And Limbaugh was right about Paul.
I consider myself a Tea Party guy. I am sorry to all the Paulbots but I would have real trouble pulling the lever for Ron Paul in the election, In the primaries you do what you gotta do and vote your heart. When the election time comes you gotta ask yourself. Self righteous stand or your country.
Paul is the Kucinich for the Republican Party. Period.
The Tea Party will do what it wants. Rush does not speak for them nobody does.
If Wrong Paul is the Tea Party, I guess I don’t belong to the Tea Party!
Rush has been red hot, especially yesterday, and today. He is taking it to the RINO establishment, who are stoking the fire against debate venues anywhere but in the snakepit with liberal panelists who hate our candidates, and us, and who want us to lose.
Today he has to lay out the Paul bot caller on the phone who dares to lecture Rush, and us listeners, on Tea Party principles, never bothering to mention that being suicidal is not a Tea Party principle. Paul’s foreign policy against Israel kills his candidacy from the get-go, and he has no interest in distinguishing the differences between an act of war and a criminal act.
I agree that Ron Paul ain’t the Tea Party.
Equally, Rush Limbaugh ain’t the Tea Party either.
Ron Paul has some valid positions, but also some extreme ones, especially on foreign policy,
I could not support him and I don’t think he has a chance to get the Republican nomination.
I have major concerns about Newt that he is a big government politician, not a principled conservative. We can do better.
Limbaugh either didn’t get it, or intentionally misunderstood it.
The caller said, “That two-party system, two party madness...”
Rush may be forgiven for misunderstanding, because it would likely be the common misunderstanding.
The caller was not talking about a third party candidacy.
He was talking about how, once in office, America seems to be stuck with a choice between a Democrat and a RINO Republican. A choice between radical liberal and just liberal is NOT A CHOICE.
What the caller wants is a Republican candidate who is NOT a liberal. Who won’t be like Romney or Gingrich and cement Obamacare so that we, America, are stuck with that disaster. Who won’t create a Cap & Trade nightmare to appease pseudo-scientists. Who won’t continue the process of destroying our nation.
Even Reagan did not do what conservatives wanted, to actually CUT the budget. He just slowed the rate of growth. But actually CUT the budget. He even called himself a “Roosevelt Democrat”, as if that was a good thing.
We want a president who will CUT the size and power of the federal government. Not to “move on”, accepting what the Democrat radicals have done as something unchangeable and eternal. BUT END IT.
To paraphrase Reagan, “MR. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE, TEAR DOWN THIS MONSTROUS AND BLOATED GOVERNMENT!”
America DOES NOT WANT Obamacare. America DOES NOT WANT an immense and spendthrift federal government. America DOES NOT WANT politicians, Democrat *or* Republican, who simply ignore this message.
The Tea Party and America itself are yelling at the top of our lungs: “CUT IT OUT!” But they are deaf and blind.
Romney ignores us. Gingrich ignores us. They all have the magnificent temples they want built to their legacy in their minds.
“If I become president, I will spend more, build more, make huge and giant government edifices in my honor! Always more, more, MORE!”
“I will federalize MORE state lands! I will spend vast amounts on whatever! I will not cut back anything one iota! I will spend TRILLIONS, QUADRILLIONS of dollars!!!”
Please, enough with the liberal egomania. Can’t we have a president, after all these years, who agrees that America only needs our military in a dozen places around the world, not 100 different nations, as it is today.
A president who accepts that often when foreigners war with each other, it is not up to us to say that they shouldn’t.
A president who uses tax cuts to move people accepting government largess off of government largess? It doesn’t have to hurt anyone, but government should not be giving them money. Because it is not the job of government to give people money.
A president who will actually give state lands taken by the federal government back to their rightful owners, the states. Not put the majority of states off limits to the people who live there, for no reason at all, except to deny it to them.
A president who will lay off a hundred thousand or more federal employees, cancel a hundred thousand frivolous and unconstitutional government regulations, and make taxes fair and simple enough for a person with a high school diploma to fill out.
This is what America deserves. Not “That two-party system, two party madness...”
Now that kook and his cult are trying to pollute the Tea Party like they pollute the GOP primary process. Ron Paul is NOT Tea Party, NOT conservative, and NOT GOP.
One thing that Ron Paul has is consistency and clarity in
stating his position, and trust. None of others seem to demonstrate these traits.
The big negatives on Paul are his foreign policy stance and some of his social values. Although I supported Bush’s Iraq operation... once he said that the U.S. needs to bring “democracy to the Middle East” I went against his over reach. I’m coming to believe that any Republican President, Ron Paul included, would use the military to vigorously protect the U.S. in case of attack.
To me, the big issues are stopping illegal immigration, drastically cutting spending, reigning in the Fed, and throwing Obama and the entrenched liberals out of the federal government. Without these, there is no US. The other issues can be argued out over once we survive. I believe we are in “emergency mode.”
Although I’m not a Paul activist, I now believe he supports these issues better than other candidates. I’m starting to change to Ron Paul because of these issues and the surplus of RINO’s offered. The GOP has better candidates, but they don’t want to run. In short, he displays his trust by his actions and consistent message.
I listened to Rush today as usual. He ranted. I think he always loses out when he rants. Today he seemed pure ego. That Angela caller got to him. Maybe he deserves to toot his own horn every now and then. Levin ranted today too, more than usual. When he does it, I hate it because he calls people names, especially Obama. He does it to the point of insanity, pal. He doesn’t seem to get it that there are troops of every rank who may hear him during drive home. They may not like Obama either but he’s their Commander in Chief. I live near Fort Bliss. Levin is becoming an issue in this market. I thought Conservatives were beginning to win the game of common sense and ideas. Today, everything sounds frantic and desperate. Maybe just an off day. .
Let’s keep this conversation simple.
Rush Limbaugh is full of shit and is a revisionist populist actively engaging in highjacking and either resteering or if he fails at that, capsizing the original straightforward message of the original Tea Party participants.
The origins of the Tea Party that is worried about overtaxation and out of control Government spending is actively protesting against out of control Government spending on foreign policy including State Dept and Defense Dept authorizations.
Johnny come lately hangers-on and special interest scoundrels draped in flags can voice their distortions through mouthpieces like Limbaugh, but Limbaugh has nothing to do with the Tea Party, and is just as much a source of comfort to the overspending and overtaxing Beltway insiders as is the Defense industry lobbyists who have paid certain Tea Party groups into forging an aggressive foreign policy to maintain and increase current Defense and State Dept budgets.
WTF? The "Godfather" of the Tea Party?
Rush is wrong on this and other issues.
There is a lot to recommend Ron Paul and he would clearly be much better than Obama. But he’s got a few notions that seem just a bit goofy.
She’s absolutely right about Newt, however. There isn’t much difference between him and Romney.
Rush is right on that point. Except for the empty rhetoric they employ almost all the GOP candidates have the exact same Globalist foreign policy as the Obama Maladministration which is a seamless continuation of the policy from the Bush\Clinton\Bush years.