Al Sharpton vs Teleprompter or Al Sharpton Does Norm Crosby

Allen West Is a Frothing-at-the-Mouth Lunatic

So he thinks that between 78 and 81 Democrats are official members of the Communist Party. And now he is raising money off of it. Anybody who gives him a dime ought to be institutionalized.

I really just don't know where to begin on this one.

Great News For Conservatives

Mike Huckabee is challenging Rush Limbaugh on the radio. I have certainly had my problems with Huckabee in the past over various issues (and I know some people here have as well), but he is HANDS DOWN a better spokesman for conservative values and principles than Rush Limbaugh. With Limbaugh, we get a man who has tried to thwart every victory that the reality-based conservatives have sought. With Huckabee, we get a guy who will help the conservative movement, not hurt them.

By the way, the GOP has a huge woman problem (of which I will blogging a lot about later). Rush Limbaugh played a large role in driving away women from the Republican Party. Mike Huckabee's more "compassionate conservatism" would likely bring some of them back.

This is certainly not an endorsement of everything that Mike Huckabee has said and done. However, it is a huge improvement and conservatives need to help Mike beat Rush.

Rush Thinks Romney Is Conservative Again

In 2008, he was conservative. In 2011-12, he has not been conservative. Now, that he has wrapped up the nomination, Mitt Romney is back to being conservative. Like we all knew he would, Rush Limbaugh is not about to risk his media empire by lambasting the Republican nominee.

However, I have a prediction that I hope doesn't come true: If Romney loses the general election, he will go back to being an establishment moderate according to Limbaugh. The fat man behind the golden mic will have us all know that he warned us about Romney. And the Republican Party will give up its last whimper before transforming itself into a Southern and rural cultural movement.

Rush Limbaugh is a Dirty Slut

Limbaugh will say anything, and I mean anything, so long as his comments stir up controversy and thus his bank roll. He is literally no different than a prostitute on the street corner. His sensual appeal is not his body (Lord knows that), but rather his demagoguery;  his victims are not weak-willed men but instead weak-minded True Patriots.

The misfortune is that Limbaugh's point about the Georgetown student is valid. The government should not be funding contraceptives. Every conservative should be making that point. But instead of debating the issues, we are talking about Rush's rhetoric about a young girl that has a different political perspective.

Which is fine with Rush, because he is a prostitute. As long as the money is still green, Rush will continue to strut his stuff.

And he will likely continue to strut his stuff in the future, because conservatives don't have the guts to stand up to him.

Yes, Erick, I Want A New Base

I finally agree with Erick Erickson on something:

To paraphrase Bertolt Brecht’s “The Solution,” it seems a lot of Romney’s ardent supporters have viewed the base of the Republican Party and decided the base should be replaced with a new base rather than admit the their candidate is the problem. Many Romney backers, as indicative of Medved’s latest column, do seem to want another conservative base instead of the one that exists since the majority of the one that exists keeps rejecting their candidate of choice.

Yes, Erick. I do want a new base. I have been saying this for the past three years. America needs a credible conservative movement that isn't based on hysterical fear mongering and blatant dog whistling. What is most troublesome is Erickson's opening paragraphs.

What is it with Salem Radio’s major hosts? Geez. You want to find out what the Romney campaign thinks, flip on Michael Medved or Hugh Hewitt or a number of the other Salem Radio hosts and you’ll find a host fully in line with Mitt Romney and fully out of step with the bulk of the conservative movement. 

In fact, it is striking to find Salem’s radio hosts so in the tank for Romney when the top radio shows in the country from Rush Limbaugh to Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck to Mark Levin to Neal Boortz to Laura Ingraham have all either stayed on the sidelines or gone largely against Romney.

You will notice that Erick for the most part equates Rush and Co. with the base. They are one in the same to him. And if he is right, then America desperately needs a new conservative base.

The Challenge of a Newt Gingrich Candidacy and the Death Throes of the Republican Party

The Republican Party is dead if Newt wins. Why? What are the 3 legs of conservatism?

