From the Grapeshot forums: Rush doin’ Rush doin’ Rush

Rush Limbaugh crucifies himself. Again.

Dr. Dean has been criticized for making the now infamous Confederate flag reference. He indicated that he also wanted to vote of white trash. He said it better than that, but that is essentially what he was saying - poor white folk with a confederate flag in their pick-up truck.

While Kerry and the other attacked Dean, making this issue into a political statement for them, did any of them ask if Dean was right?

MSNBC pointed out that if Dean had 99% of all Black voters, he would still not carry a single southern state. In other words, to win the south, you also need the vote of the poor white folk with confederate flags in their pick-up trucks.

Like drilling a dry well, Kerry had to move his attack elsewhere. So he is now attacking Dean for possibly opting out of federally matching campaign funds.

One, no candidates follow the guidelines set by the federal matching program. They always find a way to spend past the limit, even if it means having TV commercials made south of the border and beamed in. So let’s stop giving lip service to the matching program.

Second, why does Kerry, or Edwards, feel that they should have to take advantage of the program when the program may actually be a disadvantage? Bush steamed past the $100 million mark in campaign funds. Dean, the democrat with the largest war chest, has 20% of that.

Dean, or any dem of that fact, is going to blow a lot of money just getting the nomination. Then they’ll have Bush’s $100 million waiting for them. The federal matching program would set limits on how much a candidate can spend in any one state, while Bush would have no such limitation. That’s not including organizations like the NRA that will put out their own pro-Bush commercials that are not part of the official Bush campaign.

In other words, if Dean can muster the money, and all indications are that he can, then screw the federal match. It will be the only way to go toe-to-toe with Bush and his gazillionair, lying, no-bid contracting friends.

I will tell you why I am supporting Dean, with lip service and money. Not for his economic plan. Not for his heath-care ideas. It’s for a single statement he made a few weeks ago. He said it’s possible we may not win the White House, but I will make you proud to be a Democrat again.

Democrats are tired. We no longer want to be the party of Bill Clinton. We want to be the party of passion. And when I hear Kerry and Clinton say they do not want liberals in the party, then they might as well be staff members of the RNC. How can a candidate seeking the Democratic nomination say he does not want half of the current democrats in the party? When that happens there is something very wrong.

Dean has continued to surge forward because Democrats are tired are being the political whipping boy. We’ve deserved it, but Dean is fighting it.

Michael Moore points out:
This week the Senate gave Bush the $87 billion he was looking for to continue the debacle in Iraq. But the Republicans knew that voting for this might come back to haunt them, so they asked the Democrats if they could just have a “voice vote” so no one’s name would have to be recorded as having voted in favor of sending the nation into permanent debt (a debt that may not be paid off in our lifetime). The Democrats, afraid of appearing unpatriotic, agreed to the deal.

Something tell me if Dr. Dean where Senator Dean, he would not have agreed.