Posted on 01/22/2008 9:14:16 PM PST by kellynla
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh stunned his listeners by announcing that he might not support the Republican presidential nominee in this year’s election.
Limbaugh said on Monday’s show: "I can see possibly not supporting the Republican nominee this election, and I never thought that I would say that in my life."
The reason: “You don’t have a genuine down-the-list conservative” among the GOP candidates.
“Wherever you go here in this roster of candidates, you're going to be able to point out ‘not conservative, what he did there is not conservative’” Rush said.
The Republican front-runners want the nomination “because it's their turn,” he also stated. “We tried that in '96 with Bob Dole and now they're running the same scenario…
"I'm telling ya, it's gonna come down to which guy do we dislike the least. And that's not necessarily good."
After Rush’s pronouncements, Los Angeles Times blogger Andrew Malcolm wrote: “Across the country, people were dropping their coffee cups, choking on sandwiches, fainting and driving off the road. The king of conservative talk radio not supporting the Republican nominee?”
But Limbaugh’s remarks are not quite so surprising in light of statements he made about GOP candidates Mike Huckabee and John McCain last week:
“I'm here to tell you, 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.”
Rush is right (heh.) Although I don’t like Romney’s position on the right to self defense, I will vote for him in November, if he’s on the ballot.
” A deadlock Republican convention turns to the most qualified Republican of them all to be president on the fifth ballot, Dick Cheney. And he wins in a landslide in November.”
Bill Kristol, Fox News Sunday 12/23/2007
I’m sure he’s talking about Huckabee or McCain. I’d bet he’d support Romney.
MegaDittos, Rush!
And so Rush, when it might have really helped, why didn’t you give Duncan Hunter some much needed name exposure before your vast audience?
Then again, he may. I feel the same way.
Rush should have supported Fred Thompson instead of trying to stay “impartial”.
You and I are on the same page. I’ll vote for Romney but will not vote for any of the others. Would’ve voted for Thompson as well.
Great! So then if the Republicans don’t vote, the Dems win by default??? Not one of Rush’s better ideas.
so what should we do? just sit there and let hillary win?
Don’t just read what you want to hear!
Read the whole article, he is including all the candidates when he says there is not a genuine conservative candidate and that is the reason why he may not endorse this election season.
” A deadlock Republican convention turns to the most qualified Republican of them all to be president on the fifth ballot, Dick Cheney. And he wins in a landslide in November.” Bill Kristol, Fox News Sunday 12/23/2007
I’d love to see it just to watch the drive-by’s completely melt down.
Sad but true. What don’t the Repubs get? We have been saying for years that we want CONSERVATIVE and the keep shoving dem-lite down our throats.
It doesn’t surprise me. I heard what he was saying last week. I agree with him. And I don’t know yet what I will be doing either.
I’ll vote for Obama over McCain, and nobody if it’s Hillary v. McCain.
McCain is wrong on policy, dangerous to national security (I think he’s nuts), and will destroy the Republican Party. I cannot support him under any condition.
Life long conservative Republican here. Will never vote McCain.
Why would he support the most liberal of the three?
People who listen to the media and the MSM are the ones surprised Rush may not support the Republican nominee.
Those of whose who truly LISTEN to Rush know that he often criticizes the Republicans, and that he is a conservative, not a republican. Yet I often hear the MSM mantra that he “gets his talking points from” or is in “lockstep” with the Republicans. Total trash.
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