Limbaugh Takes On Gingrich: ‘We’ve Got To Stamp This Out Within This Movement’
Limbaugh Takes On Gingrich: ‘We’ve Got To Stamp This Out Within This Movement’
In a hour-plus-long speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that was carried live, commercial-free, on CNN and Fox News, Rush Limbaugh directly attacked his rival for the role of titular leader of the conservative movement, Newt Gingrich. Gingrich had told the CPAC crowd that the GOP must offer new ideas and policies. “It’s not our job to be the opposition party. It’s our job to be the ‘better solutions party’,” he said. He was echoing a point he had made last year that the party needed to move forward: “The era of Reagan is over.” (Limbaugh attacked him for the statement at the time.)
Today, Limbaugh came out swinging, insisting that conservatives need not concern themselves with policy ideas whatsoever and slamming conservatives who want to move beyond Reagan.
Everybody asks me — and I’m sure it’s been a focal point of your convention — well, what do we do, as conservatives? What do we do? How do we overcome this? … One thing we can all do is stop assuming that the way to beat them is with better policy ideas. [...]
Our own movement has members trying to throw Reagan out while the Democrats know they can’t accomplish what they want unless they appeal to Reagan voters. We have got to stamp this out within this movement because it will tear us apart. It will guarantee we lose elections.
Watch it:
Gingrich has made his “American Solutions” the centerpiece of his campaign to be crowned heir apparent of the conservative movement. In a New York Times Magazine article to be published tomorrow, Gingrich — whom Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) calls “a total idea factory” — complains that the Republican party is “not entrepreneurial” and that Republicans are wary of new suggestions:
And it worries them to have ideas, because ideas have edges, and they’re not totally formed, and you’ve got to prove them, and they sound strange because they’re new, and if it’s new how do you know it’s any good, because, after all, it’s new and you’ve never heard it before.
It’s unclear whether Limbaugh is frightened by the newness of Gingrich’s ideas, however. The “new, bold idea” Gingrich has promoted to counter Obama’s economic agenda? Eliminating capital gains taxes — the same bold idea Gingrich has been pushing since 1997.
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Gingrich has made his “American Solutions” the centerpiece of his campaign to be crowned heir apparent of the conservative movement.
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And El Rushbo has countered w/ his “Final Solutions” platform…
February 28th, 2009 at 7:51 pmMebbe El Rushbo and Newtie will agree to have it out once and for all, fatto a fatto, in the the Steel Death Cage… like some sort of heaving, sweating American Sumos, fighting to the death… or two Orcas, locked in a bizarre mating ritual, for the hearts and minds of the GOOP…
No doubt, Fox and CNN will want to carry THAT live too.
February 28th, 2009 at 7:55 pmOOH, this is getting good… Let me get some popcorn….
February 28th, 2009 at 7:58 pmSeriously? CNN and Faux carried this live, commercial-free?
in its entirety?
… Your “librul media” folks.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:01 pmNever forget that Rush Limbaugh is a radio personality with a high school education. He could no more run this country than George W Bush could.
But he does want FDR’s policies to fail, always has, always will. And now that the American Public wants to keep things in place like Social Security INSURANCE and put Americans back to work like FDR did, it has Rush between a pee and a sweat.
Rush is a good talker, though, but Reaganomics has come to it’s logical conclusion. Time to move on…
February 28th, 2009 at 8:01 pmObama’s Presidency will prove to be even more financially lucrative for Limbaugh than Clinton ever was. Propping up Mr. 29% was bad for GOP talking heads–it’s much easier criticizing Obama’s attempts to fix Bush’s Republican mess than cheerleading the GOP race to irrelevance.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:02 pmI hope Rush succeeds in becoming the face of the Republican party.
Go Rush!
February 28th, 2009 at 8:08 pmAhhhh….El Rushbo vs da Newt…man-boob mania is commencing
February 28th, 2009 at 8:09 pmThese fools don’t need a leader, they need a ring master.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:09 pmI agree Zooey. It would be Karmic Justice.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:10 pmAll of us Liberals are rooting for you Rush!!!
Zooey Says:
I hope Rush succeeds in becoming the face of the Republican party.
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Well, then he’s half-way there, ’cause he’s already become the *ss of the party…
February 28th, 2009 at 8:11 pmjb Says:
These fools don’t need a leader, they need a ring master.
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They don’t need a ring master… they need a high colonic… BADLY…
February 28th, 2009 at 8:12 pmMaybe Jeff Gannon could “moderate” a “debate” between Rush and 2eyed Newt.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:12 pmI hope this nut fest removes all doubt for people who see the present makeup of the republican party as anything intellectual.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:13 pmbang-zoom to da moon Says:
Ahhhh….El Rushbo vs da Newt…man-boob mania is commencing
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Oooooo… this calls for The Manzierre… hey… wasn’t Art Vandalay around here earlier?
