Money Quote of the Day
Written by YellowJacket on November 21st, 2008You know, it’s odd; when Republicans won elections, no one seemed to mind Rush and his energy to bring conservatives to the table. When Republicans stopped being conservatives, or at least stopped acting like conservatives and more like the kind of Democrat Lite that Kondracke and Harper prefer, they stopped winning elections — and started blaming Rush Limbaugh for it. Kondracke wants Republican politicians to ignore Rush, Laura, and Sean, but they’ve been doing that since 2001, and that’s not Rush’s fault.
The GOP will go nowhere if it engages in scapegoating talk radio for the next couple of years. Republicans have lost two successive elections because American voters will choose Democrats when given a choice between an authentic Democrat and a fake Democrat. We’re not going to win elections by making Republicans more like Democrats. We will win elections when Republicans do the following:
- Find a First Principles approach that will unite the conservative coalitions, as Reagan did in 1980
- Have a zero-tolerance policy for corruption
- Stop supporting pork-barrel spending
- Take concrete steps to shrink the federal government
- Take responsibility for their own actions and the consequences for them instead of scapegoating talk radio
Note to Kondracke and Harper: Rush doesn’t work for the Republican Party. The Republican Party doesn’t follow Rush’s policy agenda, and hasn’t since George Bush came to office. The notion that the main problem with the GOP is Rush Limbaugh is profoundly foolish, so much so that only Beltway insiders could possibly reach that conclusion.
HotAir always knows how to bring it, hardcore.
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This is one good thing about these huge losses! Rush is so much better when he is on the outside looking in!
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It is ironic how noted LIBERALS are trying to give the Republicans “advice” on how to win elections. Listening to these idiots is how we here in California got stuck with Gov. Benedict Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is an absolute embarassment! Oh, and he has NOT ever had coat tails. Moderate squishes never think about the party as a whole. Just their rear-ends. A conservative who can articulate what conservatism is all about and speak over the Dinosaur, Drive-by, Mainstream, Obama-Worshiping Media will win anywhere. THAT is why Ronald Reagan was so special and why conservatives look to his model as a way back.
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Why are we talking about that idiot Rush? He didn’t cost us the election, Palin did (with some help from Bush, Cheney and McCain).
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As Reagan said BOLD COLORS and if they don’t like it then “let them go there own way”.
We haven’t had a conservative since Reagan. Doesn’t mean I am bashing on Bush 41 or 43 but had we been practicing and demanding conservative approachs to some of these problems we wouldn’t have some of the messes that we currently have.
What we need is a party leader that can articulate the conservative ideas and not stumble over them pretending to be a conservative.
As for Palin costing us the election….Honestly I think it was McCain himself that did that. John McCain, I believe is a good man, but a conservative he is not. When that group of people stood up at that town hall and told him that they were mad as hell about the bailout proposal and wanted him to fight for them and he stumbled into some tired old political speak about reaching across the isle he cost himself any chance at being elected.
No one belived that he would actually fight for conservative ideas because frankly he never has. Ask yourself whey he wasn’t preaching about Immigration Reform, McCain Kennedy, McCain Fiengold, etc etc…Because they are all liberal to moderate and he knew it.
I won’t say I agree with everything from Rush, Sean and others…But I will say of Rush, right or wrong, he stands on his principals and doesn’t waver…We need that in some of our leaders.