Rush Limbaugh is indignant. He is angry. He says people should stop telling him and other die-hard conservatives to "shut-up" about how much they don't like McCain. He cites McCain's less-than-perfect record as a conservative, as well as his cozy relationships with certain loathesome Dems (Kennedy and Feingold in particular). There is some truth to the particulars of what he says, I mean, I've long been less than McCain's biggest fan...
But people like Rush are living in a dream, and that dream involves the GOP winning in November any other way BUT with McCain (and even McCain is a long-shot in my opinion). The likelihood that the next President will be a Democrat is SO great that, to me anyway, what Rush and his ilk should be focusing on is not how to be the most loyal die-hard pure conservative, but how to KEEP HILLARY OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE!
That is....If Rush and his ilk in the "making money off this whole mess" business actually WANT her to lose, which, to be honest, I'm beginning to seriously doubt. Rush is a smart man, he's not blind to the polls--however flawed they might be, they're not THAT wrong that they've missed some great potential the electorate has to overcome the abysmal negatives of the GOP as a whole--he can't possibly be blind to the hatred of Bush and the party that he leads. He's made a living covering it for the past eight years!
So if he's as smart as I think he is, I can only wonder if he has a death wish for the GOP in this election. And if not, if he genuinely believes the GOP can win this thing with Mitt-freakin'-Romney on the ticket, he may be back ON those meds again, or maybe he's switched to something with a slightly more hallucinogenic affect, I dunno, shrooms perhaps?
Yes, I know Mrs. Clinton has very high negatives, but have you noticed the turnout on the Dem. side vs. the turnout on the GOP side so far in the primaries? Is he seriously counting on every independent and every Republican voting for Romney OVER Hillary? Not gonna happen buddy, it's just not. People will stay home if they hate her, and no one--and I mean NO ONE--is going to love him so much by the end of his negative, bitter, full-of-shit, ass-kissing, bull-shit-full-of-lies campaign either!
I realize I'm not the greatest at math, but by my calculations, if you figure the majority of the people are pissed off at Republicans period, and are prepared to listen to a Dem, and maybe even vote for one, and that the die-hard GOP faithful are not the majority of the party, and the independents who are a larger group this cycle than EVER (and upon whom the evetual winner from either side will depend) tend to lean towards middle *at best,* the ONLY Republican who stands a chance against either Hillary or Obama is McCain. As old as he is, he's not the poster-boy for everything the average Republican hating voter *hates* (i.e., rich, white, arrogant, lying, calculating, misrepresenting, business-focused, soulless, etc...) like Romney is, and not for nothing, he's also *not a mormon!*
Yes, it does matter. Stop pretending it doesn't Rush, you KNOW it does. It would matter TO YOU if he were a Dem and you know it, don't pretend it wouldn't. You'd be giving us daily reminders of how we don't really know that much about that faith, and how a lot of people really aren't comfortable with Mormons period, never mind in charge of our country, and you know it.
The other thing I don't get is how Rush isn't looking at Romney's record as Governor! He's all over McCain b/c he's too much of a RINO, but not Romney?? This is nothing more than evidence that Rush has a chip on his shoulder about McCain, and is picking the lesser of the evils solely to preserve that chip, to retain his credibility after tearing McCain to shreds on immigration so recently. He's never talked about Romney, so he can get away with liking him, he knows most of his listeners aren't in Massachusetts anyway--blue state that it is--so there are few people to contradict him if he appears to be backing Romney instead of McCain.
And really, who else could he be trying to get conservatives to support? Rudy??? COME ON, seriously? Odd thing is, from a business perspective, that would make more sense to me than backing Romney, but even Rush doesn't want to back a SURE loser, and Rudy has sunk way too far in the polling and has put all his eggs in a citrus basket, and it's just so unlikely that he could still win the nomination. Besides, if Romney has issues with the religious right, Rudy is the anti-christ for them! That plus his personal problems (which the Clinton campaign for sure would trot out on gorey detail for all to see) would leave even the most die-hard conservatives unable to hold their noses in the voting booth for Rudy, even if it means a Hillary victory.
Rush has two choices: Push people in open primary states who still can, to vote as independents for Obama so at least, if the GOP candidate doesn't win, it won't be Hillary OR support McCain and hope like hell he's running against Hillary because he can't beat Obama, no way. The narrative of Obama's candidacy is too compelling to coalesce conservatives against him. And independents who hang in the middle will probably vote for youth and change over age and experience. It has happened before and Rush knows it.
So shut up, or don't, it's your call Dittoheads, but if you don't, remember...You made your bed, and you may have to lie in it with Hillary for the next four years. How does that sound?
Posted by insomnomaniac at January 22, 2008 4:24 PM | TrackBack