February 28th, 2009 at 8:13 pm“The Bro”.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:15 pmAt this point on I don’t care anymore.
The more Rush talks the less the GOP becomes.
GO GOP EMBRACE FAILURE
When a country moves left TWICE 2006-2008.
You don’t get votes by going more FAR RIGHT, how can they not see that.
Because at the end of the hall everything will be Left.
These people are basically self destructing.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:15 pmI watched this, I know not why. I firmly believe the guy is still on drugs. It wasn’t just the spewing of garbage, but his odd twitches and mannerisms. The GOP will follow this guy right off a cliff.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:17 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
“The Bro”.
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RUSH
(slightly embarrassed)
know, when I’m wearing Banlon, there appears to be some jiggling…
NEWT
Tell me about it… why doesn’t someone invent a support garment just for men?
RUSH and NEWT
February 28th, 2009 at 8:22 pm(simultaneously)
We could call it…
You know, Rush talks endlessly on the subject of success. I don’t consider blabbing your way to $400,000,000 success or remotely a hard day’s work. It doesn’t make this country work. It’s just a waste of 400M from the bureau of engraving and printing.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:22 pm08Dariana Says:
These people are basically self destructing.
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Wouldn’t self-castrating be a more accurate description???
February 28th, 2009 at 8:22 pmPlayboy has an article online that alleges that Rick Santelli’s rant, far from being a spontaneous, impromptu venting of righteous indignation, may in fact be part of a tightly-choreographed and long-planned astroturfing campaign funded primarily by the superwealthy Koch family to fight Obama’s tax policies. No doubt Rush would approve heartily.
http://www.playboy.com/blog/2009/02/backstabber.html
February 28th, 2009 at 8:23 pmhow can they not see that.
And to answer my own question.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:24 pmThey’re Republicans they’ve another world of “reality”.
oh well.
Limbaugh/Wurzelbacher 2012!
February 28th, 2009 at 8:25 pm.
Oh, this is a fight NOT to miss…
… One laments that America hasn’t been attacked AGAIN, the other wishes for Her failure.
*making popcorn*
Gee, I wonder who’ll win?
Personally, I hope/pray that they both loose, otherwise it is the USA that does.
.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:26 pmOne thing we can all do is stop assuming that the way to beat them is with better policy ideas.
One tiny glimpse of honesty from Rushbo: They don’t have better policy ideas. They have old, tired, stupid and discredited policy ideas, like the nonsense Newt is polishing up. All they have is lies, threats, fear and, well, more lies, threats and fear. And they honestly don’t care. They don’t care if they push an entire nation off a cliff, just as long as they get elected, published, aired and fondled.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:29 pmNazi conservatives…
February 28th, 2009 at 8:29 pmHas everyone really considered what the Republicans are saying when they hope/wish that Obama fails? If Obama’s policies succeed our economy succeeds. If Obama’s policies succeed, America has recovered from the disaster of the policies of the last eight years. Why would the Republicans wish for anything but success – unless they are traitors?
February 28th, 2009 at 8:31 pmNothing needs to be said about Rush that he doesn’t make clear himself everytime the blowhard opens his mouth.
But the GOP is a party of hypocrits. Ten years ago they tried to get Clinton removed for his indiscretions, but now embrace the adulterer Gingrich,
February 28th, 2009 at 8:32 pmMcWars Says:
I hope this nut fest removes all doubt for people who see the present makeup of the republican party as anything intellectual.
especially since they themselves ridicule intellectuals and thinking people in general, and are in the ice age when it comes to science, and want to eliminate the Dept of Education, etc etc.. this is the PHILISTINE party, pure and simple, has been for a long time.. now, after years of being fed all that demagoguery by this buffoon — HE is the best leader they can come up with!! (and Newt.. but Newt, although he seems to have his feet planted more firmly on the ground than a lot of these nutjobs, gives me the creeps for many other reasons).
Dumbaugh said tonight:
One thing we can all do is stop assuming that the way to beat them is with better policy ideas.
this guy, like many in his “flock”, is simply living in a fantasy-land.. but well, as other commentators have noted, GO RUSH GO… !! :)
February 28th, 2009 at 8:34 pmMighty big words coming from Rush the Bulbous Whale. I like how he proclaimed Conservatism to be a philosophy. He thinks, therefore he is, therefore he is a conservative. He left off the part that says; “You know you’re an asshat if…”. Soon the Republican Party will be similar to the Amish. The Amish are stuck in the 1850’s. Republicans are stuck in 1950’s.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:36 pmDon’t wish anything bad on Limbaugh. Otherwise it won’t happen…
But seriously. The way to defeat creatures like him is simply through force of reasoned argument based on facts.
