”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
I wish that he was in the race.
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.”
“Cheney would be the frontrunner if his health weren’t such an issue?”
It doesn’t seem to have affected his job as VP.
And I would say that Dick Cheney has been the finest VP that I can remember!
“I’d love to see it just to watch the drive-by’s completely melt down.”
How ‘bout a
Dick Cheney/ Ann Coulter or a Dick Cheney/Mark Levin ticket?
Talk about a Leftist Meltdown?
That would be a meltdown second only to Chernobyl!LOL
Yes I believe he was talking about McCain. I think like most conservatives, he despises McCain.
No way will I EVER vote for McCain. That is why he needs to be stopped and stopped NOW. Just think folks, it won’t be long before this pox on the GOP is gone from the Senate. Good Riddance!!!
Quite true, El Rushbo. But you supported GHWB in '88 and '92, Dole in '96, and GWB in '00 and '04. ....and none of them are "genuine down-the-list conservatives" either.
Just my humble opinion mind you.
It would be nice to have a true-blue conservative who could win and be an effective President, but that happens once a generation if we are lucky. We don't have that option in 2008. It's better to reflect on the harm all the recent Democrat Presidents have done: Kennedy (Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, overthrow of Diem, etc.), Johnson (Vietnam War, Great Society), Carter (Iran, malaise), Clinton (endless string of foreign policy blunders and domestic scandals, plus weakening the military and coarsening public life). Hillary bids fair to be the worst of the lot.
”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
I wish that he was in the race.
you were absolutely correct to support Fred. But it became increasingly obvious to me at least that he just didn’t want this in the first place. He was never really there.
No, I don’t understand why we couldn’t get anyone else that was better. But we are so close to bringing back the Clintons and we’re going to just let it happen? There’s good reason to believe that people were actually abused if not killed as a result of the clintons.
John Adams would probably tell you to fight, not stay home.
I’m with Rush, only I will write in the person I think would be the best for the office.
No, Rush said he would NOT support John McCrazy, Flip Romney, or the Huckster.
I like Dick Cneney very much and I think he’s one of the best VPs in US history, but the media has done such a job on him since 2000 that there’s no way he could be elected President.
Yep! Rush made a big mistake this time around. Rush failed to see that the MSM was successfully shoving the RINO’s and dem-lite down our throats. When all the front-runners are RINO’s, Rush should have came to assistance of the true conservatives, Hunter or Fred. Rush failed! The golden microphone of talk radio needs to be passed on to somebody else.
on amnesty?
Sad but true. It is better to have Hillary for 4 years than it is to have a Republican doing the same thing for 4 years.
The difference being that Republicans in Congress can MUCH more easily oppose Hillary, since she is not from the same party. The other difference is that Republican Party will be split in half by McCain and would NEVER be the party that can nominate a Reagan or Bush-Jr (as he campaigned, not how he governed).
Just because a guy has an (R) next to his name does not necessarily mean he will do less damage than a Democrat.
Rush clarified his (Monday) comments on today's show (Tuesday).
He said he was taken out of context, and all but said he would support Mitt Romney unequivocally.
Rush has been so supportive of Romney as of late, and I'm sure he was taking heat from the blind-ragers who demand Hunter, or else.
I've been listening to Limbaugh a long time, like most other conservatives, and I can tell whom he likes and dislikes by his voice inflections, and by the stories he reads, and by the callers he puts on.
For example, he agrees with the pro-Romney callers, and he often seems dismissive of the callers who 'question' Romney's sincerity.
“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?”
Bingo. Rush said before the primaries that he would not endorse any candidate this early in the race. That was a big mistake considering that there were only two true conservatives in the race - Hunter and Thompson.
I’m not blaming Rush. I’m just saying he failed to defend conservatism in this election.
“so what should we do? just sit there and let hillary win?”
Wake up! Hillary’s going to win. We won’t have a suitable candidate.
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