Posted on 02/11/2008 11:19:02 AM PST by pabianice
Heard this afternoon on Rush's show, in response to a caller's question: 'Obama may get the most delegates, but he won't be the Democrat nominee. We're talking about the Clintons here.'
Either one beats McNuts.
Good because McCain is only going to win through the anti-Hillary vote, since he is unable to motivate conservatives to turnout in an otherwise fair-fight.
“It’s the Superdelegates, stupid.”
@ Yep.
Rush in___ October 2006 ___ before the election:
“..But none of it still clicks logically to me why you expect — or why you think — by sending your own people out of power adds up to a good thing, especially positioning you for a re-conquest of that power in 2008. I’ll tell you what’s going to happen. If the Republicans lose the House and the Senate because of principled conservatives who exercise their power by doing nothing, by staying home and [not] voting, and if the Democrats win, they’re not going to stop being kooky and they can’t start being kooky because they are kooky to begin with. It stuns me. ...
“..The idea facilitating all this, while hiding under this or behind the banner of: “I’m principled and they’ve let me down and they need to be taught a lesson.”
Well, fine and dandy, but why is it that you don’t think the left needs to be taught a lesson for their absolutely unbelievable childish, immature, and dangerous behavior the last five years? How do they escape your wrathful eye? How is it that the Democrats somehow don’t make you mad? What is this death wish that some of you have? Why is it you cannot see who the real problem in America is or who your real enemy is in a political sense? Why can’t you see it? And if you do see it, then would somebody explain to me how ignoring the enemy and allowing them to gain more power somehow advances your cause? It may make you feel better, and it may mean that you are selfish, and it may mean you’re trying to portray yourself as smarter and more forward thinking than anybody else.
[]But it’s a death wish, particularly this notion that they’re not going to get anything done in the next two years anyway, and they’ll learn a lesson. Let me tell you about learning a lesson. In two years, you same people who will have helped bring about an ascension to power by the Democrats are going to be so angry; you’re going to be so fed up over what they have tried to do, over the things they will maybe have accomplished, that you are going to demand power back — and you will accept anybody that you think has a chance of winning it.
Right now, that looks like McCain above anybody else — who, I must tell you, is not a conservative — and so what are you probably going to end up doing? You’re going to be so frustrated by 2008 and the thought of Hillary Clinton becoming president is so obnoxious, so abhorrent, that in 2008, you will flush your precious principles down the drain and elect a Republican, precisely the kind of Republican you think you’re running against now. Or you will at least nominate one. Who knows how that election will go. So the very principle that you are fighting here, if you succeed, you will be given a candidate who fits the very thing you’re angry about, somebody who’s not conservative enough, but probably has the best chance of winning. ...” excerpted from
My post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1968154/posts?page=42#42
Disaster Does Loom if Democrats Win,and Will Lead to Nomination of McCain
October 18, 2006
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020808/content/Landmark_Rush_Monologue.member.html
I don’t know whether I would go this far; Obama seems to have lots of momentum. However, the idea of Hillary taking a graceful defeat in stride creates much cognitive dissonance, to be sure.
they will cut a deal... she will be his VP.
“It’s the Superdelegates, stupid.”........and the 900 FBI files...........
Rush can be about himself, but he may be right on this one.
I think Rush is wrong on this one...If Obama wins the state Delegates and the SuperDelegates go to Hillary...the Dems will be just as divided as the GOP and I don’t see their PC culture allowing that to happen.
“Good because McCain is only going to win through the anti-Hillary vote, since he is unable to motivate conservatives to turnout in an otherwise fair-fight.”
I got burned by Bush, and McCain is much worse. Bugger him, and bugger the Republican Party. No more nose-holding. No more “lesser of two evils.” They’ll never get my vote again until they offer a good candidate.
“I don’t see their PC culture allowing that to happen.”
So, being black trumps being a woman in the PC hierarchy?
The Democrat party needs to be thrown into disarray for what is left of the GOP, with McCain wearing the nominee’s mantle, minus their conservative base plus a few anti-Hillary Dem converts to take over the White House for what promises to be a one-and-done engagement.
If that’s what we’re in for, we better have a reliable conservative VP waiting in the wings, wielding some power on some key issues and campaigning for 2012 no later than November 2008.
WTH, this about Obama-Hillary, not the GOP. Can we have at least one thread without the standard anti-McCain line?
I feel your pain. But we’ll feel a lot more pain with Hillary as President.
A Secret Service nightmare - having to protect the president from the VP.
No Way she would ever accept that! She might be willing to go the other way around, but she would never run on the bottom of the ticket. If she did accept the VP position, I would be worried that she is going to go Manchurian Candidate on him.
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