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February 28th, 2009 at 8:36 pmdid he mention
anything about
“murderers and rapists“?
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February 28th, 2009 at 8:36 pmIt takes me back to other thread with Levin and Santorum.
Let me tell you something about Mark Levin. He blabs against government ferociously, a given in the wingnut community. But he was able to gain his marketability out of working for government. He was even on the payroll of the education dept. he despises (asst. secy. I believe).
I believe that could be said about many wingnuts. The treacherous waters of an unregulated, oppressive market is for the rubes to navigate, not them, and it’s for them to preach from the cushy alter that everything is fine, no worries, and expect others to make out the injustices and suffering for less than it is because they don’t have to put up with it themselves.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:40 pmCome on Stogie boy. Join Sir Newt and the new wave of Sir Newt Nit-Twitt-ers. He really needs your help. Sir Newt believes the Republican Party can really bust out and make some progress in this new way communicating to the American public…it’s the new and you can really lead the way with support of Newt Nit-Twitt-er era with Sir Newt’s new and ambitous Idea. So, Please, have a sitdown with Sir Newt, give he man the old White Owl, and plan sone Nit-twitt-er strategy and bury your advisaries in a cyber sunami.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:41 pmRalph said: Seriously? CNN and Faux carried this live, commercial-free?
in its entirety?
… Your “librul media” folks.
Uh, I must second this.. really?? He got an HOUR on CNN? What the hell?
Who gets that? Unbelievable.
But, y’know, give them enough rope. Let them talk their fool heads off, I guess.
Hey CNN, how about giving an hour to a progressive? Maybe the Fairness Doctrine wasn’t a bad idea after all.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:41 pmGreat post, kali90, nice follow up.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:44 pmIt’ll be entertaining to watch this political bear-and-bull fight; and whoever wins, it’s still steak for dinner!
February 28th, 2009 at 8:45 pmAs I have suspected (known) for many years (at least as long as I have been sentient and educated) that these people are not interested in what is reasonable, rational, or beneficial to most people. The language these people use when talking about policy makes it clear that benefitting the people is not in their mental equation. Period.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:49 pmI suppose the media is pampering the righties for the simple reason that they’re in the minority.
The GOP is deposed, despised, bankrupt & nostalgic, but the media still treats them like a viable opposition to the cohesive democratic party.
Good point about the networks covering limbaugh commercial- free. You would think they’re looking for some kind of awakening just to shower Obama’s presidency with cardboard criticism.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:51 pmThis is classic. Truly, truly classic…
The GOP has no direction. They’re all ideologically divorced.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:52 pmkali90, good points, especially about this one, telling quote:
One thing we can all do is stop assuming that the way to beat them is with better policy ideas.
Whether this is a tacit admission that they don’t have better policy ideas, or whether it’s a call for the party to return to its Nixonian ratfu(king roots as a means of electoral success, it says everything you need to know about the current conservative movement.
February 28th, 2009 at 8:53 pmLooks like The Republican Party is gonna have to have Rush deliver the rebuttal speeches from now on after Obama speaks…
February 28th, 2009 at 9:01 pmI’m not sure if Rush would be able to handle himself. “Communist! Socialist! Anti-American liberals! Enemy numero uno! This is a war! Commie! Socialist! Woo!”
February 28th, 2009 at 9:03 pmnewt and rush,
nude hot oil wrestling match -
who wants to see it?!
****
“hey, you bit me!”
“keep your hand outta my cheeks, perv!”
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February 28th, 2009 at 9:04 pmOMG – this is getting really good… Rush is taking on Newt. Should be interesting. Looks like Karl Rove’s dream has turned into a nightmare for the GOP. Good… it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving group of fools.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:05 pmPresident Obama is more brilliant than most could imagine. By remaining silent on issues such as going after Bush, Rove… and leaving it up to Congress as it should be, he gives the goppers no material to spin, smear and do damage to his administration.
The goppers have no material and it is literally killing their party….. and the fun part is – they know it.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:07 pmI just smile and thank God for all of this. There is nothing better than the thugs eating their own. They are all batshiste crazy!
February 28th, 2009 at 9:08 pm“One thing we can all do is stop assuming that the way to beat them is with better policy ideas.”
Right on Rush, just continue to beat up the American people with ignorant stupid policies, like the ones we experienced for the past 8 years. These right-wingers are just unbelievable, how can people vote for these nutty bastards are beyond me. John McCain recieved 57,000,000 votes…who are these people that vote for these guys?
