I still can't stop laughing.......ROFLMAO!
Posted on 02/08/2012 12:20:41 PM PST by Lazlo in PA
Rush Limbaugh mocked the Republican establishment on his radio show Wednesday for being “shocked” by Rick Santorum’s three-state win, saying, “I can’t believe how insulated they are.”
“They’re literally shocked. The Republican establishment had no idea this was percolating out there. I can’t believe how insulated they are,” Limbaugh said. “To look at the reaction they’re having today, to see how shocked they are that Rick Santorum has come out of what they thought was an impossible position equivalent to nowhere, is an incredible thing.”
The “drive-bys” – a term that Limbaugh has coined for the media – have been crediting the conservative radio talker for Santorum’s trifecta victory Tuesday by spreading around the notion that “the Republican base is a bunch of mind-numbed robots sitting out there waiting for marching orders from me,” the conservative radio show host said.
“First it was Newt, now it’s Santorum. It can’t be the candidates. It can’t be that Santorum’s connecting with voters. It can’t be that, no, no, it can’t be that Santorum’s resonating with Republican voters, the conservative base. It can’t be that the conservative base just isn’t happy with Romney. It can’t be any of that. No, no, no,” he said, according to a transcript of the show.
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It’s great that conservatives think Rick is electable. The problem is conservatives are only about 40% of the electorate. How is a guy who has no name recognition and no base of support going to get enough indy’s to fill the gap?
Rove is eating his way into the Chris Christie fat slob of the year award; he only needs another 80 pounds and those two will top 600, they can play O-line for the NJ giants.
FU GOP establishment!
Newt has +90% name recognition and +60% negative approvals. people know who he is and they don't like him. He has no room to grow. Rick has the highest approvals of our candidates except for Paul. He has great upside potential.
He's going to be in for a barrage of crap from the Romney campaign. It will be interesting to see how he handles it. Newt couldn't take it. I hope Santorum does better. We'll see.
Just don't write him off yet...he's just getting noticed by a lot of people.
Rick does have name recognition. As a matter of fact, he polls way better than all the other candidates with so called Independents and women. He has a Conservative message tailor made for swing states and the rust belt. He has the highest polling ceiling out of all the candidates, the only one to break 50% (55% to be exact). By all accounts, he converts people to vote for him when they go to hear him speak. You may not like him, but fortunately a larger number of people are taking the time to listen to his message and are convinced he is the one to beat Obummer in Nov.
I'd feel even better if Santorum hadn't endorsed Mitt Romney in 2008, calling him "A True Conservative"
So much for Rick's political integrity.
The only genuine conservative in the race is Newt Gingrich.
Go Newt!
So up yours very much.
that’s why I always believed that the GOP establishment would happily join the Democrats in bringing back the Fairness Doctrine if they saw their opportunity
I knew about SENATOR Toomey, and I’m in Florida....
I admit to being very happy today too! I hope other states will do conservatism as well as these and bring us nominee santorum.
If I had a santorum vest I’d wear it today. Nice warm day in SoCal; you wouldn’t need a shirt under it.
That's the response of a real idiot, pretty much what one expects from your ilk. Spectre's guarantee allowed the Alito nomination to move forward.
Because you are plugged into FR. Most Pennsylvanians are not. If you were in PA, you would have also known that Spector was a huge fixture in this state. He had a constituent services operation here. If you called his office with a grip, you got immediate action. It made a lot of Rats here love him and vote for him. If you were in PA you would also know all the work Pat did after the ‘04 election to build the support necessary, state wide, to make Spector switch parties. He was on all the local right wing talk stations in the state selling his message once a week while working at the CFG. There was no way a two term congressman from the 15th was going to match a seasoned player like Spector that year.
I learned a long time ago the key factor in the making of a traitor is the idea he’s smarter than everybody else. That allows him to convince himself his betrayal is for the good of his own side.
Frankly, any dependence on Specter was a sucker’s bet. That such a bet paid off, though I defy anyone to prove we couldn’t have gotten better without him, doesn’t make it any better.
I apologize for my last response...I don't think you're an idiot, and I was not happy with Santorum's endorsement of Spectre but he was asked to do it by the sitting President of the US and the payoff, for lack of a better word, was Spectre's promise not to oppose Bush's judicial nominees.
I don't think, by any stretch of the imagination, that Santorum is perfect but I DO believe that he is our best candidate and, as Rush said today, the last conservative standing.
I didn’t accuse you of anything. I was pointing out that the issue you brought up about about Santorum (being out of political office the past 6 years) is just as true about the other 2 frontrunners, if not more so. There’s not a penny’s worth of difference between them in that regard.
Time will tell won't it?
Fair enough, you've dropped your load so I suspect you won't be stopping by these Rush threads anymore. Thank you for your input.......
I still can't stop laughing.......ROFLMAO!
It's too bad Rick Perry can't talk in public. Governors are usually each party's strongest presidential bench.
I may have to look into that. Thanks! Sounds like I missed a good one today.
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