Posted on 02/22/2013 1:43:36 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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RUSH: There's this ongoing battle about me being too conservative for the Republican Party and too powerful, and the Republican Party is scared of me, and nobody will stand up to me, and they're not gonna get anywhere until they have the guts to stand up to me because I'm too conservative and they need to be more moderate. They need to move to the center, but I won't let them. But really, how powerful am I? How good am I? And then people are out there saying, "Look at Limbaugh's track record in presidential races. He's 1-for-6."
In the first place I'm 3-for-6, but the whole premise is flawed because I don't pick a single candidate. I am not in charge of any candidate anywhere and his campaign. I don't choose the consultants. I don't choose the ad people. I've got nothing to do -- and never have had anything to do -- with one election in this country. Zilch, zero, nada. So this is the kind of thing I'm talking about. This is the kind of stuff that is just infantile, and it's insulting, and it's insulting to everybody's intelligence... --snip--
On the Republican side, it's not just truth. Sarah Palin wasn't wrong about anything. She didn't lie about anything. Sarah Palin embarrassed some people. So they had to get rid of her. The point is, the Republicans will not circle the wagons and defend very many. Conservatives will not circle the wagons and defend. Now, I defended Clarence Thomas not even knowing who he was 'cause I knew what happened. I knew the libs were lying about him because I know the libs.
There are some conservatives today, if Clarence Thomas was accused today about Anita Hill, would throw him overboard....
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There are some conservatives today, if Clarence Thomas was accused today about Anita Hill, would throw him overboard....Anyone that would bail on Clarence Thomas is not a true Conservative.
I have been a Rush fan for as long as I can remember, certainly before Dan’s Bake Sale.
I agree with most everything he says.
Thanks to my DAR.FM I can listen to Rush every day from here in Asia, at anytime that I want.
Rush is right.
As always.
Don’t doubt me.
I’ve listened to Rush off and on since 1989.
He has alwsys maintained that Republicans lose elections when they are not conservative enough. Moderation, for Republicans, is the kiss of death.
We need more Republicans who won’t take crap from media people. One of the reasons Newt Gingrich is popular among conservatives is that he hits back, he gives as well as he gets in debates and interviews. He isn’t popular with those folks who are deeply moral, want Christian purity, and are concious of outward appearances.
One of the greatest risks in our political system is the person who changes after being elected to an office. The conservative who morphs into a political moderate is every conservative’s nightmare but that is the reality of wheeler-dealer politics in Washington - sometimes you have to give a little to gain a bit. Unfortunately, over time the giving-in comes to dominate and the reciprocal votes disappear.
Right now the biggest threat to our nation is the big money being spread around by international banksters. They buy politicians and judge and God only know who!
>>We need more Republicans who won’t take crap from media people. One of the reasons Newt Gingrich is popular among conservatives is that he hits back, he gives as well as he gets in debates and interviews.
Spot on, and worth saying again.
In the 2012 primaries I was initially for Herman Cain, and then later Newt, for exactly this reason. It is why I am fast becoming a big fan of Senator Cruz.
We must have candidates who can take on the media. Dole and Romney show us why the alternative is a disaster.
>> Right now the biggest threat to our nation is ...
The dominant Leftwing component of mainstream “journalism”.
Wow I am so tired of hearing/reading Republicans and other conservatives arguing among themselves in the hearing of the Dems and the entire world.
I see that Correa won in Ecuador against SEVEN opponents. There were seven of them because they had no PLAN and couldn’t organize or agree among themselves about what the alternative should be.
Until we understand unity and omerta, can we please stop the endless soul-searching in public? I am SO sick of the endless analysis and op-eds and breast-beating while the Dems just keep playing their same old tune: Give the store away and eat up the profits and the seed corn too while you’re at it and get re-elected.
Please can we get a simple, coherent message together and shut up until we do?
The founding fathers were ultra conservatives. ‘nuff said.
MSM “journalism” has been described as the PR component of the liberal Democrat political operation.
It’s the other way around. Liberal Democrats are the political component of MSM journalism. That’s where the nest is.
“Anyone that would bail on Clarence Thomas is not a true Conservative.”
I think that is the entire point. The gope hates our guts. We ‘embarrass’ them.
A couple of words come to mind but I can only say one. **** YOU!!!
Rush obviously does a lot of good.
But he goes astray IMO in two directions:
1) Backing and sucking up to GOPe players like the Bushes, right or wrong, and
2) With an offputtingly blind spot and style when deriding liberal women, such as calling Sandra Fluke a ‘slut’. He does needlessly alienate moderate women and give ammunition to the opposition with such antics.
