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Why Rush Limbaugh Loves Cindy Sheehan
The New York Observer ^ | July 24, 2007 | Niall Stanage

Posted on 07/27/2007 7:57:14 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Ms. Pelosi’s position is much more sensible than Ms. Sheehan’s—at least for anyone concerned about enacting real change rather than simply hearing the sound of their own voice."

This is questionable. What has Pelosi actually enacted that is "real change"? An increase in the minimum wage. Earmark reform? Gone. Most ethical Congress ever. Laughable. What else did they run on? Republicans are evil and George Bush is incompetent. Pelosi has no influence on either of these items. So, we're left with what?

Pelosi and Sheehan are birds of a feather, malignant narcissists.

21 posted on 07/27/2007 9:15:28 PM PDT by Jabba the Nutt (Just laugh at them!)
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To: gondramB

Tell Niall to go on Rush’s show and debate him directly. She won’t do that. Afraid of being humiliated and exposed.

I’ll make it easy for her/him/it...come debate me/us online.


22 posted on 07/27/2007 9:16:35 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: operation clinton cleanup
Calling Cindy sympathetic and pathetic does not=love in my book.

Mr Limbaugh refers to himself as a "lovable little fuzz ball". I consider myself a fair judge of certain persons. Rush Limbaugh is essentially and behind his incredible satire- a kind man.

I find that the essence of left wing liberal satirists, is that many of them are cruel, vicious, or plain nasty. Ah, give me a conservative any day. (laughs).

23 posted on 07/27/2007 9:19:34 PM PDT by Peter Libra
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To: Clintonfatigued

If you check the numbers...in the last election...Pelosi won with 80 percent...and the Republican dude barely got ten percent. Its almost a total waste to run a Republican. But I’m guessing the right person of Cindy’s virture...talking character rather than DC-chit-chat...might carve out half of Pelosi’s group...and the Republicans should not run anyone in the election period.


24 posted on 07/27/2007 9:26:35 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Republicans are in disarray, and the likelihood of a Democrat taking possession of the White House at the 2008 election seems to increase by the day.”

I disagree. Conservatives are humble and speak with their votes.


25 posted on 07/27/2007 9:26:58 PM PDT by 80skid
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cindy is a wacko and Rush was not really defending her. In fact, I agree with the Guardian healdine.

But go Cindy. I hope she puts a major dent in Pelousy.


26 posted on 07/27/2007 9:31:07 PM PDT by TBP
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To: Clintonfatigued
If Cindy Shaheen were elected to Congress, she would be an embarrassment to her own party and a publicity boon to conservatives.

One more reason I'd rather have her in Congress than Pelousy.

27 posted on 07/27/2007 9:32:23 PM PDT by TBP
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To: Ramius
Rush’s reference to the “cruelty” of the left is absolutely true and consistent.

Yes, it is. Taht creulty is a cornerstone of liberalism. That's why it's a mental disorder -- or rather, several disorders rolled into one.

Liberal compassion is an oxymoron.

28 posted on 07/27/2007 9:34:25 PM PDT by TBP
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To: gondramB
Much rather send ol' Fidel a "care package"...


29 posted on 07/27/2007 9:34:58 PM PDT by RasterMaster (Rudy McRomneyson = KENNEDY wing of the Republican Party)
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To: rabscuttle385

I thought the exact same thing. This one statement ruins this idiot’s credibility for any other analysis or fact based statements.


30 posted on 07/27/2007 9:37:28 PM PDT by 1L
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To: Peter Libra

Good points. As much as I have hated and disdained what Sheehan has done and said I see her as a woman who never allowed herself to grieve. She helped turn the grief to anger which she has still not gotten over. She is one hurting woman who has lost a young son and she needs help.


31 posted on 07/27/2007 9:57:42 PM PDT by jwh_Denver (In the Rise and Fall of United States I hope the Fall part is more than one chapter.)
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To: rabscuttle385
Republicans are in disarray, and the likelihood of a Democrat taking possession of the White House at the 2008 election seems to increase by the day.

Sounds like something Baghdad Bob would say.

Yes it does. But in this case, at this point in time, it seems to be fairly accurate. But that hardly makes it certain the the situation will remain this way or progress even further to the benefit of the Dems. Politics and the moods of the public are very mercurial.

What the current political situation does say clearly is this, that the Dems are not winning, but that the Pubbies are losing. That is a real and significant distinction, because it says that if the Republicans start using their brains a little and move in a more consistent assertive manner, the pendulum will start swinging the other way. Will they? I'm not seeing any evidence thus far.
Introduce a dynamic and even mildly conservative candidate into the mix and the dynamics of the national political scene will change a lot in a hurry.

Unfortunately, a lot of the momentum needed by Republicans should be originating from leadership and example coming from the White House. It isn't there and hasn't been. The President pissed away huge amounts of political capital with his amnesty bill and, with the stupid things he has been saying in public on the subject since then he is making it worse, not better.

The Republican party leadership needs to wake up to the fact that CBS forged documents and related tactics on the part of the press in 04 are playground stuff in comparison to the kind of sleazy advocacy for the Clinton candidacy they will be doing this time. It is going to be unbelievably ugly this time. Is the party going to fart around and wait for a group like the Swift Boat Vets to win this election? I believe that is exactly what the game plan is at this point.

32 posted on 07/27/2007 10:00:02 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: rabscuttle385
"Republicans are in disarray, praise the DNC. Voters will roast their possession of the White House in hell at the hands of Democrats."

