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 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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It would have been okay for Rush to not have endorsed Newt.
But for all of Rush “Vast” knowledge he played the Middle. We All thought Rush was a straight up guy and would call a Spade a Spade. Guess not and now we know.
His Silence makes him guilty.