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The Limbaugh schism
The Week ^ | March 5, 2009 | David Frum

Posted on 03/05/2009 7:15:37 PM PST by yongin

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To: mono

Any up and comer [e.g. Sarah Palin] will be defined before they get out of the chute. Nothing conservative will get the middle until the country hits bottom. Nobody every votes to be responsible until and only as long as they have to. To hell with the middle. That is the fastest way to bring them to Jesus.


41 posted on 03/05/2009 8:09:45 PM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: popdonnelly
"Why doesn’t Frum take Democrats to task, instead of dumping on his fellow Republicans?"

Because it's easy to target those who are already the favorite targets of the media, and he wants to be liked. It's sort of like kicking a man when he's down, (or perceived to be down politically). This guy is a coward through and through.

42 posted on 03/05/2009 8:09:51 PM PST by rangeryder (If a man says something in the woods, is he still wrong?)
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To: rangeryder

If you visit David Frum’s website, Newmajority, the posters over there say conservatives need to be more like Arlen Specter and kiss up to the Messiah. Not much difference between Frum’s site and Daily Kos.


43 posted on 03/05/2009 8:16:55 PM PST by yongin
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To: GeronL

geez, when 95% of America gets their news from the liberal media and ACORN is registering and voting hundred thousand dead people. how else would it go?

I understand, but we can only win if we garner the moderate centrist voter or we can write off another one. What do you propose then to address the situation?


44 posted on 03/05/2009 8:17:30 PM PST by PROSOUTH ( Deo Vindice "God Will Vindicate")
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To: jimfree

Frum = the voice of the “New Castrati”


45 posted on 03/05/2009 8:23:47 PM PST by Belle22
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To: yongin
"...For my part, I’ll adopt the justly famous philosophy of that anonymous American soldier who, upon reaching the front line at the Argonne just as the French army was giving way, exclaimed: “Retreat hell! We just got here.”

Any Marine can tell you it wasn't an "anonymous American soldier ", and this lax LD obviously can't be relied upon to do elementary research or understand simple concepts such as "conservative".

From wikipedia..

Lloyd W. Williams (Jun. 5, 1887 - June 12, 1918) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps who served and died in World War I.

A famous saying is attributed to Captain Williams, who was serving as a company commander in the 5th Marines. When advised to withdraw by a French officer at the defensive line just north of the village of Lucy-le-Bocage on June 1, 1918, he is said to have replied: "Retreat? Hell, we just got here!"[1] Captain Williams would not survive the ensuing battle, and was posthumously promoted to major and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

A member of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute class of 1907, Major Williams Hall was named in his memory in 1957. He is also considered to be the first known person from Virginia to die in the First World War.

46 posted on 03/05/2009 8:24:41 PM PST by opbuzz (Right way, wrong way, Marine way)
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To: Belle22

Frum is certainly one of the castrati Belle.


47 posted on 03/05/2009 8:30:49 PM PST by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find!)
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To: rangeryder

It is SNOWE and SPECTER
Get details right and you might may sense


48 posted on 03/05/2009 8:33:28 PM PST by Seajay (Ordem e Progresso)
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To: JohnD9207

Exactly. The dems are petrified that people will figure out Obama by listening to Rush. Why else would they so desparately try to bring him down. It’s a joke. They are quaking in their boots. I believe that most of the dems know Rush is right too.


49 posted on 03/05/2009 8:34:36 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: yongin

frum

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FrU

FU


50 posted on 03/05/2009 8:37:07 PM PST by Entrepreneur (The environmental movement is filled with watermelons - green on the outside, red on the inside)
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To: yongin

Frum isn’t saying anything new.


51 posted on 03/05/2009 8:37:43 PM PST by unsycophant
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To: mono
"The middle hates Rush and right now the GOP loses the middle by about 35 points. The GOP will never win national elections with Rush as the face of the party. He is just too controversial...it is not going to happen"

Poppycock. Barak Obolshevik is destroying America in an unprecedented way, and doing it as though he belives there is no tomorrow. T'won't be long my friend, before people start to see just how right Limbaugh is most of the time. A national crisis can bring people together better than any leader can, and we are about to suffer the worst economic times since the Great Depression and Dust Bowl era. I believe Republicans will unite soon, to bring down this arrogant, lightweight, inept, racist President Barak Obagjob.

52 posted on 03/05/2009 8:41:49 PM PST by rangeryder (If a man says something in the woods, is he still wrong?)
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To: Seajay
"It is SNOWE and SPECTER Get details right and you might may sense"

Get details right and "I might may sense"? LOL Now you see how stupid it is to target trivial mistakes like spelling and typos just to discredit the larger, more important core of the message? I sure hope so.

53 posted on 03/05/2009 8:47:40 PM PST by rangeryder (If a man says something in the woods, is he still wrong?)
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To: dandiegirl
Why else would they so desparately try to bring him down. It’s a joke. They are quaking in their boots.

Nope, I think they're just too clueless. Rush's truths are the absolute opposite of what libs think and believe, so he horrifies them.

I remember when the Republicans were making Tip O'Neill the butt of humor during the first couple years of the Reagan Administration, but the libtards have not yet figured out that Rush is not an elected official. By attacking him, they do two things: Aim their fire at someone besides elected Republicans, and give him the eventual power to figure very large in our next Presidential nominee.

After Zero body slams the economy to the canvas, people will be ready to hear the voice of reason say, "I told you so".

54 posted on 03/05/2009 8:57:53 PM PST by hunter112 (SHRUG - Stop Hussein's Radical Utopian Gameplan!)
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To: ken21

Kick Frum and Noonan and Brooks off the plantation.


55 posted on 03/05/2009 9:02:49 PM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: rangeryder

Rahm, Paul & James have overplayed their hand. Dems are now tuning in to Rush in greater numbers - this being a bandwagon culture, if something’s on TV every night, they need to check it out. When they do, they are panicking, because they find out that he’s not, as they were told, the Olbermann of the right, but is saying things that make sense.

Now, having attacked Rush, if the WH continues down the path towards pushing talk radio off the air, the fence-straddling “centrists” might just realize that we’ve got a problem. (If the need to move back into their parents’ basements hasn’t clued them in already.)

How can Mary Matalin raise kids with Carville? He can’t possibly hide his nature long enough for her to get any values across.


56 posted on 03/05/2009 9:06:53 PM PST by Belle22
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To: yongin

Frum can take his “Democrat Lite” and shove it up his ass. If these friggin idiots who call themselves Republicans don’t get it by now, they never will.


57 posted on 03/05/2009 9:32:19 PM PST by csense
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To: yongin

How utterly ridiculous to compare the physicality, personality, personal history, etc., of Rush Limbaugh and Barack Obama as individuals!

Rush is human, as is Obama, and both have human flaws. The media and others have been diligent to inform us and remind us of Rush’s imperfections, while apparently remaining incurious about Obama’s.

This has to do with philosophy, ideals, ideology! Rush Limbaugh is much more attractive than Barack Obama in every way, imo.


58 posted on 03/05/2009 10:05:08 PM PST by LucyJo
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To: PROSOUTH

then its too late.

we did go after the moderates. we had an amnesty moderate for our candidate.

next time I guess we just co-nominate Obama.

Maybe that would work!!


59 posted on 03/05/2009 10:20:25 PM PST by GeronL (Will bankrupting America lead to socialism?)
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To: mono

So you are one of those party-over-principle people.

Shame on ypu.


60 posted on 03/05/2009 10:49:04 PM PST by SerpentDove (Don't make fun of his ears.)
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