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Rush Limbaugh and the Need for Spine
RedState ^ | May 2nd, 2013 | Erick Erickson

Posted on 05/02/2013 3:32:23 AM PDT by iowamark

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To: jpsb; EricT.; jjotto; stephenjohnbanker; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Gilbo_3; Impy; NFHale; ...
One of Rush's monologs last year his theme was
The MSM is rigging the polls (to show that Obama is beating Romney) to suppress GOP voting turnout’?????

What was clever about this was that it sounded like he was saying Romney would beat Obama but it also said he might lose.

If Romney won Rush would say ‘I told you the polls were rigged’

But when Romney lost he could say ‘I told you that they were suppressing GOP voter turnout’

After Romney lost he flipped 180 degrees ‘Romney lost because the country is taken over by moochers’

But he also says :”Conservative arguments (any opinion Rush has) always win when tried”

His messages always contradict each other then he always claims he was right
I told you folks...’

Have you ordered Lifelock yet...?”

21 posted on 05/02/2013 7:12:30 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: sickoflibs
But he also says :”Conservative arguments (any opinion Rush has) always win when tried”

It's true. Just ask President Goldwater.

22 posted on 05/02/2013 7:15:07 AM PDT by chimera
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To: jpsb; EricT.; jjotto

A Rush-bot defense I have gotten here is :
‘Rush WAS right, Romney should have won. He cant do anything about stupid voters’

But he wasnt saying those voters were stupid when he told his listeners that Mitt and Mccain would win.


23 posted on 05/02/2013 7:17:37 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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RE :”But he also says :”Conservative arguments (any opinion Rush has) always win when tried”
.....
It's true. Just ask President Goldwater”

Obviously his claim is silly but my bigger point is he also tells his listeners the exactly opposite, that the GOP lost because the country is taken over by moochers.

So he is always right.

Would the average moocher (single Mom) agree with Rush to have her kid's food stamps and free schoool lunches cut while cutting Rush's taxes to make HER life better? There is little chance that they would like that idea no matter how many times Rush says he is right.

Rush's premise that 'his' arguments always win are self promoting, understand that and you understand Rush

24 posted on 05/02/2013 7:27:03 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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“Limbaugh and Rubio are a perfect example. They’re friends, so Rush is loyal to a friend, America be damned.”

Oh, dear! Don’t bring up any thing about Rush/Rubio...some around here will lose their freakin’ minds and accuse you of all sorts of misdeads!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3014220/posts?page=57#57

WE are NEVER going to solve the problems within the GOP...the blind REPUBLICAN loyalists at all costs won’t allow it! This kind, like Rush, is PART OF THE PROBLEM!


25 posted on 05/02/2013 7:37:09 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: iowamark

When Karl Rove is in the middle of something, it’s about MONEY and Grover Norquist isn’t far behind. They’re pretty much a packaged deal.

Grover Norquist: A Republican who acts like a Democrat?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3013887/posts


26 posted on 05/02/2013 7:38:55 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: AuntB

Pssst...dear Auntie.

No reinforcements are needed.

I’m not the enemy.

The bill is the enemy.

Have a nice day.


27 posted on 05/02/2013 7:41:02 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear..."(Glenn Beck))
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To: sickoflibs
Dear sickoflibs,

If you are sick of libs, why do you use the totally lib mantra that Rush is, "just an entertainer?" I like Rush and do not expect him to be right all the time but he truly is a God send to us. No one else started the boom of conservative talk radio. Somehow I think it may be possible that you and the few who dismiss him are just trying to get your few threads of fame on FR.

Marco Rubio is my Senator and I am tatally disappointed in him for voting to confirm the treasonous John Kerry as SOS.

28 posted on 05/02/2013 7:54:38 AM PDT by saminfl
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RE :”Oh, dear! Don’t bring up any thing about Rush/Rubio...some around here will lose their freakin’ minds and accuse you of all sorts of misdeads!”

that's OK, I need a few laughs.
If they didnt do that I would feel irrelevent
:)

29 posted on 05/02/2013 8:03:49 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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RE :”If you are sick of libs, why do you use the totally lib mantra that Rush is, “just an entertainer?”

Because it allows me to show a number of examples that illustrate how Rush is just an entertainer, as above.
Let me guess: Rush says that it is a liberal mantra to characterize him as 'just an entertainer' so it must be so, because Rush says he is always right.