Social values: Newt sleeps with his teacher whom he eventually marries, then divorces when she has cancer and says she wasn't First Lady potential anyway. Marries 2nd wife with whom he was cheating on the 1st wife, divorces her when he finds out she has MS. Marries 3rd wife with whom he had been carrying out an 8 year affair. In that time he went from being a Baptist to Lutheran to Catholic.

By the way, if Newt were to be the nominee, Obama will parade his picture perfect family. It is actually the one thing I greatly admire in our current President. It would be the only thing, but Obama also stood against SOPA/PIPA (that's a story for another day).

Three Cheers For Blatant, Unconcealed Racism!

Back in December, I predicted that Romney would win Iowa and New Hampshire and go on to lose South Carolina. I also predicted that Romney would still win the nomination. While we will never know about Iowa, there is a chance that I might have been spot on the rest.

I lived in South Carolina for six years. If you watched the last debate, you will firmly understand why South Carolina battles it out with Mississippi each year to showcase the worst educational system in the country. At times I felt like I was watching what I imagine the Roman Colosseum crowds to be like -lots of large, angry mobs. It is no accident, of course, that Gingrich's coded racial slurs fell on some excited ears.

First, let's establish the fact that it doesn't take Jesse Jackson to understand that Gingrich is indeed race-baiting. He has openly declared that food stamps are mostly a black problem. He also has implicitly implied that they are a bunch lazy do-nothings who can't ween themselves off the government's crack. Let's face it. Newt's racism is just good politics. In a state like South Carolina, Gingrich will have no trouble finding scads of older, white voters, who while they prefer to keep their biases secret, love hearing Newt sticking it to the food stamp bums. Newt gives their prejudices an aura of intellectual satisfaction.

Unfortunately, as others have said before, Newt is what stupid people think a smart person sounds like. His food stamps routine have barely a foothold in reality.

1). There are way more white people on food stamps than black people. Sorry Newt, facts are facts.

2). Barack Obama has done precious little to increase the amount of food stamp recipients. The reasons why there are so many on food stamps is because there are lot more poor people due to that little thing we call the recession. But Newt doesn't do economics, he does propaganda. Furthermore, the states have had a larger role in food stamps policy than President Obama.

3). Most food stamp recipients work. Over half of the new food stamp recipients since the past decade are working families with kids. In fact, the system is designed to help those people in particular. Food stamps are not meant to replace a family's wages so they don't have to work. They are meant to supplement the wages of those under the poverty line.

4). Newt is also the Republican candidate whose tax proposals would create the largest economic disparities in America, thus insuring the need for more food stamps. But again, I repeat, Newt's incoherent approach to public policy is not really that incoherent if you understand his politics. He wants to win the South Carolina primary and he knows that speaking in racial code is the way to do it.

The surest fire way to kick me out of the Republican Party is have Newt as its representative. He has spent the past thirty years of his life trying to destroy anyone who gets in his path for power and money. He is an empty shell of a man who will privately support anything as long as you throw enough cash his way while he will publicly supports the opposite with not the slightest trace of shame or consternation. I think that instead of watching the debates tonight, I am going to enjoy watching one of Newt's ex-wives talk up his past indiscretions.

And I really don't care whether she is lying about his desires for an open marriage. Those who live by the sword, die by the sword. Newt deserves to have his character assassinated.

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Steve Deace Endorses Newt Gingrich

Influential talk radio host Steve Deace has endorsed Newt Gingrich for 2012.

Sadly, there are only two candidates offering a real means by which to actually undo that which the Left has done to this country for the past 50 years, and not just conservative platitudes. One of those candidates is Ron Paul, but his foreign policy is naive at best and reckless at worst. The other is Newt Gingrich, who has campaigned on what I believe is the most important issue facing us as a people—the loss of the rule of law.

The Left has used unelected judges and judicial oligarchy to reinvent the American way of life, from secularism to the loss of the sanctity of life, to the redefining of marriage, the confiscation of private property, and the granting of imaginary rights. There is an entire chapter of my new book devoted to the need for conservatives and Christians to confront judicial oligarchy once and for all. I have spent the past two years of my radio program educating my audience on this issue, and was a vocal proponent of Iowa’s historic judicial retention election last year, and Newt’s assistance with that effort was vital.