February 28th, 2009 at 9:08 pmRush is out there saying that the Democratic Party have no data to support the fact that the policies that Obama has put in place — that they will work. But we do. Demand comes first not supply. Just look at all of the stores out there with plenty of supply. But if people don’t have money to spend and jobs that put money in their pockets, there is no spending…Regulations work and prevented the unbridled greed that happened during Hoover’s time…. we need them back in place.
And we have 30 years of Reaganomics to prove that trickle down supply side economics don’t work. Rush and his ilk want to destroy the middle class. But Without a middle class, there is no democracy.
So Rock On, Rush. People will vote their pocketbooks… and right now, their pocketbooks are empty and Republicans are doing nothing to fill them…Obama is.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:12 pm“The era of Reagan is over.”
But that means lugging around a whole new set of talking points!
That’s hard work!
Can we get some with little wheels on the bottom? Hey! That there’s one of them newfangled IDEA thingies, aint’ it?
February 28th, 2009 at 9:13 pmUpdate Besides swiping at his competition, Limbaugh sought to prove his leadership bonafides by reiterating his hope that President Obama “fails,” insisting that racism was a problem of the left and not the right, and calling liberalism a “psychosis” and liberals “deranged.”
classic projection and all those negative adjectives describes the fat man himself as well as his party.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:15 pmIf 2 good sides fight each other, a better something may result.
But in this case, its like the WWF pitting the 2 villans against each other.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:16 pm.
The Secret GOP Recipe of CPAC
Take one part “Glam TV”
Add a pinch of politics
Toss in a generous dose of Conservatism
Shake well with equal parts Kool Aid
Line the pan with slick Religiosity
Set into a 180* turnabout on responsibility
And in 30 years you’ll get …
… Who Wants to be America’s Next Conservative Idol
Tha-tha-tha-that’s all Folks!
February 28th, 2009 at 9:18 pmIn a hour-plus-long speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that was carried live, commercial-free, on CNN and Fox News, Rush Limbaugh directly attacked his rival for the role of titular leader of the conservative movement, Newt
The more air time and exposure the faster these fools fall.
Bring it on and commercial free.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:22 pmNewt’s “brilliant” proposals are rehashes from the olden days. Limbaugh wants to ditch new ideas and continue to submit to the American people far-right conservatism that in no way molds itself after Barry Goldwater. They’re both equally insane, as Gingrinch’s “idea factory” is spluttering and Rush’s…well, it’s his entire brain that’s spluttering, truthfully.
The consensus on the Republican side is that they need a new direction. However, when Master Rush says that they cannot adopt new ideas, I fear that their “leadership” will back down and kneel before the Overlord.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:30 pmEverybody asks me — and I’m sure it’s been a focal point of your convention — well, what do we do, as conservatives? What do we do? How do we overcome this? … One thing we can all do is stop assuming that the way to beat them is with better policy ideas.
If this is all Rush has to offer…the GOP is really in a bad way! LMAO! ROTFL! This is just sad! And as we all know, Gingrich’s “new” ideas are just as useless!
February 28th, 2009 at 9:39 pmI just don’t understand this mentality that Reagan walked on water. I remember about 240 U.S Marines getting slaughtered in Beirut, for what reason they were their is still beyond me. Then the Grecian Formula cowboy sells tow missiles to Iran, a state that sponsored terrorism and held Americans hostage for 444 days.
Later, President Clinton gets impeached for having a tryst with some immature bimbo.
Sometimes I think this country is full of hypocrits. It’s okay what Reagan did, but Clinton should be impeached? Unbelieveable.
February 28th, 2009 at 9:47 pmFrom the Republic of Stupidity:
RUSH
(slightly embarrassed)
know, when I’m wearing Banlon, there appears to be some jiggling…
NEWT
Tell me about it… why doesn’t someone invent a support garment just for men?
RUSH and NEWT
(simultaneously)
We could call it…”
The Manwich (OK that’s trademarked, but it’s perfect.)
February 28th, 2009 at 9:58 pmEl Rushbo vs da Newt…
A snake vs. a newt.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:02 pmSo where is the Progressive CONVENTION???????
February 28th, 2009 at 10:03 pmNewt is intellectually dishonest. He just said a zero capital gains tax would benefit 401(k)’s. Account holders don’t pay capital gains, they pay income taxes when they retire.
Gingrich is clamoring for the lowest global common denominator on taxes, corporate and capital gains. He hasn’t said anything about driving down worker pay/benefits, but that’s the other global race to the bottom.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:06 pmNewt spoke on CSPAN’s replay of his CPAC speech.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:07 pmAnd what’s up with this: “carried live, commercial-free, on CNN”? Tried to get some actual news today, and fatboy was on. I did something else. It made me very happy. If CNN and Scripps and other newspaper chains and radio conglomerates think they are going to survive with only the fatboys (and Cal Thomas and friends), they are as stupid as Rush and Bobby McJindal. Where exactly is the liberal media? Could I have some now, please?
