Local Nashville RW Talk Radio TRASHES Bush!

[johnaries]

I'm working a different schedule for a few weeks and have a long commute. This temp schedule has me driving in after the local station finishes NPR News so I can't get my morning NPR fix. I'm not in the mood for music (how sad is that, a former musician "not in the mood for music"?), so I switch over to the local Talk Radio station to hear what the latest RW spin is.

The usual "RushWannabe" is on vacation, although his usual crony is still there with this "fill-in" guy.

So what does this "fill-in" guy start talking about? (hold on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen....)

HOW MUCH BUSH AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAVE LET US DOWN!!!!!!

OK, he starts on this rant AGAINST Bush and the Repukes, and I expect the crony to challenge him.

NO! The crony agrees!!!!

Now it's time for the callers to start coming in. I expected some typical Freeper spin and rednecks to tear him a new one for daring to question the Exalted Leader.

THEY WERE AGREEING WITH HIM!!!!

Now, I'm sure these callers are filtered, so I'm convinced there were some callers who wanted to rip him a new one -

But, what was amazing that in a Red State he was getting call after call of people who used to march in lock-step: who are now expressing their own feelings that Bush and the Repukes let them down!

OK, that was exciting enough. Then, as I was leaving work, Michael Savage (The Savage Nation) was on the same radio station. This was only the second time I have ever heard this a**hole, and if you haven't heard him (I don't recommend it), he makes Mann Coulter look like a Camp Fire Girl.

But, HE WAS CRITICIZING BUSH! Of course, somehow he managed to blame Bush and Clinton at the same time (believe it or not), but he still criticized Bush AND THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN CONTROLLED GOVERNMENT!

He echoed the comments of the local fill-in guy that "our government and our party has let us down".

THE SHEEPLE ARE WAKING UP!!!!!!!
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In closing, here are some things from the "fill-in" guy that may be helpful in framing issues for 2006 and 2008 - amazingly close to the direction and Dean and Kerry have recommended! The fill-in guy was pushing Fred Thompson for 2008 (he admitted Fred was a RINO, but he still defended him):

Illegal Immigration - this seemed to be the defining issue for the local fill-in guy and Savage. Although both of them obviously have problems with immigrants in general, both of them framed it in terms of National Security. This reminds me, personally, of Kerry's call to improve security at ports, borders, etc. Kerry and Dem's may not want to go as far as they would like to keep immigrants out, but at least Dem's point out that we need to do more to guard and protect borders and ports against potential terrorists. These RW'ers agree that Bush has done NOTHING.

Abortion - Abortion has been designated as a "right", and it's hard to take away rights (BTW, he trashed the Patriot Act). He was discussing this with a caller at the time, and I really couldn't believe my ears - he and the caller agreed that we shouldn't take away the right to have an abortion, but it should be regulated and partial birth abortion in particular should be banned (basically, what Dean and Kerry have been saying - as far as partial birth, the SCOTUS told us the only reason that it was un-Constitutional was because it had no provisions to protect the health of the mother. SCOTUS told Congress what to do to fix it, but the Repuke Congress gave up. You and I know why: this is the number 1 campaign issue for Repukes, and they're not about to give it up).

Well, that's about it, but Dean is definitely on the right track.

The time is ripe, the time is NOW! Many Repuke voters agree with us more than they do the Repuke party (as proved by the PIPA report in 2004). They just believed the spin.

THE SHEEPLE ARE WAKING UP!


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[BayouBengal07]

1. I dunno.

I don't think they're waking up, I think they're just angry that Bush isn't extreme enough. Evangelicals are pissed that he hasn't done more to challenge Roe v. Wade or pass a national ban on gay marriage yet. They want results after they put him back into office.

Bush and the government may have failed hte sheeple, but that doesn't mean they're ready to vote with us.

[johnaries]

2. Well, they don't have to be ready to vote with us.

If you think about it, "Liberals" in this country are split between 3 different parties. Conservatives rally behind 1 party (some people may say the Libertarian Party is Conservative, but they are pretty much split down the middle in Elections and detract equally from both parties).

So, technically, we don't need them to "vote with us", although ideally we would love them to understand and agree with our point of view.

If we can't convert them, it is enough for them to see enough of the truth to become disillusioned enough with their own party to "not vote".

In which case, we win!

[FreedomAngel82]

3. I agree

As long as they see what's wrong in this country we can all work together to try and fix this mess the neocons have gotten us into. I personally would like everybody who is angry at Bush to vote either for a progressive republican or a democrat next year so we can clean everything up and get Bush for lying us into war and killing so many people both our own and not. They deserve it. It is nice to hear them blaming someone other than Clinton for everything for once.

[johnaries]

4. AMEN, Sister!

Please, can we get back to working on the problems, rather than trying to blame them on the other guy to make us look better?

Unfortunately, we will never be able to get "politics" out of Politics, but while we're playing "politics" can we at least discuss some of the real problems?

That's my hope for the future, anyway.