Rush Limbaugh: Why No Push for Duncan Hunter? (Rush implies that Rudy and Romney are liberals)

RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 11/19/07 | Rush Limbaugh

[wagglebee]

RUSH: Mark in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Am I reading that right? Welcome to the program. Don't have my glasses on so I couldn't really read it, but I guessed and got it right.

CALLER: Yes you got it right, dittos, long-time listener, 24/7 member, and fellow talk show host inspired by you, my friend.

RUSH: Well.

CALLER: Been at it for five years on the Internet, think I've got the biggest show on the Internet, and I've got a big question for you.

RUSH: All right, ask away.

CALLER: All right. The question is this. I think the most conservative candidate that we have for president is Duncan Hunter, going through his website, listening to what he's got on the news, his different interviews and stuff, I mean he definitely meets the conservative agenda head on. And we're just not hearing a lot from him. And we're not hearing a lot from him, from you. And I'm wondering, sir, do you have any plans in the near future for interviews with him, for talking to him on the air? I mean, I did hear, you spoke about an e-mail update you got from him the other day, but other than that it looks like the best candidate here is not getting pushed by the strongest conservative people.

RUSH: Well, here's my answer to your question. I'm asked this a lot and historically I have not gotten involved in primaries, because if I had any of these people, and they have all asked to come on this show, and I respectfully say no, because I'd have to ask them all back. And I really don't look at this program as a campaign vehicle during primaries. Among other things, I, frankly, Mark, I have the belief that political candidates have a duty to get noticed themselves. It's an unfair process in terms -- Mrs. Clinton. Mrs. Clinton is strictly there because she didn't divorce her husband. In fact, she's strictly there because she married him. If her last name weren't Clinton, she'd be the dean of some all-girls' school in Albania touring villages at night and doing whatever you do in a village at night, when you run an all-girls' school. She's just benefiting from conventional wisdom. In the case of Rudy, the reason Rudy is getting a lot of attention is the northeastern bias in the media. The northeastern bias in the media wants two northeasterners to run.

Even some of our conservative journalist friends who are headquartered and work in the northeast, in New York and Washington, are willing to overlook, in some cases, the lack of genuine conservatism in some candidates because they're from the northeast. They have a geographical bias because of where they live. People in the northeast think it's at that it's the heartbeat and the pulse of the country there, and the rest of the country is flyover country and all of that. So it's tough to get out of the bottom tier. You need a really humongous debate performance, and you need an early announcement in some cases when you're going against somebody that's going to benefit from all the conventional wisdom, the media and others. But I sit and watch until one of them surfaces because that's what their job is to do, not mine.

[Czar]

"...and start brow-beating all their fellow conservatives on FR with "he's un-electable," or "he can't win," or "a vote for him is a vote for Hitlery,..."

And here we thought we had gotten rid of that bunch of faux conservatives during the last thinning of the FR herd. No doubt we have been accumulating a fresh crop of "moderates", "pragmatists" and "realists" to replace their predecessors.

Battle stations!

[xzins]

Read what is written in this article, resty. We are going with the quote in the article.

Hillary is not mistaken to be a northeast conservative by anyone. There is no one who sees her that way.

[Paperdoll]

Your computer brand shouldn’t make any difference. Please feel free to FReepmail me with any questions.

[joesbucks]

If you read my original note carefully, I said "most" ideologically pure candidates are usually unelectable. I didn't say all. I am not writing that to be condescending, but rather to point out that I left room for exceptions. In national and statewide elections however, it is rare to find an ideologically pure candidate. That's why you find so many centrists that are US senators. Most states won't elect an purist.

Plus, you've got to remember, Reagan groomed his position to be President for many, many years. Hunter hasn't done that. Reagan was a states chief executive. Hunter hasn't done that. Reagan governed California enough to the center to get away with being a centrist, yet conservative enough that he was still acceptable to his constituency. Hunter hasn't done that. Reagan had immediate name and face recognition with his years in television and the movies. Hunter hasn't done that.

Again, and I'll repeat, Rush won't hitch his wagon to a candidate that meets his litmus tests in the primary simply because it would link him to a likely loser. He won't do that.

[Shimmer]

I’m not saying the brand matters, but the browser matters I do believe.

I can’t see to click to input my choices to volunteer. Apparently it doesn’t show up correctly on Safari, my browser. ???

[restornu]

[Terriergal]

Why no push for Hunter? Because he’s conservative, silly!

[Little_GTO]

I agree with your analysis, but I think Rush is also frustrated that the Northeast media is pushing their candidates. Rush gets thousands of people calling into his show. The calls are heavily screened. No one gets on the air unless El Rushbo wants to take the call. This is Rush’s way of giving Duncan Hunter a boost and is an endorsement in itself.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree that there is an aspect of support here. You’re right to point that out.

[xzins]

Why do you come up with this childish stuff instead of just dealing with the issue at hand?

I’ll never understand it.

[Paperdoll]

Gee, you are talking to a computer illiterate! Anyone who is having trouble with the Hunter website, FReepmail me and I will report it.

If you are trying to contribute to the campaign, send your check made out to Hunter for President to:

Go Hunter 08
9340 Fuerte Dr., Suite 302
La Mesa, CA 91941

You can tell them you are having trouble signing up to volunteer, ask for bumper stickers, mailers and brochures.
I also have bumper stickers and mailers I can get out to anyone who needs them.

Thank you. :)

[RockinRight]

Fred’s better.

Neener neener neener.

[Shimmer]

I actually still lean toward him, but I’d take either. neener neener yourself, yu better watch yo mouf boy!!!!

:D

[Marine_Uncle]

Hunter needs conservative people in seats of power to start sponsoring him. It is that simple.

[Sun]

“Hunter needs conservative people in seats of power to start sponsoring him. It is that simple.”

Which is why I have been contacting them:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media

I also called Dr. Richard Land’s show to tell how strong Duncan Hunter is on the conservative social issues (as well as other conservative issues), and the next week when a caller talked w/Dr. Land about Huckabee, Dr. Land said Duncan Hunter is just as pro-life as Huckabee. I don’t know if my call had anything to do with it, but I’m doing everything I can to get the word out.

I saw on tv that the Evangelicals (I think it was in Iowa) are supporting Huckabee 2 to 1 to Romney, but they don’t seem to know that Duncan Hunter is just as pro-life or more so. Despite Huckabee’s lack of $$, he is doing very well in the polls, and I believe the values voters have a lot to do with it.

[Marine_Uncle]

I really do salute you for your efforts. We have time. The score card could change dramatically in due time.

[Sun]

“We have time.”

Yes we do, and if we all work hard, we can win this thing.

Politics is so volatile. In ‘03 Howard Dean was 43% in the polls, and Kerry was 13%. Then Kerry went down to 4% only three weeks before the primaries.

[CounterCounterCulture]

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