February 28th, 2009 at 10:14 pmWho in their right mind would not only listen to but follow the advise of a drug addict with a high school education? The right, right. It’s a one-word oxymoron. They’re conservative in one regard, at least.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:25 pmFace of the party? Yeah just choose someone who looks like swine and has the ugliest mind in the nation and make him the face of the party… Look at what we are all facing and who lead us to this point. It was so called conservatives and mindless sheep who followed Rush, Hannity, etc.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:36 pmDeranged?
Conservatives not accepting change of any kind and wanting to withdraw into their shells even further proves just whom is deranged.
Awww…look who can’t get along without their YooHoo and afternoon Cowboys and Indians TV shows! Life sure is tough when kids still can’t get along without mom’s and still haven’t grown out of dad’s shadow.
That is today’s conservatives: the party of yesterday, who is responsible for the messes of today!
February 28th, 2009 at 10:37 pmGuess you need to have a neck to wear a tie.
February 28th, 2009 at 10:46 pmRepublicans!
February 28th, 2009 at 10:52 pmPlease please
PLEASE
Make a fat multi-millionaire your spokesperson for rational consumption, your example of fiscal (and gustatory) restraint.
How can you argue against such a paragon of virtue?
Forget the Oxycontin addiction.
Forget the off-market Viagra arrest.
Forget the three divorces.
The Republicans should definitely support someone who wants…
wait a minute…WHAT?
Can you say mutually assured irrelevance? It’s fascinating to watch the war between a big mouth and a once-shrewd politician.
Rush, ever the egotist, has gorged on the attention he’s received as the “titular head” of the GOP. He has no intention of giving that up. With Republicans in disarray and suffering from a leadership vacuum the likes of which I’ve not seen in my adult lifetime, Newt sees his opportunity to rise again.
Limbaugh’s in a fragile position not just emotionally but professionally. There’s nowhere to but down. Despite using every single dirty trick in his arsenal, he cannot again claim to have “delivered” the Presidency to Republicans. Worse yet, “they” lost to an African-American man.
If Obama is in any way successful, it’s curtains for Rush – definitive prove he’s been all wrong all along. So he roots for Obama (and our country) to fail.
Newt’s smarter. Being a politician, he’s more pragmatic too. Perspective is a powerful thing. Gringrich has had time to consider both his own political mistakes and those of his party.
He’s selling himself as an agent of change. But aside from a few new wrinkles literally & figuratively, it’s the same old Newt. That’s a hard sell to the young demographic the GOP desperately needs to attract.
-AF
February 28th, 2009 at 11:05 pmAndrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
Why is Troll JK rooting for another Depression?
February 28th, 2009 at 11:20 pmNo, ralph, the question is “Why is Troll JK?”
February 28th, 2009 at 11:26 pmWait, let me get this right. CNN gave Limbaugh an hour and 20 commercial free minutes and has him headlining their website for what he pompously called his “first national address”? He was supposed to talk for 20 minutes and bloviated for an additional bonus hour? And that’s news? It seems more newsworthy that Limbaugh has finally succumbed to his own messiah complex. He’s taking all that “voice of the party” PR seriously! The righties like Newt created him and now he’s out of control!
February 28th, 2009 at 11:28 pmUpdate
Besides swiping at his competition, Limbaugh sought to prove his leadership bonafides by reiterating his hope that President Obama “fails,” insisting that racism was a problem of the left and not the right, and calling liberalism a “psychosis” and liberals “deranged.”
Ironic. The name-calling, particularly these choices of words, is right out of Newt Gingrich’s ‘94 strategy. Demonize your opponent, and use words ugly words to describe them.
February 28th, 2009 at 11:30 pmWell JK we always knew you are astonishingly stupid and cowardly we know now you are outright insane. I sure hope you never breed the very thought of anyone else being as stupid and worthless as you on the Earth makes me quesy. You are an ignorant racist punk and TP ought to ban you. I dont know whether your abject stupidity or your racist idiocy is worse both are bad and YOU are pathetic
February 28th, 2009 at 11:36 pmOh, yes, much more of this please.
Keep thinking exactly that way, guys. Looking to the past, full of the same old shit. That will surely help you!
February 28th, 2009 at 11:45 pmEach day,
becoming more fat,
and more irrelevant.
March 1st, 2009 at 12:10 amI watched about 20 minutes of Limbaugh on CNN and found his delivery to be downright awful. No wonder he is only on radio normally. He can’t command the camera. Now if the fight for the hearts and minds of conservatives is either Newt Gingrich or Rush Limbaugh then progressives need not worry. Each carries a shitload of baggage to boot. And each has a huge problem with women.
