McCain Campaign Manager Blames Rush Limbaugh for McCain's Loss

Rush Limbaugh ^ | 2009-01-16

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, have you thought back to the 2008 election? Have you asked yourself who was responsible for that loss? Have you asked yourself who really should shoulder the blame and the burden for the defeat of Senator McCain? A lot of people have been speculating this, a lot of postmortems on the election. Let's go to the BBC. BBC World Service, host Stephen Sackur spoke with former McCain campaign manager Rick Davis and asked Rick Davis on whose shoulders rests the burden of the McCain defeat.

DAVIS: We didn't successfully reach out to them. I mean, but you look at the leadership John McCain gave which is counter to the direction that the party was headed, when you have the Rush Limbaughs of the world who, you know, literally almost feed the nativist attitude toward immigration reform, what do you think the Hispanic voter, the Latino voter is gonna remember? They're gonna remember the attacks, not the efforts by people like John McCain to try and reform.

RUSH: So there you have it, Rick Davis, the campaign manager for McCain, has dumped on my shoulders the reason McCain lost and others like me alienated Hispanic voters. This is so wrong on so many levels, but it explains why this campaign was so inept. A brief time-out. Just wanted you to hear that so you could stew over it.

[Jabba the Nutt]

With a handle like 'Java Jumpy', you're going after Rush "making run" of Michael J. Fox.

Get your head out of the MSM's butt. Rush wasn't "making fun", he was demonstrating Fox's movements and he pointed out how Michael J. Fox comes off his medications BEFORE he testifies to Congress to make his OWN movements more exaggerated.

I think the handle 'Java Jumpy' makes fun of people with Parkinson's. What do you say to that?

[JavaJumpy]

With a handle like ‘Java Jumpy’, you’re going after Rush “making run” of Michael J. Fox.
Get your head out of the MSM’s butt. Rush wasn’t “making fun”, he was demonstrating Fox’s movements and he pointed out how Michael J. Fox comes off his medications BEFORE he testifies to Congress to make his OWN movements more exaggerated.

I think the handle ‘Java Jumpy’ makes fun of people with Parkinson’s. What do you say to that?

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My mistake.