Limbaugh, a Republican Leader?
The last time laid off workers got pissed, this is what we got. You cannot pacify vast numbers of unemployed with slogans and big speeches made to old white guys.
The main thing wrong with the Republican Party right now is on display at CPAC, where Limbaugh's soaring oratory excites, delights, and inspires conservatives everywhere. Me? I think he is an 800 pound gorilla at a Weight Watchers convention inspiring overweight pygmies who are out of shape, out of ideas, and just plain tired out. He's presenting a dream that a bunch of white guys think actually matter. Rush is NOT the Republican Party. He's the leader of dreams past, of ideas run out of gas, and an emotion based on dreams of former glory. Do any of you see any Republican anywhere who is remotely like Limbaugh? Or do you see a bunch of tired old white guys who have been left under the bus they thought would just take them to the Promised Land while they threw their garbage out of the windows, stopped at coffee shops and bitched because the filet mignons were crispy, and threw dollar bills at beggars on street corners. Conservatism does not satisfy the need for instant gratification that all political movements must supply. We have a literal mob of people unemployed and if anybody thinks these people won't start rioting in the streets you are dreaming. I'm posting the pictures of the last riot at the Hollywood studios back in the day; the guys came to work with battery cables and guns, the women were advised not to go to work, and this was just one of at least twenty labor riots. What's Rush got to say about that? What's Jefferson got to say? More importantly, what has Newt Gingrich have to say. He is the only real idea man in the party, the only guy with a track record of success based on principals:
"There's not really any unified, easily distillable argument in [Gingrich's] ... proposals, no ideology that might be charted on a continuum and labeled accordingly. Rather, the new-model Newt seems to be pursuing a ruthlessly responsive, almost-wikified brand of politics. His goal is to turn the Republicans into [a party whose policies appeal to] the broad support of Republicans, Democrats and independents. ... What must be obvious even to Gingrich is that none of these calculations have much to do with what his acolytes in Congress want from him right now."Good piece over at Stubborn Facts......The acolytes want the hot air from Limbaugh. Then there are those few who would actually like to win, and for that one must go here...
6 comments:
Huntsman's full of shit.
Embracing "gay" rights lays the Repubs open to the charges of being "no different from the other party".
Ditto the environment and "climate change", which is a pack of specious lies and would destroy our economy.
The conservative mindset is NOT a failed set of ideas. Low taxes and conservative/limited government are not only a winning combination, they're the ONLY way out of the current mess.
You can't win without a mandate and intellectual justifications fall on deaf ears for the broad electorate, and unfortunately they have eagerly embraced the idea of wealth destruction as the means to attain salvation. That shit has to be answered and right now it isn't.
At least the rioters were smartly dressed.
Sorry Howard, Rush is Right. He is the only one on the conservative who is. You can't build a consensus by giving out goodies, like the Dems are doing. They can't possibly keep it all together. You have to build a party based on ideas and believe it or not most Americans are conservative and believe in conservative ideals.
Why did Republicans lose? Because they stopped being conservative and became Democrats. 2008 was the perfect storm for Dems but it won't last. Pelosi, Reid, Obama and the rest will over reach and piss in their own wheaties.
Don't like Limbaugh as GOP leader?
Then find the new Reagans,Goldwaters and Gingrichs and I guarantee Rushbo,Hannity and the other talkers will fall in line.
To use a baseball analogy,in the Reagan era,Palin would have been a super bright prospect in the minors whose talents would be nurtured and seasoned for the future.
By 2008,tho,the GOP was so bereft of talent,she was yanked up and thrown,not just into the majors,but right into the World Series.
All in all,it isn't surprising she did badly in some areas,but but rather that she did SO WELL overall.
The McCain campaign was a big fat zero going nowhere on warp drive.After Palin the race was near 50/50 till the economy cratered and McCain's Hero Complex kicked in.
The Republican party is dead. As in, DEAD.
The conservatives are dead, too, if they continue in their lazy, brain dead strategy of trying to use the limbs and body of a dead party to breathe life into their own. A dead brain cannot think, despite conservatives best efforts to make it so.
God Damn the conservatives.
They sold this country down the river. God curses them, for they could see.
By their refusal to form their own party, they corrupted an entire generation of leadership, throwing themselves into the garbage disposal of modern politics. They could have bred a generation of leaders, instead they bred an old sow, bellowing for cream, when all she deserves is slop. They are the modern confederacy.
The Democrats are also in a simular position, but they will take America down with them. Let it be. The children of the failed conservatives, we can only hope, will rise from the failure and disgrace of their fathers and mothers, to form a better body politic.
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