Posted on 03/12/2005 10:53:55 AM PST by wagglebee
Top talk radio host Rush Limbaugh dispelled any doubts on Friday that his feud with Sen. John McCain would prompt him to sit out the 2008 presidential election - if the Arizona Republican and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton were the two choices.
"I would not support Hillary Clinton for president," Limbaugh stated flatly during his radio broadcast. "And I would not abstain from the election." Over the years Limbaugh has been at odds with the Republican maverick, complaining that McCain bucked the Bush administration on tax cuts, was unwilling to criticize Sen. John Kerry during the presidential race and that he has attacked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Sen. McCain has returned some of the fire, once denouncing Limbaugh as "a circus clown."
But the EIB chief said he was surprised anyone would question whether he would let past disputes with McCain undermine his opposition to Clinton, saying the real question is, which candidate would get the mainstream media's support:
"I know you think the automatic conclusion is they would side with Hillary," he told a caller.
"But they've got a lot invested in McCain in the past. I mean, how are they going to trash McCain in a campaign against Hillary?"
I think he would supprot Kerry over Hillary.
Let's just hope they're not.
...'cause if they are, it opens the door for a indepedent conservative to siphon enough of McCain's votes to get Hillary elected.
McCain will not run with a Democrat. And won't Sen. McCain be 72 years old in 2008? With his recurring cancer background and his age, he probably won't be a candidate again on the national level.
I would support Hillary over McCain and here's why. The congressional Republicans would fight Hillary. They'd play dead for McCain. So McCain would be a bigger danger than Hillary as long as we maintained control of Congress.
McCain is nothing more than a media whore.
My dream ticket is Cheney/Rice or Jeb Bush/Rice.
www.whichisworse.com
Yowzah!
Your logic is sound, but I could not hold my nose for that long. And I believe that I speak for many Freepers on this point.
Thankfully I do not see us having to make that choice.
What a total load of convoluted bullcrap.
absolutely, it would not be worth it to me - at ALL - to give Hitlery what she's panted for all her life. There's always another election for the makeup of Congress.
We got conservative stuff through when Clinton was prez: Welfare Reform, balanced budget, DOMA. Republicans stood up and fought. Under Bush we have not fared as well, except on the tax-cut issue, and that is always a battle no matter what. Bush has brought us the greatest expansion of gov't since FDR. He brought us CFR. Conservatives in Congress just won't stand up to a fellow Republican.
Keep on dreaminig.
When Jesse Jackson was running, this was one of my main criticisms of him, so I must be consistent.
Guarantee loss...put Jeb Bush on ticket...
Royalty/nepotism.....
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