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Rush Defends Sarah Palin's Choice to Campaign for McCain
The Economy Colapse ^ | 1/16/2010 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 02/18/2010 6:59:52 AM PST by Brices Crossroads

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To: Brices Crossroads
Palin/ Joe the Plumber 2012, love it!!!

Rush is right! Sarah rocks!!!

221 posted on 02/18/2010 8:44:46 AM PST by Friendofgeorge ( SARAH PALIN or BUST.)
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To: mnehring
JD said he would endorse McCain if he loses the primary, does that mean that JD is also a RINO and we shouldn’t support him?

You got a good point. This politics stuff is slightly more complicated than a ball game.

222 posted on 02/18/2010 8:54:06 AM PST by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: Cuttnhorse
Rush did not defend Palin, he explained why she endorced McCain...

Oh silly you, to the Palin bashers, this is proof positive that Rush now endorses McCain...........

Here, try this:

Rush explains Palin's decision, Palin endorses McCain, McCain supported amnesty for illegals. Therefore Rush also supports illegal immigration regardless of what he's said in the past.......

1+1+1 = 3 You can't deny logic..........

223 posted on 02/18/2010 8:55:38 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Politics has gotten everyone here too puckered up.........)
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To: Brices Crossroads
Why is this hard??????!!!!!! Find the candidate that stands for what you want, and SUPPORT HIM or HER!!! Another donation headed to JD Hayworth today... so if that makes me a minority among you, so be it!!
224 posted on 02/18/2010 8:55:42 AM PST by pollywog (Psalm 91:4 ~ Under His Wings ~)
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To: deannadurbin

Rush was pretty explicit in saying he’s not defend her or criticizing her but stating what he thinks she is doing. If you want to complain then I suppose your complaint is with the fact that he said that her decision doesn’t in anyway change his view of her because to him, it’s all about policy


225 posted on 02/18/2010 9:02:11 AM PST by wiseprince
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To: Servant of the Cross

There was a a lot of that over on one of the Fred threads yesterday. I got attacked for trying to defend Fred’s decision.


226 posted on 02/18/2010 9:06:52 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: mnehring
I don't think he fessed up but he has called in before. Many people recognize the accent.

FReepers have an accent? Who knew?

227 posted on 02/18/2010 9:06:55 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: pollywog
Supporting Sarah Palin's choice, while disagreeing, and also sending a donation to Hayworth today.

Why is this hard?? (It's not).

228 posted on 02/18/2010 9:06:57 AM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: SnakeDoctor
I’m sure she’d rather Hayworth win ...

I completely agree with that. My personal dream with regard to this primary race between McQueeg and Hayworth, is that McQueeg (or wife/daughter) does something so stupid, so postal, that he gives Sarah the wide opening, huge fat pitch, to say "you know what, John has stepped over the line so much with _______ that I need to withdraw my endorsement ....."

We ALL know that McQueeg (or daughter) is more than capable of a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part...and John, you're just the guy to do it!


229 posted on 02/18/2010 9:07:23 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: mkjessup; NFHale; rabscuttle385; sickoflibs
mj, your example, while a lil blasphemous is really spot on...

so Mrs Palin is only a national figure because of mcqueeg, so shes beholdin to that evil sob to 'dance' with him, when there are candidates in the field who would 'represent' her policies more accurately ???

political expediency [for selfish needs] and lack of conviction are the problems with this system of human governance in the first place, glad she showed her cards this early...

i think we have truly come to a place where there is no possible way to enter major league politics without selling out, lest youre cornered and ineffective...at that point, no amount of voting for politicians is gonna reverse the ship...

my .02

231 posted on 02/18/2010 9:08:44 AM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: ohioWfan
I understand that no one will ever meet your pristine standards of perfection, Man.

You have a very loose definition of pristine if you consider endorsing someone who supports amnesty for illegals, the socialist bailout, cap and tax, abortion as close to perfect.

BO/BS and his marxist cronies are in power now because the OP(formerly the GOP) put voters in the position of choosing between two socialists.

I am SO thankful that you're only on the internet typing words, and not a real threat to the Republic.

Interesting you consider demanding a return to the strong conservative principles upon which our founding fathers wrote the Constitution instead of further capitulating to the big tent mentality McAmnesty represents as a threat.

There are countless conservative Republicans working their tails off and donating huge sums of money to get conservative Republicans elected. WE are the people who will get rid of Obama.

Your party had decades of opportunity to rid the country of socialism instead the OP incrementally embraced it and the counter to your malfeasance is the Conservative tea party movement. The OP helped BO/BS obtain power.
232 posted on 02/18/2010 9:10:44 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: deannadurbin
“Her first moves as governor was to clear out the “good old boys network”.”

Sounds like the action of a feminist, actually.

If you had read her book, you would know that "the good old boys network", actually called themselves the "Corrupt Bastards Club". And even had golf shirts and I think even hats made up with CBC on them!

