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Vanity - Mike Gallagher's Pro-Lindsey Graham Rant
6/11/14 | dagogo redux

Posted on 06/11/2014 12:51:38 PM PDT by dagogo redux

On other threads recently, the faux-conservative bone fides of Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved have been sharply questioned in light of recent events. I'm wondering whether Mike Gallagher needs to be added to that list.

I can pick up three "Conservative Talk Radio" stations on my way to and from work, but I seldom listen to one of them because it features lightweights. My wife borrowed my truck yesterday, and must have been playing with the dials, because it was tuned to that third station when I got in this morning.

Some guy - I couldn't place him at first, but recognized his voice - was going on an incredibly livid rant about "fellow conservatives" who did not support Lindsey Graham, and who were unhappy that he won the primary. On and on and on he went about how conservative Graham was, and what a great man he was and such, and how much we needed him specifically in that Senate seat.

The gist of his argument seemed to be that these elections are all about whether our team - the Republicans - can win seats or not, and not whether a candidate who wins is a conservative, as long as they are somehow conservative "enough," which of course he thinks the esteemed Mr. Graham is. I listened to the end to find out who the host was: it was Mike Gallagher.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: mikegallagher; nonconservative; rino; talkradio
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To: EveningStar

Well then what do they do with control? In the house? Not a damn thing but attack conservatives, stall investigations and work to assist and protect Obama/his agenda.

Shove the RINO crap ES. Winning with no honor is far worse when it aids Democrats. And the facts in evidence show that it does.

It’s funny that when a conservative gains traction here, Palin, you lead the charge to minimize her. When a Rino gets waxed, here you are working to push the lesser evil meme that caused our current situation to make up for it.

There is a reason JR once tagged you a troll.


41 posted on 06/11/2014 2:54:00 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: EveningStar

I’d rather lose and be stabbed in the chest than win and be stabbed in the back.


42 posted on 06/11/2014 2:55:36 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: EveningStar
So you’d rather have Democrats instead, if it means giving up control of Congress?

The people I'm talking about vote like Rats when it counts, so what difference does it make? Worse, they're taking up space on the GOP ticket that could be had by honest Conservatives. You do the math.


43 posted on 06/11/2014 3:09:29 PM PDT by 867V309 (Don't tread on me, bro)
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To: Norm Lenhart

By all means let’s resort to personal attacks. I have no love of Graham or Cantor or any of them.


44 posted on 06/11/2014 3:13:07 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: dagogo redux

At least your wife is listening...mine won’t.


45 posted on 06/11/2014 3:21:08 PM PDT by moovova
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To: EveningStar
I think that Republicans having control of the House and Senate is more important than “losing with honor.”

I'm sure you do, but it is that mindset that keeps the GOP-E in control.

And with the GOP-E continually drifting leftward, and hell-bent on destroying our country by granting Amnesty, tell me again what value it will be to have a GOP-E controlled congress vs. a conservative controlled congress?
46 posted on 06/11/2014 3:28:14 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Of course I would prefer conservatives to moderates and liberals. I still don’t know why it would be better to have more liberal Democrats.

If you think things are bad now, remember, they could be much worse.


47 posted on 06/11/2014 3:35:53 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: SoConPubbie
We do have a chance this November to elect more conservatives to Congress. It's an off year election and off year elections usually favor the party that is not in the White House.
48 posted on 06/11/2014 3:39:06 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: dagogo redux

BTW, Mike Gallagher is a lightweight, like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.


49 posted on 06/11/2014 3:40:26 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Oh? When did the truth become a personal attack? You pull this concern troll crap all the time. Your post history is filled with it. You were famous for your PDS and on this very thread you are making excuses as to why we just cannot possibly let a closet democrat lose. JR DID in fact brand you a troll some time back.

So in light of the fact of that, where does the personal attack come in? It isn’t personal. It’s a fact.


50 posted on 06/11/2014 3:44:18 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Norm Lenhart

What is a concern troll?


51 posted on 06/11/2014 3:45:05 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Whats PDS?


52 posted on 06/11/2014 3:45:40 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: dagogo redux

Medved was outed as left-leaning, or at least a good friend of the GOPe, when he was doing handsprings over McCain being the nominee for president in 2008. He seems like he’s a good debater, but as soon as he gets stuck he segues into a commercial break. Suddenly, he has all kinds of information at his fingertips on the topic at-hand. I can’t stand that crap.


53 posted on 06/11/2014 3:49:23 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: dagogo redux

Add in Michael Medved. He really likes Lindsay as well.


54 posted on 06/11/2014 3:55:22 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: 867V309

Lol - ok Boortz blew it there, and I shouldn’t have tried to equate Boortz with Carr.

Give Howie a chance. It is like listening to political Car Talk. Lots of laughs.


55 posted on 06/11/2014 3:56:49 PM PDT by A'elian' nation ("Political Correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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To: Norm Lenhart
"frauds...all"

Because somebody doesn't agree with you 100% of the time doesn't make them frauds.

56 posted on 06/11/2014 4:48:40 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: driftless2

No, their actions do.


57 posted on 06/11/2014 4:53:04 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Name some actions by these “frauds” that you don’t like.


58 posted on 06/11/2014 5:07:27 PM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: driftless2

How about something we all have personally experienced...

Spending months/years telling listeners RINO bad Rino causes all sorts of problems. Do not vote for RINO...

Then election happens...

You have to vote RINO because we never said the things we said for months years and all the bad things we told you about don’t matter if we had said them which we didn’t but if we did just forget it and trust us because we are staunch rock ribbed conservatives telling you to abandon all the thins we n that we told you to believe and elect the RINO because the world ends unless you do!

Now if you think that this isn’t fraud, then go enjoy more of it. And please do not tell me they havent done this because we all know they have.

You would not take that from a child, a boss or an acquaintance. Why take it from a voice on TV/radio?


59 posted on 06/11/2014 5:34:08 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart (How's that 'lesser evil' workin' out for ya?)
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To: VanDeKoik

I think there may be some confusion between Laura Ingraham and Dr. Laura Schlessinger.


60 posted on 06/11/2014 6:04:34 PM PDT by crazycatlady
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