Posted on 10/16/2013 5:34:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Rush Limbaugh: GOP so irrelevant By: Mackenzie Weinger October 16, 2013 02:25 PM EDT
Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday blasted the Republican Party as irrelevant and responsible for creating one of the greatest political disasters hes ever seen.
I was trying to think earlier today, if ever in my life I could remember any major political party being so irrelevant, the conservative radio host said on his show, according to a transcript. I have never seen it. I have never seen a major political party simply occupy placeholders, as the Republican Party is doing.
Limbaugh slammed the Republican Party for consistently failing to offer any serious opposition to the Democratic Party or President Barack Obama. And now the party has made an inexplicable political cave-in with the agreement to reopen the government and lift the debt ceiling, he said.
There hasnt been any opposition, not any serious opposition, Limbaugh said. There may have been votes against this or that, votes against Obamacare. There may have been votes against the stimulus, but in terms of a package of policies, a package of principled beliefs, of opposition expressed daily by party leaders against whats happening in this country, there hasnt been.
The only real pushback, Limbaugh said, has come from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). This is not the time to abandon Ted Cruz or Mike Lee, folks, he told his listeners.
You know that what they attempted to do here was, I think, valiant, he said. Its been an illustration of just how terribly wrong things are. There are plenty of opportunities for lessons to be learned here. Now, look, Im not living in a false reality here.
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I gave up listening a long while back due to pretty much the same useless chatter. Even from the beginning, if the subject was football or golf, the station got switched, the other stuff came later.
You need to be aware that Blackirish is a believer in the drive-by media.
Your 2nd amendment rights won’t be legislatively voted away. Those rights rights will be judicially taken from you. When obama or his democratic successor places a fifth anti gun justice on the supreme court executive decree and federal regulatory agencies will separate you from your rights. Once the court rules an executive decree banning all semi automatic firearms is constitutional where do you go for redress? Same as abortion. Murder would never have been passed into law by the congress in 1973. Now abortion is seen as the most important “constitutional right” by those who rule us in D.C. Voting for republicans to save your 2nd amendment rights is merely rearranging deck chairs on the Titantic. The republican collaborators have already sold us down the river in exchange for a lifetime of Washington perks.
have to disagree.
limbaugh ain’t in office. he isn’t loved at all by the gop leadership because he’s more conservative than they are.
he’s done more to educate people at the fallacies of liberalism, across the board on all variety of issues. not everyone cares about all issues, but he touches across many. he gets people to see the idiocy and non-thinking behind liberals, the hypocrisy and double standards and ultimately the heacy handed unnatural control liberaism requires to force their stuff on people, and then they start to see it across ALL of liberalism and reject it.
none of these elected politicians has done so much to educate and turn and convince people about conservative principles.
you want to sum it up? BONER and the GOP elite caved today. Rush Limbaugh did not.
you say then “he’s not elected” and i say “then don’t blame him for caving in and letting the democrats butt-f@ck the country and themselves.”
>> The only real pushback, Limbaugh said, has come from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
I wouldn’t exclude Jeff Sessions’ involvement. Not sure about making the case for Rand Paul given his double-speak on immigration.
The ONLY way that the GOP-E will feel pain is if we stop funding the RNC.
Finally. Rush must have decided to leave the GOP country club.
No I don’t believe the media....but I know they’re in Obama’s pocket. ....and the general public hates shutdowns and they were going to pound the right into submission and it worked. I can’t help it if you fell for the echo chamber here and talk radio. I learned my lesson the minute Ohio went Obama. You want to defund Obamacare,? WIN.
15) Capture one or both of the political parties in the US.
They got 'em.
I’m not sure it was a bribe, it is basically campaign money now. He’ll campaign on how many jobs he brought in to his state, blah blah blah.
He was bought off. Team Rove will be in full force as well to get him re-elected. IRS will be combing whoever runs against him, etc.
THAT was the deal I reckon.
I thought he was asking folks to vote Hillary in the primaries. I don’t listen to him much, I can’t get him on my AM radio unless I’m close to the city, but I thought he had made up some fake voting club or something to promote Hillary.
Correct me if I’m wrong. I am sure someone will.
I remember Hayek calling himself an "old Liberal". If he called himself an old Whig he would have been referring to the British Whig party. There is no way Hayek would have endorsed the American Whigs and their inflationary central bank/paper money agenda.
Operation Chaos.
The objective was to keep Hillary in the race in order to eat up Obama's campaign cash before the general election.
And how did that work out?
Bet it did wonders for Limbaugh's ratings though.
yes, that was it.
Thank you for the response.
Boehner fought the good fight, but he lost (again).
Your memory is faulty. His “Operation Chaos” was to vote for Hillary in Dem primaries to prevent Obama from wrapping up the nomination early and forcing him to spend money and piss off the Hillary fans.
i agree but he does use the term in discussing those he includes as classical liberals in the european sense.
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