Corrupt AND arrogant!

233 posted on 02/18/2010 9:12:30 AM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Gilbo_3
So your solution then is????

That no one with integrity (like Sarah Palin) should enter politics and that we should leave the country in the hands of the wolves because of a few unpleasantries??

What is the answer, in your esteemed opinion?

btw, you correctly called that "blaspheme" thing. Your buddy does it often, and it should concern you if you care about him.

234 posted on 02/18/2010 9:13:52 AM PST by ohioWfan (Proud Mom of a Bronze Star recipient!)
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To: Brices Crossroads; Quix; TaraP; Jo Nuvark
Right on Rush! Preach it baby! :-)

You remember how upset everybody got at George W. Bush back when Specter was still a Republican, was running in the primary against Pat Toomey, and Specter was a Republican disaster, but Bush is out there endorsing him and raising money and I think he did a couple campaign appearances, and people: “What the hell is this? Why didn’t he get behind Toomey? Where are the conservatives?” It is a problem in a lot of people’s views. This is just how parties work.

...

This is why, folks, the tea party movement must stay oriented on reclaiming the Republican Party and not going third party, but reclaiming it, and then establishing a new set of principles here that rewards conservatism first, foremost, and down the line.

...

There’s this new group of Republicans called the Mount Vernon group, and they’re coming out with position papers on stuff. The Republican Party is fighting the tea party people now for control of the party, there’s a big battle going on. And I think personally four or five of these very prominent members of this Mount Vernon group said, “I’m not joining if the social issues are going to be part of our mission statement, I don’t want any part of it,” meaning they don’t want this party having a thing to say about any social issue, not just abortion, but anything else that’s cultural. They want it to remain fiscal and political only, not cultural. So the battle is going to be raging. And I hate to put words in Sarah Palin’s mouth because I’m just guessing and I’m neither defending nor criticizing, I’m just observing and I think I understand why she’s doing this. I don’t think in her mind she has a choice. She wouldn’t be who she is, she wouldn’t have all of this opportunity in front of her had McCain not chosen her. So this is the obligatory payback and I think after this it’s over.


235 posted on 02/18/2010 9:14:31 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: altura; 50mm
I’m making it a double dog dare.

uh oh, whatever you do, don't put your tongue on the frozen flag pole!


236 posted on 02/18/2010 9:15:01 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: nmh
You were saying ...

No, Rush you are wrong on this.

Rush is exactly right... the Tea Party needs to reclaim the GOP... go to it... :-) and Rush is explaining how it works... as he said, that's politics and that's how it works. And I don't want any of that "Mount Vernon group" either... those dolts! [we've got some of those here, too...]


Right on Rush! Preach it baby! :-)

You remember how upset everybody got at George W. Bush back when Specter was still a Republican, was running in the primary against Pat Toomey, and Specter was a Republican disaster, but Bush is out there endorsing him and raising money and I think he did a couple campaign appearances, and people: “What the hell is this? Why didn’t he get behind Toomey? Where are the conservatives?” It is a problem in a lot of people’s views. This is just how parties work.

...

This is why, folks, the tea party movement must stay oriented on reclaiming the Republican Party and not going third party, but reclaiming it, and then establishing a new set of principles here that rewards conservatism first, foremost, and down the line.

...

There’s this new group of Republicans called the Mount Vernon group, and they’re coming out with position papers on stuff. The Republican Party is fighting the tea party people now for control of the party, there’s a big battle going on. And I think personally four or five of these very prominent members of this Mount Vernon group said, “I’m not joining if the social issues are going to be part of our mission statement, I don’t want any part of it,” meaning they don’t want this party having a thing to say about any social issue, not just abortion, but anything else that’s cultural. They want it to remain fiscal and political only, not cultural. So the battle is going to be raging. And I hate to put words in Sarah Palin’s mouth because I’m just guessing and I’m neither defending nor criticizing, I’m just observing and I think I understand why she’s doing this. I don’t think in her mind she has a choice. She wouldn’t be who she is, she wouldn’t have all of this opportunity in front of her had McCain not chosen her. So this is the obligatory payback and I think after this it’s over.


237 posted on 02/18/2010 9:17:54 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: nmh
nor should she compromise her principles as “pay back” for a failed RINO run as VP.

Exactly. If it is alright for her to compromise her principles, including that she will only support "common sense conservatives", because of her need to "pay back" McCain, what other principles are we to expect she will compromise if she deems other "pay backs" necessary?

238 posted on 02/18/2010 9:19:46 AM PST by Prokopton
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To: mkjessup
Stand with me, my fellow pretzels, let us find new ways to twist ourselves into ever more amazing patterns of explanation and justification.

Slathering up with mustard now.

239 posted on 02/18/2010 9:20:11 AM PST by genetic homophobe
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To: ohioWfan

please define ‘integrity’...


240 posted on 02/18/2010 9:20:56 AM PST by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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