Posted on 01/25/2008 10:37:36 AM PST by khnyny
Great stuff, Miss Didi. Thanks.
My pleasure!
CNN only wishes it could have Rush’s numbers...
BRAVO SIERRA
If Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio had soooooo much influence on how people vote - Bill Clinton whould of never been elected President. And Twice.
Despite McCain’s victories in two states(and ignoring his losses in Iowa, Wyoming, Michigan, and Nevada), even in the states he won about 2/3 of the voters, and an even higher percentage of REPUBLICAN VOTERS wanted someone else. How you spin that into a repudation of talk radio is beyond me.
It may come as a giant surprise to you but in a two way race it takes over 50 percent of the votes cast to win. Apparently you think 35 percent of the voters can cast over 50 percent of the votes.
If the object is to elect a full blown conservative one must find a way to get 35 percent of the voters to cast more than 50 percent of the votes. That is very hard to do .. People with brains know it is impossible.
There are two options in the nomination process.. nominate a Conservative candidate that can't get more than 35 percent of the votes or nominate a candidate than can get to over 50 percent because he or she has some appeal to the independents.
Democrats have a bigger problem since only 18 percent of voters are liberal, but solve it a lot better than conservatives. Liberal Democrats pretend to be moderates until they get elected. They run for office as moderates and then govern as liberals.
Of course Conservatives won't stand for that, and demand a conservative who has always been a conservative. When conservatives accomplish their goal, the Democrats elect a liberal pretending to be a moderate and Conservatives yell "Damn Stupid Sheeple."
There are only two options for conservatives to win.. First conservatives could get off their dead rumps and convert enough people to make conservatives a majority of the voters. Then they could easily win. The other option is to nominate the most conservative candidate that can win. That means a partial conservative that is moderate enough to attract enough moderates to win. Conservatives never do either. That is why they always lose.
In four more years you can pick the next Fred and see the next McCain get the nomination. By demanding a candidate that is everything you want you only manage to get the nominee you hate most.
Not only that - they can say all they want that TalkRadio’s power is diminishing all they want - it isn’t as if those of us who listen to Rush, Hannity, the Great One, are going to suddenly stop.
The funny thing is the numbers may very well go down for “live” listening - podcasting is becoming more and more popular - personally, I download Rush and Levin and listen to them when I get home - I can’t get AM radio at my office and Levin doesn’t come on in the S.F. Bay Area until 8:00 p.m., when the transmitter powers down.
OT question - I have XM in my car and it brings the AM in clear as a bell, even when it doesn’t come in at my house. If I get a home player for my XM, will it still pull in a great AM signal?
It was republicans that vote this pompous a$$hole into office. It will now be the same "R"s that will nominate him. It was the "R"s that put Arnold in here in Caaleefoneeyaa. These sheeple listened to the drive-bys & voted as such. I heard the BAAHs all the way into the voting booths. Face it.The lib/commies have won the war. RUSH & his group just don't realize it yet. Now if RUSH would have become an activist & got with the border issue or Ramos & Campian (sp) - the later issue- instead of just talking, maybe a slight turn around could have occurred. Bottom line 75% of "R"s have no ideology - 85% of "D"s have an all out agenda. Do the math.
Okay, 27 posts and no one has asked “Who is Carol Costello?”
Talk Radio’s “power” isn’t diminishing it is more a reflection of the fragmentation of Republicans. Huckabee is tanking finally, Rudy is tanking, Fred is out, and the upcoming primaries don’t have the independent vote to inflate McCain.
Good point! I had not thought of that!
Well, I have a cousin Carol Costello, but she’s one of US!
A lot of you may not know this, but Carol Costello and Rush were a dating couple following his thrid divorce. Don’t know what broke them up, but it was hot and heavy for awhile.
Talk radio is a reflection of conservative opinion not the genesis nor control. Libs still think conservatives are mind numbed robots under the Svengali control of Rush, after all libs are controlled by public education, the mainstream media and university professors.
CNN Reporter and news gal. Former girl friend of Rush Limbaugh following his third divorce.
The Drive-Bys’ heads are really going to explode...Sly Stallone just called in to Rush to chat about his new Rambo movie. It was a great interview...Sly slammed the liberal media.
Exactly.
Since when do we accept LeftMedia PropagandaPolls and piddly primary results as reliable indicators as to how the elctorate at large is going to vote?
“A lot of you may not know this, but Carol Costello and Rush were a dating couple following his thrid divorce. Don’t know what broke them up, but it was hot and heavy for awhile.”
Bzzzzzzzzzttttt! Try again. Wrong CNN info-babe.
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