The Great Minds of Talk Radio

There is a nice profile of anti-Mormon bigot Steve Deuce in Atlantic. He is apparently devoting his radio show to doing God's work of stopping that Great Satan Mormon from entering the White House. Here is my favorite line from the Atlantic piece about Deucebag (let me know if I am taking that one too far, but I find it funny).

He's also proudly anti-intellectual, a man who doesn't take himself too seriously. His website declares him a failure at college...

I am fully aware that college is not the be all, end all of intellectualism. There are many brilliant people who never spent their hard earned money on education. However, let's add Deuce to a growing list of talk radio hosts who also failed at college. I am detecting a trend.

Rush Limbaugh
Glenn Beck
Sean Hannity

I will remind you of the trends in American demographics. Americans are becoming less white and more educated. The Republican Party is becoming more white and less educated. So it makes perfect sense that these leaders will find an audience.

Quote of the Day

"I think Rick Perry has a vastly better shot against Barack Obama than Mitt Romney. Of all the candidates running, I think he has one of the best shots..."

-Erick Erickson

I tend to be cynical. I doubt seriously that Erickson is really that stupid. I just think that his audience really is that stupid. And Erick is willing to tell obvious untruths in order push up those page views. The half-wits that read his crap have so completely insulated themselves from the outside world that they really do believe Rick Perry would be a formidable foe. If they really wanted to seek truth, they could start by looking at these Realclearpolitics poll averages and see that Rick Perry is getting destroyed by Obama. I mean, de-stroyed. Or, they could observe how the Obama campaign has not said one unkind word about Perry. I wonder why? Or they could click on the most recent PPP poll at Realclearpolitics (I chose PPP because it had the most favorable results for Perry) and notice that Perry's unfavorables are at 66% and his favorables are at 21%. So less than one out of every four Americans has a favorable opinion of Rick Perry. It seems as if all of those people must be posting at Red State.

Erick Erickson obviously doesn't believe in polls or empirical evidence. And he is right that Perry could turn this around. But he will only be able to turn it around to the extent that he becomes something that Erickson and his audience won't like -- a Republican focused on reaching undecideds and moderates (a candidate like Romney). It's a catch-22. 

Erick Erickson is a working man. He's got to put bread on the table just like the rest of us. But when he manipulates a large swath of ignorant Republican base voters, it affects the rest of us.

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Limbaugh: Romney Not Bombastic

It is very difficult for policy wonks to understand the Republican voter these days. Sure, it is understandable if conservative voters shy away from Romney, since the former MA governor has deviated from the Path a few times in his career. What is not understandable is why some of those same conservative voters would jump on the Newt Gingrich bus. No rational person would determine, after laying all of Newt's past positions side by side with all of Mitt's past positions, that Gingrich is more conservative. It's just not possible. Both men have charted their own paths on occasion. So why does Newt have an aura (though, fading) of conservatism surrounding his gigantic cranium and Romney is the icky, moderate one?

Rush Limbaugh knows why. It's because Romney is not bombastic and prefers to shy away from red meat. You simply must read this monologue from Rush's website. He really does explain modern day conservatism. For Rush Limbaugh, conservatism IS bombastic rhetoric. If you can understand Limbaugh's point in his incoherent harangue, you can really understand why he is so nervous about a Romney presidency. Limbaugh's entire career and earthly riches have depended on his ability to use bombastic rhetoric. That's why he prefers a bomb thrower as the nominee. Limbaugh rightly perceives that Romney is not going to play along with Rush Limbaugh conservatism (read rhetoric).

I really encourage every Romney fan to read that Limbaugh ramble. When you are finished, please tell me if what he is describing is your kind of conservatism. It's time to turn the table on Gingrich/Limbaugh conservatism (rhetoric) and begin a new chapter with Romney conservatism (effective government). We ought to reward doers, not talkers.

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Time To Stand Up To The Brainwashed Fox News Viewers

I am always amazed talking to the ABR voter. You know, the kind of person that only consumes Fox News and therefore is uninformed. The ABR voter really does believe that Gingrich would eat Obama's lunch. Thankfully, those of us who dip our noses into reality have a great smattering of empirical proof to back up our claims. The most recent polling shows an electoral vote that would look something like this.

