GOP lulz
McCain: True conservative, says Bush.
Rush Limbaugh: A failure to uphold conservative principles "caused this mess."
Bush first:
"But [McCain] is a conservative. Look, he is very strong on national defense. He is tough fiscally. He believes the tax cuts ought to be permanent. He is pro-life. His principles are sound and solid, as far as I'm concerned."
See, we knew the guy was a party-line Republican back in 2000, but - oh, let's just run down the Bush-Cheney 2000 McCain hitlist, shall we?
- He fathered a black baby out of wedlock
- He voted against cancer research
- He had a "loose screw" because of his POW experience
- His wife was a drug addict
- He was "the fag candidate"
I assume Bush's expected overture to conservatives could be boiled down to, "Uh, never mind that stuff."
Actually, Bush says it better than I could:
"If you're seeking, looking for perfection, you'll never find that person. I certainly wasn't a perfect candidate for a lot of folks."
Limbaugh was fuming about this last week, practically calling for a standardized test for conservative candidates:
"The failure of establishment Republicans -- whether they be members of Congress, Washington, or New York editorial writers, even some talk show hosts who live and work and socialize in that community, the failure of these people -- to uphold the principles of conservatism during the last decade or more has resulted in the mess that they now complain about. George Neumayr, writing today a column -- he used to be the editor of the American Spectator -- makes a great point. He said, "Once the Republican Party decided..." This was largely due to abortion, by the way. "Once the Republican Party decided to be a big-tent party, its days were numbered; its identity forever changed," because the definition of "big tent" was to bring in people who normally would not be in the tent, that there was no litmus test anymore for the party, and this was about abortion, because the establishment, blue-blood, country club-type Republicans were always embarrassed of the evangelicals and the hardcore conservatives to whom the issue of life mattered most -- and so we had to be big tent. And one of the reasons also for the big tent was to contrast ourselves with the Democrats who did have litmus tests.
"But their litmus tests were aimed at maintaining the originality and the purity or whatever, the solidness of liberalism, and they didn't want it watered down, and they didn't want to let conservatives in. They didn't even want to let Bob Casey, the pro-life Democrat governor of Pennsylvania even address their convention back in 1992. Yet because Republicans felt all defensive and we felt all ashamed, and we were being shamed by the media, we adopted this "big-tent" strategy, and the big-tent strategy effectively eliminated the three legs of the conservative stool I've been telling you about: fiscal, foreign policy, cultural."
It's because the GOP is just too god-damned NICE to all you hippies and queers that things have spiraled out of control. Well, enough of THAT shit.
Rush Limbaugh: A failure to uphold conservative principles "caused this mess."
Bush first:
"But [McCain] is a conservative. Look, he is very strong on national defense. He is tough fiscally. He believes the tax cuts ought to be permanent. He is pro-life. His principles are sound and solid, as far as I'm concerned."
See, we knew the guy was a party-line Republican back in 2000, but - oh, let's just run down the Bush-Cheney 2000 McCain hitlist, shall we?
- He fathered a black baby out of wedlock
- He voted against cancer research
- He had a "loose screw" because of his POW experience
- His wife was a drug addict
- He was "the fag candidate"
I assume Bush's expected overture to conservatives could be boiled down to, "Uh, never mind that stuff."
Actually, Bush says it better than I could:
"If you're seeking, looking for perfection, you'll never find that person. I certainly wasn't a perfect candidate for a lot of folks."
Limbaugh was fuming about this last week, practically calling for a standardized test for conservative candidates:
"The failure of establishment Republicans -- whether they be members of Congress, Washington, or New York editorial writers, even some talk show hosts who live and work and socialize in that community, the failure of these people -- to uphold the principles of conservatism during the last decade or more has resulted in the mess that they now complain about. George Neumayr, writing today a column -- he used to be the editor of the American Spectator -- makes a great point. He said, "Once the Republican Party decided..." This was largely due to abortion, by the way. "Once the Republican Party decided to be a big-tent party, its days were numbered; its identity forever changed," because the definition of "big tent" was to bring in people who normally would not be in the tent, that there was no litmus test anymore for the party, and this was about abortion, because the establishment, blue-blood, country club-type Republicans were always embarrassed of the evangelicals and the hardcore conservatives to whom the issue of life mattered most -- and so we had to be big tent. And one of the reasons also for the big tent was to contrast ourselves with the Democrats who did have litmus tests.
"But their litmus tests were aimed at maintaining the originality and the purity or whatever, the solidness of liberalism, and they didn't want it watered down, and they didn't want to let conservatives in. They didn't even want to let Bob Casey, the pro-life Democrat governor of Pennsylvania even address their convention back in 1992. Yet because Republicans felt all defensive and we felt all ashamed, and we were being shamed by the media, we adopted this "big-tent" strategy, and the big-tent strategy effectively eliminated the three legs of the conservative stool I've been telling you about: fiscal, foreign policy, cultural."
It's because the GOP is just too god-damned NICE to all you hippies and queers that things have spiraled out of control. Well, enough of THAT shit.