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Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread - Friday 10/24/08
The EIB Network ^ | October 24, 2008 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 10/24/2008 8:50:03 AM PDT by TSchmereL

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, Maha-Rushie! America's anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do--that's host. Get ready to what you were born to do--that's listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).

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Here’s the article just read:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/10/security_first_why_im_voting_f.html

October 24, 2008
McCain for President

By Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON — Contrarian that I am, I’m voting for John McCain. I’m not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it’s over before it’s over. I’m talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they’re left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.

I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe — neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) — yelling “Stop!” I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I’d rather lose an election than lose my bearings.

First, I’ll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The “erratic” temperament issue, for example. As if McCain’s risky and unsuccessful but in no way irrational attempt to tactically maneuver his way through the economic tsunami that came crashing down a month ago renders unfit for office a man who demonstrated the most admirable equanimity and courage in the face of unimaginable pressures as a prisoner of war, and who later steadily navigated innumerable challenges and setbacks, not the least of which was the collapse of his campaign just a year ago.

McCain the “erratic” is a cheap Obama talking point. The 40-year record testifies to McCain the stalwart.

Nor will I countenance the “dirty campaign” pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed McCain supports “cutting Social Security benefits in half.” And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.

McCain’s critics are offended that he raised the issue of William Ayers. What’s astonishing is that Obama was himself not offended by William Ayers.

Moreover, the most remarkable of all tactical choices of this election season is the attack that never was. Out of extreme (and unnecessary) conscientiousness, McCain refused to raise the legitimate issue of Obama’s most egregious association — with the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Dirty campaigning, indeed.

The case for McCain is straightforward. The financial crisis has made us forget, or just blindly deny, how dangerous the world out there is. We have a generations-long struggle with Islamic jihadism. An apocalyptic soon-to-be-nuclear Iran. A nuclear-armed Pakistan in danger of fragmentation. A rising Russia pushing the limits of revanchism. Plus the sure-to-come Falklands-like surprise popping out of nowhere.

Who do you want answering that phone at 3 a.m.? A man who’s been cramming on these issues for the last year, who’s never had to make an executive decision affecting so much as a city, let alone the world? A foreign policy novice instinctively inclined to the flabbiest, most vaporous multilateralism (e.g., the Berlin Wall came down because of “a world that stands as one”), and who refers to the most deliberate act of war since Pearl Harbor as “the tragedy of 9/11,” a term more appropriate for a bus accident?

Or do you want a man who is the most prepared, most knowledgeable, most serious foreign policy thinker in the United States Senate? A man who not only has the best instincts, but has the honor and the courage to, yes, put country first, as when he carried the lonely fight for the surge that turned Iraq from catastrophic defeat into achievable strategic victory?

There’s just no comparison. Obama’s own running mate warned this week that Obama’s youth and inexperience will invite a crisis — indeed a crisis “generated” precisely to test him. Can you be serious about national security and vote on Nov. 4 to invite that test?

And how will he pass it? Well, how has he fared on the only two significant foreign policy tests he has faced since he’s been in the Senate? The first was the surge. Obama failed spectacularly. He not only opposed it. He tried to denigrate it, stop it and, finally, deny its success.

The second test was Georgia, to which Obama responded instinctively with evenhanded moral equivalence, urging restraint on both sides. McCain did not have to consult his advisers to instantly identify the aggressor.

Today’s economic crisis, like every other in our history, will in time pass. But the barbarians will still be at the gates. Whom do you want on the parapet? I’m for the guy who can tell the lion from the lamb.
letters@charleskrauthammer.com


381 posted on 10/24/2008 11:58:41 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (2008 = The Year of the Toilet (for 'rats))
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To: vacuumbob

saved it for the cleanup hitter....howdy Bob !


382 posted on 10/24/2008 11:58:52 AM PDT by advertising guy ( CHARITY BEGINS AT HUT !)
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To: Roccus
...where all the machines in the house turned on the homeowner

Sounds like a porno movie.

383 posted on 10/24/2008 12:00:14 PM PDT by hattend (Sarah is the merchandise I'm buying, McCain is the mail-in rebate. He's part of the deal.)
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To: MaineConservative

If the Government’s got anything at all to do with it, all I want is

THEY GET THE [BLEEP] OUT OF MY LIFE.