Got news for you, the libs don't call Rush an entertainer, they call him ‘spiritual leader of the GOP’ This is the quality of info Rush feeds you, completely wrong.

Rush's business only depends on listeners who are not as smart as he is. And there are obviously plenty of them as he is very successful $$$$.

Correction : Rush is a 'totally self serving' entertainer. Sorry Rush HA-HA!

30 posted on 05/02/2013 8:08:58 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: iowamark

The RNC seems to be looking for how best to become irrelevant. They have tin ears at best, or are totally DEAF! The only other explanation is that they want to stick their middle finger in our faces.


31 posted on 05/02/2013 8:37:34 AM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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"No one else started the boom of conservative talk radio"

Rush was in the right place at the right time. There used to be something called the fairness doctrine that was eliminated in the late 80s'. Prior to that having a radio talk show like Rush has was not possible/practicable. So Rush came a long at the prefect time, right after the repeal of the fairness D. Plus he had no competition since the fairness doctrine had made talk radio impossible. Rush like Microsoft was created by federal government. Had there been no "Fairness Doctrine" Rush would not have been a big deal since talk radio would have been common place in the late 80's. Rush a man of modest talent and gigantic ego just got lucky.

Re Microsoft, when the federal government select the IBM PC as its' standard for desktop computers Bill Gates like Rush won the lotto. Their were better OSs around and better PC around but gov wanted (and needed) a standard so better or worst DOS and the IBM PC was it.

sickoflibs probably calls Rush an entertainer because Duh he is!

32 posted on 05/02/2013 8:54:33 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: sickoflibs

Since there are so few of you Rush haters on FR, I guess the rest of us are dumb. Thank God there is only a small number of you self-absorbed freaks.


33 posted on 05/02/2013 9:14:48 AM PDT by saminfl
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” Limbaugh and Rubio are a perfect example. They’re friends, so Rush is loyal to a friend, America be damned.”

I started listening to Rush in the late 80’s, when he was a 50,000/yr local radio guy in Sacramento, CA. After 20+ years
I’m pretty much done.


34 posted on 05/02/2013 10:51:59 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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To: sickoflibs

” Rush has a trick he does to take both sides of certain arguments so he can later claim he was right.
He is against amnesty but for Rubio.”

Rubio finished it for me.


35 posted on 05/02/2013 10:59:14 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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“Since there are so few of you Rush haters on FR, I guess the rest of us are dumb. Thank God there is only a small number of you self-absorbed freaks.”

More liberal tactics...the same response when any of us criticize Obama...’IT’S HATE!!’.

Don’t step on the GOP GAWDS! No criticism allowed!!!
Like I said, LIBERAL tactics!


36 posted on 05/02/2013 11:08:53 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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RE :”Since there are so few of you Rush haters on FR, I guess the rest of us are dumb. Thank God there is only a small number of you self-absorbed freaks”

pointing out Rush's flaws == self absorbed ???
Did Rush tell you that? Do you ever question stuff like this he says that makes no sense?
I know he says he's always right so he must be right.

Its funny that you perceive that we non-(Rush)-cultists are so few in number because we seems to be outnumbering you on this thread.

Funny how that works.

Did Rush tell you to say that?

37 posted on 05/02/2013 11:25:41 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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Rush HATERS!

Palin HATERS!

Bush HATERS!

Ryan HATERS!

Rand HATERS!

Rubio HATERS!

So much hate....so little time : )


38 posted on 05/02/2013 11:33:51 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker
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RE :”Rush HATERS!
Palin HATERS!
Bush HATERS!
Ryan HATERS!
Rand HATERS!
Rubio HATERS!
So much hate....so little time : )”

BDSers, PDSers, RDSers.......etc

Cultists are always entertaining, They hang onto their favorite public figure like a three year hangs onto Mom.

39 posted on 05/02/2013 11:41:04 AM PDT by sickoflibs (To GOP : Any path to US citizenship IS putting them ahead in line. Stop lying about your position.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker; sickoflibs; Norm Lenhart

Sometimes dealing with these people who blindly follow political personalities regardless of the facts you throw at them reminds me of rock concerts with teen age girls throwing their panties on stage. It’s embarrassing! The only thing missing is a stadium full of pot smoke.


40 posted on 05/02/2013 11:44:18 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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