Conservatives, Rush, and the Coming GOP Crack Up
28 October 2008 12:37 pm by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Finally, a crack. Perhaps foreshadowing of an earthquake to come. Pinch me, this
cannot be true.
Here’s Rush:
Since there is not a strong elected conservative anywhere, then conservatism
right now is sort of like wandering in the distance with every conservative
thinking that they’re the smartest person in the room trying to show the
way to the light. The way to the light is plainly visible. But everybody
wants to be considered the smartest people in the room, so they come up
with all these new things like “the era of Reagan is over.”And more Rush:
[T]here’s a blueprint for winning it, 1980, there’s a blueprint. McCain
is not the blueprint for how Republicans win landslides. Going after moderates,
independents, and all these yokels is not the blueprint. The blueprint’s
there, 1994, taking back the House, the blueprint’s there. Why are these
people ignoring it?I think Rush is a great entertainer and has often been a force for good in
the conservative movement. But right now, he is feeding his audience pleasing
illusions that can only lead conservatives to even greater troubles in the
days ahead.[...] When Rush and Blankley tell us the blueprint is there, if only we would
follow it, they are telling us something that is not true. They are offering
flattering illusions when we need truth. They are leading us to disaster –
and beyond disaster, to irrelevance.
Rush is encouraging ideological purity.
David Frum, a former Bushie, knows how elections are won.
Rush and wingnut radio cannot let go of Reagan, even though the age of Reagan
is long over, with Reagan consevatism proved bankrupt. The final nail in the
coffin being Wall Street’s meltdown. But don’t tell Rush. He’s too busy yelling
“it’s all about race” into his EIB microphone, as he continues to
trumpet right-wing whitey is still mighty.
“Shocked disbelief,” said Greenspan, who finally admitted that greed runs rampant in a deregulated market.
Unyielding denial would describe Rush Limbaugh.
Ideological train wreck meets the economic catastrophe of conservatism, defined by Reagan through deregulation. Kaboom.
The Bush bailout, which “maverick” McCain voter for as well, will
be a continual problem for Republicans. They bailed out their friends and everyone
knows it. Reconciling that with their “conservatism,” however it’s
defined, will not be easy to do.
