Posted on 02/02/2012 12:44:53 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: Pete, South Hold, New York, glad you waited, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush how you doing? I love you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very good. Thank you very much.
CALLER: You're the only thing that keeps me sane, but after 25 years of watching politics, listening to you, I'm giving up. I've come to the realization that people aren't misinformed or ill-informed. They're just plain stupid.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Obama's got 48% approval rating. Who are these people? What planet do they live on?
RUSH: That happens to correspond to the number of households that are receiving a government check of some kind.
CALLER: Well, it's just too much to overcome, Rush. I have ten good years left, I can't put up with the aggravation. I talk to these people every day. They give me every reason in the world why they support this clown in the White House.
RUSH: Let me give you two words. New Zealand.
CALLER: (laughing.)
RUSH: I know what you mean. I know exactly what you mean. Take any person in this country who's totally absorbed in pop culture. The big thing in their life is watching Entertainment Tonight. They vote. If they vote, we're screwed. You know damn well they haven't the slightest idea what's going on. But that's always been the case. There's nothing new about it, Pete. The number of people who are clueless, uninvolved, no interest whatsoever, they've always had a sizeable percentage of the American population that qualify for that characterization. You're just older than most and you're far more informed than most, and you're saying, "How come other people can't see it?" And you're singing my tune.
CALLER: It's gonna take 150 years to turn that attitude around, Rush. I just haven't got the time.
RUSH: Well, if you've only got ten years left it's not your problem.
CALLER: (chuckles)
RUSH: I'll work on it. Look... (sigh) It's dire, this health care bill. And I want to tell you again: If this guy with his 42% approval rating, with his unpopularity issue to issue -- you look at Obama issues and look at how they poll -- if this guy gets reelected? Katie, bar the door! When there's no accountability, when there's not another election to win, it isn't gonna matter. The next four years is where Obama is gonna be totally devoted to fully implementing the agenda he's been trying to hide in large part these three years. It's going to be earth-shattering, and the next four years is when where you wish were happening now is going to happen. The next four years, if he gets reelected, is when people are gonna say, "Oh, my God, what have we done?"
You think it should be happening now. Wait 'til the next four years if he gets reelected. That's when it's going to happen. Because nobody is going to be untouched by this. Everybody is gonna be made poorer. Everybody is going to lose a significant amount of liberty, just in Obamacare alone. Everybody is going to see the elementary basics of life shoot up in price: Food, gasoline, whatever. It's going to skyrocket, and that's when people are going to say, "Oh, my God, what happened?" At a certain point in time in the future, there isn't going to enough money in the hands of other people to tax it and redistribute it. They will be bled dry. The Golden Goose won't exist.
If this guy gets four more years, there's nothing stopping him. The fact that he won't have to get reelected. There won't be any games of extending the Bush tax cuts, for, for example. There won't be any health care waivers. There won't be any delaying the onslaught of the massive increase in the size, reach, and scope of government. There's a reason Obamacare doesn't fully implement 'til 2014. If it fully implemented by now, no Democrat would be reelected in November. That's why this is important. That's why so many people are pulling their hair out over the Republican primary and demanding -- hoping, praying -- for a genuine conservative. That's why people are willing to overlook some of the baggage, because the people that do get it, Pete, like you, understand what's at stake here.
People that don't yet understand it, 'cause they're too clueless, in a fog, wandering around... I know what you're wondering: How can people get up every day and be happy? How can people get up every day and laugh with what's happening in the country. I know. You turn on your television and you watch a sporting event or you watch a television show, whatever it is, and you wonder: "How come these people don't get it? How can these people not understand what's going on?" You expect there to be, expressed by everybody, an awareness that we are in trouble. And when you don't see it, you scratch your head and ask, "What are these dummkopfs not seeing?" I know exactly how you feel. It's what we're trying to change here.
