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Rush Limbaugh: May Not Support GOP Nominee
newsmax.com ^ | January 22, 2008 4:34 PM | staff

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.”


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election; gop; potus; rino; rushlimbaugh
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To: Eagles6
What don’t the Repubs get? We have been saying for years that we want CONSERVATIVE and the keep shoving dem-lite down our throats.

....Good signature material - and absolutely correct.

281 posted on 01/23/2008 4:01:59 AM PST by meyer (Illegal Immigration - The profits are privatized, the costs are socialized.)
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To: kellynla

““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.””

I don’t believe a word of this. McCain will be the nominee and ask a very well respected conservative to be his running mate. Rush will come around, and even if he doesn’t I can’t see him supporting Hillary.


282 posted on 01/23/2008 4:06:28 AM PST by moose2004
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To: kellynla

“dropping their coffee cups, choking on sandwiches, fainting and driving off the road. “
I did not drop my coffee cup, choke on my sandwich nor faint nor drive off the road.
I do not support any of them either.
We’ll just have to somehow survive 8 years of a marxist in the White House, with gun seizure, compulsory abortion, homosexual marriage, arrest of abortion protesters and anyone who speaks against abortion or homosexual marriage, high taxes, “hate crime” laws that jail all White Christian males before they open their mouths to talk.


283 posted on 01/23/2008 4:15:37 AM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: SeaWolf

McCain has shown many times he does not have the mental temperment for the presidency. Anyone who follows politics closely knows that. Unfortunately, that is a small portion of the Republican Party.


284 posted on 01/23/2008 4:20:10 AM PST by Hattie
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To: kellynla

For anyone really listening to the program this is a total misrepresentation of the context of Rush’s words. He said this in the context of “just say no to McCain”. To not vote at all in November was not what he meant.


285 posted on 01/23/2008 4:21:17 AM PST by GOP_Proud (The problem with us Republicans is we really don't want any of these guys.)
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To: kellynla

He’ll support Hillary. I quit listening to Rush months ago when all he could talk about was Hillary and the Dem candidates. It was all Dems all the time. If he’d put that much effort into the GOP candidates - analysis, background, etc. - we might have a decent one now.


286 posted on 01/23/2008 4:24:16 AM PST by livius
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To: EyeGuy
Politics is a tough business and if Duncan Hunter needed Rush’s endorsement to survive the primaries, then Duncan Hunter wasn’t the guy who was going to win. Rush knows that, you figure it out.
287 posted on 01/23/2008 4:30:50 AM PST by Cheburashka (Liberalism: a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.)
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To: kellynla

Dear God - he’s helping Hillary win!


288 posted on 01/23/2008 4:45:29 AM PST by SnarlinCubBear ("Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil." -- Thomas Mann)
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To: kellynla

Rush let the TRUE CONSERVATIVES drop off one by one-Tancredo, Hunter, Thompson- without a whimper. He helped cause the problem that he is complaiing about.

And in reality, since he never even bothered to register to vote until Bush Sr., he never “supported” Reagan.


289 posted on 01/23/2008 4:45:35 AM PST by awake-n-angry
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To: EyeGuy
And so Rush, when it might have really helped, why didn’t you give Duncan Hunter some much needed name exposure before your vast audience?

IMO - he was banking on Fred

290 posted on 01/23/2008 4:49:51 AM PST by Revelation 911
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To: kellynla
How it will feel if Hillary is elected (video)


291 posted on 01/23/2008 4:52:22 AM PST by pookie18 (Of course I'm voting for the Republican nominee!)
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To: Swordfished

Yes, he would also support his friend, Rudy Giuliani.


292 posted on 01/23/2008 4:53:30 AM PST by barryg
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To: Lancey Howard

Fortunately, the readers here can simply look at what he said, and don’t have to depend on your incorrect interpretation.

I posted quotes from Rush to avoid responses that suggested I was lying about what he said. People can read his words.

Rush Limbaugh makes a living communicating his thoughts. He’s perfectly capable of doing so, and does not need people mischaracterising or reading into what he said. If Rush wants to say someone is unacceptable, he will.

For the record, on the day after Rush’s comments, his flagship station in DC, 630-WMAL, had a discussion with callers about Rush’s comments about not voting. They understood exactly what he meant, and the question was would people follow his lead if McCain was the nominee.

They don’t work in a vacuum — Rush does communicate with the local affiliates to ensure his own stations understand what’s up.


293 posted on 01/23/2008 5:05:27 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: kellynla
” A deadlock Republican convention turns to the most qualified Republican of them all to be president on the fifth ballot, Dick Cheney. And he wins in a landslide in November.” Bill Kristol, Fox News Sunday 12/23/2007

Don't I wish. And with Fred as his VP. Wow!

294 posted on 01/23/2008 5:08:53 AM PST by McGruff (Fred Thompson. The last hope for conservatism.)
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To: sourcery

Romney,yes. McCain, never.


295 posted on 01/23/2008 5:12:09 AM PST by AdaGray
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To: Onerom99

“I suspect Thompson is still alive in all of this and may swoop in during the convention?”

with no delegates, you can put a fork in him...


296 posted on 01/23/2008 5:12:30 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla
This is why I like Rush so much. The guy and I think alike. I love what he had to say. I am a CONSERVATIVE FIRST. Not a RINO, or republican. I vote my beliefs. I don’t vote a party. I am through nose holding. I am finished with it. I am not afraid to stay home for the first time in my life. I simply am done giving my vote to the RINOcrat Socialist Party. Done with it. If they cannot run someone I can actually agree with, then they are not my party. I agree if McScream is the one, the party is broken for good.
297 posted on 01/23/2008 5:16:52 AM PST by RetiredArmy (America wants socialism. It wants it all for free. It wants the government to provide all.)
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To: Onerom99

“I like Dick Cheney, but he would get absolutely murdered in the general election by any fool the left put up. Outside of the base, Cheney is not popular at all?”

well that’s where you & I disagree...

Cheney vs. Hitlery?

and you only have to say one word: “Supremes”

and Republicans & Independents would resurrect out of their graves to vote against her. LOL


298 posted on 01/23/2008 5:18:47 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: Spktyr
Rush should have supported Fred Thompson instead of trying to stay “impartial”.

Rush never endorses during the primaries. But, if you would think about it, he would only endorse a conservative, thus whom do you THINK he would have supported??? Thompson of course. So, knowing the man's beliefs, you would KNOW who he supports. You certainly should know he would not support McScream or the Huckster.

299 posted on 01/23/2008 5:18:51 AM PST by RetiredArmy (America wants socialism. It wants it all for free. It wants the government to provide all.)
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To: WillRain
Same here, the party needs an enema. Once and for all we need to seperate the Rockefellers from the Reagans and be done with it.

Table-pounding BTTT!

If getting the party back means prying a lot of cold, dead fingers off the various levers, then fine. Just don't let Ken Mehlman sneak up behind me.

As Caligula (played by John Hurt) said to Tiberius and Claudius in I, Claudius, "First we need to make a list. A long, lonnnnggg list!"

300 posted on 01/23/2008 5:19:37 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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