384 posted on 10/24/2008 12:01:05 PM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (Nuestro MSM supuesto es simplemente una colección de putas del excedente de mercancías.)
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To: advertising guy

Hi Guy! and thanks.......


385 posted on 10/24/2008 12:01:10 PM PDT by vacuumbob
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To: vacuumbob

slidin to hannity


386 posted on 10/24/2008 12:02:11 PM PDT by advertising guy ( CHARITY BEGINS AT HUT !)
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To: Roccus
No...hahaha....thanks alot. Here's one for you:
387 posted on 10/24/2008 12:02:19 PM PDT by Fawn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH7kT4xwddg)
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To: hattend

As I typed it I was thinking, “...some are going to take this the wrong way.”

};^)


388 posted on 10/24/2008 12:02:20 PM PDT by Roccus (Someday it'll all make sense.............maybe.)
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To: RasterMaster
Of course, when you can afford that -- you don't need to have the Government 'help' you with a car loan!

If you can't afford a car -- ride a bike... Wal-Mart has them for $$50!!

389 posted on 10/24/2008 12:02:31 PM PDT by MaineConservative (Obama, we aren't electing McCain for president of GEEKS-On-Call, but for President of the USA)
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To: MaineConservative
And here's the Guv'mint Car you'll get:

Photobucket

390 posted on 10/24/2008 12:02:49 PM PDT by Joisey
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet
THEY GET THE [BLEEP] OUT OF MY LIFE.

So true!!!

391 posted on 10/24/2008 12:03:36 PM PDT by MaineConservative (Obama, we aren't electing McCain for president of GEEKS-On-Call, but for President of the USA)
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To: Fawn

He wouldn’t stand a chance with the spiders I’ve got in my basement! (Heh-heh)


392 posted on 10/24/2008 12:05:13 PM PDT by Roccus (Someday it'll all make sense.............maybe.)
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To: Joisey

No thanks... The DUMB Car (people who drive those are dumb) is a glorified GOLD CART. I’ll not let the GOVERNMENT tell me I can’t drive an SUV — to paraphase the NRA slogan: ‘They’ll have my SUV when they PRY it from my COLD DEAD hands...’


393 posted on 10/24/2008 12:07:06 PM PDT by MaineConservative (Obama, we aren't electing McCain for president of GEEKS-On-Call, but for President of the USA)
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To: MaineConservative

Er.. GOLF not GOLD... see you all later!!


394 posted on 10/24/2008 12:08:06 PM PDT by MaineConservative (Obama, we aren't electing McCain for president of GEEKS-On-Call, but for President of the USA)
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To: Joisey

I saw one of those on a 70mph interstate a bit ago. Ubelievable!!!


395 posted on 10/24/2008 12:08:24 PM PDT by Roccus (Someday it'll all make sense.............maybe.)
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To: Roccus
"I saw one of those on a 70mph interstate a bit ago. Ubelievable!!!"

Where's Ralph Nader when we need him? If ever there was a car that is "unsafe at any speed", it's that one.

396 posted on 10/24/2008 12:20:03 PM PDT by Joisey
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To: Clint N. Suhks

I would consider income to be earnings, or better yet achievement. I like to shove it down the socialists throats that they are doing nothing but punishing achievers so that the lazy get unearned income.


397 posted on 10/24/2008 12:25:51 PM PDT by CSM (I see this election as a referendum on the stupidity of the American people" (Henkster))
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To: Joisey

That looks like the little Hot Car that I put in my grandson’s Christmas stocking last year.


398 posted on 10/24/2008 12:54:44 PM PDT by murron (Proud Marine Mom)
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To: Fawn

I didn’t read anything about pension funds, just 401Ks, but it would make sense for the government to take over pension funds, too. That would relieve the unions of the responsibility, and cover the auto workers when the car companies cannot pay the promised benefits.

It’s pure fascism. Favored industries get gov’t subsidies and the rest who are not struggling and don’t want gov’t control will suffer. Just think of the number of companies that would be socialized if the government took over the 401Ks. The gov’t would own stock in every publicly owned company.


399 posted on 10/24/2008 1:28:26 PM PDT by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: EagleandLiberty

Hi EagleandLiberty! East Hartford is sunny and cool for a fall day. Getting ready for UConn to play against Cinncy. Go UConn!

Have a great weekend everyone! :) =^..^=


400 posted on 10/24/2008 1:32:59 PM PDT by Biggirl (Throw The Bums OUT!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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