We're all in the same boat together at the same time. In 2013, no more nice Obama. Another thing about the airlines. I left something out that's very important and I shoulda sent it. This is on top of the list in terms of reasons. The unfunded pension plans that they are responsible for, they're talking $10 billion to $50 billion in underfunded pensions, if you look industry-wide. I'll guarantee you... I can't say this conclusively without looking it up and confirming it. But my wild guess would be that of the airlines year-to-year that do well, they're either not union, or a very small percentage of the workforce is union. And the airlines that are in huge, big trouble owe money years and years and years in the future to retired employees who aren't going to be productive. And it's choking 'em. That would be probably at the top of the list, to answer the question.
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Really???
Mitt Romney is a viable alternative to the name dropping you just did???
Delusional???
It erally wasn’t much of a struggle for me to tell Romney to his face back in 2007 when he rolled through Houston on his “white” horse, expecting the red carpet to be rolled out for him as well...
I told him I cannot support him for President at that time because of his liberal tendencies and positional record...
Where the hell were you kemosabe??? What have YOU done for conservatism in the great state of Texas lately??? hmmmmmm???
Do you volunteer on campaigns, do you poll watch??? do you block walk??? Do you volunteer or run an election in your voting precinct??? I do all of that and then some for people I know for a fact are not RiNO’s...So you can take that poorly assembled assumption of your and shove it...
You seem to be fairly easy to compramise your “so-called” conservative principles for the sake and hope that Romney will defeat Obama in the general election...
Let me know how that suckers bet works out for ya...
You are like that biblical lesson about the glass of tepid water...You are neither hot, nor cold, so I spew you from my mouth...
I have no use for people who compramise their principles for causes like this...
To be honest, and as much as it pains me to say, I will do my best to weather another 4 years of Obama, than have to live under the false and feckless pretenses of a moderate/liberal like Romney who won’t do jack sh!t to correct the problems created by the current occu-pooper in the White House now...
Psssst, I’ll tell you a little secret...I had about 30 minutes with Romney that evening before the rest of the Executive committee filed in for our quarterly meeting that year...He’s a nice guy...But being a nice guy can only go so far with me, especially when you run for President...His wife is a charmer, and he needed to hear what I and a couple other folks wanted to say...In the hope he would figure out what he needed to make credible adjustments in his positions on issues...
Guess what...He didn’t change a thing...So guess what...
Well, you already know...I think yer a smart feller...
So before you go questioning my (and others) conservative credentials and record, I’d do a little more digging...I am not a hard person to find...
My advise, pay a little more attention this election cycle to the down ballot races...The Presidency is only one race in a slate of many we need to keep in our hands to neuter the next two years till we get to do it ALL over again...Notice I didn’t say 4 years...
I apologise for the tone in my response, but you threw down the gauntlet...Don’t think for a second I do not dare to not pick that up when questioned like that...
What? You have no idea who I am and I have no idea who you are. Also, I have no idea why your addressing me in this manner.
I would only recommend that you buy a clue and go bother somebody else.
Bump. Liberal Republicans always do the most damage, because they ratify and validate whatever the 'Ratscum Progs have necromanced into being during their term of office.
Bob Taft's defeat at the 1952 convention by the rich "Me Too" Republicans who recruited Eisenhower (their spawn pulled the same stunt in California, getting Arnold Schwarzenegger to step up, in order to frustrate the conservatives who'd actually beaten Gray Davis) was a seminal disaster for the country.
We needed to be pitching out big chunks of FDR's poisoned meat, but Eisenhower and the "business as usual" wing of the GOP never touched a stick of FDR's legacy -- allowing liberal MediaLiars to pretend that it was now "the national consensus" that America should be a welfarist crack-ho's dream.
You were addressed, because you were included in your buddy lentulusgracchus’ posts. If it offends you, I suggest you address him and look to the company you keep.
Go pound sand busybody.
It concerns you not who’s company I keep.
Like I said, go bother somebody else.
There’s a difference between compromising one’s conservative principles, which I have never done and understanding reality.
(Saying it here and proving that are two entirely different things...And seeing what your history is on the issue at hand, I don’t believe you for one second!!!)
