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I’m listening to Rush as usual and my head hurts listening to this one caller who claims that he is undecided as to what GOP candidate to endorse.
Then dude eventually comes clean and says that he supports Suckabee because he is the “most” conservative. He then says later that Giuliani would be a good alternative.

Now I understand that people are willing to go to great lengths to give props to their candidate of choice and even flat out lie about his or her credentials.
However those of you who claim to be Republicans and yet support the obvious liberal tendencies of a candidate like Suckabee or Romney, shit even John McCain is amazing to me.
I have said prior, it’s not like you can’t go to You Tube and listen to what these candidates have said before or read prior articles on legislative action taken by these individuals while they occupied former offices. You can go to countless websites and see specifically the records that many of the GOP candidates try to conceal or misrepresent.

Despite all of that, I hear to way too many callers talk shows, (exceedingly funny when they try to pull this bullshit on Rush), trying to redefine what conservatism really means and moving solid benchmarks that should be required of any good solid GOP candidate.

As Rush and countless other political pundits have pointed out, but Rush in particular, Republican candidates need not pander to the left to win elections.
Kissing the collective asses of liberal Democrats is not what any TRUE Republican candidate for president should be doing.

The fact that I keep reading and hearing supposedly Republican voters pimping for the likes of Suckabee, the lying fraud Romney and a cross dressing Rudy is somewhat disturbing.
Maybe these campaigns have adopted the guerrilla tactics of Ron Paul supporters and have been instructed to manipulate poll numbers, frequently call talk shows, write letters to the editor, spam websites and blogs completely ignoring the essential substance of their candidate of choice.

Here is a portion of a transcript of Rush’s show where he talks about “Identity Politics”
particularly talking about Sucakbee and his followers.
Basically tard Christian types who think that just because Suckabee is this former preacher man that he must be the “God” candidate. I can here the redneck accents as I type this, “I support Huckabee because he is an Evangelical Christian”
(remember to say that in your best hillbilly voice)
Never mind his actual record and the fact that well….Suckabee is a closet liberal tard!
Note to you die hard people pimping the fact that Suckabee was a former preacher and “man of God”, look I have several former classmates who back in the day said point blank that they were going to be preachers because of the money they could make.
Yes all are now pretty successful preachers, one pimping parishioners in one of the oldest and most prominent churches in Alabama.
The only difference between them and yours truly is I much rather play Xbox and chill than eying the collection plates while “entertaining” folks on Sundays.
That is what frankly way too many shyster bible wavers engage in. Suckabee has just chosen to take his carnival road show into politics.
It worked in coning the people of Arkansas; I just hope that the American people won’t get screwed into supporting another man from… Hope?

RUSH: Okay, folks, let me tell you what’s going on now. I sadly, and unfortunately, must make this point reacting to our last caller. What we have going on here is identity politics, I think, in a large swath of support for Governor Huckabee. Identity politics is what the left does. Do you know what I mean when I say “identity politics,” Rachel? Okay.

Identity politics is: You vote for the Christian. You vote for the black. You vote for the woman. This is traditionally how the left looks at people. We, as conservatives, don’t. We don’t see you, for example, in a political sense, and see a woman first. We might see a woman first because you’re beautiful, but we’re men and we can’t help it. In a political sense, we wouldn’t say, “You don’t qualify. You’re not smart because you’re a woman,” and we wouldn’t say you deserve anything special because you’re a woman. We wouldn’t look at a black and say, “Oh! Poor, disadvantaged, slavery heritage, presidential material!” without knowing anything about the guy.

We wouldn’t if there was the first admittedly open gay running, we wouldn’t say, “Oh, terribly discriminated against, really has had no chance! We’re going to vote for the gay guy because it makes us feel better about ourselves.”That’s identity politics, or a little strain of it, and that’s what’s happening in the Huckabee race. The identity of Huckabee is: “Christian, Southern Baptist minister,” and that identity is covering and is being translated by supporters as meaning whatever they want it to mean, as opposed to actually looking at how he’s governed. Like the pastor who just called and said Huckabee is a light at the end of the tunnel. Pastor, the light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train, and you can’t get off the track!

That’s the light at the end of the tunnel, and I think identity politics was a fundamental feature of the Perot campaign as well. People really didn’t even care what his policies were. He didn’t even have to articulate policies. Remember that? (classic Ross Perot impression) “I’ll tell you, Larry, here’s what we’re going to do! We’re going to get rid of all these 737s, going to hire a bunch of Lear 55s. We’re going to have smaller airplanes.” He cares so much! “You own this country! You own it. This is your country. We’re going to give this country back to you.” That’s identity politics, and this is traditionally not what conservatives and even Republicans, right-wingers, do.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008 at 1:56 pm and is filed under Republican Sellouts, RINO's, Are you serious?, Republicans, Religious nuts, Richard Heads, Mike Huckabee.
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