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."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
This is not the same country as when Ronald Reagan was President.
The conservative wing of the republican party is no different than the reactionaries of old.
We can look back and lament or look forward and embrace our candidate or sit back and whine that our guy/gal is not perfect. whine whine whine.
Evidently winning is not as important as whining.
Ugh.
I think you need to be cleansed.
“We’ve now demonstrated to everyone how to lose.”
That was genius. Sums up everything in a sentence. Frum, Parker, Brooks— they wanted McCain. They got him. He lost. They had their chance. Purge.
Its not just a matter of conservatives versus moderates.
We have to put people on the ballot who are capable of explaining and defending our principles.
Its not enough to blab on about tax cuts. People are not motivated by tax cuts, especially when increasing numbers of people pay almost no tax.
You have to explain what we thought we’d never have to explain, which are the founding principles of this country, the importance of liberty, the connection between liberty and prosperity, the importance of taking responsibility for your self, your family, your community, and not abdicating it to some far away central government.
These things aren’t explained anymore, not in school, not anywhere in the public media, so if we don’t do it it doesn’t happen. A bumper sticker about tax cuts isn’t going to get it anymore.
The war of ideas is fought on three battlefields:
#1. The schools and universities.
#2. The news media.
#3. The entertainment media.
We’ve abdicated all three and the results are here for all to see. We’ve got to take them back, or build our own, or expect to see ourselves marginalized and pushed to the sidelines until there is nothing left to save.
Good editorial on this at getliberty.org. Makes the same point Rush does — conservatives didn’t lost, the RNC did.
Have you given some thought to the prospect that what the sheep saw for the last 8 years wasn't all that different than what Obama was promising and decided to go with the new guy?
If given a glimpse of "true" Ronald Reagan conservatism, voters may react differently. We need a candidate who believes in it and can communicate it.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.... this from the man who has been a Bush lap dog for years now. We need strong conservatives running the show, not the politics of appeasement.
It was a replay of Bob Dole ‘96 and Bush, Sr.’s namby-pamby run in ‘92. At times it seemed like McCain didn’t really want it and felt no urgency to win or to defeat Obama.
Every Republican SOB with more than 1 term needs to go! We want leaders who stand not kneel.
Amen
Ingraham was ‘big tent’, Limbaugh was not.
I turned off Laura a few minutes later. She has a busload of liberal pals that she spends all her time with or they come on her show.
Let me put it this way about Mitch:
I do not consider him a conservative. He’s into a bit of that nanny gate himself.
He thinks GOVERNMENT can help you get healthy. We taxpayers pay for a website to that effect where citizens can go and get ‘inspired’ to get healthy. We’ve paid for commercials to that effect too.
He was a BIG BACKER of that monument to greed that is the new Colts stadium. You have no idea. You should see that thing.
I went through this stadium crap in Houston, and it’s nothing but corporate welfare.
Conservatism isn’t dead. The USA isn’t going off the deep end when O takes office. Rush has become a lunatic IMHO and his insistence on the ONE RIGHT WAY has been adopted by the GOP to its detriment.
Maybe the GOP and the conservatives ought to listen to somebody outside of their group-think herd and see if they are missing something.
parsy, who doesn’t think at all sometimes.
"Moderate" Republicans were given carte blanche opportunity to demonstrate, once and for all, that they knew how to win at the national level, this year.
They got exactly the candidate they wanted. They got exactly the party platform they wanted. The campaign was run exactly the way they wanted it run.
How'd that end up working out, again...?
LOL, I'm sure the MSM would have properly respected Gov Romney's religious beliefs and not have made an issue of them in their coverage.
Get real...Now playing at a liberal media near you...The Mormon and The Snake Handler
And you and your unaffected RINO friends are doing what right now? Sipping Pinot Grigio and plotting the NEXT lame, whimpy RINO loser for the GOP to toss into the ring like a piece of raw hamburger?
"We can look back and lament or look forward and embrace our candidate or sit back and whine that our guy/gal is not perfect. whine whine whine."
"Perfect"??
The GOP ran John McCain - a political version of a 1972 Dodge Dart with a smoking muffler and YOU act as though McCain was the BEST the Republicans had to offer??
In your next life, please come back as as crash dummie.
The Sheep WANT Socialism...
I liked it when WE offered genuine HOPE.
Perfect. ;)
Rush is right......but don’t overlook the fact that we had Congress under the Contract With America.....and we blew it.
The GOP could have abolished the executive washroom, instead they just changed the lock on the door.
Oh, what an opportunity was missed in ‘95.
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