening.
It all stinks like yesterday's diapers. I think the left side of the Republican party is afflicted with the same leftist "ethic" of cheating, if you will, as America is afflicted with cheated, manipulated elections where the liberal minority candidate wins.
I suspect conservatives weren't fractured so much as they were adroitly manipulated out of a choice. The Fourth Estate, and that includes Levin and Rush -- Levin on the air referred to Fred Thompson as "my guy," and Rush Limbaugh identified Fred Thompson as "the only conservative on the stage last night" the day after the first debates -- failed. I think Rush and Levin were as taken aback as anybody, and McCain had Palin. But Romney? Who is kidding who? If that's "Republican," I'm Oprah's grandpa. If Levin and Rush buy it, that's their deal and they can keep it.
Personally, I think that while the Republican party infrastructure regarding committees is something conservatives need to consider for congressional folks, in the 2016 Presidential, there will be a gaping void if the Republican party performs true to form and nominates another Romney-like collectivist leftist Democrat-minded "Republican" and expects intelligent people not to tell them to take a hand-basket to hell.
More than likely, 2016 will be as ripe for a SECOND party as a grape ready for harvest. The PRESIDENT may well be a "third" party independent representing the SECOND party demand in Americans. If that "third" party SECOND choice acts to number the days of remaining leftist Republicans and restores Limited Government Conservatism as the Republican's party's ALTERNATIVE to the left, great. It won't matter if we face in 2016 a Dem vs Dem Lite scenario as we did in 2012, which we probably will.
I don't recall Brit Hume having a mad-on for Fred, either. He certainly had issues with Newt Gingrich in 2012, though.
No, he never won a primary, but there was one where he came in ahead of Romney. Sorry I wasn’t clear on that. Fox News was acting as if it was only Romney versus the other primary contender ahead of him.
Mike Lee is one of the few actual conservative and honest Mormon politicians out there. And we warned people, even here on FR that Romney would lose.
Not just the radio guys. There were a lot of people who opposed Romney, then supported him, and are back to opposing him after he lost.
Meanwhile those who stood our ground were condemned for it.
If the GOPe hadn’t vomited up Romney, Obama wouldn’t have won. Romney played hardball in the primary against Republicans and softball in the general.
+1
That is no excuse. Romney was forced down our throats by the GOPe. He never should have been the nominee but for some reason, the GOPe likes to put up losers.
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“When we were left with Mitt it was still inexcusable that we still allowed O and the left to win.”
Perhaps there is some truth to the government mind ray idea.
Pray tell, what is the excuse for supporting Romney? That Obama is worse? Well when they ran for office, Barry was actually on record with more conservative positions than mitt had. Look it up for yourself. You read it right.
On every single issue, Mitt Romney went the Democrat way. Even Obama was against gay ‘marriage’. Can you personally find a conservative spot on Romney’s record? Can you personally find an area where he could be legitimately said to hold a conservative position?
The military he made a career of avoiding anything to do with?
The gay thing that he supported?
The abortion issue that he championed?
The illegal issue whose numbers he employed, got caught doing and 6 months later still employed?
The crony capitalism he willingly participated in?
the love of hyperregulation that helped him turn Mass into a Euro styled mess of entrepreneurial exodus?
We have hashed this out countless times. Every stone that can be turned over has been and not one person pining for Romney has ever presented a reason to elect this closet Democrat that did not include some turn of the phrase “He’s not Obama” or “The Dem is worse”.
Well that isn’t a good enough rationale for driving people into becoming situational ethicist. And if America goes down because of it, the fault lies not with those that stuck to the principles that “ARE” America, it lies in those that would abandon them. To put it in a more modern context, “It’s not me...It’s you.”
You and those still bemoaning the loss of Romney cannot and never will have it both ways. Despite the excuses, condemnations and pictures of Yosemitie Sam on a Dragon, the simple fact remains that one does not move right by electing open, committed and proud leftists. That truth overcomes all the excuses, namecalling, rationalizations and foot stomping there is. Denying it is meaningless.
Each and every one of us had an option to vote for a candidate other than Romney. Exactly none of us were required to. None of us had a moral duty to. And for people on the political right that practiced situational ethics to then tell us we did is hypocracy on a positively Democrat scale.
Lastly, as you said, many other contenders WERE better than Mitt. One need not go any further than that to understand what the solution to the Mitt problem was.
Voting for one of them.
Now as before, conservatives have given ample warning to the GOP and their supporters. We will not vote for another lib. The GOP has a choice. As do their supporters. vote for a conservative or lose again. We are not going to support your liberal...
“No matter what”
Good points. I would argue that it there are four or five conservatives running and one or two libtards the libtards will probably win.
I totally agree with you. However, would you agree with me that, with the choice between Romney and Obama, there was NO other choice?
BTW, if the next republican nominee is another GOPe choice, I’m staying home. That would be a first for me since Nixon. I believe Levin would agree.
“So why is it acceptable for some voice on the radio you don’t even know?”
Do you not know holdonnow?
I LOVE that man, and his opinions are very much mine, for the most part. I admire him a great deal, and listen every day.
Hatch fooled many people by taking the TEA Party stance right after the 2010 mid term elections, way before he was running for reelection.
So, you are perfect? If so, I will bow before you. Obviously, you believe you have a superior intellect.
BTW, I’ve “known” Mark Levin since long before he had a radio program.
He was must see tee vee during the Clinton administration/impeachment.
One does not need to profess a ‘superior intellect’ to pay attention.
Hatch has been a known quantity for a lot longer than 2010. He has been notorious throughout his career for the run right govern left ploy and it is damn hard to swallow a national radio figure not being aware of it.
And yes, dedicated Palinista that I am, I know she backed him as well. And when she did I said exactly what would happen and said it was a huge mistake.
I was right, they were wrong. That does not make me superior or make me think myself superior. It makes me observant of Hatch and possessing enough sense to base my ‘position’ on observed data, not political manipulation and hero worship.
Speaking of which, for all the bitching the right does about drooling Obama zombies, there are plenty on the right that go utterly ballistic in their defense of their own personal heroes. Such people can either put their trust in their heroes or in their own capacity for observation and reason.
Their choice.
//However, would you agree with me that, with the choice between Romney and Obama, there was NO other choice?//
No I would not. I left the GOP over Romeny and voted for Virgil Goode, someone I agreed with and my party’s candidate. Yes he was on the ballot and my state wasn’t in play. I refused to roll over and vote for a flaming liberal liar like Romney. Romney should never have been the nominee.
I never stay home, I vote but I vote my conscience.
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