Posted on 01/27/2012 3:18:48 PM PST by Timber Rattler
You are right...the damage was done before the debate. Notice Blitzer didnt give Newt a chance to defend himself on that very issue. Rush claimed to be in a state of confusion yesterday. How do we beat the media on their “timed” smears?
Rush has been supporting Mitt since he ran last time, and the debate last night was all important to the Mitt supporters, that is what gave us “Bloody Thursday”, a day that will live in infamy.
Nonsense. I say that as a daily listener who did listen on Thursday. I will grant you that he did not condemn the claims utterly and out of hand, but he certainly was skeptical to the point of being dubious that the "quotations" attributed to Newt were not taken out of context. He cited Nancy's quote about Reagan having passed the torch to Newt, for example.I can understand that you would like Rush to go "all in" for Newt, and do it yesterday. But Rush and Palin are similar, IMHO, in respecting Newt's limitations without having much in the way of illusions about Romney. Rush cheered Santorum, for example, for raining all over Romney's suggestion that ObamaCare was nothing to be angry about.The idea that Rush has been pushing Romney is no better founded than the conceit that Newt was anti-Reagan back in the 80s. Both hogwash, one no more or less so than the other.
I listen to Rush’s entire show every single day and you are full of it. He has evenly dished out both kudos and criticism of all candidates. If he has been uneven in his criticism of any of them, it’s Ron Paul. You sound like one of those loons who hears a Rush comment out of context and third-hand and goes flying off the handle.
I expect to see Rush's Gulf Stream 550 on eBay tomorrow, if you are leaving his audience.
Who other than Rush who's occasionally walks among the powerful insiders, tells you how the Party Elite despise us?
Oh darn! It doesn’t work, but thank you very much anyway!!!
I know. It’ll be the damn yankees that moved South to Florida and brought their NorthEastern politics with them.
The establishment and their activists have decided to go scorched earth, slash and burn against the conservative base. They have partnered up with the liberal media to remove anyone who is remotely conservative and threatening to win the nomination.
Mark Levin bucks conservative media trend, comes to Gingrich’s defense
LOL, yeah, that's it, he is neutral (which if true, makes him a Romney supporter), except for Ron Paul.
Rush sure wasn't neutral on Bloody Thursday.
Isn’t it amazing how leftists destroy one state, and move to another state to help implement the same policies?
Off Topic: tatt, I swear, in both your posts and your tagline ... you are a FReeper after my own heart! :^)
Completely disagree...this is pure genius. How long does an endorsement really last? This way she can keep giving the endorsement...and if Newt goes off the deep end she can easily pivot to Santorum.
I hope that you were with us in the 2008 cycle as we hard core anti-Romney posters were fighting a losing battle, about the fact that Rush was supporting Romney.
‘’I think the one candidate of the three still out there on our side that matter... in saying who more closely embodies all three legs of this conservative stool, you’d have to say that it’s Mitt Romney. There’s actually no choice in the matter.’’ (Monday, Feb 4, 2008)
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_020408/content/01125109.guest.html.guest.html
“...national radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, who endorsed Romney on Tuesday [February 5, 2008]”
Newsmax - Feb 6, 2008
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Cannibal assumes RINOs and conservatives are the same species. This is false. The RINO is shares the same genus as the democrat.
As I said in my speech in Iowa last September, the challenge of this election is not simply to replace President Obama. The real challenge is who and what we will replace him with. It’s not enough to just change up the uniform. If we don’t change the team and the game plan, we won’t save our country. We truly need sudden and relentless reform in Washington to defend our republic, though it’s becoming clearer that the old guard wants anything but that. That is why we should all be concerned by the tactics employed by the establishment this week. We will not save our country by becoming like the left. And I question whether the GOP establishment would ever employ the same harsh tactics they used on Newt against Obama. I didn’t see it in 2008. Many of these same characters sat on their thumbs in ‘08 and let Obama escape unvetted. Oddly, they’re now using every available microscope and endoscope – along with rewriting history – in attempts to character assassinate anyone challenging their chosen one in their own party’s primary. So, one must ask, who are they really running against?
This week was “Newtbashingpoluzia” week.
I have to admit that thought has crossed my mind once or twice. Because this whole sack of crap is going to explode at some point. But I had never considered the GOP might be consciously trying to throw an election. It sure seems that way though.
YES! I watched the rush from the Easterners to Southern California. Those people brought their liberal politics with them and their bad driving.
Perhaps this little guy could help.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2838980/posts
Toddler Chews Head Off Snake
Sarah’s statement is brilliant. Mandatory reading.
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