Posted on 02/13/2012 7:00:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A strong case could be made that Rick Santorum owes much of the credit for his recent surge to Rush Limbaugh -- whether Rush wants that credit or not. Events of this past week seem to indicate that Senator Santorum would concur. In the past few days his campaign has wisely exploited some of Rush's words and they are proudly featuring them everywhere.
The implication -- if not the explicit language -- is that Rush prefers Santorum to either Newt or Mitt.
And beyond doubt, there are a couple of show segments which could fairly be interpreted just that way. And it may be true for all I know.
Which begs the question, if Rush is not endorsing Santorum, will he sit by and allow Santorum to use snippets of his show to lend that impression? It also begs the question about how thoroughly Rush has checked Santorum out -- given the unusual disparity between the reality of Santorum and what Rush has said about the former Senator.
I submit that upon further review, Rush might not really want ownership of this fast rolling train.
Now to be clear, Rush has not overtly endorsed Santorum or anyone and has expressly said many times that he will not do so. A review of his show will verify that he has had various segments that were friendly to Newt Gingrich and at times to Mitt Romney as well as his positivity for Santorum. Meanwhile, Rush has been -- consistent with Limbaugh doctrine of many years -- critical of both Newt and Mitt on numerous occasions. In fact he has criticized Mitt's moderate moments for many months.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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IOW...you can't support that which you declare to be clear.
But, you have had no problem at all casting innuendo of a particularly smarmy nature about Santorum's wife. Remember, you have to climb down into the sewer to get dirt like that.
I am sure that you consider yourself a pundit of high character but the facts are "clearly" in contradiction of that.
Fair criticism about the wife - (but don’t think that won’t come up down the road) - I had just had it with the forty millionth iteration of Newt’s three wives.
Now, I’ll point out the two main days I was referring to: but keep in mind certain thing are really beyond dispute and we operate within the confines of 900-1000 words give or take for these editorials:
The biggest clearly pro Newt day was the Tuesday of the week of the SC primary when almost the entire three hour show was a Newt infomercial with many repeated replays of the standing ovations from Monday night’s debate. After that day, I thought Rush might be leaning Newt (but I changed later).
The biggest pro Mitt days were after the Bain Capital attacks started, and Rush defended Mitt and capitalism.
The thesis of this article was that while he said good things about all candidates at times, he never said anything bad about Santorum. He also let it be known that his personal email buddies preferred Santorum and he also had that excerpt I put in the article.
I still think he will have buyers remorse, and in fact he pulled back somewhat today and actually said very little about anyone but Obama today.
I guess we’ll see.
I only said “wow” because I thought the statement was ridiculous.
How do you know I’m not? You don’t.
I’d attribute Rush’s not watching the debates or seeming to be quite so interested in politics to his loss of hearing some years back. To do his show he has to read a computer/translator as he’s speaking with callers. After 3 hours of that, which has to be exhausting, who would blame him for doing no more than reading news articles?
I’m not convinced in any case that Rush’s near-endorsement has much to do with Santorum’s surge. GOP primary voters have been in search of the non-Romney. When Newt did poorly in FL, thanks to a vicious, relentless Romney-led attack, those voters decided to give Santorum another look. Could be, and probably is, just that simple.
You host of this site has objected to this from time to time IIRC.
All you did was post smarmy innuendo and then run.
And, since when is Santorum's wife's past (or any candidate's spouse's past)pertinent to that candidate's ability to effectively run the country?
You are trying to ennoble your own sewer cruise. You should remember --- anyone who swims in the sewer comes out smelling like shit.
no, your criticism fair of me.
I don't know about that. He may have spent less time talking about the individual candidates yesterday, but this line from Rush was so reminiscent of Chris Matthews' thrill up the leg that it actually made me uncomfortable:
RUSH: "I agree with you, I think conservatism is in Santorum's bodily fluids, and, because of that, he's able to articulate it without thinking about it."
Now, how could Rush possibly not support someone who has "conservatism in his bodily fluids"? Yikes.
YUCK. I missed that line.
First of all it’s not true. Second of all it would be a creepy thing to say even if it were.
Tells me Rush is ignorant of the true Santorum.
He gave it a large, bolded headline on his website, along with the transcript. Scroll down and check out the large graphic he put smack in the middle of the transcript too.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/02/13/rick_santorum_has_conservatism_in_his_bodily_fluids
I gotta go take a shower now!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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