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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>> I know Rush is all about entertainment, but if you listen to him because you think he supports conservative views,
When I listen to Rush, I do so for the entertainment value.
>> He’s not the RNC HQ, for God’s sake.
Yet, it’s the RNC that created the circumstances you want Rush to commit to. Let’s not forget about the Primary battles at FR. It was a retrograde process of elimination that few FRiends were happy about. Was there a candidate that you wanted Rush to endorse? I was hoping for Thompson, Hunter couldn’t launch, the Primaries were a disaster. It became of battle of religion that McCain exploited for the victory.
I would expect the constituency to select the best candidate without endorsements or marching orders for that matter. Maybe my expectations are too high, but I respectfully disagree with your point of view. There was time early 2008 that I was expecting an endorsement from Rush, but in hindsight, I don’t think it would have made a difference - neither would it have affected my vote.
Who isn't a RINO to you people? You wouldn't vote for Jesus if he had a chance to win. Losers have this mysterious attraction to you people. Nobody can figure out what you want, because you don't know what you want.
The who of the pick is irrelevant. If he’d picked according to his stated conservative principles, he’d still have picked, and we’d have had a primary process with a conservative to rally around instead of conservatives short on dough fighting loaded moderates. If at any point a strong conservative organizer had said, hey, let’s choose a straw poll as our final call on this insofar as our conservative is concerned, and then in the primaries we’ll all vote for the top conservative vote-getter, we’d have been far better off, especially if that vote getter had publicly agreed to abide by the vote him/herself.
Well, it would be even better if Rush were a cute female. But since he is what he is, then yeah, I have a man crush.
I saw that and was not at all surprised. Rush is not attempting to appeal to liberals. Almost all the comments from watchers that CNN broadcast were from liberals. Who gives a damn what they think of Rush?
I mean even a fake : “Bush May perhaps in this one issue be wrong” would have reached hundreds of thousands of fence sitters.
It’s probably the next line of attack against Limbaugh by the left to isolate him. Which of Alinsky’s rules is that?
As Gov of Massachusetts, Romney managed to raise taxes on New Hampshire residents.
How Romney is that?
1) Bobby Jindal or Mitt Romney
2) Judd Gregg or Mark Sanford
3) Tim Pawlenty or Charlie Crist
4) Tom McClintock or Meg Whitman
5) Duncan Hunter or Lindsey Graham
It is pretty obvious who the true conservatives are of the two in each example. If you have to think for more than 5 seconds for each example, you may want to check yourself, to see if you too are a RINO.
And they were very upset that CNN carried his address to the nation. They stated “it gave Rush cred” to the American people.
I can’t find any mention of Bush in the speech either, but I remember Rush criticizing Bush’s spending somewhere.
Overall, I liked the speech, but I don’t agree with Rush’s defense of the $1.2M bathroom at Merrill. He said they spent their own money. If that were the case, I would have no problem with parties, bonuses, golden doghouses, whatever. But Merrill went under shortly after that. BofA should have known that they were buying Merrill’s bonuses and bathrooms. And then BofA got TARP money.
And before somebody posts that Paulson forced BofA to take the TARP money, recall that BofA acquired Merrill on Jan. 1 and then asked for $20B more plus 90% of whatever else BofA loses over $10B.
Of course, Obama’s plans are overall much worse than Bush’s. Both are far beyond what I would describe as “irresponsible.” I can’t think of an adjective extreme enough.
George Will once asked Dr. Friedrich Von Hayek, tremendous classical economist, great man, 1975, George Will, Dr. Von Hayek, why is it that intellectuals, supposed smartest people in the room, why is it that intellectuals can look right out their windows, their own homes and cars and look at their universities and not see the bounties and the growth and the greatness of capitalism? And Von Hayek said: I've troubled over this for years and I've finally concluded that for intellectuals, pseudo-intellectuals, and all liberals, it's about control. It's not about raising revenue. You think Obama has any intention of paying for all this spending? Folks, if he had any intention of paying for it, he wouldn't do 90% of it because we don't have the money. 
Rush isn’t wrong.
He is just solidly ineffectual outside the choir.
>> just out of curiosity, what “Republican Resistance”?
The one represented by the 9,000 people that showed up to listen to Rush Limbaugh at CPAC. The one demostrated by the 28,000 weekly attendees and 50,000+ members of my very conservative Baptist church. The one shown by the 47% of the country that voted for lackluster John McCain and brilliant Sarah Palin just to avoid the very mess that we’re in right now.
That Republican resistance.
SnakeDoc
What did you think?
Haven’t had a chance to listen. I’ve been trying to get some files off my ipod that aren’t in my library (old Chris Pirillo shows and some Atom films). I’ll probably listen tonight after I get back from running my airedale.
Well I’m pulling for whoever gets the nomination, except for Lindsey Grahmnesty. I voted for the dem over him last time. I’m glad to see Sanford’s name popping up these days. He’s my governor. I think counting Palin out at this point is just naive. I just hope conservatives have enough sense to vote for someone right of McLame this time.
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