So, yes, he would be more effective for the cause if he’d back more tea party, grassroots conservatives, but be less offensive to women while doing so.
>>lease can we get a simple, coherent message together and shut up until we do?<<
For some inexpiable reason, we Conservatives suffer consistently and constantly from Massive Error in Thinking #1: We Must Be Perfect. Thus we Must Kill Good to ensure Perfect Reigns..
That’s part of it. It’s also that we’re really the intelligent party—too intelligent for our own good. We’re all geniuses. We’ve got to stop trying to prove we’re the smartest person in the room and get practical-smart.
The problem isn’t conservatives being too conservative. It is capitalist liberals pretending to be conservative. Liberal MO can be clearly seen in actions against Catholic church.
Soros and company have spent millions in creating fake Catholic organizations, infiltrating the Catholic media, and distorting the church’s message in public media. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/atheist-soros-funds-catholic-groups/
They initially appeal to nobler motives such as helping the poor, health care access, etc., then they subliminally distort messages such abortion, and other clear teachings of the church, they become activists, they criticize, and then complain about how “outdated” the church is demanding “change”. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/canon-lawyer-bishop-has-warned-national-catholic-reporter/
For example, National “CATHOLIC” Reporter has been funded by Soros groups and serves no other purpose than to criticize the church and to paint a negative picture. Then the secular media endlessly recycles old cases of abuse and never misses an opportunity to deceptively associate abuse issues with any current news such as the Pope’s retirment. You would never know it, but abuse in the Catholic church was no more prevalent than any other organization, today it is less so.
The church gets in the way of their agenda and so do real conservatives. The Tea Party and Limbaugh are getting the Catholic treatment. We do have to support each other, and come together under our common belief in God.
The problem isn’t conservatives being too conservative. It is capitalist liberals pretending to be conservative. Liberal MO can be clearly seen in actions against Catholic church.
Soros and company have spent millions in creating fake Catholic organizations, infiltrating the Catholic media, and distorting the church’s message in public media. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/atheist-soros-funds-catholic-groups/
They initially appeal to nobler motives such as helping the poor, health care access, etc., then they subliminally distort messages such abortion, and other clear teachings of the church, they become activists, they criticize, and then complain about how “outdated” the church is demanding “change”. http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/canon-lawyer-bishop-has-warned-national-catholic-reporter/
For example, National “CATHOLIC” Reporter has been funded by Soros groups and serves no other purpose than to criticize the church and to paint a negative picture. Then the secular media endlessly recycles old cases of abuse and never misses an opportunity to deceptively associate abuse issues with any current news such as the Pope’s retirment. You would never know it, but abuse in the Catholic church was no more prevalent than any other organization, today it is less so.
The church gets in the way of their agenda and so do real conservatives. The Tea Party and Limbaugh are getting the Catholic treatment. We do have to support each other, and come together under our common belief in God.
>>That’s part of it. It’s also that we’re really the intelligent party—too intelligent for our own good. We’re all geniuses. We’ve got to stop trying to prove we’re the smartest person in the room and get practical-smart.
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I have always believed that is art of Rush’s “reach.” He doesn’t talk “up” and he doesn’t talk “down.” He consistently looks his audience in the face and says “here is how I see what is (1+1, PiR2, QQQ, etc.”)
Rush has always been honest that way. Even for the dimwits on the left he always walks the concept and the logic.
Isn’t it funny that when the left attacks him they do it out of context? And inevitably Rush must only hit the “replay” button
That alone has always been the price of admission.
1. Yes you are correct on Rush and his supporting Bush I and II. The Bush’s are not conservative....and share most of the same Liberal Globalist ideas as Clinton and Obama. Gosh, the Bush Family should have ran the Borders bookstore chain.....because the Bush Family would never close a Border.
2. Rush was correct to go after Sandra Fluke. Fluke’s comments made it sound like every young woman was just a “U-Haul for sperm” and needed free birth control like a fat kid needed cake. The Liberal Media just wanted to go after Limbaugh for any reason. I doubt even most liberal women felt comfortable w Fluke’s comments. Rush even ended up with more support and higher show ratings after the Liberal Media attacked him.
Again, Rush was right. Sandra is/was a slut. Do the math! Any woman who needs to purchase that much birth control annually must be getting serviced by many men per week. That is the quintessential definition of the word.
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