GOP SELLOUTS

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This was brilliant.

A caller to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show yesterday was a retort to the sellouts who voted for John McCain in the Republican primaries because they were led by sheep by the Drive By Media and its phony polls that “showed” McCain was the only candidate who could beat either Hillary or Obama in November, or because it was “his turn,” or whatever reason.

Suzanne from Hagerstown, Md., said on the air what countless conservatives — including this one — are thinking and feeling. Here’s most of the transcript. It’s worth the read.

RUSH: Suzanne, nice to have you. Hagerstown, Maryland. Welcome to the EIB Network.

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Listen, I don’t think the media gets it. I don’t think these Republican pundits get it. I’m 50 years old. I’ve been a Republican since I was a child because my mother was a Republican Party precinct leader, and I have never voted in a federal election for anybody but the Republican candidate, not because they were Republican, but because they were conservative. I cannot vote for John McCain. I don’t care what he says between now and –

RUSH: Why not? Why not? I hear so many people say that, why not?

CALLER: Because, as Thomas Sowell so well put it, you know, people are looking at it, he betrayed us. You know, Hillary and Obama can go out there and be liberal and say what they are. He said he was one of us. And then, because he lost an election, he turned around, and because he hated Bush, you know, he always has to hate somebody, he hated us, he hated the conservatives, he hated the Christian right, he turned around and slapped us over and over and over again. He twice wanted to leave the party, and now the Republicans have the audacity to ask me, a person who has supported them, given them money, given them time, to support this man. I’m not going to do it. I don’t care what he says. He can reincarnate Reagan and run with him; I will not vote for this man for president. And this hurts. This is a hard thing, to come to this realization.

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. Are you just going to not vote, or are you going to go out there and vote for the Democrats?

CALLER: At this point, I’m not going to vote. If I think McCain can win, I will vote for the Democrats, but I do not want him as a representative of all the things Republicans have fought for, and Rush, I’m not the only one. Nobody in my family, I know a lot of people, my husband, his wife, my cousin, his wife, my grown children. Nobody gets this. You know, Thomas Sowell wrote a piece last week, and he said something which I think is really profound.

RUSH: What was that?

CALLER: And that was that Benedict Arnold was a war hero, too, before he betrayed his country.

RUSH: (laughing) Geeez. Whoa. I didn’t see that.

CALLER: He wrote an article called “McCain’s Straight Lies.” He didn’t say it exactly like that, but what he said was that, you know, and this war hero stuff, when is the Vietnam War going to end? You know, I’m tired of it. For God’s sake, it’s 2008. Can we move on?

RUSH: Well, the Vietnam stuff is purposely up front to help obscure the problems in Senator McCain’s record.

CALLER: Right.

RUSH: That story is there to cover up or to relegate to insignificance in terms of this primary race, McCain’s record on things. So that’s why. And of course the media loves it.

CALLER: What has he done since then? I mean, that’s the point, everybody gives him a pass. I don’t know at what point — how much they think we’re going to take. You know, they called me for money last week and I told them no way.

RUSH: Let me ask you a question.

CALLER: Hm-hm.

RUSH: Can you name the chairman of the Republican National Committee?

CALLER: Currently?
RUSH: Who?

CALLER: You mean right now?

RUSH: Yeah.

CALLER: The chairman of the Republican –

RUSH: National Committee.

CALLER: No, I cannot.

RUSH: I can’t either. Can you name the chairman of the Democrat National Committee?

CALLER: Yeah. Dean.

RUSH: Right. (interruption) No, it’s not Martinez. Martinez is a figurehead. There’s an actual chairman of the Republican National Committee — I don’t know who it is, either.

CALLER: I was going to say –

RUSH: I would have to look it up. It doesn’t matter. I was just trying to illustrate a point. They’re not on the field.

CALLER: No, and not only are they going to lose the presidency, they’re going to lose down ballots. It’s bad now, and, well, my theory is in all of this, you know, is that there’s not going to be anybody that’s going to put up a fence. There’s not going to be anybody fighting for it. McCain’s more likely to build a bridge than a fence.

RUSH: Right.

CALLER: And the people voting for Huckabee, listen, I’m a Christian, I’m Catholic, I’m Christian right. Those people that voted for Huckabee, I understand because he’s evangelical and they want one of us and they have been spit upon, but the problem is, is they not only threw their vote away, they threw away all their power because, believe me –

RUSH: I’ve got a theory about that.

CALLER: — John McCain hates them, too.

RUSH: I have a theory about that. Look, Suzanne, I appreciate it. I’m getting close to break time, and I gotta run.

CALLER: That’s fine.

