Remember 1992 when Bush the Elder wasn't considered perfect enough by some and Clinton won the White House with less than 43% of the popular vote?
The "I will sit this one out or cast a protest vote" folks will make it deja vu all over again.
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.”
Dream on. Rush is always right. lolol...
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.
Rush is not wrong. I’ll vote for Mitt, but he’s my 4th choice this year, unfortunately my first three are already out.
I've said this countless times, but people are wondering when, how, who I am going to endorse. Please get away from that. That is accepting the notion that whoever I endorse is put over the top. You guys are demonstrating out there that you're going to make up your own minds -- and I, frankly, like that. I participate here in, hopefully, informing and educating, and you do back and forth. We do together. But you're not mind-numbed robots. This endorsement business? Can I be bluntly honest? If I had this magical power to get everybody I supported elected, we wouldn't have had Clinton. You know, people like me who do what I do, we've gotta be realistic about what this is. It's a radio show that has an identity and a mission and a purpose, but it's not to get people elected. It's an ancillary thing, but that's not why I'm doing this.
Limbaugh has repeatedly said that Romney was acceptable.
Just not McCain or Huckabee.
Rush simply said that NONE of the candidates were 100% conservatives --- but then again, there are very few perfect conservatives since even rock solid conservatives often disagree on what is or isn't an acceptable conservative position.
No, Romney is one of the people he said he could support.
“we can live through 4 years of Chavez”
Sorry, you were just the first post, and that’s where we put comments about the actual thread. It wasn’t directed at you.
Another thought on the topic:
He’s a conservative. He should support conservatives. He should support the conservatives over the RINO’s in the same way as he supports the R’s over the D’s. He is, after all, conservative first, and Republican second.
Truth be told, I’ve seldom listen to Rush anyway as I’m at work most of the time while he’s on the radio. Certainly, Rush is not a king maker nor does he have that much power to annoint emperors. But, he’s a conservative icon who many idolize. It would have been nice to see Rush out there supporting an underdog conservative.
Fredheads, too. He said it on Monday.
I like Keyes, his politics and he is an excellent debater but Alan Keyes has never won an election and he has problems paying his bills. LOL
He had his shot against Hitlery and failed so I think he is history for public office for the time being unless he can win a statewide election somewhere, sometime down the road...
Remember 1992 when Bush the Elder wasn't considered perfect enough by some and Clinton won the White House with less than 43% of the popular vote?
The "I will sit this one out or cast a protest vote" folks will make it deja vu all over again.
oh, no problemo. LOL
I just didn’t want you to think I had misquoted the guy...
He didn’t have any faith in Fred. He said the other day, what if he endorsed Fred, and then Fred drops out, and endorses McCain, “which is entirely possible”, he said. He trusted none of them.
McQueeg is a world-class jerk, and I would never vote for him, amnesty and his anti-1st-Amendment views being foremost as to why.
Osamabama is, and has been, a Chicago machine politician and an outright Marxist who just accidentally doesn't happen to carry a party card.
PLEASE, tell me you were joking. Vote for a down-the-line Marxist who also -- just so you know -- voted four separate times for a bill in the IL Senate that would allow a mother, after a botched abortion and her baby was live-born, to kill it after the fact.
The technical term is 'infanticide'. Never mind the abortion argument, this bastard voted four separate times for infanticide.
I loathe McQueeg. Doesn't mean I'd vote for Mengele junior instead.
"I’ll vote for Mitt, but he’s my 4th choice this year, unfortunately my first three are already out."I’m sorry, but to me, the Republican Party is already dead.
With the loss of Fred....we have no one to carry the Conservative World View.
He needs to advance the cause of conservative philosophy, and, as he stated after the last election cycle, he is not carrying the water of any candidate. No one objected to his statements back then.
I like it better when he does not support a single candidate.
Unfortunately, the conservatives and the moderates need to decide which direction the party is going and they cannot expect someone like Rush to do if for them.
“We, the people,” must decide, not “He, the person!”
The right has lost its way, and until it finds its voice, the nation will be lead by the liberals, with the republicans in Congress fighting a rear-guard action until the leadership figures out where they are going.
That will not happen until the warfare between the Country Club Republicans and the conservatives battle it out and one side wins.
Right now, the Country Clubbers are winning.
Where does he say he won’t vote for Romney? I think his concern is that Romney will lose, possibly to McCain. McCain has a chance to win this, and it sorta looks like Romney is the last stop gap. If McCain wins...it’s a big stinking mess. That’s what Rush is saying. Oh yea, or the Huckster. Same goes for him.
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