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.”
“Not to my favorite things ever but two slip ups in legislation...”
McCain/Lieberman
This particular primary season is a strange time to express such a meritocratic view of the election process.
“I would respect Rush if he did refuse to support a RINO nominee if he means all of the RINOs, including Romney.”
So would I... His insistence on doing the opposite the last few years has driven some of his audience away (I used to listen, once upon a time). It would be a wondrous thing if he said “It’s time to stand on our principles, folks.”
Romney said (and right before Florida of all places) that he appreciated Fred’s position on social security reform. That’s not something you just say to win votes.
“and Romney was a bulkhead against rising taxes in Boston, right?”
Beats me, but unlike Juan, Mitt has not spent the past 8 years using the Republican base as his personal commode.
Rush said he MAY not support the Republican nominee. But that doesn’t mean he won’t vote for him over Her Royal Clintoness or Obama, the internationalist.
Rush was furious over McCain Feingold. He’s not going to become sweetness and light over McCain now. But I really don’t think he’d encourage people not to vote and let these far left Democrats in. They are pure socialist now. We are still suffering from the damage of Carter.
The Rockefeller wing of the GOP is not conservative. There is an internal struggle.
There was a power struggle in the Democrat Party too. The 1960s riotous radicals won. They are to blame for the RINO former Democrats who still vote as Democats who are in our party. They were too cowardly to take back their own party from the hardcore socialists who openly sought to create unrest.
Mrs. Bill, at least, would give us a Republican Congress in 2010. Giuliani can’t guarantee that. Giuliani won’t give us judges, either. He can’t get good ones past the Senate and he will put second choice Souters or worse to get Justices on that bench.
He was more of a practical, legal, and situational kind of Mayor.
And he likes the way he fought the Dems in NYC, the ACLU, the NYT, on and on.
I understand it completely, its unorthodox, and I think most conservative pundits and voters are simply afraid to defend RG, for fear of being called names, losing their souls or being immoral or something outrageous....being banned from conservatives forums, afraid of bad press because the press hates RG, and smears him regularly, like is seen here, quite amazing really.
I prefer his personality and strengths to Romney’s at this time in our history, but of course I am in the minority.
Romney is quite safe for the Republican Party voters and pundits, like Dole, Bush I and II.
Too bad.
That may be coming some time soon
Many Dims are saying the same things about Hildabeast.
Duncan Hunter would not have needed much for his campaign to get traction. If Rush said as many good things about him as he did Mitt07 before Iowa, Hunter could have broken into the top tier.
Now this Mitt08 and Ruddy supporter says Huckabee isn't a conservative? If he had promoted real conservatives like Hunter from the beginning I might still trust his opinion.
The RINOs will choose better judges but they will not get them confirmed. Second or third choices or fourth or fifth will be confirmed when the “Republican
a lot of people simply accept without question what many scientists are telling them. It’s not so hard to understand why they would go for things like AGW (and a lot of other highly flawed theories that I won’t get into right now...)
Things are in worse shape today than there were in 1992 (or even 1988).
As it stands among the leading candidates of both parties:
Amnesty will come to pass. We will see an even greater influx; the stated business model will REQUIRE that we always have a poor underclass to exploit and too much “shame” in any American every seeking those jobs.
Socialized medicine will come to pass and we will be shackled with it for at least a generation or two. The State will grow that much larger. Personal liberty will erode. Incrementalism in the method by which socialist change comes to America.
The war against Islamic tyranny and terrorism will continue. It will remain the number on threat to our national security and stability. Socialism will remain the number two threat hot on its heels.
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“...A deadlock Republican convention turns to the most qualified Republican of them all to be president on the fifth ballot, Dick Cheney...”
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Let’s just hope that the guy with a bad ticker picks Duncan Hunter!
I didn’t say anything about scrapping the country’s best interest. You misunderstand me on that point.
No kidding. Why would I want Dem’s to pick my candidate?
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