Posted on 02/28/2009 3:09:11 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Rush Limbaugh was 15 minutes early to the stage, but no one was complaining Saturday evening in Washington, D.C., at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Quite the contrary. On the conference's third and final day, the conservative talk radio host was the headliner, and the crowd greeted him with an immense ovation.
"Ladies and gentleman, this is my first ever address to the nation," Limbaugh joked, noting that FOX News and C-SPAN were broadcasting the speech live.
Limbaugh then spent his first 15 minutes giving an impassioned summary of what it means to be a conservative before turning the focus to the movement's recent electoral record.
"We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate," he said.
The speech was the culmination of an event that featured often fiery speeches by some of top names of the conservative movement and the Republican party, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee and conservative commendator Ann Coulter.
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“Get off the phone you big dope”...
This is a Maharushi praise site here! No whining...Nothing but accolades for our leader allowed!
Does anyone know when the speech will be on FNC again?
I called my four children and told them they are out of the will unless they watch this: Conservatism 101. I’m going to quiz them afterwards.
Wonder how the CPAC people felt about his going OVER by an hour. Didn’t seem to be a problem...
GO RUSH! and you said it on NATIONAL TV for the first time.
I like the image of a verklempt Obumble choking on his arugula salad as he tuned in...if he tuned in.
And can you imagine the piercing, angry eyes of Mabelle when she heard El Rushbo say that her husband hasn’t been a force for good with the American people?
“Romney is good.. but he just seems soo... hmmmm.... he just seems so beltway, so politician like.”
An hour ago I was watching “Eyes Wide Shut” as Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were doing a long complicated, dramatic scene in their bedroom and Kidman was doing a very good job while Cruise’s weak acting was really showing through.
Watching Cruise, I was thinking about Romney and how neither one of them ever seem authentic in their roles, they are good, and they put a lot of energy into them, but they can never quite convince you that they are the guy that they are playing.
Bump!
Nails nobama and his thugs perfectly.
The scene of people playing the slots hoping for medical care is priceless and dangerously close to real life in the not too distant future.
Had Rush been honest about Bush we would be doing better.
Rush prospers when we are out of power.
Damn you Limbaugh! I was on the way out the door to go to the shooting range when my wife yells “Hey come here. Rush is going to be on Fox!” An hour and a half later there wasn’t time to get to the range and shoot before closing. On the serious side though, great speech.
Look, sarah palin needs to come out and defend herself. If she wants to be one step in front of main stream media, she needs to avoid them and go to talk radio shows and conservative blogosphere. There will be Tina Fey’s of the world, destroying her. You have to hit them back. Don’t allow them to define you.
“The guy is a radio actor.
He talks on the radio.
Let’s not make him into more than he is.”
And Walter Cronkite was just a TV talking head for a few minutes every night and evidently we must have lost the Tet Offensive, badly no less.
Over the line? OVER THE LINE!! Since when has going over the line bothered CNN and the rest of the press one iota. I’m never going to forget how they treated Bush for eight years and then the absolutely disgusting and abominable way they persecuted Sarah Palin, the lies, the innuendos, the attacks on her disabled son and the snickering and vile comments about her pregnant daughter. The most disgusting display of bias and disinformation that has ever been visited on any candidate for any office. I’m not forgetting any of it for one minute and I’m not going to make nice about the loser candidates they supported who are bring disaster to this nation, I’m going to be vocal!
Not really, the public has a memory that is measured in minutes, not even days. Think for a bit about how quickly the public perception of pop culture figures like Britney Spears or Mickey Rourke change. Palin has a similar natural talent to what Rush has - the ability to articulate a conservative message not from a script or teleprompter -but from the heart. Any salesperson will tell you that it's easy to sell a product that you truly believe in. Stay tuned...Palin's political career is only beginning.
Because anytime anyone here even says anything slightly good about Rush...you come a runnin' to point out the error of our ways.
Fine you don't like him...you just think he's a "radio actor". Great, but it sure comes across as Rush envy to me...
Of course it's all just my humble opinion.
It was like John Galt speaking to America in Atlas Shrugged.
People just will not learn. We don’t need Romney. We need a real full blown conservative like Sarah Palin.
I would have voted Romney over McCain, but not over Palin.
Rush may need to transition back to TV to overcome the “Fairness Doctrine” if it is restored to radio.
Please God, that won't be necessary. The First Amendment doesn't add any rights to the Constitution (everything within it is implied in the Constitution without it) - but what it does do is to make government action touching the rights of speech and publication, touching the rights of religious practice and freedom, or touching the rights of assembly and political criticism of the government into suspect activities. Just as SCOTUS has held that the government has to avoid the appearance of racial discrimination, it should and, with the retirement of one of the 5 justices who upheld McCain-Feingold probably will, treat any action having the effect of reducing the ability of the people to hear criticism of the Democrat majorities in Congress as presumptively a violation of the Constitution. And all Democrat criticism of Limbaugh - which is plentiful in the record - merely makes the constitutional case against tampering with his ability to broadcast the stronger.Note that it is not merely the right of Rush to speak and broadcast which is the issue - it is the right of the people to (subject to the usual terms that they buy enough Select Comfort mattresses to sustain Rush's "confiscatory advertising rates") listen to him if they wanna which is the central issue. And that means that we the people have standing to sue the FCC the instant it moves to subvert the independence of Rush's stations' ownership. And when we do, we should demand as a remedy that NPR carry Rush's program nationwide - commercials and all!
what about Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney for Vice P.
Democrats have the House and Senate and President and C-Span must not want to tick them off by broadcasting CPAC. They’ll probably run it from 2:30 a.m. to 3:00 tonight and never run it again. Look at the Democratic event they have spent the day on.
Obama just gave it to us on the chin and is preparing to give it to us elsewhere, we are on the ropes at the State level, the press finally admits its in the tank for our opponents, and we are bitching about Rush Limbaugh. LOL
There is some serious fail on this thread.
It certainly isn’t coming from most of our elected Republican officials. I live in California and our Republican governator is further to the left than our former governor, Grey Davis. After his 4 propositions went down because of the media onslaught against them and him he went hard left to win back the press adulation. He even proposed a bill for universal health care that was so expensive that the Democrats in the State Houses who are hot to trot for the coverage told him to pound sand since it was too expensive. Look at his solution. It’s going to drive a stake through the heart of California’s economy. The other elected Republican leaders in the House and Senate aren’t much different. They certainly didn’t govern any differently when they were in power. There are exceptions to the rules but all exceptions are minorities positions by definition.
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