Posted by
cavalier973 on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:39:58 PM
Today, Rush blamed Huckabee voters for McCain being our nominee, specifically mentioning the "tag-team" manuever in West Virginia. I fired off an email, and since I doubt he will read it, I also will post it here:
Subject: I'm glad to see you're still mad about Huckabee
I voted for him (in Florida), and I'd do it again without hesitation. Especially since I see the idea of my voting for someone who is: Pro-life, pro-family, pro-guns, pro-tax reform, pro-War on Terror, pro-War in Iraq, etc., etc. gets you so angry. Really, your calling Huckabee a liberal (when such a charge is so obviously untrue) clinched my voting for him.
You've said recently that Huckabee didn't have a chance at winning the nomination. Allow me to introduce you to someone who REALLY didn't have a chance: Fred Thompson.
You claim that West Virginia was the arena where McCain began to win the nomination. I see South Carolina, rather, as where McCain clinched it; when your golden boy Thompson woke up long enough to make a couple of cheap shots at Huckabee, thus splitting the vote in SC and allowing McCain to pull out a win. Had McCain lost SC, then he (by his own admission) would have dropped out of the race. Then it would have been the fight it should have been all along: Huckabee vs. Romney.
While everyone knew that Thompson was your guy (probably from the tongue-baths you kept giving him), when Thompson finally did the inevitable and dropped out, you became a Mittwit.
Now, seriously, can you name one original and exciting idea that Romney proposed in the whole campaign (other than giving Federal Subsidies to the Auto Industry?). And brilliant Romnic oratory such as this: "Government is broken." WOW!! How does he do it? Only a genuine genius could have come up with "Government is broken"!! Meanwhile, Huckabee had made the Fair Tax one of his chief policy objectives.
You said on your program that there was "no chance in Hell" for the Fair Tax to pass. Well, we could have used your backing on that, but if we have to leave you behind on this issue, then we will, and we will win passage of this important measure of tax revolution.
Really, Rush, you've stabbed us real conservatives in the back, hard. Thanks for nothing.
You Mittwit.
Update: Here are the actual quotes from the transcript of Rush's show today:
" Why should I have to change? Why should I have to sweep my principles aside or under the desk, why is that up to me to do that? I know you don't like it when I say "you people." You know who you are. You should have thought about all this when you're out there voting for Huckabee. You should have thought about all this when you saw McCain and Huckabee teaming up to screw all the other nominees in our party."
Well, Rush, it appears that you swept all your principles aside to focus on the one and only principle you apparently care about: Tax Cuts. In fact, the main reason you kept saying that Huckabee was "not conservative" was that he raised taxes. But you never mention that he lowered taxes first, and that he raised them only because of a state constitutional requirement for a balanced budget. I know, I know; I heard you say that the way to balance the budget is to cut spending, not raise taxes. But you showed yourself to be a contemptible buffoon by saying that. I doubt that you had or have any idea of what the Arkansas Budget was like. I barely know myself; only I know that over 40% of the budget was going toward education. There's not a lot of fat in small state budgets, like there is in the larger states or the Federal Government.
The big point here is, that you are happy with the current tax situation. We lower the taxes, they raise them back up. We simplify the tax code, they give it more complexity. The Fair Tax cuts all that nonsense out, and gives us a flat rate on consumption. Haven't you read anything about this? The only definitive thing that I've heard you say about the Fair Tax was that there was "no way in Hell" it would pass. I think the only reason you really didn't plug the Fair Tax was that it would have given credibility to Huckabee, and you, being a staunch Mittwit, couldn't allow that to happen. Romney wasn't for the Fair Tax; he wasn't even for a Flat Tax. All Romney did throught the whole campaign was to spout generic, non-offensive conservative platitudes ("The Government is broken!"). And you Mittwits fawned all over him like he's the second coming of Reagan. I'd rather have a real conservative like Huckabee any day.
For God and Free Trade
cavalier973