Dick Cheney has given a lashing to both Colin Powell and Barack Obama.
Put me in the Cheney-Limbaugh camp. Heck, put me in the Cheney-Limbaugh 2012 camp.
If not a Presidential ticket, at least they should be the listened voices on the right — the ones whose advice guides the direction our candidates go.
Yes, the left may laugh at that and encourage it, but they would be wise to think about it.
Mr. Powell recently said that Republicans need to more move to the center politically and that Mr. Limbaugh’s polarizing far-right rhetoric hurts the party’s image.
Mr. Limbaugh retaliated by accusing Mr. Powell of being “just another liberal” and that he should become a Democrat.
“I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party,” Mr. Cheney said. “I didn’t know he was still a Republican.”
Colin Powell, Meghan McCain, and others would have the GOP become more Democrat to compete on the playing field of American politics. Cheney and LImbaugh both urge a clear, distinct brand. The money is on them. The GOP will never win by being Democrat-lite.
It is the essence of what Jim DeMint recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal. The GOP needs to refine its message and actually stand on principles instead of trying to be all things to all people.
One way to do that is to maintain consistency on a strong defense, which is right where Cheney is aiming going after Obama.
Mr. Cheney said that administration’s dismantling of many of the policies and protections instituted by President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — including the planned closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba and halting controversial prisoner interrogation techniques — have made the country more vulnerable to future attacks.
This is an important point to keep repeating because it has the virtue of being true and of lingering in the public conscience. If we are attacked again, and with Obama in charge it is more than likely that we will, the public needs to remember what it was like to have grown ups running the show.
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I've heard Rush many times
TNJim (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:24AM EST (link)say how it saddened him to hear about so many people who think it is the government’s role to solve their problems and take care of their needs and how it maddened him to hear of so many in government who want to do just that, as though it’s some sort of mandate. That’s not the government’s role. Naturally then, it must infuriate him even more to hear people who still claim to be Republicans echo those same sentiments.
It is the government’s role to provide for the security and defense of the country so when government takes steps that our enemies perceive as weakness such as closing Gitmo and ending EIT’s it makes him apoplectic. Then you have people like Powell and Meaghan McCain, who are supposed to be Republicans thinking it’s a good idea… well… no wonder Rush has said a few times lately he feels like just telling his staff to play a tape while he goes home before he resorts to profanity.
Cheney – Limbaugh 2012? Sounds like a great ticket but Rush wouldn’t take the pay cut, not even if he was at the top of the ticket.
One glaring problem is that Powell is framing the issue in terms of power
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:34AM EST (link)Hypothetically, I wouldn’t mind a permanent 45-55 Republican Senate minority IF the 45 Republicans pursued a true conservative, limited govt agenda, forcing the Dems to play from the center, resulting in a (mostly) center-right result.
To me that is a far better result than retaking the majority from the center, allowing the Dems to play from the far-left, generating a (mostly) center-left result.
The Challenge for GOP Pols
wennejunk (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 12:37AM EST (link)Is that most are politicians first and foremost, regardless whether they actually hold the beliefs they profess.
They have to monitor what the general public thinks about things and then triangulate how their actions will play in those eyes and how it will be chopped and diced in an unfriendly media environment.
Limbaugh and Cheney have no such concerns…..
….because they are leaders.
Leaders care little for how their actions are seen because they focus on results first and foremost.
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ -C. S. Lewis
Well said, wennejunk. Absolutely true. Most of the current "leaders"
janis (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 9:15AM EST (link)of the R party are there due to seniority instead of ability. You can always tell who the true leaders are by the fact that the MSM wastes no effort to smear them when they speak up. Anybody remember hearing the MSM go after Lamar Alexander for anything? There’s a reason for that.
We need to celebrate every single R the MSM goes after on grounds of being “right-wing extreme.” That’s where we will find our leaders.
As to Cheney-Limbaugh 2012? Oh yes, please. Any of the Cheneys–Dick, Liz, Lynne, heck I bet their dogs could govern better than most Dems.
Cheney-Rumsfeld 2012
jimmuy8 (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:00AM EST (link)That’s the ticket I’d like to see.
Two battle-hardened cage-fighters, cool under fire, subtlety sarcastic, quick-witted with no tolerance for stupidity.
Hell yeah!
Erick Erickson (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:01AM EST (link)I was advocating that one in 2008 and, in the alternative, Rumsfeld-Bolton.
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I have no words for how that would be.
janis (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:06AM EST (link)So, as they say over at Ace of Spades, I’ll be in my bunk.
(It’s unfair, you know, to tease the little people. The notion of having two such men as Cheney or Rumsfeld or Bolton on one ticket is the stuff that legends are made of.)
If I were to pick a ticket made up of radio hosts...
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:15AM EST (link)I would pick Levin/Beck*.
If I had to do a mix one pol one radio…Fred/Levin or Levin/Jindal
I think any of those would be fantastic.
* Beck as the President of the Senate…that would be awesome!!!…and he would so use that power to the fullest extent possible under law….;^)
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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With Fred, you get both, Aaron. n/t
janis (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:17AM EST (link).
That's true janis I forgot...he is like a hybrid...go green!! Fred/Levin 2012...;^)....nt
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Monday, May 11th at 11:20AM EST (link)conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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