Rush has spoken.
It is a battle of Nationalist vs GlowBULLits. Frankly it doesn't surprise me that Rush came down on the side of the GloBULLists.
The wall is both functional and symbolic. So which side are you on?
Posted on 01/26/2016 11:43:05 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Amen!
I was getting ready to tell you “well said” until I got to the vulgarity in your post. Please, please, use an appropriate synonym for the word “courage” instead of subjecting us ladies to crude terms. Thank you.
Here’s a link to a thesaurus entry:
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/courage
Fourth, what about breaking the deal he had already made with the RNC? Can anyone find an escape clause that allows him to do that?
The deal was made. Negotiations are over.
A deal is a set of promises. How has Trump not broken his promise to the RNC (and by extension to the people)?
Rush has spoken.
It is a battle of Nationalist vs GlowBULLits. Frankly it doesn't surprise me that Rush came down on the side of the GloBULLists.
The wall is both functional and symbolic. So which side are you on?
“Whooped em’ again, didn’t we Josie....”
The same way he caved to his puppet masters over Obama's Article II ineligibility. Limbaugh is all about Limbaugh. Stopped listening to that fraud years ago.
There, I said it.
That is true. I remember that debate and the cheering in the audience was so loud they had to cut to commercial. They called it The Roar and after that, the frightened networks scrambled to make it so their debate audiences were more subdued in subsequent debates.
The purpose of these network debates has always been to soft-pedal the Democrat candidates and to portray the Republican candidates as wild and crazy extremists, but hey, we will pretend to be polite to them so that we can say afterwards we tried to be fair and balanced.
Glad you are coming around on Trump. I knew it would happen.
Love the 100% correlation of Trumpet bashing of people versus their support of Trump. Beyond predictable
Complete miss step by Trump. Will now probably lose Iowa as most voters are undecided and this will be labeled as weakness.
I am hoping "Take My Toys Home" Trump takes the bait, and trashes Limbaugh..
Then watch 20,000,000 listeners witness the Wrath of Rush, and the after effect..
He is the most powerful conservative in the country for a reason.
Fixed it.
Dang, I must of missed Limbaugh's Rand or Ron Paul positive comments.
Nice try.
“...................This is fascinating. A guy named Samuel Francis, back in 1996, is advising a conservative Republican how to win the nomination — in that case it was Pat Buchanan. And Trump — whether he knows it or not, irrelevant — is doing exactly what this column suggested doing back in 1996. And what it was, essentially, was advice for Buchanan to go above and beyond the conservative movement because it was not going to be helpful to him, that he needed to branch out and get into other areas.
This guy was advocating things like populism, nationalism, and so forth, and suggesting that an approach like that would work because of the mind-set of Americans who are fed up with elites and their condescension and their general inattentiveness to the things that bothered the people that make the country work. And it was his theory that a nationalistic approach — i.e., big time patriotism, make America great, America first, America last, America always — combined with a populist appeal as opposed to conservative would work.
So people have found that piece, they’ve looked at it, they’ve compared it to the Trump campaign, they’ve said, “My gosh, this guy back in 1996 actually wrote everything Trump’s doing.” So I then, in talking to people and you, I posited, I asked the question, “Could it be that nationalism and populism have usurped conservatism today in the minds of a majority of Republican base voters?”
Well, what has happened is that I am now accused of actually saying that and of actually believing that and therefore of betraying conservatism, which people can’t believe because I am Mr. Conservative. I am the Mister Big, if you will, of the vast right-wing conspiracy. So all these people are out there, “My God, my God, what’s Limbaugh doing?” And it’s all resulting, it’s the same that happens when Media Matters takes hold here. Take one sentence out of a very detailed, nuanced monologue or discussion in which I have engaged, take one little sentence — Megyn Kelly asked Rich Lowry about it on Fox last week. But she got it right, so did Rich, when she posited the question.
She said, “Rush Limbaugh has suggested the possibility here that nationalism, populism have usurped —” And Rich Lowry said, “I hope that’s not true.” But I was not accused of having definitively — I don’t believe it. If you don’t listen to the program — and many of the critics of this program never do listen to it — this program is far more nuanced than some of the things these egghead writers publish.
Everybody that hosts a conservative radio show gets lumped together. So whoever the host is they think the shows are all the same and they always zero in on what they think the lowest common denominator is and then attach my name to it. So now some conservatives and in their publications are beginning to go down this path and so forth. And I assure you, folks, all I am doing here is trying to explain the reasons why I think this phenomenon is happening and why I believe this phenomenon is big.
I think it holds tremendous potential. I have no idea where it’s going. I don’t yet know, and nobody does. We don’t have enough data. We don’t know what it all means yet. We don’t know if Trump is flighty, flash in the pan, real long term. Don’t even know if he’s really gonna win. All of this remains speculative and therefore I am just keeping my powder dry and my eyes open and trying to absorb as much of this as I can because I have numerous people asking me what does this mean.
So how do you leave that out of a book on the Revolutionary War?
I only thumbed thru his first children book so to be honest I didn't sit down an read it, but I do not think the subject I mentioned even comes up.
There have already been too many debates. Trump will come out of this just fine.
For years a lot of people here have been carping about FOX, and now we have someone taking them on. We should be celebrating that.
I think Rush is a better Political Pundit than Historian. He’s diversifying his portfolio with mixed results, if what you say is true.
I Like that. A keeper. Thanks.
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