• Romney – 256
• Obama – 256
• Tie – 26

• Obama – 451
• Gingrich – 76
• Tie – 11

Nobody needed to see these polls to believe that Newt is unelectable (except for the Fox News viewer). For anybody who follows political events closely, the average swing voter's antipathy to Newt Gingrich is well understood. Yet, Fox News has a way of insulating their viewers from the outside world, mainly by claiming that their cable news channel is the only fair and balanced sheriff in town (well, and Joe Arpaio). Here is Greta Van Sustereen, doing some fine political analysis on why Obama is attacking Romney only.

"It's funny because I think that they should be more worried about Gingrich in a general than Romney.

I actually was suspicious about whether or not this anti-Romney web ad was payback for something that Governor Romney did to President Obama about a week ago in an web in which there was a misstatement in the ad.

They played an ad in which they said President Obama did something, but if you dig deep, it as President Obama quoting John McCain. So it was a little bit dirty, so I thought it was just payback."

This is why I hammer Fox News and talk radio all the time! They are literally brainwashing 1/2 of the Republican Party. Literally. Let me explain what is at play here.

1. Fox News wants ratings. It is a reality TV show fixated on maximizing their intended market. They are certainly not any sort of journalistic outfit.

2. Their audience is loud and angry and are gearing to fight. They believe that socialism is upon us and we need to get back to the 1950s. They are not the kinds of people who want a Mitt Romney, who has been accused of working with Democrats in the past.

3. Greta cannot rationally analyze what a general election would likely look like. This would offend her audience. So she goes with the exact opposite. In fact, she probably got orders from the top to make sure she pushes Newt, a former Fox News contributor. After all, her audience will eat it up.

4. And this is how so many Republicans can be so clueless. Fox News brainwashes them into thinking that Newt Gingrich is brilliant, Obama is a socialist, the poor need to have their taxes raised and middle American is doing just fine.

What the non-Fox News voter in the Republican Party will need to assess is how to fight back. We are the minority and we are being taken over by the crazies. Even if Romney slips through the primaries and wins the general election, it will only be because the Fox News crowd sent Newt Gingrich after him. Even if Romney wins, we will still be the minority.

And if he loses...

Rombots and rational Republicans, if you do not stand up and fight the Republican establishment (Fox News and talk radio), then you will lose the Republican Party. If you haven't already.

Occupy Fox News?

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The Rush Limbaugh Formula

The future of conservatism depends on brave conservatives calling out Rush Limbaugh and the rest of talk radio. Here at Right Speak, there has been a strategic opening for people like me to blast talk radio. Many of you support Mitt Romney and are quite ready to make a clean break from these bozos on talk radio. So having said that, please watch the following video in order to understand the Rush Limbaugh formula.

The issue is Jimmy Fallon's use of the song "Lying Ass Bitch" when Michelle Bachmann came on his show. This is prime territory for Rush. It's not complicated public policy, so his audience may follow along. And the subject is flashy, something you might see on AOL news.

First, let me say that Rush had every right to blast Fallon. I agree with him there. What I don't agree with is Rush proceeding to call Hillary Clinton a "lying ass bitch." In this video, you will see the following formula.

1. Rush blasts the "liberal" media/establishment.
2. Rush commits the same offense that he is calling them out on.
3. Rush warns his audience that the media is going to attack him for it.
4. Rush then plays hypothetical games so he can later claim that number 2 was not really his statement or that he was just repeating what the "liberal" media said.

The above formula is designed to maximize Rush's audience. Limbaugh doesn't use his show to advance conservative principles and policy choices. Instead, he uses his show to create controversy with the hopes that the media will attack him, so that he can keep his audience engaged. As ignorant as Rush is, he is a very savvy businessman. He knows how to manipulate his audience so that he can sign multimillion dollar contracts.

(Caution: I apologize for the gaudy Rush Limbaugh slide show in the video. This came from Rush's website, so naturally it is going to feature the fat slob himself.)

