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To: wastedpotential
I just posted this on a Bloomberg thread. Rush endorsed Huckabee and the New Conservatism on Monday:

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_010708/content/01125112.guest.html

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I have been thinking since this recent spate of callers from Huckabee supporters, which started about 50 minutes ago, 45 to 50 minutes ago, thought about it long and hard during the break, even been thinking about it here while doing other things opening this hour's monologue segment. I want to say to you Huckabee supporters that you've convinced me. I have been convinced. I've been convinced through the power and the brilliance of your arguments made to me here on the phone on this program, today, that Governor Huckabee is a true conservative. He is the only guy who is a true conservative, and I have concluded that I am debasing myself and the conservative cause by questioning it. As a matter of fact, Governor Huckabee was right to increase taxes by $500 million in Arkansas. Governor Huckabee was right to offer in-state tuition to illegal aliens. He was right to offer the Mexican government a consulate in Arkansas for one dollar a year. More states should show this kind of compassion. When I learned this, I said, "There's a conservative." The Mexican consulate, a dollar a year in Arkansas. He was right to release over one thousand criminals. This is conservative. He is right to oppose school choice. This is conservative. And he was right to accuse President Bush of a bunker mentality and stubbornness in dealing with our enemies. He was right in suggesting that the way to deal with Bin Laden and Zawahiri and other enemies of the United States is to implement the Golden Rule. He was right.

This is, ladies and gentlemen, the new conservatism. It is both Reaganism and post-Reaganism, postmodern Reaganism and after-modern post-Reaganism. I'm sitting here chastising myself. "How could I have missed this?" After 20 years, how could I have missed this? After 20 years it has become clear, after only eight weeks of Governor Huckabee on the scene, I now see the new conservatism: no school choice, $500 million in tax increases, Mexican consulates in states for one dollar a year, in-state tuition to illegal aliens, the new conservatism. And how could all the rest of us, the tens of millions of conservatives who have yet to even vote in these primaries, and the over 60% in Iowa who did not vote for Governor Huckabee, how could we have made such an error? I have seen the light.

4 posted on 01/09/2008 11:53:38 PM PST by iowamark
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To: iowamark

I heard that bit the other day. Rush was definitely on a roll!


5 posted on 01/10/2008 12:02:51 AM PST by Shelayne (Defying the Pundits and Polls--Fred Thompson 2008!)
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To: iowamark
If you read this as an endorsement, may I respectfully suggest a refresher course: say, Irony 101.

If not, the telepathically challenged among us would appreciate a /sarc tag now and then.

7 posted on 01/10/2008 12:36:07 AM PST by Tenniel2 (Weakness invites attack -- on the playground, in the boardroom, and in the Middle East.)
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