Posted on 11/05/2008 1:23:02 PM PST by truthandlife
Radio host Rush Limbaugh, the loudest conservative voice in American politics , today blasted John McCain's presidential campaign as weak and said Barack Obama's election as president is an opportunity to purge the Republican Party of candidates who abandon conservative principles.
"McCain's whole campaign was a concession speech," said Limbaugh in his post-election analysis. "We've now demonstrated to everyone how to lose."
Limbaugh dismissed any notion that victories by Democrats in the White House and Congress meant a repudiation of right-leaning principles.
Limbaugh explained conservatism was not on the ballot.
"We haven't been on the ballot since 1994," he said, noting that if Republicans wanted to win elections, they should not put so-called "moderates" on the ballot.
"The conservative movement does not need to be rebuilt," he said. "We had some people abandon the conservative movement, and they need to be abandoned."
The broadcaster called last night's results "an opportunity for cleansing ... like we haven't seen in a long time."
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Rush, where is Vera Baker these days? I am sure Barak would like to know. Maybe Michelle and Vera can compare notes??
Amen, I voted for Thompson in Ohio after we had McCain as our nominee...made me so mad that I had no say in the matter!
Ronald Reagan didn't shut people out of the conservative movement - he brought them in. To this effect he also had an "11th Commandment". We all know what it was. Evidently Rush has forgotten.
“My friend at the University of New Jersey said that rap music and caucasian yutes wearing their hats backwards was the beginning of the Obama campaign. I’m not sure I agree, but he might be on to something.”
Lose these kids, and you’ve lost the future.
It’s that simple.
- John
Try Cold Harbor. We've still got time until Appomattox.
B.S. If you are going to make that argument, then provide examples. Waiting.....
members of the moderate voter continuuuuuuummmm??
How would you propose to attact them to our side?
““We put way too much trust into laisse faire capitalism”
You are part of the problem.
Rush is saying we need to go BACK to the basics.
Take your socialism somewhere else.”
Honestly now, just how are you going to explain the merits of “laisse faire capitalism” to the 40% (and increasing) share of the voters who don’t pay taxes and are looking for whatever they can get from government?
How are you going to explain it to 20 million newly-minted “legal illegals”?
- John
In the State of OK, Conservative Republicans took charge of the OK Senate for the first time in history of the State and kept the OK House to have this the first time that Republicans held both Houses at the same time. This will mark our first year in history for the Senate control and 7th year in HISTORY for House control.
We also took back a Corporation Commissioner seat and held on to another one. We are gearing up to take back the Governor’s office plus other statewide races in 2010.
In OK, we voted McCain 66% and Obama 33% so I would say that Conservative principles are alive and doing very well in OK.
I've seen this mentioned quite a few times, but have no clue how it could actually work. In 1980, I was nominally a Democrat, but supported Reagan. If someone comes in and registers as a Republican, they can vote Republican. I think using NH and Iowa as our leading primaries gives them far more weight than they deserve.
What I see is that conservatism is alive and well, but what has happened is that we've abandoned the three legs that were first assembled by Ronald Reagan. These were fiscal conservatives, small government libertarians, and social conservatives. Bush I and II were perfectly acceptable as social conservatives, but social conservatism alone cannot consistently win, although it is not a losing platform. Social conservatives can be easily wooed by big spending social programs. Currently, small government libertarians are hosed. Nobody is representing them. An additional problem for small government libertarians is they reflexively hate government, and so few are inclined to run for office or play the system. Fiscal conservatives are similarly hosed, as the Republicans totally blew any credibility in that area.
Additionally, I got the feeling that John McCain didn't really want to win. He just wanted to get done with the campaign and go back to Arizona. People supporting Fred, and I was one, would have been similarly disappointed.
I agree, but obviously they are not all lost.
Wanna "win more over"? Fine...
Just as long as those in this 'Big Tent' understand that it is HIGH TIME the Reagan-Wing of the GOP be handed back the keys to the GOP's steering wheel and NOT the RINOs. WE are the only ones who jam the pedal to the metal, a la Palin and take no prisoners.
Let's face it - the Bush-McCain-Schwarzeneggar RINO-wing of the GOP has clearly driven the Party's '72 Dodge Dart over a cliff. 
I beg to differ..we always get elitits...they make sure of it. They actively tried to bring McCain/Palin down. They will not stop until Sarah is destroyed...bet on it. If you are counting the commies from Harvard and Yale as RINOs then I can agree with you.
But the DC GOP establishment will blame this whole thing on Sarah Palin, and the media will play along. I hope she stays in the spot light and fights off the RINOs, but it will be hard from AK.
It’s been proven several times that the national electorate will not approve a Demonrat who openly promises more taxes, as did Mondale, or plots to take over health care, as did Hillary. That’s why 0bama very skillfully portrayed himself as a centrist. He even sounded more warlike toward some foreign countries than McCain or any Republican. I mean, this guy is a masterful liar. Listening to him in the debates, the naive (which is what most sheeple are) would have thought him a reasonable, moderate, thoughtful man. The sheeple don’t listen to Rush. They don’t read FR. They watch the evening news and see everything blamed on Bush and the Pubbies, night after night, and this smooth-talking “nice clean young black man” offers to fix everything, but neither he nor his cronies in the MSM reveal his commie background and lifelong radical associations. So the dopes out there are mostly not voting for wholesale socialism. Most would claim: “I’m just voting for the best man. This stuff about him being a radical is just mud slung by the Republicans. Negative campaigning. He says he’s not a socialist, and I believe him. Anyway, I don’t want any more Bush stuff, and McCain supported Bush.”
Well, Tom McClintock won in CA, one of, supposedly, the most liberal states in the Union. I would say conservatism is not dead.
"I am tired of compromising. Bush compromised over and over again by not fighting the Mongrel hords on the left every time they slammed him. You early state primary people compromised by giving us McCain. The RNC leadership has compromised by putting the Trent Lott's, Denny Hasterts, etc into positions of power...rather than someone with nads."
Boo-yah!
Dubya Bush set the table and silverware for 0bama and libs in several ways over the years - not the least of which was in his dereliction of duty in repelling/defending the U.S. from the illegal invasion. McCain would have followed Bush's initiative on the matter. Bush also NEVER defended himself; And as you state, the so-called House "leadership" of Lott, Hasterts, etal., has been embarrassingly lame.
The GOP has to take the offensive legislatively, culturally, in principle, AND with conviction.
You make an interesting point. But I see it in even simpler terms: Like Coke Classic, Americans want to know what they’re getting. What they’re really getting. We need to do a better job of defining our party and its platform to them. And we better darn well walk the walk.
Republican Classic had a chance in our contract with America and we blew it. We didn’t behave like classic Republicans. All the excesses and scandals since then have only fortified the public opinion that we are certainly no better than the Democrats.
In addition, Americans woke up one morning and, out of the blue, they heard our economy was two days from a total meltdown. I feel they’re very angry they were broadsided with the news and that nothing was done for months and months leading up to the big announcement to head it off. Government’s solution was just to let it come to a crisis and then make Americans pay for it. They don’t like that one bit. Especially when our straight talking President never gave us a warning in advance. He was supposed to care about them and he let them get blindsided by an economic disaster. Worse yet, he couldn’t seem to really explain very well what had happened. And neither did our candidate.
New Republican left a bad taste in their mouths. Now they are switching to Kool-Ade.
“But the DC GOP establishment will blame this whole thing on Sarah Palin, and the media will play along.”
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The hottest thread on FR right now, proves you are correct.
However, there is a widening gap between the DC GOP establishment, let alone the LeftMedia, and the conservative base from where she will get her power.
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