RUSH: I love your passion. You’ve led me here and you’ve transitioned me here into some of my in-depth analysis. As far as the regional vote, what’s been called the regional vote, the Southern vote for Huckabee, there are a number of things that go into this. And one of the things that I think is relevant here is, in fact, geography, the Southern component, the regionalism of Huckabee being an Arkansas governor. Second thing, of course, is the evangelical vote, and I think you heard the anger from Suzanne, and she said that she is Catholic, she’s Christian, so she thinks she’s Christian right, but I think there’s starting to be in the Republican Party sort of an equivalence between blacks in the Democrat Party and evangelicals in the Republican Party in this sense. Now, we’ve looked at blacks for 50 years. They keep voting for Democrats. The Democrats do nothing but destroy their families. They do nothing to increase their economic circumstances. They do nothing to redress the grievances and yet the blacks keep voting for them on the basis of the promise and the notion that Republicans are racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, and are going to really make ‘em be bad, so they keep hanging with Democrats, and nothing changes.

Evangelicals, since 1973, have stuck with Republicans, basically on the promise, “We’re going to do something about abortion. We’re going to fix the cultural rot that’s going on in this country. We’re going to make sure there isn’t any gay marriage. We’re going to stop this overall lurch to depravity that’s occurring in our culture,” and the Republican candidates have all said, “I’m your man, we’re going to do that,” and they make the right speeches, but nothing’s really changing on it. And so they, the evangelicals, are a little bit quicker to realize when they’re being taken for granted …

Let’s pull some things out of there. Suzanne’s comments as follows:

[H]e (McCain) betrayed us. You know, Hillary and Obama can go out there and be liberal and say what they are. He said he was one of us. And then, because he lost an election, he turned around, and because he hated Bush, you know, he always has to hate somebody, he hated us, he hated the conservatives, he hated the Christian right, he turned around and slapped us over and over and over again. He twice wanted to leave the party, and now the Republicans have the audacity to ask me, a person who has supported them, given them money, given them time, to support this man.

I made this point earlier today on another blog, namely that the level to which I despise John McCain and Mike Huckabee is greater than that of Hillary and Obama is because Hillary and Obama don’t pretend to be something they aren’t. They are liberals, we know that. But McCain and The Huckster pretend to be conservatives, sucker conservatives to vote for them then betray, subvert and undermine conservatism at every opportunity. The ultimate in Trojan horses, with the aim to carry out the dirty work of the blueblood, country-club elitist “establishment” Republicans to drive out the Reagan conservatives, whom they have always hated and looked down their snooty noses at.

John McCain has expressed his open disgust toward the base of the Republican Party. He’s called them racists for opposing amnesty for illegal aliens. His leg-humper, Sen. Lindsey Grahamnesty, has called them bigots, telling a real group of racists and racial supremacists, La Raza, that “we’re gonna shut the bigots up.”

We know McCain seriously considered twice leave the party he now wants to represent. He approached the Democrats in 2001-02 about switching parties or at least becoming an independent and caucusing with his buddies on the Left side of the aisle. We know he seriously considered an offer from the French-looking candidate, John F-ing Kerry (by the way, did you know he served in Vietnam?) to be Kerry’s running mate on the Democrat ticket in 2004.

And Suzanne’s reference to the Thomas Sowell column in which Sowell pointed out that Benedict Arnold was a war hero too. Here’s the Sowell column, called McCain’s Straight Lies.

At one point Benedict Arnold was a war hero. Then he betrayed his country.

John McCain was a war hero, but instead of betraying his country, he betrayed conservatism. And Ronald Reagan.

He doesn’t deserve my vote. And will not get it.

In a related topic, Michelle Malkin urges conservatives to get fired up, instead of calming down, as McCain said yesterday in a tone essentially reserved for parents talking to a toddler having a temper tantrum. Typical elitist, by the way, just like Peter Jennings in 1994 after the GOP won the midterm congressional elections in a landslide.

By getting fired up, she means working for, donating to, and voting for other true conservatives on ballots across the country.

Some on the Right advise their readers and listeners to vote Democrat or sit home. My advice is exactly the opposite: Get off the couch and walk the walk for conservative candidates and officeholders who need all the help they can get defending free markets, free minds, and secure borders—no matter who takes the White House in November.

Dissatisfied with the flawed crop of GOP candidates who lacked the energy, organizational skills, and ideological strength to carry the conservative banner and ignite your passions? Then pay attention to the next generation of Republican state legislators who do vote consistently to lower your taxes, uphold the sanctity of life, defend marriage, and cut government spending. Support their re-election bids. Reward them for standing with you instead of their Democrat opponents and the liberal media.

Here in the First Congressional District, for example, Rep. Paul Ryan needs our support and votes. The Democrats have targeted him for defeat. Ryan has held the line up and down and is a rising star in the GOP. He isn’t a sellout, and he will receive our enthusiastic support here.

For me, it may mean leaving the spot at the top of the ticket empty but voting for other candidates. It may mean a vote for the Libertarian Party candidate, the Constitution Party candidate or even a write-in for Fred Thompson or Mickey Mouse. It may even be a vote for Hillary or Obama.

But I can damn well guarantee you it will not be a vote for John McCain. Not even with a gun pointed at my head.

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