These villains, and in particular the villain Bush, make certain the Democrats will be taking possession of the White House at the 2008 election . Not only will they be disappointed, I think they will be hysterical."
33 posted on 07/27/2007 10:19:01 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: Doogle

I listen to Rush regularly. He’s never been nasty towards Sheehan. He’s always seemed to mention her as an unstable woman being used by the left, and always said they would dump her when she didn’t serve their purpose anymore.


34 posted on 07/27/2007 10:42:47 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Personally, I think Rush read my blog:

The Defense of Cindy Sheehan

I’m going to try to hold the bile down as I write this. I might not have any luck and have to end this early though.

That said, ideologically Cindy Sheehan is wrong. I’m not going to sit here and apologize first because her son died. She loves to wave around the death of Casey. She brings it up in EVERY SINGLE PUBLIC STATEMENT SHE MAKES. How does the death of her son prove that taxes need to be raised? How does the death of her son prove that the government should be in charge of health care? How does the death of her son make her right on any stupid issue she’s come out in favor of? The death of her son doesn’t even prove that the war in Iraq is wrong.

Okay - I’m sorry you’re wrong (and not smart enough to see it.)

But just because this woman is an idiot that doesn’t mean it’s okay for the left to take advantage of the woman (which is exactly what they did.) According to the biographies I’m reading, the woman was born in 1957 and her life started in 2004 with the death of her son. How strange that a modern day figure has absolutely no notes on her past anywhere. Although it’s not noted anywhere I can find, I do believe that Sheehan was featured in Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9-11”. A very strange credit in the Internet Movie Database would seem to confirm this. Although it gives a short bio of Sheehan there, it lists no acting credits at all.

Thus Sheehan just emerged out of thin air. She walks around talking about how her son died in war in Iraq - but so what? Thousands of mothers and fathers have lost their kids Iraq. Why did Sheehan rise to the top to become a celebrity?

The short answer is that she’s a left wing construct. Libs saw a woman who is obviously insane with grief and instead of dropping the money to get the woman a shrink, they spent it giving her a platform to make a circus of herself. How in the hell does a woman who lists her occupation as “Housewife” have millions of dollars to organize protests, buy five acres of land in Texas for thousands of dollars and party with Movie Stars? How does a nobody get a book deal, her own stage play and a movie deal?

Answer: she’s a useful idiot. Much like that girl in high school that all the football players had sex with - she wasn’t popular, they just knew they could put her on display and she’d go along with it.

And thus is Cindy Sheehan. As long as the left had someone out there willing to embarrass themselves life was good - especially since the left was out of power. Someone had to go out there and say the things libs think but would never dare say (like the war in Iraq is really a war for Israel.)

But now there’s a problem: Democrats and Libs are back in power. Now instead of being a face of the movement, Sheehan is more like the embarrassing aunt. They don’t want Sheehan to say what they all think anymore (lest it ruin their chances in the next election.)

Case and point: on July 3, 2007 Sheehan announced that if Pelosi doesn’t draw up articles of impeachment by the end of July, she would run against her in the next election.

And the firestorm began. So far, Sheehan has been “Warned” about posting on the lefty site DailyKos. Apparently Kos is (now) a Democrat Hack site that only supports Dems. Funny, cause I remember Lieberman about this time last year, was Kos’ public enemy #1 since he supported the war. It seems like I also remember the Kossacks supporting Sheehan’s speeches to the Communists, the Socialists, the Venezuelans who support Hugo Chavez, etc. Frankenstein’s monster is free to rampage the peasant village, just don’t let her back in when she runs back to the castle.

So the moral of the story is “Threaten OUR power and you’re out.” I can’t help but feel sorry for the woman. She’s too intellectually vacant to see what they were doing. This makes even madder at the left. But I’m not surprised. Their power means everything to them - and people are just tools to an end like any other rotten movement.

The Nazis had their “Night of the Long Knives” where they massacred all their radicals. Seems that the left is having theirs as well.


35 posted on 07/27/2007 11:22:38 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: Dragonspirit
2008 is our election to win so long as we stay united.

This country will never elect anyone named Hillary or Obama, unless one of them happens to run against someone named Rudy.

36 posted on 07/27/2007 11:45:18 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
So Rush had a kind word for a woman the Left used and then threw away? He doesn't need to be lectured to on ethics by people who think treating people decently is beneath them. We're not endorsing Cindy Sheehan's wacko views, mind you. We're just taking note of a deeply disturbed woman who was turned into headline fodder against Bush. The moment she questioned the Democrats, it was "adios." These people have created their own Frankenstein and now its turning on them.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

37 posted on 07/27/2007 11:54:03 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Duke Nukum

Gingrich called that part of the Republican party

“The Perfectionist Caucus.”


38 posted on 07/28/2007 3:00:42 AM PDT by Finalapproach29er (Dems will impeach Bush in 2008; mark my words.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cindy Sheehan is repeating what she has heard elsewhere, but it is true:

The Democrats ARE the Party of Slavery (POS).

They were the POS before the Civil War.
They were the POS during the Civil War.
They were the POS after the Civil War.
They were the POS with Jim Crow.
They were the POS opposing civil rights.
They were the POS with George Wallace.
They are the POS advocating the slavery of welfare dependence.


39 posted on 07/28/2007 3:23:06 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"The problem here is not really Ms. Sheehan or Mr. Feingold. It is the strand of political activism of which she, in particular, is an exemplar. Ms. Sheehan represents a constituency that prefers to lose while glorying in its own ideological purity rather than sully itself in the battle for incremental victories."

Sheehan doesn't represent a "brand", she has never had a clue how the government works, that's how the left was able to use her and why she is morphing her position as see learns more.

40 posted on 07/28/2007 3:30:43 AM PDT by Earthdweller (All reality is based on faith in something.)
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