Posted on 03/23/2015 2:05:41 PM PDT by servo1969
RUSH: Here's what I worry about on the Republican side. I told this to Ted Cruz. He asked. Don't sweat it. I wasn't volunteering things. He asked. One of the things I've noticed over the 25-plus years of doing this program, every Republican primary, doesn't matter, every Republican presidential primary, there's a series of candidates. Some are conservative, some are okay, some are bad, but they're conservatives. Some have been really good. And we take 'em out one by one because they're not perfect.
I'll give you an example. One of the first days -- well, recent first days. One of the recent days on which I was touting Scott Walker within the context of, "Hey, here's a guy, we all talk about somebody needs to stand up to the left and not be afraid to do it, he's done it. He's beat 'em three out of four elections. They've thrown everything at him they throw at all of us, and he has beat them." I've talked about Scott Walker as a blueprint, not just a blueprint building the building, but he actually built the building. He's implemented his agenda. He's shown that conservatism works in a blue state. I've been through all that.
I start getting e-mails from names you would know that I'm not gonna tell you. "Rush, be very careful. He's not right on immigration." I looked and I said, "Don't tell me." These were people who wanted me to walk back what I was saying about Scott Walker because he just wasn't saying the exact thing they wanted to hear on amnesty or whatever it was. But that's just one example.
With Cruz it's gonna be something else, somebody, some conservative blog or some conservative host, some conservative media type somewhere is gonna find one thing that candidate X, conservative candidate X falls short on and they're gonna say disqualifies him. And this happens. This is one of the reasons why the Republican Party ends up with the McCains and the Romneys as the nominee, because this quest for conservative perfection ends up doing great damage to individual conservatives in the race.
I think you have to go into this understanding that there isn't a perfect candidate. There is not a single candidate who's gonna be a hundred percent right on everything. I've always single-issue politics is our death knell, or it's a huge problem. And it has been. It's proven out. So I'm just gonna be watching all of that with great interest, too. 'Cause, as I say, I mean, I've already been the recipient of people trying to talk me out of. And I hadn't endorsed Scott Walker. I haven't endorsed anybody. And the way they did it was, "Hey, yeah, Rush, be very careful. You may not know, but Scott Walker is not," blah, blah, whatever, "on immigration. I wouldn't want you to embarrass yourself."
What they're really trying to do was to get me to walk it back, take back some of the enthusiasm, for whatever reasons they had, they chose somebody else, or they really thought Walker wasn't as good as the conventional wisdom, what have you. My point is this quest for perfection, which sometimes descendants into nothing more than single issue-ism, can be damaging and even destructive.
Compromise is the enemy of Liberty, or so the recent past has shown.
I look at multiple issues and Cruz is ahead of Walker on Amnesty, Obamacare and Common Core.
Walker caved on gay marriage when the local judge legalized it, refusing to challenge it.
We need a candidate who appeals to:
National Security Conservatives
Economic Conservatives
Social Conservatives
Small Government Conservatives
Constitutional Conservatives
On the evidence of their whole careers and consistent policy positions, who would that be?
We just cannot win with people.
If we don’t try to get candidates to address where they are weak before the field gets thin, idiots will criticize us for not bringing it up sooner. Why didn’t you mention it earlier, its too late now.
If we bring it up early we’re single issue voters, and it’s our fault we get McCains.
If we never bring it up until after they’re elected then it’s “you knew what you were getting, he said it all along”.
Jeezum Crow. Can’t efffing win. We’re trying to make good candidates better by alerting them to the fact that hey, something is not right in your candidacy and fix it early and right now when you’ve got a lot of momentum and friends and those who wish you’re going to be even better to vote for.
Dammit.
Sorry to disagree with Rush but sometimes those single issues are deal killers.
Like a guy I used to know who was educated, charming, well-groomed, and etc.
Narrow minded little me I just couldn’t get past the teensy-weensy little detail of his being a drug addict.
Likewise, certain of my principles are not subject to compromise or debate, like it or not.
This guy you’re talking about is Rush Limbaugh, right? He of the Oxycontin addiction.
Capitulation is not compromise.
I had to look that up! I didn’t know about that until now.
But thanks for thinking Rush Limbaugh wanted to date me!
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Who wouldn’t? ;)
You have to admit though we have the best circular firing squad on the ‘net here at FR.
Be very aware of people who use the “single issue” term.
Immigration, both legal and illegal, are issues which directly affect crime, jobs, national security, the economy and nearly everything else.
Compromising with bad policy is like adding a little sewage to your drinking water.
Better? See tagline. That is more the word I was searching for. Thank you.
Everyone has a deal breaker, for me its amnesty and H-1b. I hope Cruz can knock off this increase of 500,000 in H-1b visas he is proposing.
Humm, I like Rush ok, but he didn’t exactly get it right the last election if I remember correctly.
- fiscal correction/strict cutting - outright halting of illegal immigration - 2nd amendment
... and not necessarily in that order, they are all priority #1.
There are no compromises on any of those, sorry Rush
Good enough means you don't give in on anything that is lethal to liberty - immigration, second amendment, etc.
Immigration and gun control are pretty immediate threats to liberty. Obamacare and banking failure will drive us to poverty, and the immigrants and young folks inducted into Howard Zinn's reality will cry out for a strong man to fix things.
We've done this 'perfect/good' two step so many times, that anything really conservative is now considered the unobtainable perfect thing.
Be very aware of people who use the “single issue” term.
Immigration, both legal and illegal, are issues which directly affect crime, jobs, national security, healthcare the economy and nearly everything else.
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BTW, the American people were spoon fed the same “single issue” term when it came to electing Bush, in regards to immigration/borders.
Watch and be very careful of those who again use this “single issue” term. It’s a diversion/evasion.
remember the ol’ story: when a group of thoroughbreds are endangered by the pack of wolves they form a circle, heads inward and kick outward. When jack-asses face danger they circle up facing the wolves and kick each other.
So, what are we to be - thoroughbreds, or jackasses???
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