To: Finny
>>It's ironic, because indeed, the Romney fans engage in lying ("Rush Limbaugh supported Romney!")
Who did Rush Limbaugh endorse Feb. 5th, 2008?
Who did Rush vote for in the booth in FL in the primaries? (it wasn't McCain or Huck)
Who did Rush Limbaugh call Reaganesque on his show? (Hint it had something to do with a "Faith in America" speech)
RUSH: 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. The three stools or the three legs of the stool are national security/foreign policy, the social conservatives, and the fiscal conservatives. The social conservatives are the cultural people. The fiscal conservatives are the economic crowd: low taxes, smaller government, get out of the way.
205 posted on Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:15:02 AM by Rameumptom (Gen X= they killed 1 in 4 of us)
Rameumptom, two posts later, I asked:
Is there some other evidence that Rush officially "endorsed" Romney? Because if you are going to take that quote and call it an "endorsement," then I ain't buying it, and maintain that you are a liar if that's all you've got in the way of claiming that Rush "endorsed" Romney.
My guess is that Rush no more endorsed Romney than he endorsed Thompson -- RUSH NEVER OFFICIALLY ENDORSED THOMPSON or any other candidate, and I have never claimed he did. I've said that it's as close to an endorsement as I've ever heard, the high, direct praise of Thompson when Rush described him as the ONLY conservative on the stage of the primary debate....
And again, I'd sure like to see the direct transcript or quote in which Rush states that he actually voted for Romney "in the booth in FL in the primaries," as you say Rush did vote. Or that he gave a real live bona-fide endorsement to on Feb. 5th. ...
--------------------------- A little later, I found a post on another thread by FReeper Ingtar where he wrote to another Romney LIAR:
I’m sorry you think that Limbaugh supported Romney. He did no such thing. In the very show that many Romney supporters pull what they think is his support of Romney, Rush plays clips of Romney’s answers and proclaims: “This is not Conservative.”
HELLO? ANYBODY THERE? In case you forgotten, Rameuptom, you NEVER REPLIED. I think I know why: BECAUSE YOU WERE LYING. You wrote and stated as fact that Rush "endorsed" Romney; you very sneakily said as fact that he "voted for Romney in the booth" in the Florida Primaries" without actually saying it by posing it as a question; you took lukewarm praise from Rush (the "Reaganesque" thing had nothing to do with praising Romney's politics; it was praise for an eloquent speech about religion in America) and twisted it into a LIE saying that therefore: Rush endorsed and voted for Romney!
Now, maybe my memory is faulty, but I don't recall Thompson supporters falsley claiming that Rush "endorsed" or "supported" Thompson even after he stated on his show unequivocally: My friends, there was only one conservative on the stage last night, and that candidate was Fred Thompson. Any Thompson supporter who then turned around and claimed as FACT that Rush "endorsed" or "supported" Thompson would have been LYING, and even though I was a total Thompson supporter, I would have called them on it, and rightly.
You Romney people have a lot of nerve accusing we Romney Stompers of lying when YOU HAVE OUTRIGHT LIED dozens, hudreds of times, when you post as fact that Rush "endorsed" Romney and voted for him in the primaries, and I will maintain that until you can show me a transcript in which Rush states clearly otherwise. I've see one of you Romney supporters post as FACT that Mark Levin "supported" Romney. Maybe it's true, maybe it's not, but I know you ALREADY LIE about Rush, so I figure you're probably also lying about Mark Levin, especially since I heard him with my own ears refer to Thompson as "my guy" on one of his radio show during the rare, lucky times I got to listen.
Probably the most insulting of all is how many of you Romney people attribute to "hatred" and religious bigotry against the LDS my and others objections to Romney's RECORD of big-governement politics and repeated betrayal of conservative principles. You are just like Obama supporters who cry "racist!" at every criticism of Obama's politics. You people epitomize all of the reasons true, thinking Republicans should be on the warpath against Romney and do everything we can to stomp him out like a cockroach NOW.
YOU ROMNEY PEOPLE HAVE A POSTED RECORD OF LYING about who supported and endorsed Romney. If Romney's horrible record wasn't enough (and it's plenty), the behavior of his supporters on this board would be enough for me to work diligently to see he never gets close to Republican political office EVER.
I hope you are a gazillionaire, would take that for you to make a difference. redgirlinabluestate posted the video from F&F below, and the cavuto interview, and vetnav made it up! Heard what he wanted to hear, that liberal disease that some conservatives have too.
COMPETENT conservatism. Learn it -- live it.
What a rant! BTW, I supported Hunter though I also liked Thompson. This doesn’t prevent me from recognizing the crude lies and slander direct at Romney.
Endorsement is the wrong word. After Thompson was gone, Rush was pushing Romney over the remaining candidates.
And Rush did call Romney a conservative.
Of course, Rush Limbaugh is just a guy, and if he had spent all of 2007 and 2008 calling Romney conservative, it wouldn’t prove anything.
But to call someone a liar because they used the word “endorsement” when it was simply “support” is typical of the harsh treatment the anti-Romney people have employed on FR.