2008 John McCain – Uh no guess not, with all due respect to McCain’s service to our great country he is just not a leader that Republicans want.

2000 John McCain – See above.

1996 Bob Dole – Again another great man who has served his country well but is not viewed as a conservative.

1992 George HW Bush – Yes I include Bush 41 on this list and the reason being is that in 1988 he ran and was elected largely on Reagan’s coat tails and then spent the next four years as a moderate on domestic issues and was ousted for it in 1992 when he had to run on his own record.

1976 Gerald Ford – Its interesting to note that Ford never won even a statewide election in his political career.  He was elected to the House of Representatives thirteen times but passed up chances to run for the Senate or run for Governor in his native Michigan.  Interesting to note that the Republican establishment chose Ford over Reagan in 1976 leading to its doom and four years of Jimmy Carter.

Not exactly a track record to run on…

Why the history lesson you ask?  Well this year the mainstream media and the unions need to do more work than usual to get Obama re-elected.  Obama’s record is so bad it almost makes the Carter years look like the golden age, in addition to that you have clear and blatant corruption that makes Clinton and Nixon look honest.  Obama doesn’t have a single issue he can successfully run on so when that happens you have to marginalize your competition.  Obama needs to run against Mitt Romney because he knows that conservatives won’t support a Northeast Liberal like Romney, Romney is nothing more than the modern day Bob Dole or the 2012 version of John McCain.

Obama’s greatest fear is that he has to run against a conservative that is a solid debater and someone that can communicate effectively.  Insert Newt Gingrich, now we are aware of Newt’s baggage but you have to admit that he is a solid communicator that makes debates interesting and he would eat Obama for lunch in a debate.  This strikes fear in two groups of people, first the left.  Obama, the media, and the unions can’t afford to have a solid conservative running against Obama in November.  The second group is the blue blood republicans.  Those people that are supposedly the pillars of republican wisdom who don’t want the Reagan conservatives thinking they control this party. 

So while the establishment tries to ram Romney down our throats I remember something I learned from Rush Limbaugh a long time ago.  Conservatism works every time its tried…

Rush could get angry and put together his own investment group to counter Mr. Checketts bid.  Rush has the contacts with enough people who would be able to put together a bid for any NFL team out of petty cash.  He could put together a bid to blow any other completely out of the water and then really force the hand of the NFL.  Would the NFL really turn down a high bid for a team because it included someone who the NFL deems politically incorrect?  Rush could be the majority owner and outright run the team and be the face of the St. Louis Rams.  Yes Jerry Jones’ ego would have to take a back seat but that’s probably a good thing.

The NFL has long overlooked and forgiven law breakers, animal abusers, wife beaters, drug problems, etc.  The NFL doesn’t have a problem with that but they won’t allow a minority owner who makes his living in a completely legal way, who dares to speak the truth about the racism that exists in sports media.

Rush could also take the high road and use this experience to drive him to push even harder on the 2010 elections to remove some of the mindless idiots from Congress that are part of the problem, and the 2012 elections to remove Obama from office.

The fact remains that Rush is still the most powerful man in media and can affect elections, maybe it would have been better for Obama if Rush was busy as an NFL owner and less focused on defeating Obama and his mind numb robots running congress…

After 233 years haven’t we as a society reached a point where can end discrimination?  Why must people be segregated based on race, religion, social status, or politics?  The new head of the NFL Players Association seeks to bar a private citizen from investing his money in an NFL team for what reason?  Simply because this citizen dared to exercise his first amendment right of free speech and pointed out the hypocrisy of the sports media in America and their hype of a quarterback in Philadelphia simply because of his race.

So Rush Limbaugh was asked to participate in a perspective ownership group looking to buy the St. Louis Rams.  He’s a private citizen; he has made his money legally.  Rush has no ties to gambling or other entities that are barred by the NFL unlike other owners whose family businesses include gambling.  St. Louis gets a part owner with ties to the area, someone that has done more for the sport than most of the people in it.  That’s not enough apparently, today to be an owner you have to be liberal.  You have to promote the socialist policies of a President and a Congress that seeks the destruction of everything the country was founded upon.

Rush had made a comment on ESPN back in 2003 referencing the quarterback in Philadelphia that the medias interest in this quarterback was because they wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.  The statement wasn’t racist, in fact it Rush was pointing out the racism by the sports media.  They are overtly racist, were then, are now.  That hasn’t changed.  In the years since we were treated to glowing stories about Tony Dungy being the first black coach to win Super Bowl.  We weren’t treated to the stories of how wonderful a coach Tony Dungy was and the masterful a job he did at not only building the Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization that went on to win a Super Bowl the year after he was shown the door, but the job he did in rebuilding the Indianapolis Colts into a Super Bowl Championship team a couple of years later.  The focus was only about his race and not his skill and that is a shame.

Who did Tony Dungy owe his success to, his own hard work, his players, his staff, the ownership group that supported him, the fans.  Not just those who happen to be black.

Rush has been successful in an entirely different field.  Does he owe his success only to himself, only to the white members of his hard working staff, only to his white listeners?  No Rush owes his success to his hard work, his hard working staff of all races and genders, and his listeners, millions of listeners who are White, Black, Latino, Asian, etc.

I have heard Tony Dungy speak about success, and race is never part of that but the media doesn’t hear that they only look at his race.  I have heard Rush Limbaugh speak about success, race isn’t part of that either and again the media doesn’t hear.  The media has been in the business of speaking so long that they have grown tone deaf to what the people actually think and believe.

Much like our government.