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Michael Savage for President?
Topic Started: Mar 24 2007, 10:27 AM (127 Views)
legitlinda
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Michael Savage is thinking about running for President. I don't think he could or should win, I do like some of his ideas though. I think he can show the RNC how many of us are fed up with them trying to dress liberals up in conservative clothing. We're not going for it and they better get the message fast.

Savage for President?

Issue Date: www.insightmag.com - March 20-26, 2007, Posted On: 3/21/2007

Kuhner: The conservative revolt
Commentary by Jeffrey T. Kuhner


Michael Savage is exposing the rot at the heart of the Republican establishment: He is an effective, articulate and pugnacious spokesman for the disenchanted conservative base. The popular talk-radio personality hosts a daily show, “The Savage Nation,” which airs on over 370 stations and has millions of regular listeners. He is contemplating a run for the 2008 GOP nomination. His Web site (www.michaelsavage.com) has collected over 5 million signatures supporting his presidential bid.

Some say Savage has no political experience and has little chance of winning. However, the support he is gathering exposes the decay within the Republican Party. For the past decade, the GOP political elite has grown increasingly detached from the values and concerns of millions of conservative voters. Despite being trounced in the November elections, Republicans still have not learned their lesson. Many on Capitol Hill and in the White House (such as Karl Rove) are under the illusion the defeat signified nothing more than a typical midterm setback for the party in power in a president’s second term. Instead, the GOP was smashed because it lost touch with the conservative rank-and-file—the activists who form the heart-and-soul of the party. Unless Republicans repair the growing breach, they will lose again in 2008. This time the cost to the country may very well be a Hillary presidency.

Unlike many other pundits and talking heads on the Right, Savage is not a mouthpiece for the Republican Party; rather, he is a Goldwater-Reagan conservative who champions the movement’s most fundamental principles: God, country and family. He has made patriotic conservatism—what he calls the triumvirate of “borders, language and culture”—and the war on Islamic fascism the centerpiece of his show. Those 5 million signatures represent a wake-up call to the Republican Party to return to its conservative roots.

Instead, the party’s presidential front-runners represent its liberal or corporate wings. These factions may have advocates among the elite—Beltway lobby groups, policy institutes, business councils, magazine writers and newspaper editorialists—but their support among voters is thin. Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney have not caught fire with the Republican base for one simple reason: They are liberals masquerading as conservatives.

Giuliani was an effective mayor of New York, who subdued crime and guided the city after 9/11. Yet he is a rabid social liberal: he is pro-choice, pro-gay marriage and pro-gun control. Moreover, under his leadership, New York was transformed into a safe haven for millions of illegal aliens. Contrary to the public myth, Giuliani was not a “law-and-order crime fighter.” Although he was tough on violent criminals, he refused to lift a finger to stop the onslaught of illegal immigration plaguing the city. Giuliani is no Reaganite. Instead, he is a Rockefeller Republican, whose support for open borders helped to undermine America’s sovereignty and the rule of law.

McCain is also part of the GOP corporate establishment, which in order to satisfy the demands of big business has sought to import an entire class of low-skill, low-wage Hispanic laborers. The Arizona Republican likes to dub himself a “maverick.” But in reality, he is a trendy liberal Republican. He is a proponent of “comprehensive immigration reform”—meaning some kind of amnesty for the more than 12 million illegals in this country. He opposed President Bush’s tax cuts. He co-sponsored the pernicious campaign finance reform law. And despite his claims to be a social conservative, McCain has never waged a frontal assault on the abortion or homosexual rights lobbies. McCain’s problem is that he has been in Washington too long: He cares more to win the good opinion of The Washington Post and Beltway liberal elites than to represent the folks in Tucson and Phoenix.

Unlike Giuliani and McCain, Romney is not a country club Republican. He is a slick con man. For example, he is trying to persuade conservatives that he was never a supporter of abortion rights while governor of Massachusetts. Unfortunately, his record indicates otherwise. His campaign aides try to claim that the failure of Romney’s candidacy to attract considerable support is due to some lingering, dark prejudice against Mormons. Yet, subtle religious bigotry is not the cause for his meager support. Romney strikes GOP primary voters as the political equivalent of a used-car salesman—someone who is willing to say and do anything to close the deal.

And this is precisely the problem not only with the GOP’s leading candidates, but with Republicans as a whole: They no longer believe in the core principles of the conservative movement. They long ago stopped caring about shrinking the size of government, securing the country’s borders, defending basic Judeo-Christian values, restoring civilized decency to our culture or winning the war in Iraq. They pay lip service to conservative principles. Yet they care only about power, perks and privileges.