I hope Newt or Santorum can defeat Romney and/or they can at least win enough delegates to get us to a brokered convention, but I do not believe that is going to happen.
(Again, bullbutter!!!)
Should that be the case, I am wise enough to do what Reagan did back in 1976 and suck up my pride and support the Republican ticket, because (in my opinion and that of a great many others) an Obama second term will be a nightmare unrivaled in the last 60 years—perhaps worse even that FDR’s socialist revolution.
(We finally agree, you are a suck up...But you go right ahead and do all the hoping and changing you wanna do this election cycle...ME??? I’d rather fight the good fight from my more conservative position(s) than suck it up and just go with the flow and Romney...I believe a Republican Party majority in the house and Senate can hold off a lot of the nonsense we know is going to be tried by Obama for 4 years...And like I’ve said many times before, those Republicans are on borrowed time...If they suck up like you would have them do, then they can certainly be fired in two years...It’ll be like one big happy party in 2014...I look forward to seeing how this goes...)
Bump to #169
Bump to #169
47% pay no federal income taxes. Of the remaining, 10%+ are unionistas, Add in the remainder of 95% of blacks and Jews not in the first categories, and all the liberal white guilt idiots, and yeah, as a nation we are stupid enough to elect this douche bag again. I bet reparations will be explicit this time, as opposed to all the implicit reparations since Johnson.
Wow, ain’t you just the sleuth of all sleuths...Yer a regular Woodward and Bernstein I bet...
I used to come to FR for a little fun and conversation with people of a conservative bent...then I discovered several people, like yourself, who believe they are a legend in their own mind...And people like you tend to assume way too much about people, then attack, as if you are the quintessential political intellectual...You go right ahead and vote for a liberal this November...Why should I even attempt to disuade you from doing that...
I didn’t know Barrack (yer buddy) creased his pants...I try not to notice things like that in any man’s wardrobe...But then again, I’m not going to judge or assume anything about you, I don’t already know...
I, and many others, will always remember FReeper “Sudetenland” as a liberal-progressive/RiNO “elitist” enabler, who could not fight his way out of a paperbag because of his elementary political cowardice...
Besides, your FReeper “about me” page, is about as exciting as watching cars rust...Glad I didn’t have to waste that much time affirming your cowardice...
Ohhhh, and you talk a lot about dodging questions to you...YOU have still not answered a single thing from #162...
Using the word “alleged” is a liberal media tactic, something that comes very easy to you...
I do not have to insinuate anything concerning your “credentials”...Conservative or otherwise...
My acceptance of a second term of Obama has nothing to do with where my support for that office stands...It has to do with the reality that people like you would not accept anyone else other than what the Republican party leadership and country-clubbing elitists tell you to support...
Because if you fall for their logic that it is Mitt’s turn...
Yer dumber than a bag of hammers, and I knew there would be people like you around to prove themselves as political cowards from the start...
Now, before you try to get your panties in (or out of) a wad...Please do some of that outstanding sleuthin’ to deduce “truthfully” (he, I shudder to use the term) determine the true nature of my support for what candidate, that is left in the GOP lineup, that I might remotely vote for in this ONE race in November...
If you say Ron Paul, it will confirm what we already know about you...If you do not research this question, it proves it again...
Hint: this goes ALLLLLLLL the way back to the previous general election...Let’s see if you have the tenacity and attention span greater than a gnat to figure this out...
I have my doubts, but I feel lucky...I won the football pool last night...
I believe you will crawfish out of these challenges for whatever reason, and prove the greatest thing about you...And that is you are a wannabee politico, and a coward...
This should be fun...
I shall avoid gongorism in the future.
Yeah, me too, I ain’t never been to tha gongo or nowhere else in Afriki an’ I ain’t awantin’ ta go but I did grow them big gongo watermelons when I was back on tha farm. Does that there gongorism hurt bad? That ain’t got nothin’ ta do with them funny lookin’ little drums is it?
Better than yours “Superman.” Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh. I bet you run around in your Superman underwear wearing a bath towel jumping off furniture. Does your mommy tell you what a big boy you are?
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