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Quote of the Day

Since we are on the topic of immigration and who believes what, I bring to you a comment from Red State,

Romney supports voting CITIZENSHIP for illegals!

tailfins1959 Wednesday, November 23rd at 1:16PM EST (link)

I just heard in on Limbaugh. Romney referred to the Lowell Sun in the quote.

Well that settles it. Limbaugh said it. Romney doesn't just support citizenship for illegals, he supports CITIZENSHIP for illegals. And it is not just CITIZENSHIP, it is voting CITIZENSHIP, as opposed to the non-voting kind. And, of course, the urgency of Romney's socialist, open borders ideology could not possibly be expressed without that exclamation point. 

There are some folks that accuse me of looking down on Rush's audience. They are correct.

Will Romney Kill Conservatism?

There has been a lot debate within the mainstream media and conservative media about the possible ideological leanings of a Romney presidency (Andrew Sullivan has a nice summary here).  And, yes, my fellow Rombots, this is open to debate. Romney was a pragmatic Republican in MA who portrayed himself as right-wing conservative in 2008, but is now running an "I'm not clinically insane," right-of-center campaign for President. Romney's record has not changed, but how he tries to appeal to the electorate has. So who is Romney and what will his Presidency look like?

For once, I hope Erick Erickson is right and I fear if he is wrong. Erick believes that Romney will kill "conservatism." I place conservatism in quotes because the term is up for grabs, as I will explain.

But there is something else too — Mitt Romney is winning the nomination without conservative help. The only time he pays conservatives any attention is when they cry loud enough that the media takes notice and Romney decides the story needs to go away. Once he is the nominee, it will be all about wooing the independents.


Hell, he can give the base Marco Rubio as the veep nominee, just like McCain did with Palin — a token for the base. But don’t delude yourself into thinking he will seriously take conservatives seriously. He got the nomination without them and he’ll only use them when it is opportunistically convenient for him.


Conservatism itself will not really die. But it might as well be dead as even conservatives in the heartland of the country stop taking Washington conservatives seriously.

So what is Erick Erickson's conservatism that he believes Romney will destroy?

First of all, it's more cultural than cerebral. Erick is focused on appealing to "conservatives in the heartland" rather than "Washington conservatives." City folks may not apply. Especially city folks who go to ivy league schools and who don't say "ya'll." We can all remember Palin's dichotomy of the United States into real Americans and everyone else. Erick has been all on aboard with Palin's populism even if he dropped the Alaskan for a newer model.

Second, Erick's not so merry band of followers are much more concerned about the emotions of fighting the enemy of liberalism than with recommending a better, conservative form of government. How else can you explain Chris Christie? I would have loved to have seen Christie run for President if for nothing more than to see the Tea Party sour on him. They will find, like every Northeastern Republican, that Christie is not one of them. At present, they only see Christie's war against the teacher's union (a worthy fight), not the entire picture. And this is perhaps why good Republicans don't run. Christie knew that everyone would get to see how he doesn't fear Muslims, how he cares about the environment, and how he doesn't think shutting down the government is good for the economy. RINO.

Third, when Erickson type conservatives do venture out into the public policy world they quickly reveal to everyone except for themselves that they are pilgrims in a foreign land. That's why Erickson thinks that Cain's 9-9-9 plan and Perry's flat tax plan are good ideas. They are not. They are math defying. They would blow large holes in the deficit, the very thing that Erickson and company claimed to be against. But yet Erick charges forward with these ridiculous ideas because it feels so good. And Perry and Cain gladly lay out these plans, not because they harbor any dreams of those ideas ever becoming law, but because they want to win a primary that consists largely of Erick Erickson conservatives. It's a vicious cycle and it's hard to sort out the chicken and the egg.

And not only are Erickson conservatives bad at policy, they are bad at politics. They really think that the way to beat the opposition in a year when people are protesting against Wall Street is to demand that the poorest of Americans start paying income taxes and that the richest receive a gigantic tax cut. If (or when) President Obama wages class warfare against Romney, it will be a blatant political move and a lie. If President Obama wages class warfare against Cain or Perry, it will be an accurate assessment of their politics. It will be literally true. Rick Perry literally wants to dramatically cut taxes for the rich and dramatically raise taxes on the poor. And the most amazing thing about this is that Erickson cites Romney's wealth as a reason why he will lose against Obama's class warfare.

