Frum's Right on Limbaugh and GOP: Conservatives, Republicans Must Evolve

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Remember, a vote for a Democrat is a vote for gun control.

KMD of ID 12:11AM October 15, 2010

Republicans don't believe in abortion, yet they won't adopt any children because they're selfish. When that unaborted baby is of age, they recruit them to go fight phony wars and get them killed.
You can count the rich Republican children on one hand that actually go to war. They like using other people's children to make hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Dee Greene of MD 4:39PM March 22, 2009

Mr. Morgan: You frighten me a little...no, a lot.
You aspire to the likes of Rush Limbaugh What a scary thought!
Fortunately, many of you aging Republicans will soon all be put out to pasture. Thank Christ!
Yeah, right. I can just imagine Rush Limbaugh in the Oval Office. Perish the thought! (no, make that the Round Office)

christopher jenkins, a moderate of NY 3:35PM March 17, 2009

Not much of a plan if you ask me.
Abandoning the unborn to the bloody gloves of the abortionist is not "evolving" - It is submission, and regression into the growing darkness of immoral hedonism that is now centered in the White House...
Mary Kate, perhaps you once were "pro-life" - now you value pragmatism above the worth of your soul.
There are such things as right and wrong and good and evil. Not all things are subjective or relative. Absolute Truth and Eternal Morality are not subject to opinion pols and elections - The are unchangeable... all man can do is chose to ignore their reality, and eventually, reap the whirlwind of consequence.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 1:02PM March 15, 2009

If the Republican Party keeps trucking out those pro life and tax cut platforms, and listening to Rush Limbaugh they'll be eating berries off the forest floor for years to come. Remember that in four years many of the the current Republican Party will be dead.

John Dickie 10:59PM March 13, 2009

Bush showed us how to be comassionate toward liberalism and loose real bad. We have never needed to be MORE conservative in this country for the 84+ years I have lived in it, than right now! I see evidence by the older best of our party, who will Join Rush Limbaugh in coming together to greatly stengthen the party numbers ----for another post recession 40 years in the Whitehouse. Else, as being predicted overseas, States will begin to remove themselves from the Union!

LFrank Morgan of CA 7:48PM March 13, 2009

Republicans like to hold capitalism and free markets as their gold standard for economic progress. Unfortunately an increasingly resource hungry world will disrupt that standard with ever increasing economic disparity and the social decay that follows. When Republicans begin to understand that free markets will need progressively increasing regulation simply because natural resources are limited, and our environment is not a limitless garbage dump, then, just maybe, the party can lead again. If Republicans fail to understand this they will just become another foot note in history.

SOF of FL 5:04PM March 13, 2009

Republicans Must:
1) support lower taxes across the board, much lower.
2) drive the energy independence movement, oil, gas, wind,
solar
3) keep the government out of peoples lives, including
abortion.
a. you don't to support it but you should keep taxpayers
money out of it, period
4) secure our borders
5) stand for National Security/National Defense - peace
through strength
6) Be the party of capitalism and free markets.
7) Be the party of responsible environmental science
8) promote liberty and freedom and the responsibility that
goes with it. Stop all the "It's my right" because I want
it to be, or "oh no, I screwed up someone help me"
9) Stop the spoending
10) make congress a part time job like it was ment to be
Standing for freedom and liberty is a winner. Any law or regulation that government passes reduces liberty or freedom.

Larry of CA 4:46PM March 13, 2009

This is a great democracy. We must have many voices. It is good to be reading the words of sagacious Repubilcans. We thought you were gone. Welcome back, we need your strength.

a democrat of MI 4:21PM March 13, 2009

1. Speechwriting credentials hardly qualify one as an expert on turning a political party around. Even McCain's record does not place him among great Conservative leaders. It appears that one former speechwriter is giving aid and comfort to another, neither representing a exemplary conservative administration that should be swooned over.
2. The tenants of conservatism are being tested right now. If you lack a strong conservative foundation, you might cave into the liberal mentality of perpetual victims amd emtitlement-hounds who want to be able to do what they want, when they want, how they want...without accountability for their actions, without God in schools, with full abortion rights and with all dissenting voices muffled. Be sure to add "a really big government that will promise to look after all of your needs!" Sure, it would be easier to cave and not have to argue a position based upon merit, ideas and soutions measured by results....and you might fall for the thinking that everyone is owed everything all of the time. You might start thinking that because someone is more successful than you are, that you are somehow entitled to some of the fruits of their labor. Another helping of Socialism, please!
Flat-backed Republicans are having this liberal agenda run right over them .....because they have abandoned the only thing that ever gave them focus and influence - their conservative beliefs! Frum is purporting and Cary is espousing that Republicans become more liberal in their leanings. Hogwash. The conservative core needs to rise up and put their best effort into defining/communicating/marketing what conservatism is....if they do this well, there will be momentum building from that alone....and it is momentum that is self sustaining and provides its own gravitational pull. Flat-back Republicans stopped standing on conservative beliefs long ago.....I guess on their way down to their current reclining position.
I don't always agree with Rush but his views are, in my opinion, consistent. He is not poll-hungry for direction. He is right far more often than he is wrong with his prediction and interpretation of events. And if you think that he glows about Republicans because they belong to that party and if you are convinced that he supported President Bush's actions at every stop of the way, they you haven't really listened to his show. So as far as moving past Rush, it is a fine idea if the fight is going to be taken up by the elected representatives who have fallen down on the job. If they do not pick up the gauntlet, Rush is where he needs to be ...and building a larger audience.

Brian Tremblay of NC 3:58PM March 13, 2009