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Cantor Rejects Rush Limbaugh Rhetoric
ABC News ^ | 03/01/09

Posted on 03/01/2009 11:30:09 AM PST by cc2k

During our exclusive interview on "This Week," Republican Whip Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., rejected comments made by Rush Limbaugh at the CPAC conference.

<Snip> Limbaugh said Saturday to the conservative conference, "What is so strange about being honest and saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundations?"

Cantor today rejected Limbaugh's rhetoric.

"So the Rush Limbaugh approach of hoping the president fails is not the Eric Cantor, House Republican approach?" I asked.

"Absolutely not," Cantor said. "And I don't -- I don't think anyone wants anything to fail right now. We have such challenges. What we need to do is we need to put forth solutions to the problems that real families are facing today."

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: 111th; cpac; ericcantor; rino; rush
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From "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos this morning.

Related thread with video here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196746/posts

1 posted on 03/01/2009 11:30:10 AM PST by cc2k
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To: cc2k

Go Rush, down with any GOP fool in Congress who sides with Obama in any form or fashion.


2 posted on 03/01/2009 11:31:36 AM PST by WildWeasel
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To: cc2k

Kiss your aspirations goodbye, Mr. Cantor.


3 posted on 03/01/2009 11:32:10 AM PST by kittymyrib
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To: cc2k

And George ‘Clinton-Obama’ Stupid-nopolis was really happy, wasn’t he?

I wonder what Cantor thought he was doing. Sounds like he needs a session at the wood shed. Call Monday ?


4 posted on 03/01/2009 11:32:50 AM PST by Tarpon (It's a common fact, one can't be liberal and rational at the same time.)
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To: cc2k

Cantor just lost me; and to think that I formerly believed that he has the Right Stuff.


5 posted on 03/01/2009 11:33:11 AM PST by Salvey
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To: cc2k

Cantor has to stand for election and as such cannot be advocating failure. Limbaugh gets to sit on the sidelines and say whatever he wants (as he should).

Is it that hard for people to recognize the distinction?


6 posted on 03/01/2009 11:33:16 AM PST by misterrob (FUBO----Just say it, Foooooooooooooo Boooooooowwwwww. Smooth)
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To: cc2k

My guess is that this is a communication snafu. I doubt he truly understands what Rush ACTUALLY said with regard to this.


7 posted on 03/01/2009 11:33:34 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified DeCartes))
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To: cc2k

“ROS Rejects Cantor’s Kissing MSM Arse.”


8 posted on 03/01/2009 11:34:16 AM PST by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: kittymyrib

There is much that Cantor has to learn—and lessons on how to shut-up and smile are on the list. Rush is the only thing happening to incite any enthusiasm on the right.


9 posted on 03/01/2009 11:34:39 AM PST by MHT
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I don't think anyone wants anything to fail right now.

Using Georgie's method to parse Cantor's statement, Cantor is admitting that he wants Bari to be successful in his drive to turn America into a Marxist/Socialist nanny state.

10 posted on 03/01/2009 11:34:50 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Just being a "U.S. citizen" does not make one an American.)
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To: Salvey

He’s supposed to oppose the President and the Dems on policy issues. He’s not supposed to be out there cheering for the President to fail. It makes for bad politics. or do people forget how much the dems’ behavior cost our guys on the battlefield?


11 posted on 03/01/2009 11:34:52 AM PST by misterrob (FUBO----Just say it, Foooooooooooooo Boooooooowwwwww. Smooth)
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To: cc2k

Flush Cantor.


12 posted on 03/01/2009 11:35:14 AM PST by noblejones (<deprecate>Ben Stein 2008.</deprecate> Sarah 2012, 2016, 2020.)
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To: cc2k
I guess Mr. Cantor wants Obama to succeed in making us all dependent wards of the Obama welfare state.

This was specifically what Rush was warning about in part of his "first address to the nation" last night.

These Republicans, for the most part, they don't get it at all.

13 posted on 03/01/2009 11:35:22 AM PST by cc2k (When less than half the voters pay taxes, it's called "taxation without representation.")
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To: misterrob

“Is it that hard for people to recognize the distinction?”

He did NOT repudiate Limbaugh or attack Limbaugh.

He gave a weak response/dodged the issue, but it wasn’t like he condemned Limbaugh or anything.


14 posted on 03/01/2009 11:36:04 AM PST by GOPGuide
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To: misterrob

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Cantor has to stand for election and as such cannot be advocating failure. Limbaugh gets to sit on the sidelines and say whatever he wants (as he should).

Is it that hard for people to recognize the distinction?
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Let him run as a democrat, then.


15 posted on 03/01/2009 11:36:30 AM PST by noblejones (<deprecate>Ben Stein 2008.</deprecate> Sarah 2012, 2016, 2020.)
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To: cc2k

Eric Cantor’s head on the stick. Time to end his political career if he is that stupid IMO.


16 posted on 03/01/2009 11:36:37 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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17 posted on 03/01/2009 11:36:58 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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It just gets easier to see why we squandered the last eight years. These jack asses have to be removed from office before we can move forward. Perhaps they can be caught in the same ill wind that is blowing for the rest of the liberals.


18 posted on 03/01/2009 11:37:24 AM PST by Steamburg ( Your wallet speaks the only language most politicians understand.)
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To: SumProVita
“My guess is that this is a communication snafu. I doubt he truly understands what Rush ACTUALLY said with regard to this.”

A setup by the MSM. It doesn't appear that Cantor was quick enough and smart enough to see through it and challenge the premise.
19 posted on 03/01/2009 11:37:28 AM PST by marktwain
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To: cc2k

Over the past two weeks, Fox has had Cantor on as a spokesperson.

I was not impressed. He is not what I would vote for. He was an apologist, nothing more.

Argh, the GOP is dead to conservatives. Do we get it yet?

THEY are forever losers without us. Now what does that tell us?


20 posted on 03/01/2009 11:37:33 AM PST by dforest
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