Breathtaking.

The great news is that Erick Erickson does not get to define conservatism all by himself and that is why he is so fearful of a Romney presidency. Romney seems to be interested in governing. He seems to be interested in data and empirical analysis. Romney may very well throw the Tea Party under the bus in order to get the economy going again, because getting America back to work is more important than obeying a bunch of know-nothing radio clowns. With Romney, we may get a return to William Buckley conservatism.

He may very well kill Erickson's conservatism. I hope he does.

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Erick Erickson Joins Obama's Campaign Staff

Erick may not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but he knows how to breathlessly distribute hyperbole.

Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is a man devoid of any principles other than getting himself elected. As much as the American public does not like Barack Obama, they loath a man so fueled with ambition that he will say or do anything to get himself elected. Mitt Romney is that man.


I’ve been reading the 200 pages of single spaced opposition research from the John McCain campaign on Mitt Romney. There is no issue I can find on which Mitt Romney has not taken both sides. He is neither liberal nor conservative. He is simply unprincipled. The man has no core beliefs other than in himself.

Wow, I know it is campaign season and the Tea Party has utterly failed at producing a credible candidate, but really?

Anyway, I post this not because I care what Erick Erickson thinks. I just want to make another appeal to the Romney fans. Observe this, take it in, and remember it. This is the majority of today's conservative movement. Erick and Rush and the rest of the talk radio entourage are sick to death at the possibility that the eventual Republican nominee is likely to be a guy who has no intention of carrying out their cultural war. 

At least I hope.

My status as a Republican depends on two hopeful paths. First, Romney wins the nomination and general election and then proceeds to give talk radio the finger. In other words, he shows leadership and governs. Second, a Tea Party candidate wins the nomination and then gets blown out by Barack Obama. It is better to destroy the whole mothership and rebuild. We need to get the crazy out of us so we can return to the days of William Buckley.

Here is to hoping that a President Romney will not try to appease the very people who hate him now.

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Dear Rombots, Rush Limbaugh Is Not On Your Side

Today, Rush Limbaugh announced that Obama wants to run against Romney more than the other candidates. This, of course, is obviously the exact opposite of truth. As reported by Politico, the Obama team is increasingly worried about Romney and is secretly rooting for Perry to spend his $15 million on ripping Romney to shreds. Either way, Obama will get a bruised Romney or a normal Perry. Win, win if you are Dem.

Yet, Rush thinks that it is all a hoax and that Obama is more scared of Perry. It really is hard for me to even think like the average Rush fan. How can one be so brainwashed that you really do think that Perry would be a more formidable force against Obama? Yet, that is what Rush does to you.

A couple of weeks ago, Rush declared that Mitt Romney is not conservative. This, almost four years after he declared Romney to be a three-stool conservative. Has Romney become less conservative since then? No, but Rush has small minds to mold. Furthermore, the grassroots has gone buck wild and he can't risk his entertainment enterprise over the pitchforked anger of his Tea Party audience.

The Republican Party has fallen a long ways from the days of William Buckley. It no longer concerns itself with the details of governing. It is strictly a reality show. That is why Rick Perry and Herman Cain can offer tax plans that glaze over basic math. That is why right-wing bloggers can praise Rick Perry's energy plan despite the fact that it reveals that Rick Perry knows nothing about energy. And that is why Rick Perry has given up on the idea of debating before a live audience and instead will completely give himself to paid advertisements and winks and nods affirming birtherism and religious bigotry. Sorry Mr. Buckley, but this is now the Grand Ole Party.

And this is why Mitt Romney is such a threat to Rush Limbaugh. The former governor of Massachusetts represents a small possibility that a Republican who is interested in governing will reside in the White House. Limbaugh's entertainment complex will take a hit. Rushbo will not have Obama to use a fear-creating prop.

So, my dear Rombots. Repeat after me: Rush Limbaugh is not on your side. He wants you to lose.

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