Posted by
Optimus Magnus on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:22:33 AM
As Ditto-heads go, my listenership to the Rush Limbaugh Program is fairly new. Only in the most extremely rare cases do I ever disagree with the former KMBZ announcer. When it comes to "Hillary Rodham-Rodham", aka Mrs. Bill Clinton, we are poles apart. Barack Obama needs to put her away and put her away NOW.
Right now, the focus is on the fight between Obama and Clinton; it is not on the lack of substance with either of these candidates. We need to see just how empty Obama's rhetoric really is compared to Senator McCain's. Don't get me wrong: Sen. McCain has some MAJOR flaws which I mentioned in the previous post. At least with McCain, though, we are aware of what we are getting: a candidate who may have a conservative position or two, but one who is not a real conservative. To those who decry such a candidate, I direct your attention to the current occupant of the White House. If President Bush were a true conservative, he wouldn't have hesitated to veto McCain-Feingold, perhaps the most egregious codified violation of our free-speech rights since the advent of "hate-speech" codes. The point is, we could have done better as conservatives go, but we could also have done worse.
Rush holds the position that we are better off to keep Hillary in the race in order to sow and continue to have chaos in the Democrat party, to paraphrase. Given the primary results of the past several weeks, it is clear to me that the libs are NOT in disarray. They have chosen Obama. As much as I really don't care for the liberal philosophy on things, I have to give them credit for making it clear that Hillary is too phony even for them. What the lefties are saying, essentially, is that they are tired of flip-flops and doublespeak. They prefer the vagaries of Obama's "hope for a future filled with hope". (Taken from one of Rush's parodies.) What we need to do RIGHT NOW is to get Obama in the spotlight and to pin him down on what exactly his positions, stances, and policies really are and to establish the comparisons and contrasts with Senator McCain's positions. I guarantee that the positions on the Iraq/Iran situation are akin to the Onion's summary of the Carter/Reagan positions. ("Let's talk better mileage," and "Kill the bas-----", respectively.) Given that I truly believe the average American is conservative and just doesn't know it, I'd say that if we can keep the Middle East in the spotlight on this campaign trail as opposed to the phony hogwash on the economy, Obama doesn't stand a chance against McCain, the candidate willing to wipe our enemies off the face of the Earth (if he has to do so).
There is an uphill battle ahead of us. The "Drive-By" media will do their absolute darnedest to paint their man in the most glowing terms whilst demonizing "that conservative". We can deal with that; we're used to it. As much as it would pain Rush, Sean, Ann, Laura, and Neal to do so, we need them to start establishing that comparison NOW and to keep hammering it into as much of the public's conscience as we possibly can. Don't count on Fox News to help us. In fact, I would say our best TV hope for getting this out would be Mr. Beck on CNN-HN. Perhaps we could get him a two-hour spot in order to bump Nancy Grace. (If I want to listen to a woman yell, I will leave the seat up.)