2009-03-07 Limbaugh defines bipartisanship
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"Bipartisan DEFINED !" : RUSH LIMBAUGH : CPAC Convention 2009 2009/03/07 00:00
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- URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OrDo0K3VFc
- Posted: 2009-03-07 (date: 2009/03/07)
- Topics: Rush Limbaugh bipartisanship video conservatism/US conservatism/asymmetry US Republican Party carrot-and-stick negotiation who they are might makes right
- Summary: «To us, bipartisanship is them being forced to agree with us after we have politically cleaned their clocks and beaten them.»
- Author: Rush Limbaugh
- Source: CNN
Commentary
This is a 46-second video clip of Rush Limbaugh at the 2009 CPAC Convention saying:
Bipartisanship occurs only after one other result, and that is victory. In other words let's say, as conservatives, liberals demand that we be bipartisan with them in Congress. What they mean is we check our core principles at the door, come in, let them run the show, and then agree with them -- that's bipartisanship to them. To us, bipartisanship is them being forced to agree with us after we have politically cleaned their clocks and beaten them. [applause begins] And that has to be what we're focused on.
Limbaugh deliberately mischaracterizes the liberal position as being essentially the same as what he then states as the "conservative" position (but flipped), so as to justify said "conservative" position. It would be difficult to find a more definitive example of mirror argumentation and "showing us who they are".