Posted on 02/13/2012 7:00:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A strong case could be made that Rick Santorum owes much of the credit for his recent surge to Rush Limbaugh -- whether Rush wants that credit or not. Events of this past week seem to indicate that Senator Santorum would concur. In the past few days his campaign has wisely exploited some of Rush's words and they are proudly featuring them everywhere.
The implication -- if not the explicit language -- is that Rush prefers Santorum to either Newt or Mitt.
And beyond doubt, there are a couple of show segments which could fairly be interpreted just that way. And it may be true for all I know.
Which begs the question, if Rush is not endorsing Santorum, will he sit by and allow Santorum to use snippets of his show to lend that impression? It also begs the question about how thoroughly Rush has checked Santorum out -- given the unusual disparity between the reality of Santorum and what Rush has said about the former Senator.
I submit that upon further review, Rush might not really want ownership of this fast rolling train.
Now to be clear, Rush has not overtly endorsed Santorum or anyone and has expressly said many times that he will not do so. A review of his show will verify that he has had various segments that were friendly to Newt Gingrich and at times to Mitt Romney as well as his positivity for Santorum. Meanwhile, Rush has been -- consistent with Limbaugh doctrine of many years -- critical of both Newt and Mitt on numerous occasions. In fact he has criticized Mitt's moderate moments for many months.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If Santorum wins it, Rush will take full credit. If he doesn’t, Rush will say he never endorsed anyone.
Limbaugh may be popular among Freepers, he probably isn’t listened to by all that many folks who were thinking of voting for Romney but switched to Santorum instead.
I’ll take the credit for it.
Anyone else hear Rush say “Darwin’s full of crap” on Friday?
I didn’t think he’d venture there.
Santorum was always on my short list of candidates after Bachmann and Cain.
In a sense, nobody deserves credit more than those who went down the line and accused every other candidate of secretly working for Romney. LOL
For those who don’t bother to read the story, the gist is that Rush will have buyer’s remorse big time once he realizes how far from being a true conservative Santorum is and how off putting Santorum will come across to the nation at large.
RE: Anyone else hear Rush say “Darwin’s full of crap” on Friday?
What does a man who has been dead for over a hundred years got to do with this?
Then what are we waiting for? Lets get it on!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjfrexe61XI
Oh, goodie! More fodder for Rush’s “I don’t really like to talk about myself while spending hours talking about people talking about me” segments.
Silly article. Santorum cut out of Florida 2 days before its primary and skipped Nevada. He blanketed those three states a week before Mitt even arrived. It was a big gamble and it paid off. To pawn it off on what Limbauh said is unfair to Santorum and his staff for a brilliant tactic. Whether he can keep it going is another matter. I can see Rick fading and Newt making a comeback soon. that is the nature of this campaign and a LIKE it. Let them all slug it out and prove their mettle, rather than 2008 where the despicable McCain was chosen by party and media and shoved down our throats.
When Cain got his fingers caught where they should not have been, it left me with no one I cared to vote for.
I would have had Rep. Allen West from the start.
We know Romney is just a step below the Marxist we have now.
Newt has a freight train of baggage 0 can drop 1 by 1 on the public.
It dose not take a rocket scientist to know 0 has a huge FBI file on each candidate, even if it is illegal.
Never looked at Santorum, he was so far behind.
I thought you might find this interesting.
These GOP elitists HATE Limbaugh. Hate him worse than any democrat.
hahahahaha!
You have to be joshing. Rush has a huge audience most of whom have never heard of Free Republic.
Perhaps it wouldn’t be so silly if you would open your mind to the notion that perhaps Santorum’s strategy was brilliant AND that Rush’s nudge was a big factor. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Besides, the idea that Rush might have to do a mea culpa is far more interesting of an article than talking about Santorum’s strategy, though both may be totally valid points.
I don’t listen regularly; there’s diminishing returns for the time and attention brought to it.
Santorum was the last anti-romney panic door in the building, and his strategy and timing converged with the three winning states.
He’ll make an excellent vice-president, if the ticket wins...and that’s a tremendous IF. :(
He owes the surge to Bella being in the hospital. Sympathy vote, ... Period.
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