Blaming Rush Limbaugh and Conservatism for Republican Woes

[Tova]

by A.W.R. Hawkins

01/21/2009
Just when you thought Senator John McCain and his crew had finally left the scene after getting pounded last November, at least one prominent McCain operative has crawled out of his bunker long enough to blame McCain’s loss on Rush Limbaugh and conservatism.

That’s right. On January 15, 2009, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis appeared on BBC’s “Hardtalk” and credited McCain’s loss to “the Rush Limbaughs of the world who…literally almost feed the nativist attitude toward immigration reform” and the exclusivity of conservative principles.

So the McCainiacs are still trying to blame the 2008 disaster on everyone except themselves and their candidate. If you’ll remember, in the initial days and weeks after the election they were spinning the idea that it was Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin’s fault that McCain lost. Members of the McCain campaign dumped on her and McCain was nowhere to be seen. “Big Mac” proved to be but a “small fry” as he failed to come to her defense even once. Continued....

[Jim Rock]

voting for someone beside McCain or even even Sarah for that matter was voting for obama----that is the rooted problem why we lost, more people voted for obama---the I will show them and do a write in mentality went out with High School Prom Queen politics

even in 2000 they were trying to count the Nadar votes for Gore because they tried to say a vote for Nadar was a vote against Bush -so therefore sould go to Gore

we lost because more people voted for obama--refusing to vote was a vote for obama if that person was a registered conserv--bottom line

[Uburalus]

Nonsense! McCain lost because he was not a conservative and he ran a lousy campaign,he sought to squelch his campaign's one strength,Sarah Palin. If you are going to be a person of principle you cannot vote for someone that goes against them. Bottom line,this race was lost because the Republican party and their candidate abandoned conservatives,paying only minimal lip service to conservativsm and not all conservatives were able to hold their nose and vote for McCain,not even with the addition of Sarah Palin.

[Doug Alexander]

Yes he was too busy "reaching across the isle" when he should have been asking himself how he could better represent conservatives.

[Jim Rock]

then register Dem, now that you are potty trained in democracy you will reach the next step up, we are in a 2 party system ---but now we gonna take your potty trainers off let you decide alligence Urulostcause , we have a soon to be communist dictator because there were a few million thinking they were cute cause they could wipe them selves now and vote for the 4 th party in a 2 party system

[Brew_Crew]

I don't play that game, if there is a candidate where I can even somewhat get excited about I'll vote for him/her, but I refuse to choose between poop on rye and poop on pumpernickle. If you want to vote against poeple that's cool, but don't tell me I support Obama because I don't support McCain. It's a logical faulicy and requires total disregard of my values.

[Jim Rock]

open you mind, 2 people to vote for, a vote for one is a vote against the othe , Christine has it down pat, for some people a vote for McCain was a vote for obama

so drop it obama voter

[Brew_Crew]

duh, ok

[tyler sims]

jim...yep, yep, and yep

[tyler sims]

That was what all leadership group said to us delegates and leaders. Obama was so bad we had no choice.

But sadly the same thing happened in many ways against our own in the primaries....

The Democrats learned this the last election you pick candidates to win that represent the majority of the voters out there on issues your opponent are weak, not the other way around.

[Boudicca]

Neither McCain or Hush Bimbo understand the immigration issue. Bimbo jumped on the issue because it was popular with his listeners. McCain is a member of the CFR and is committed to global governance and elitist fascist rule. What neither McCain or Bimbo will address is the cost of immigration.

Pat Buchanan made a very interesting observation:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=30332

Quote: " Nearly 90 percent of immigrants, legal and illegal, are Third World poor or working-class and believe in and rely on government for help with health and housing, education and welfare. Second, tax cuts have dropped nearly 40 percent of wage earners from the tax rolls.

If one pays no federal income tax but reaps a cornucopia of benefits, it makes no sense to vote for the party of less government.

The GOP is overrepresented among the taxpaying class, while the Democratic Party is overrepresented among tax consumers. And the latter are growing at a faster rate than the former."


If our immigration policies are accomplishing nothing except the importation of entitlement dependent third worlders, we must also acknowledge that such policies are nothing more than corporate welfare where the social costs of immigrants are transferred from the corporations who hire them to the taxpayers. Wages are declining and have been for a very long time. Our own middle class has suffered as a result of our immigration policies.

Another report worth reading:

http://www.esrresearch.com/Rubensteinreport.pdf
THE FISCAL IMPACT OF IMMIGRATION
An Analysis of the Costs to 15 Federal Departments and Agencies

The report concludes that 15 federal agencies alone spend nearly $350 billion annually on immigrants. With the federal budget being about $3 trillion, that's a whopping 10% of the federal budget. Huge sums are also spent at the state level.

Americans are not hostile to immigrants. However, we oppose importing entitlement dependent 3rd world poverty.

[tyler sims]

well spoken boudicca

[Thunder Pig]

One thing the state parties need to do is to make the primaries for registered Republicans only. I have never understood the concept of letting people who are not registered Republicans choose our nominee. I cast a ballot for McCain in November, but my intent was to vote against Obama.

Republican candidates need to exercise a little self-control and not run for an office when their addition to the race will further dilute the conservative vote, and serve to elect the candidate that is least conservative.

One of my personal litmus tests for deciding whether or not someone is a conservative is to ask them how they feel about Rush Limbaugh.