Rush said he did it because compared to Juan McCain he is conservative. I remember him passionately telling people to vote for Romney. So even if Romney does win at least (according to Rush) he won’t be as bad as McCain. Possibly a lessor of two evils deal, but Rush was pretty passionate about saying Romney was the true conservative.
Here's what Limbaugh said in February 08. “I think now, based on the way the campaign has shaken out, that there probably is a candidate on our side who does embody all three legs of the conservative stool, and that’s Romney,” Rush Limbaugh told his huge audience. “The three legs of the stool are national security/foreign policy, the social conservatives, and the fiscal conservatives.”
Laura Ingraham introduced Romney at CPAC as a “true conservative” and “a conservative’s conservative.”
Can someone name a major issue Romeny moved to the center on in the last four years? That's why I get mental whiplash when I listen to the jawbone media.
Maybe your whiplash is actually caused by Mitt's flips. He was never a conservative, only played one on TV. He was perhaps slightly less liberal than McCain, which would make him the more conservative of the two - but that isn't much to crow about.
It's kinda like me saying I'm prettier than Helen Thomas. I am, but that doesn't make me pretty.
He hasn’t moved to the center. He’s always been on the left. He just tried harder to hide it in 2008. If you don’t know, here goes.
He is not a social conservative by any stretch of the imagination. Social conservatives do not support the pro gay agenda. Romney is pro gay. He is the father of gay marriage in the US, he supported ENDA, he was pro gays in the military and was even booed for that position in the 2008 election. He is the father of Obamacare with his own Romneycare.
We are very familiar with Romney on this website. Four years ago Mitts team of liars were all over this site telling one lie after another in an attempt to convince conservatives that he was one of us. Just like today, he and his mittbot minions failed.
He calls himself a conservative businessman. I believe that may be the truth. He believes in conserving his own money, for his own purposes, but he is not a fiscal conservative because he has no problem spending other people’s money. He has no problem forcing people into accepting govt. mandates such as those in Romneycare. He has no problem raising taxes by calling them fees and collecting more taxpayer money to feed an expanding govt.
We know Romney here and he is not conservative.
Go back and listen to or read the ENTIRE segment referred to here, where Rush very carefully said that Romney "embodied" -- "probably embodied," if I remember correctly, the three legs of the stool. Furthermore, Romney was only mentioned in passing, a very small part, of that discusion from Rush. WORDS MEAN THINGS, and Rush tiptoed around anything close to an endorsement, though Romney's suporters flat-out LIED and said otherwise. The only time I've ever heard Rush praise Romney was for his Religion in America speech. Rush has NEVER, that I've heard, praised Romney's politics and on the contrary, during the '08 primaries, he played clips of Romney and followed up with, "Folks, this is not conservatism." He also said after the first primary debate that included Fred Thompson: "Folks, there was only one conservative on the stage last night, and that conservative was Fred Thompson."
Seeing as how Romney was also on that stage, it's pretty clear to me that Rush thinks pretty lowly of Romney's politics.