March 1st, 2009 at 12:13 amIt never amazes me how quickly democrats become irate when challenged, and how ignorant they sound. Bipartisanship with democrats will be impossible — they don’t know how to listen. They are always right. And they are still whining because 43 won the election over Al Gore eight years ago. Rush Limbaugh is correct. Obama is spending money we don’t have, may not be able to borrow for things that should wait until we do have the money to pay for them. Of course, we are upset. There is no way we can pay for these programs and earmarks. I would also remind you that when Social Security was formed, it was to be put in a trust fund. The democrats are the ones that changed that policy so it could go into the general fund for their spending sprees. And Clinton’s balanced budget: He too robbed Social Security to do it. Now Obama was to pay for all the welfare programs while cutting Social Security & Medicare to pay for them. I think all Democrats should read history before making fun of the conservative Republicans.
March 1st, 2009 at 12:28 amconservative1101 Says:
My, my.
So much effort for so little payoff.
The M.O. of Republican’ts.
March 1st, 2009 at 12:53 amconservative1101 Says:
Pure projection. Conservatives are ignorant ALL the time. It was a republican who said that bipartisan was another name for date rape but you morons always project YOUR failings onto everyone else because you are stupid. You will always BE stupid and its a good think Americans have stopped listening to idiots like you. Rush isnt right he has just brainwashed you with his bumpersticker talking points. Keep shovelling the idiocy until you morons go the way of the Whig party.
March 1st, 2009 at 1:24 amNewt and Rush…. 6 wives between them. That’s some family values for you.
March 1st, 2009 at 1:31 amDidn’t seem to bother the Republican’ts about spending money we don’t have on the war in Iraq or borrowing and spending us into doubling the national debt.
And Reagan made the biggest increase on the middle class in asking Baby Boomers to pay for the current people collecting SS Insurance AND their own SSI…
March 1st, 2009 at 1:39 amGeez – Rush Limbaugh.. How can anyone take this guy seriously, given his past addiction to prescription drugs?
How Lame.. Prescription drugs? You should have gone presidential style Rush.. Class A baby! Snort some cocaine straight up into your naval cavity, Obama style!!
A private citizen, a talk-back radio host becoming addicted to prescription medicine is absolutely newsworthy and demands further investigation.. But the mere trifle of a prez snorting Class A coke – Thats just Keeping It Real!
Peace Out lol
March 1st, 2009 at 5:11 amRush Limbaugh the new great hope of the consevative repugblicans, shows what morons fwe are dealing with here. Palin ,mccain, kroutface will,oreily hanistyy coulter witch the cast of idiots is endless. Why don’t they have tere hero Junior Bush come back and skrew upj the country some more.
March 1st, 2009 at 7:21 amThe reason Americans jettisoned the principles(?) of the repbulicat party is that it is about winning, which is to say power, for them. As we have seen for that past eight years, power corrupts.
The more they use the word “winning” the more fearful we all should be. Winning to them represents not an opportunity to lead this country but an opportunity to plunder our nation.
Actions speak louder than words, no matter how loud Rush repeats them, and the actions of the republicats were, and are, appalling.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:04 amFunny, that’s the same sentiment I get from republicans.
March 1st, 2009 at 8:05 am“great speech”
HAHAHAHAHA!
It was him bloviating for 90 AD-FREE minutes. He pulled every dispelled Reichtwing BULLSHIT CANNARD out of his ass, AND had notes BTW. Rush is a piece of shit, just like you. Both of you will be MORE irrelevant this time next year.
YEAH!!!!!
March 1st, 2009 at 10:16 amGood morning, Troll JK! I don’t want to ruin the surprise, but I think dbadass has some stuffed shrimp to tempt you with over on the Sarah Palin thread.
Enjoy.
March 1st, 2009 at 10:18 amHi John Kerry:
March 1st, 2009 at 10:19 amI was wondering just this moment about baked stuff shrimp.
You really dig this Rush fellow it seems. Good for you John! I sort of think he is just an overweight hawker of adjustable beds. I don’t really think he is anything but a paid entertainmenter for those who wish to buy the scripted stuff he reads to them. Do you really think people on the right make political decisions based on an entertainer? Seems sort of weird to me.
cheers and let me know when to pop the shrimp in the oven…
Rush should be happy about this.
“DEA to halt medical marijuana raids
Holder confirms states to have final say on use of drug for pain control”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29433708/
Will this mean that ElRusho-the-FATTO won’t need the big, bad ACLU to defend his drug smuggling?
“ACLU Comes to Rush Limbaugh’s Defense”
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,108140,00.html
You poor, poor retarded fcuking jerks. What a boot-licking bunch of moronic cretins you are. You will NEVER stop sucking up to those with the money, will you?
