Posted on 05/13/2002 3:12:19 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
On Monday's show, the Doctor of Democracy made a sad diagnosis: "If the Reagan Revolution is not dead, then it's dying." If there was a model that the Bush administration used in establishing itself, it was the Reagan presidency. But now Bush is advancing the Democrats' most liberal agenda items - something particularly frustrating at a time when Bush's popularity would make it easy for him to recruit new conservatives.
Many of you have been critical of Rush's reactions to Bush's actions on spending over the recent months, and we took more calls of this sort on Monday - people who'd convinced themselves that the farm bill made sense or that Bush had some grand strategery at play. Now, Rush could throw his beliefs out the window for a day or two and say things that you might want to hear - like when he endorsed Clinton back in 1992 - but that's not what he does.
Rush can only give you his honest reaction, even when he doesn't like those reactions. That's honesty, folks, and it goes to disprove a key criticism many of the nation's liberals have made of Rush over the years. They've said that Rush is a party hack, and that he'd support the Republican Party no matter what they did. They charged that the EIB Network was simply a tool, that we were in daily contact with the powers that be to get marching orders. Well, that has pretty much been dispelled here: Rush is disgruntled.
I'm not spinning anything. The founders of this country belived in a small limited federal government. Democracy would never provide that because a simple majority could vote the rest out their house and means of earning a living. Is that what you support?
Think positive.
The once solid base is crumbling and for ever 1 conservative that will not again vote for Bush because of his pandering and trying to buy liberal votes he has to get 2 liberals or swing voters to replace them.
It is a shame they would rather eat their own for a liberal vote than even try to keep the conservatives that did vote for him or get the conservatives that didnt.
Rush does a great job of bringing the truth to the forefront! All this is, is the Rush reason he has been so disgruntled of late.
Exactly. I don't like it either but I still plan to show up and vote Republican this year. The fact is Bush has established some strong conservative credentials in a number of areas, like his judicial nominees and most of his cabinet as well. He's pretty much ignoring his own principles for the moment on economic issues. His view, correctly or incorrectly seems to be that it will help the GOP in November. He's determined not to have Daschle running the show for the last two years of his term. I can't say I blame him.
I saw ABC news last night talking about the tariffs Bush slapped on imported steel. The reporter called him a hypocrite. What are they doing that for? They're trying to get conservatives to stay home in November. I think the Dems are concerned they don't have an issue to get their own supporters to the polls, so the media wants to drive down conservative turnout too.
That and allowing gays to be boy scout leaders and same sex marriages and lowering the age of consent and stopping the WOD
I don't any fear of wasting my vote; when you vote for what you believe in the only thing you're wasting is the time of those who would browbeat you into supporting their lying candidates. As far as controlling my emotions is concerned I don't have any problem in that area. Not puking every time I hear more GOP lies and backsliding shows tremendous control.
Well said!!! Except that the GOP is not stupid at all... they know exactly what they're doing. As I said in an earlier post they can do the math just as well as the Dems. They don't need us in their grand scheme of things (so they think) so let's show them how wrong they are. I hope you have registered Libertarian as well and if not I can give plenty of reasons to.
It's sad that you have to resort to name calling when confronted by the truth. I think the tone of your comments betrays the prevailing attitude of the GOP. Politics is a game to them, not about principle but popularity and controlled much the same way as organized crime operates.
Please don't do that; not when there are so many good men and women who are seeking office with the Libertarian or Constitution parties. If you don't have that choice where you live why not run for office yourself? Let's do something positive for our country!
Allowing gays to be Boy Scout leaders and forcing the Scouts to accept them are two very different things. As a Libertarian I totally oppose the government (through the courts or Congress) forcing any group to accept people they don't want to. I believe in our 1st Amendment guarantee of freedom of association. I disagree with you however on the other issues. Lowering the age of consent is an interesting point. Do you realize that many of the pioneers of our Old West would be considered child rapists under today's laws? Government should not be enforcing private morality-period.
Yes I do realize that. You probably believe that prostitution should be legal then and that it should start at any age that the girl decided to run away. It is certainly not the governments business if a 12 yearold runs away and starts turning tricks. I don't agree that it is not the governments business.
I agree with you about the media's motivation but keep in mind that if Bush weren't giving them an opportunity to call him on his hypocrisy they would have a much harder time convincing conservatives to stay home.
I believe children belong to their parents until the age of 18. That's why I support parental control of education through either vouchers or tax credits. I certainly do not support 12 years prostituting themselves either. Parents not government bureaucrats have the right to control their children's lives until the age of 18.
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