Posted on 02/07/2008 7:06:49 AM PST by Dane
In mid-January, talk show host Rush Limbaugh told his 13 million listeners: "If either of these two guys get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican party. It's going to change it forever, be the end of it. A lot of people aren't going to vote. You watch." Those of us who watched last night only saw Republicans favouring the two alleged destroyers over Romney, whom Limbaugh consistently favours.
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The irony in all of this is that McCain actually is a staunch conservative on many issues, including abortion, and is not above the occasional pander to the hard-right himself. (Last year, he seemed to back off harsh criticisms he made of religious right leaders during his 2000 presidential bid, for example.) But his strong performance yesterday indicates that grassroots Republicans are, in fact, willing to tolerate his departures from party orthodoxy. They continue to admire his heroism as a POW during the Vietnam war. And they still seem him as the most electable candidate in a general election.
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I’ve got to agree with you. Hysteria becomes none of us.
I think everyone writer in the world is just hoping rush will read their article on the air.
I am very glad that Rush, Laura, et al are speaking for me.
Wait one second...... Are you seriously proposing that WE listen to anything coming out of the UK? The same UK who now says “Sharia Law is unavoidable in the UK”? That one???
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Never!!! Rush Rules.. McVain drools.....
Then why'd he get the backing of "Republicans for 'Choice'".
ba-dum bum
No, McVain’s drubbing will make Mondale’s loss look like it was horserace.
That'll be the difference too. It'll translate into electoral disaster. Obama will get the Independents.
The primaries aren't over yet....
you are a biased idiot with an agenda........transparent as air too.............run along
“The irony in all of this is that McCain actually is a staunch conservative.....
I guess he would be considered a conservative to backward barbarians.
It’s not the conservatives who are fueling McCain’s rise, though. It’s the libs who are defecting from the Dem Party.
Limbaugh doesn’t, and never did have influence over them.
I find it refreshing that Limbaugh is making good on what he’s told his listeners for decades: He’s not a Republican... He’s a conservative.
If the libs take over the GOP, I think that the conservative talk show hosts will probably find another party to join. It’s not going to happen this election cycle, though.
Ironically, such a development would I think spell disaster for the Dems rather than the GOP. The GOP would be in the middle, while the Dems would become more and more the leftist party.
Rush, Hannity, Levin, etc. are defeating themselves given the GOP primary results.
Those are the facts.
Love your tag line. Me, too. ;-)
Love your tag line. Me, too. ;-)
I think the big problem is that we ended up with a weak field of candidates to start with, and to some extent, I do blame talk radio for this, particularly Rush. I pretty much tapered off on listening to him because it was all Hillary, all the time; or all some other Dem, all the time.
I think if a little more analysis had been given to possible future hopes for the GOP, we’d have had a stronger set to pick from. But Rush became entranced with his own analysis of the Dems (when he wasn’t talking about himself or his golf game), and I think he really wandered from conservative positions, or at any rate, took the focus off them. And this is the result.
The primaries aren't over yet....
Yup. They'd love to see the end of Rush.
I'll never vote for McCain, period!!
If it weren't for conservative talk radio pal ... there would be a deafening silence out there for anyone of a conservative persuasion. The one factor that has propelled McPain is Huckabee combined with some independents who like McPain's maverick, shaft pubbies at every opportunity style. The best candidate by far for the GOP is Romney, the candidate conservative talk radio seems to endorse.
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