March 1st, 2009 at 10:28 amYou Ditto-heads are truly disgusting, despicable examples of humans.
The trolls should not be so quick to dismiss the president’s speaking style. When he had his first press conference, he took about 6-7 minutes to answer each of the first three questions, and he wasn’t reading off cue cards or teleprompters then. And he was able to speak extemporaneously without sounding like, for lack of a better term, another inarticulate Bush. His responses made sense, and they were informative. It’s refreshing to see that in a president again. I think that scares the trolls.
March 1st, 2009 at 10:51 amRush:
The Republicans think it’s all about marketing, “the brand”, how to catapult the propaganda; not about ideas and policy.
March 1st, 2009 at 10:51 amspinnaca,
The reason Rush Limbaugh’s drug addiction was newsworthy was because it was another example of right wing hypocrisy. He is, as you all love to point out, the talk radio show host with the highest ratings. And one of the things he frequently said was that drug addicts should be sent straight to jail. Then he got caught illegally buying prescription drugs, and suddenly it was okay to not send drug addicts to jail. That’s hypocrisy, and that’s why it was newsworthy.
I bring that up because you obviously forgot about it.
March 1st, 2009 at 10:55 amYou know the GOP is in trouble when Newt Gingrich looks reasonable compared to Rush Limbaugh.
March 1st, 2009 at 11:06 amHey Rush, I’d like order some drugs from China and ship them to you free of charge if you promise to take them all.
March 1st, 2009 at 11:09 amRUSH: One thing we can all do is stop assuming that the way to beat them is with better policy ideas.
They would have to have better policy ideas if they were going to try to win that way. They don’t. All they have is fear, and the fear of more fear to come.
The reason the Republicans have enjoyed any success these past fourteen years is not because they had better ideas, but because they “reached” people quicker by tapping into their emotions. Think about what happens when people get scared. They often become irrational, not able to think clearly. Their first thoughts are, “What do I do about the thing you’re scaring me about?” And the Republicans give them an answer. Not a good one. Not necessarily the right one, or a smart one, or (and this is where the Republicans get their followers), not one that is in the best interests of the people whose support they need. It is a fact that people don’t think clearly when they are frightened.
And that is precisely why the republicans always campaign on fear. Because if they try to give a reasoned argument in favor of what they want to do, people would see through it if given the chance to think. Does anyone who thinks about it for more than a few seconds honestly believe that the entire nation would become more prosperous if we lowered taxes on the extremely wealthy? This makes no sense. But because part of he “American Dream” is to be rich, most people (erroneously) think that one day they’ll become rich, too. And they won’t want to give their “hard-earned money” (even though most people dream of hitting the lottery, so the money really won’t be “hard-earned”) to a bunch of illegal immigrants on welfare. (Even though illegal immigrants are ineligible for welfare, and no one has found an epidemic of people here illegally being paid benefits they are ineligible for.)
Oh, and the Republicans tell a lot of lies, too. That’s another reason they win. They tell their supporter things that are not true, just to frighten them into giving them their vote.
March 1st, 2009 at 11:15 amWrite to CNN and tell them that you can’t wait until they carry 60+ uninterrupted minutes of a left wing radical speech. http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?39
March 1st, 2009 at 11:23 amZooey Says:
I hope Rush succeeds in becoming the face of the Republican party.
And the grinch has already become the a**, so we’re nearing completion of that image. . .
March 1st, 2009 at 12:04 pmOhhh, somebody’s jealous. Rush is just jealous because Newt is getting all the attention that Rush thinks he deserves. Remember, Rush IS the leader of the Republican party.
This is great that Rush attack Gringrich and encouraged every pin head to support his ideas instead on Newt’s. Rush is bankrupt of any ideas and he will just keep the right going down the toilet, just so Rush can stay in the center of things. What a narcissist!
March 1st, 2009 at 12:09 pmRoket Says:
Soon the Republican Party will be similar to the Amish. The Amish are stuck in the 1850’s. Republicans are stuck in 1950’s.
Not nice, Roket: the Amish live as benign, benevolent, gentle, sincere individuals, respectful of the rights of others; they have chosen their way of life as an affirmation of healthy values. They do not malign those who do not share their philosophies and beliefs.
Repukes do NOT choose; they react. They do not embrace; they reject. They spew. They belittle. They attack. They trample.
The Amish who are “stuck in the 1850’s” do not damn or scorn those who do not share their beliefs. The rethugs HAVE no discernible beliefs; they merely stew in their cauldron of hatred, racism, classicism, contradictions, malevolence, and selfishness.
March 1st, 2009 at 12:14 pm“One thing we can all do is to stop assuming that the way to beat them is with better policy ideas.” Way to go, Rush! That takes one insurmountable roadblock out of your way!
