Posted on 04/02/2008 5:56:35 PM PDT by COBOL2Java
I don’t think Rush really made McCain - I agree that it was the media, who found a Republican who was really just a covert Dem, and annointed him.
But my point was that Rush really didn’t encourage much discussion on his show among various conservative factions. He played clips from Hillary’s collected works, a few ravings from some leftist commentator or two, and then had callers commenting (some of them favorably) on these things. I think he should have spent more time simply airing conservatives, who get little time from the major media. Instead, all we got to hear was Hillary screaming at us or Osama being unctuous.
Yeah, he’s right. Conservative voters put the Repubs in to do a job and they turned to the left. Now they wonder why they can’t get the votes.
“He never had any conservatives on his show or even paid them much attention. It was all Dems, all the time.”
What are you talking about? Rush RARELY has guests on his show, and I don’t remember him ever having a democrat on as a guest. If you’re talking about the callers, the democrat callers are few and far between, but when he lands a good one, it’s worth the wait.
As for supporting McCain - I’m firmly on Rush’s side on this one, and not because I loathe McCain, but because I EXPECT Rush to tell me the truth - and that includes his honest opinion of the candidates. I neither expect nor want him to sugar coat an unacceptable candidate just because they have an “R” next to their name.
Rush needs to interview as many conservatives as he can. Put them on the spot and encourage them when they espouse conservative thought. Give them exposure.
Rush needs to interview as many conservatives as he can. Put them on the spot and encourage them when they espouse conservative thought. Give them exposure.
Rush is giving the LEADERSHIP McCain is too weak and too RINO to be ABLE to provide.
.....Now they wonder why they can’t get the votes......
No, that is not right. The formula is to trade a few on the right margin for a lot in the center.
the battle will be won left of center, not on the far right.
Winning is what matters. Adherance to inflexable rigid ideaology is not.
Wrong. The democraps pulled and operation CHAOS on the Republicans before we could pull one on them.
He spent more than a year obsessing on the Dems and, particularly, Hillary Clinton. I got so fed up hearing about Dems, hearing interviews with Dems, and hearing Dem callers that I finally quit listening to him.
Verses what? Not enough LArry Craig? Bush border policy? Rush's problem was that not one conservative wanted the job and he knew (like myself) that Thompson was a phony and not serious about wanting the job! Our party was screwed no matter who we chose! McCain was the Democraps crossover chance and they selected him.
“No wonder the Democrats were so desperate to nominate McCain as our candidate.”
I am also not pleased with McCain although I will vote for him over Hillary or Obama. I am hoping his VP choice will make it easier to vote for him!
For some months, it seemed like he was playing recordings of Hillary’s speeches for about a third of his show, followed up by clips of gushy things said about them by various stupid news personalities. If I had wanted to listen to those things, I would have done so in their original. But I wanted to hear other things from Rush.
There was very little discussion or analysis of the Republican candidates, and very little attempt to stir the pot a bit and get us some better candidates. Like it or not, Rush shapes opinion, and I think there was simply a void there. I’m not saying he should have endorsed a candidate, simply that he should have focused more on our candidates and less on theirs.
That is a great way to look at it.
I can’t believe we couldn’t have gotten somebody better. Our candidates were all jokes. There are good younger conservatives; Osama is a relatively young radical leftist, why couldn’t we have gotten a relatively young conservative?
One of the problems is that Bush never cultivated a successor, mainly because he listened to the press and decided that he was the worst thing ever to come down the pike. Since his VP was too old to run, this meant that the usual way an incumbent passes on the torch wasn’t going to work this time.
What I am saying is that Rush should have ignored the Dems and left them to fight it out. Also, his stupid plan to get people to vote for Osama is going to backfire in a big way, because I think that hate-filled, leftist Muslim is actually going to get elected.
He only wants to assure that the fight will last until the convention blowup.
It's that simple. Really........
The only way to prevent that is to encourage Hillary to stay in and destroy him. Then we can beat the shill.
That and Rush does a really pretty good ‘pissed off McCain’ voice.
“IT’s NOT AMNESTY!!”
I hope that you’re being sarcastic, otherwise, I respectfully disagree.
Rush’s ‘principles’ only recently erupted. Where was he in 96, when Bob Dole ran? Dole never met a government handout he didn’t like!
I especially like where Rush just about comes out and says he’s really working for the GOP and McCain RIGHT NOW, and—as he has often been accused of being—is only “principled” for the dough. “If I endorsed McCain, why, the left would suddenly hate him and I’d lose my audience!” I think Rush demonstrated why he’s sticking with his ‘principles’ right there. He’d lose his RNC invite to the Lincoln bedroom, and he’d lose a small fortune in ad revenue if he didn’t.
The reason he didn't is because none of them came to bow in his presence and ask for his blessings. Rush is irrelevant in this election and his ego has been bruised. So, he's acting up by backing Hillary and denigrating McCain as his way of "I'll show you".
Rush is becoming a pain in the a** with his ego, almost as much as Hillary with hers.
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