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Drudge is now an Official RINO (Republican in Name Only) or is now a mainstream Republican.
Me just an observation | 2/21/2012 | Me

Posted on 02/21/2012 2:21:26 PM PST by DebraAI

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To: DebraAI
Drudge Fudge Packer.

Do you really think G_d's gonna apologize for Sodom and G?

41 posted on 02/21/2012 3:05:58 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (BO Stinks! So does Mitts magic underwear!)
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To: jazzpatriot

Incorrect.

Rick handled the aspirin joke perfectly. As did his backer.

Check the national polls SINCE then.


42 posted on 02/21/2012 3:06:49 PM PST by CainConservative (Santorum/Huck 2012 w/ Newt, Cain, Palin, Bach, Parker, Watts, Duncan, & Petraeus in the Cabinet)
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To: DebraAI

What gave you the idea that Drudge was conservative or, for that matter, Republican?


43 posted on 02/21/2012 3:07:38 PM PST by Keith in Iowa (Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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To: onyx
There’s a history here between FR and Matt Drudge. He’s dropped his link to FR

Just checked, FR is indeed linked.

I've been sending Matt plenty of "tips" lately, hope everyone has.

44 posted on 02/21/2012 3:08:22 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: DebraAI

I’ve not looked at the Frudge packer since he cooperated in Romney’s sleaze attacks on Gingrich.

He’s dead to me.


45 posted on 02/21/2012 3:14:42 PM PST by big'ol_freeper ("Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid" ~ Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: Politics4US

“I never went back on his site after he had the attacks on Newt.”

Same here. I don’t know why anyone would expect anything else from Drudge after his attacks on Newt. Now it will be funny to see what Rush’s response will be after his man Rick is now being attacked by Drudge. Rush stuck up for Drudge while Newt was being attacked. GO NEWT GO!


46 posted on 02/21/2012 3:34:11 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: DebraAI

Drudge to my knowledge is not a Republican nor a conservative. He’s a muckraker.


47 posted on 02/21/2012 3:35:57 PM PST by steve8714 (Yoda's speech to Luke; copied from Jack Webb in "The D.I.")
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To: Dave W
He is reporting the news - he is reporting what is known to the opposition. You are burying your head in the sand and assume that what Drudge is reporting is bad. He is acknowledging what the opposition is going to use against him. . . . People like you are completely irrational.

Well, actually, it is HOW he reports it. He's doing the same thing to Santorum that he did to Gingrich earlier. Consider the photos. He uses photos that will make them look unattractive to most viewers. In this case, Santorum apparently ranting from an altar, as if he belonged to the Inquisition or something. He did the same kind of thing to Newt.

Second, this news is FOUR YEARS OLD, but the way Drudge posts it, it sounds as if Rick just said it today. It is posted like breaking news. An honest post from Drudge would be to the effect that the Lamestream News is attacking Rick for something he said four years ago, and trying to make him look like a religious fanatic.

The media outright lied about Santorum saying that Obama was not a Christian. And Drudge repeated that lie, although I'm sure he knew what the actual story was.

Same thing with Newt. And when it was proved that the media were lying about Newt, Drudge ignored it, although one of his big things has been exposing the MSM.

This is not typical Drudge. I've never seen him go out on a limb like this so far before--unless maybe it was that story the media did about G.W. Bush getting high on drugs and dancing on top of the bar, trying to push McCain ahead of Bush in the 2000 primary.

48 posted on 02/21/2012 3:39:18 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: steve8714

Yes, I agree and don’t think he was ever a republican or conservative.

Drudge has always been a journalist in the modern sense of the word and happened to get lucky that nobody else wanted to print the Monica story.


50 posted on 02/21/2012 3:42:43 PM PST by JerseyDvl (Sometimes the road less traveled.... is less traveled for a reason.)
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To: DebraAI

I neveer went on Drudge very often and now I will never go on his site.
I think it might have been that stupid fedora hat he wears.
People who wear bow ties make me uncomfortable,too.


51 posted on 02/21/2012 3:56:00 PM PST by Leep (Dueling tag lines=don't worry,you'll be a vegetable guy soon<>It's gonna be a Newt day!)
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To: DebraAI

I recently removed the Drudge Report from my homepage. (sad) I depended on it for years.


52 posted on 02/21/2012 3:57:39 PM PST by FrdmLvr (culture, language, borders)
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To: DebraAI
I'm getting scared. Really thinking we are already in a dictatorship and being played

Um, you can still vote for whom you wish. I don't think dictatorships allow that. Drudge is definitely pushing Romney. Fine. Don't click on him if that bothers you.

Don't horribleize it, either.

53 posted on 02/21/2012 4:18:22 PM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: conservative98

Huh? Where did Rick say anything about exorcism?


54 posted on 02/21/2012 4:23:15 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: DebraAI

Doesn’t “RINO”—Republican in Name Only— assume that all Republicans are conservative?

Haven’t we learned by now that we’re a minority in a minority party? Isn’t that the essense of our discontent?

The “RINO” nonsense is meaningless.


55 posted on 02/21/2012 4:33:18 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: DebraAI
Rather than just sit and kvetch about Drudge, send him a message. He accepts NEWS TIPS over there in the rightmost column, 3/4 the way down immediately under QUAKE SHEET.

I gave him a tip: "SATAN is after your ASS".

He needs hundreds of thousands of tips eh!

DO IT FOR JEBUS!

56 posted on 02/21/2012 5:04:56 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Right_in_Virginia

It’s a misuse of RINO


57 posted on 02/21/2012 5:09:28 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: DebraAI
I like the Drudge Report. I thank God for people like Matt Drudge that will spend their time and energy to report the news.

Rick Santorum has his own problems. His voting record is basically indiscriminate from a liberal. He is going to have a hard time explaining why he voted for TARP, approved Sotomyer, against right to work states, and supported Planned Parenthood. Rick Santorium is no conservative.

58 posted on 02/21/2012 5:28:09 PM PST by pterional
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To: pterional

Rick Santorum (who lost his seat after the 2006) did not vote for TARP (which was voted on in 2008).


59 posted on 02/21/2012 5:52:41 PM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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To: ConservativeTeen

*2006 election


60 posted on 02/21/2012 5:53:21 PM PST by ConservativeTeen (Proud Right Wing Extremist)
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