@ 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
You and Rush were absolutely right. I pleaded with people to go vote Republican in 2006. Those of us who are not going to vote for McCain still need to go vote for all the other Republicans. It’s what I intend to do. No sense giving Obama more Democrats to work with. By all means, keep McCain from destroying the Republican Party, but don’t give it all away.
“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.”
“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?”
These are wise quotes that a great many FReepers are far too stubborn to pay attention to. And the biggest loser from all this is going to be our country.
Because we already know they don't care in the slightest what conservatives think. That's a pretty silly question... they'd ship us off to North Korean re-education camp in a heartbeat.
WHOA! Rush needs to start his own "Psychic Friends Network" hot line.
I also think that the 2006 disaster was a sign of bad things to come for the GOP. Nobody cared about consequences. We were in the middle of the Iraq war- things were NOT STABLE in that country- And the dems were screaming every day that they would de-fund the troops in order to cause surrender in Iraq.
The GOP sat on their a$$es in a "protest vote". The dems got back in- they tried their BS, but fortunately-after 6 years -president Bush decided that at least one thing- the WOT- was more important than "the new tone" and getting along with the left. He found his Veto pen.
Now we have the current mess- where it seems what's being advocated is to let the dems have it-in order to "slap some common sense" back into the citizenry?
Is this a good idea? Two words:Madeline Albright.
I have no idea what I'll do- other than pray for our nation(a must for all of us). I just don't think I can vote for McCain. I DON'T TRUST HIM.
...and he does that with half his brain tied behind his back...