McCain shakes up right-wing 'dittoheads'

The Star ^ | Feb 07, 2008 | Tim Harper

[SolidWood]

Liberal groups are loving the show.

I bet they are.

[madison10]

Dear MSM, go...what Dick Cheney said. ;)

[TLI]

Mitt just dropped. Looks like Huck and Juan.

Either one will cause amnesty.

[MNJohnnie]

Tell you McCainicas what. You all come back in Nov and we will discuss how well your strategy of flushing us dittoheads to suck up to the Leftist Media worked out for you.

You party boys got what you wanted. You purges us icky right wingers from your party so you could rebrand it as Democrat Lite with McCain.

Ok, now go win your election without us.

[redhead]

BWWWWWAA-AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

[M203M4]

Yup, left-wingers have been guaranteed a victory in November no matter what happens.

[squidly]

At the end of this election cycle, either McCain or the talk radio crowd will be left with greatly reduced credibility. Of course there are many here on FR who will tell you that McCain has no credibility now, but y’all know what I’m saying.

[libbylu]

Just someone else trying to get attention from Rush.

[bert]

Igmo wet dream

[1Old Pro]

I am going to simply CALM DOWN.

In fact I feel sooo calm, that I’ll probably forget to vote for McLame.

[tennteacher]

This insulting stereotying presupposes that all conservatives tune to Limbaugh and nod in unison. Most conservatives whom I know are intelligent logicians who draw their own conclusions instead of pulling in tandem.

[facedown]

It has been bad news for the "dittoheads," the pejorative name given to the audience of Rush Limbaugh, the country's leading conservative radio voice, for their blind agreement with the views of the host.

Ignorant jagdork.

[hocndoc]

Lest we forget, it’s also what McCain told our Texas’ Senator Cornyn:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836017/posts

[Chi-townChief]

By November, Mr. Harper will be oinking about McCain being a hardline right-wing extremist.

[Vaduz]

Ted Kennedy smiles my boy McNuts wins now I own the white house.

[EyeGuy]

“The self-anointed kingmakers of the far right ...”

Mythology.

If she is referring to Rush, he has REPEATEDLY said that he owes his popularity to simply voicing what conservatives have been thinking for years. He does not desire or pretend to lead, let alone act as kingmaker. This perspective is at root, conservatism to the core.

Oh and when a liberal says “far right” what they are telling you in their ignornace, is that ANYTHING to the right of their sick position, immediately falls off a steeep precipice into FarRightLand.

[IMissPresidentReagan]

The self-anointed kingmakers of the far right ... were rebuked by the foot soldiers of their own movement," said Mary Jean Collins, political director of the liberal People For the American Way.

"Have the leaders of the right – from Dobson to its talking heads – lost control of the voting bloc they helped create?"

Ummm, I would not call the Moderate/Independents who supported McCain foot soldiers in any movement, much less the conservative one. Looking at the numbers, far more people voted against McCain than for him, Huckabee and Romney split the conservative vote, so McCain won by plurality not by some overwhelming majority.

[Melchior]

The artile is from the Toronto Star. It does not explain, now would it know why he did not win (or barely won) a majority of Republican votes in Arizona. Southern Arizonas, those who understand his policy on borders, immigration and citizenship, know him for the fourflusher he is. To put it kindly, there are one hell of a lot of Arizonas that hate his guts. Give America time. They will have lots of time to come to loathe him.

[oblomov]

It is just one of a number of a fascinating back stories to the resurrection of the Arizona senator, a campaign that has had to swim upstream not against the Mitt Romneys and Rudy Giulianis of the world, but the right-wing "talkocracy" of the United States

Ah, the "fascinating back stories"...

More fascinating, I think, would be the story of just how McVain was "resurrected" (interesting choice of words, I think, when so many similar secular terms are available). This "resurrection" is a contrivance, a whole-cloth creation of the MSM and GOP elites. Scr*w them.