I’m beginning to think that Bobby Jindal looked around at the leadership in his party and saw Rush, Joe the Plumber, Michael Steele, Sarah Palin and John Boenher. That caused him to mask any hint of his intellectual development, despite his background as a Rhodes Scholar. It was the only way he could see to fit in.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:05 pmYou know, it’s been 25 years since Reagan headed a ticket, and I would guess more than half of those who cast a ballot in 2008 were a) not of age when Reagan last was on a ballot, or b) otherwise ineligible to vote (ie, noncitizens). To think that you can still win elections by appealing to those “Reagan voters” is foolhardy at best, suicidal at worst. So keep it up, rethugs! America of 2009 is far different than America of 1984.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pmThe Druggie is projecting! The Criminal Rush is right; he, Rush, is deranged. As for the lizard, Gingrich’s American solution’s is a repackaging of his Contract on America. The RepubliCons are all brain-dead!
March 1st, 2009 at 2:30 pmIf you wonder why we are in the crisis we are in, why your country is no longer recognizable, why individuality and success is now a crime, and why your freedom is under attack, you must watch this video from the 1980s by a KGB agent who explains why and how it all happened.
http://atlas.victimofcapitalism.com/x/vq/24
“Simply because the psychological shock when they will see in [the] future what the beautiful society of EQUALITY and social justice means in practice, obviously they will revolt. They will be very unhappy [and] frustrated people, and Marxist Leninist regime does not tolerate these people. Obviously they will join the [ranks] of dissenters; dissidents.”
March 1st, 2009 at 2:40 pmNever forget Limbaugh is a “infotainment” operator. His primary mission is to keep his audience’s attention in between the commercial breaks.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:45 pmThe Republicrats are just the “content providers” of the deceit apparatus. There is really no significant difference in the two parties.
It’s wonderful to watch the Republican nut jobs flailing and failing to find a cohesive message for their party. I find myself rooting for the more extreme leaders to win out, thereby tanking the party into regional factions for a good long time to come. This would allow real liberals to break from the entrenched and corrupt Democratic Party and vote their conscience. A 4 – 5 party system, sounds like a dream!
March 1st, 2009 at 3:31 pmAtually, Rushbo may be right (as in correct) on this one. Racism is a problem of the left because we see it where is lurks, we see it for what it is, and we see what it does to society. On the other hand, racism is not a problem of the right because it is a tool of the right. They don’t even acknowledge that racism exists, except when they can use to turn people against each other, especially against liberals.
March 1st, 2009 at 4:15 pmJK you racist moron. We know you are stupid but what is this weird talking point that you ignoramuses spew that seems to say the only reason for criticism is jealousy? There is that projection thing is it that you cons are jealous that we are not nearly as stupid as you? That we dont NEED a Rush to do our thinking for us like he does for you morons? There are actually many other reasons to criticise somone like Rush. He is a liar, he is a hypocrite he is bad for America and public discourse, he has no decency, he slanders good people pretty much constantly. All those are good reasons unconnected to jealousy to criticise him. Now you are a bone ignorant racist piece of garbage so you may not be able to understand this or really anything else but MOST people DO. So you only make it even clearer yet how abjectly stupid you are when you keep regurgitating this weak BS talking point that the left is jealous of a fat drug adicted hypocrite like Rush. My GOD you are pathetic
March 1st, 2009 at 7:16 pmI was scanning the audience at CPAC and I wonder where is the diversity? And Rush still think racism is a problem for the left? He’s so bright. (NOT!)
March 1st, 2009 at 7:39 pmI wonder if they’ve thought about a Cage Fight or a WWE smackdown match as a campaign fund raiser? Is there an audience for pasty old politicians in the ring/cage? They could have Sarah Palin be the ring girl!
March 1st, 2009 at 8:35 pmHe should attack Newt. They all should attack one another. There is so much ammunition to work with.
Newt, the man who had to leave office under a cloud. The two time adulterer and loser of two wives and probably a third. A man whose own sister cannot stand him. A hypocrite. Go at it fellas!!!
And Limbaugh the addict and alcoholic. The military coward who got a deferment for having a cyst on his rear. One of the most gross examples of mankind. And he is the prime spokesman for The GOP? What a bunch of nuts. What could be worse then having this gas bag speaking for a political party?
March 1st, 2009 at 9:55 pm“One thing we can all do is stop assuming that the way to beat them is with better policy ideas.”
I think the Republicans have forgotten that this president is not some country hick but a very skillful political creature. His strongest rival in the primaries is now his Secretary of State. The Rush opposition provides such a sharp contrast to work with. A new day for America vs the old Reagen bullshit. I think even the old Gipper might approve of Obama after watching Rushes performance.
March 3rd, 2009 at 10:37 pm