Savage threatens to lay bare this decay and corruption. The 5 million voters who are urging him to make a presidential run represent a conservative cri de coeur—a growing backlash against the GOP’s ossified and anemic leadership. There is an emerging conservative counter-revolution against the excesses of New Age, post-1960s liberalism; these activists are fed up with the current crop of Republican leaders and their inept, fainthearted and defensive responses in the face of liberalism’s colossal failures.

The November midterm elections should have taught Republicans that they ignore these frustrated conservatives at their peril. If Savage urges his hard-core millions of listeners to stay home on Election Day, he can swing the ’08 election to the Democrats. By ignoring its conservative base, the GOP is on a one-way street to political defeat and permanent minority status. Lincoln, Goldwater and Reagan must be turning in their graves.

- Jeffrey T. Kuhner is the editor of Insight (www.insightmag.com).

"These are the nasty scoops that others just aren't getting."

- S.W, Oct. 19, 2006, pg 104

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ELECTION 2008


Michael Savage: Line U.S. border with tanks
Possible presidential candidate suggests dropping nukes on terrorist sanctuaries

Posted: March 18, 2007
9:25 p.m. Eastern


By Aaron Klein
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Tanks keeping illegal immigrants from U.S. borders? Nukes dropped on terrorist sanctuaries? Iraqi insurgent strongholds barb-wired and then decimated?

That's just a glimpse into the future should ultra-opinionated radio host Michael Savage have his way and become the next leader of the free world.

The highly rated talker, whose books include "The Enemy Within" and "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder: Savage Solutions," announced last month he may leave the airwaves, join the political zoo and run for top office in the United States. Since then, over five million people affirmed they want him to seek the presidency, according to an online opinion poll conducted by Savage Productions.

In a WND interview today, the radio personality spelled out his official presidential policies on some of today's burning issues:

Regarding U.S. border control, Savage favors stationing the National Guard along America's periphery "with orders to shoot to kill."

"I'd also put tanks on the border if necessary. I'd reinforce the border after making sure we still have a border following so many years of having it melted down under George Bush," Savage said.

Savage's formula for winning the war on terror is simple: "My platform would be nuke 'em and rebuke 'em. Hit them hard. Hit them fast and get out of the Middle East. Teach them we are the most powerful nation on earth and when our interests and their interests conflict, we are going to win."

The talker maintains America can "absolutely" be victorious in Iraq.

He said as president he would "send maximum force into the Sunni triangle and after giving them 72 hours to evacuate their women and children, turn on the Sadr City area and not go door to door, but decimate the entire area after barb-wiring the place and letting the women and children out."

Following his prescribed military campaign, Savage said Iraq would be divided into four quadrants as determined by the League of Nations after World War I.

He then turned to Iran, calling it a "great nation of great people," but deeming Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "an anomaly, the Hitler of our time."

Savage advocated an international coalition unified against Ahmadinejad to ensure Iranians "have a chance to live in freedom and peace."

Savage said his presidential candidacy can do no harm, since the GOP in its current state is "incapable of winning." He knocked all the current Republican candidates as "good Republicans and bad conservatives. None of them evidence much of a conservative orientation."

While Savage is considering a run, vice-presidential candidates shouldn't be lining up just yet.

"I'm just exploring," he said in a previous online interview. "I could not continue to do my radio show. I've been told that once you've declared yourself a candidate and you're openly running, you have to give up your career in the media for obviously good reasons."

Savage, whose first books were published by WND, is now the nation's third-most popular talk-show host, reaching about 8 million fans listening on more than 370 stations weekly. His show is consistently ranked one of the nation's most influential, and is rated No. 1 in multiple major city markets, including his home base in San Francisco.

The Talk Radio Network host often sparks national news. Savage was credited with bringing the Dubai Ports World deal to national attention. The deal would have turned over U.S. port operations to the Middle Eastern company. A public outrage ensued, forcing Dubai Ports World to scuttle their plan.

Savage has written a series of best sellers. His latest, "The Political Zoo," is a satirical criticism of both Republicans and Democrats.

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Savage as President ? now that is a sobering thought, Mushroom cloud over Tehran here we come.
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gobblerblaster,Mar 24 2007
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Savage as President ? now that is a sobering thought, Mushroom cloud over Tehran here we come.

It would put the fear back in them that's for sure. :lol:
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