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Steele to Rush: I'm sorry
The Politico ^ | March 2, 2009 | Mike Allen

Posted on 03/02/2009 3:20:29 PM PST by Dan Nunn

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To: beaversmom

Most RINOS and DIMS do.


281 posted on 03/02/2009 5:41:30 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
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To: roses of sharon
Rush did not start this.

I never said he did. I just wanted to point out that all that Republican navel-gazing is bullsh*t.

But, this year.....the “moderate intellectual” Republican writers and pundits repeatedly said that the Republican party must move on from Reagan conservatism.

You use intellectual as if it were a bad word... anyway, the Republican primaries last year were quite telling: There were 7 self-proclaimed "Reagan-Republicans", all selling different programs. Conservatism needs to adress the task at hand and Reagan actually was intellectual enough to realize that. Neither Rush-bashing nor Rush-love-ins nor invocations of Pres. Reagan are sufficient, if they lack substance for the sake of style.

This whole thing is just idle gossip.
282 posted on 03/02/2009 5:41:33 PM PST by wolf78 (Cranky Libertarian - equal opportunity offender)
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To: Dan Nunn

I’m inserting this notice here since it is about talk radio and other media.

The liberal media would have you believe that the gag order against conservative talk has been once and for all lifted.

Nothing could be further from the truth!

The Durbin amendment requires the FCC to “take actions to encourage and promote diversity in communication media ownership.”

Upon closer look, this “stealth” attack on Free Speech Rights is far more insidious because it empowers the government to censor and control the airwaves through backdoor policies that would almost certainly be expanded to include television, newspapers and the Internet!

In other words, the Durbin amendment actually expands the threat beyond Talk Radio to include other stages of free speech!

There is little doubt in my mind that we are headed for a showdown over our Free Speech Rights. Over the next 36 hours, I am urging EVERY member of our MRC Action Team to take fast action by alerting friends and family to the real truth about our Free Speech Rights coming under assault. Urge them to join with you in defending your First Amendment rights by going to the petition here.

Time is short. Through this Durbin Amendment, liberal members of Congress now have a way to muzzle conservative voices in the media, and we believe will waste little time moving forward.

We have to stay on top of this. I don’t know how much it helps but I signed this... Petition here:
http://www.mrcaction.org/517/petition.asp?Ref_ID=2222&PID=18778082


283 posted on 03/02/2009 5:47:47 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)
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To: Dan Nunn

Before I even read one other response, I, for one, do NOT forgive.

First, Rush speaks at CPAC. He does a wonderful job, gives great joy and hope to the base, gets the attention of the Lamestream media...

...and the CHAIR OF THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE calls him an “entertainer”, “ugly”, and “incendiary”...the FREAKING DAY AFTER!!

Talk about raining on our parade.

I hope Steele did not sleep a wink last night. I hope he tosses and turns and asks God why on earth he said such a thing. I hope he suffers the fleas of a thousand camels in his armpits for giving such a knee-jerk answer to a dumbass liberal not worth anyone’s time or breath.

The libs love to throw around Rush’s comment about wanting Obama to fail because they like the sound byte. Rush has explained this beautifully time and again. Sean Hannity had a rash of sound bytes by liberals all saying they wanted Bush to fail.

But instead of Steele coming back with a response like...”didn’t the Dems want Bush to lose in Iraq” or use an example about wanting the team you DON’T root for to win, Steele does the GOP thing, the perfectly suntanned, all head hairs in their appointed places, polished nails, DC cocktail party thing and responds by calling Rush a name, using the LIBS own damn talking point about Rush being an entertainer. But he doesn’t stop there, Mr. Foot in Mouth, damn the ignorant base, your mussing my head hairs and the cocktail party invitations may dwindle....no he goes on to call Rush “ugly”. Incindiery I could live with maybe but UGLY?

I will be mad for a long time.

The pubs with their suntans, their head hairs that never budge from their appointed places, their polished nails, their friends across the aisle, their need to be loved....they are alive and every damn one of them arerepresented by Michael Steele.

I am ashamed I am from Merryland.

What a disappointment.


284 posted on 03/02/2009 5:50:32 PM PST by Fishtalk (The Messiah's Secret Plan to Stimulate Economy: Make Democrats Pay Their Taxes!)
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To: jennyjenny

Jenny, I respect that, but I think a lot of us are very angry that the GOP has been run into the ground by RINOs without any respect for core conservative values. Heck, our PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE for 2008 was the biggest RINO of all! We LOST because of the RINOs!

We should be talking about these issues. It’s a shame that we can’t do it in a friendly way amongst ourselves. But the RINOs in power don’t want the discussion at all. They just want to kiss Dim butt as long as they get a place at the trough. Rush upsets the apple cart on this cozy arrangement, that’s part of why he has such a large following.

Bottom line, and it is a sad one: We can’t have unity yet because we have some SERIOUS questions to settle on where the Republican party really is. Conservative? Dim Lite? These are questions that need to be answered. And it’s a power struggle. Power does not concede gently, so wear a hardhat.


285 posted on 03/02/2009 5:57:21 PM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: ari-freedom

Steele has been a RINO ever since he came down on the wrong side of gun control and capital punishment, although he would have been a better senator than that bozo Cardin.


286 posted on 03/02/2009 5:57:40 PM PST by imjimbo (The constitution SHOULD be our "gun permit")
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To: Jeff Chandler
That's the truth. Sarah Palin was badly handled by the McCain campaign. I think we only saw a few flashes of the real Sarah, the rest was a set up by the media with the willing complicity of McCain. I do not know if she can ever serve at the national level given the horrific treatment of the press, but time will tell. I'm praying for a true conservative to lead us!
287 posted on 03/02/2009 6:00:17 PM PST by pepperdog (The world has gone crazy.)
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To: SkipW
It is interesting that he made his criticism of Rush on the D.L. Hughley show.

I am willing to give MS another chance. Some mentioned that Limbaugh is trying to educate MS. But the thought did go through my mind that just like Wall Street is not Obamas audience, conservatives are not Steels audience.
288 posted on 03/02/2009 6:00:59 PM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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To: Twink

Follow-up to earlier ping...


289 posted on 03/02/2009 6:08:26 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Praise and worship" is my alternate lifestyle.)
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To: beaversmom
>He talks out of both sides of his mouth.

Gemini -- "the twins." June 2, 1955.

290 posted on 03/02/2009 6:10:39 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Praise and worship" is my alternate lifestyle.)
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To: VictoryGal
I absolutely agree with everything you're saying. We do need to discuss it and right now! I hope I didn't come off as being unfriendly. I am frustrated too! But, I also recognize the media tactics of the left and the fact they are making such a big deal over Rush right now and the “infighting” makes me want to at least sleep on it for night before throwing Steele to wolves. They want us to fight and they want us to do it publicly, and we are.

There are a lot of independents that voted for Obama that I'm guessing have big time buyers’ remorse right now. If not now, they will very soon. We all know how he ran during the general election. Nothing more than a strategy. He governs....well, we see how he's doing that. That is not how he got those independent voters. Steele seems to be taking their strategy to just get enough votes to win. He's using their playbook. That's not our style.

I just want the guy to be clear so I know what he “really” means when he speaks. If he was principled, this shouldn't be a problem. The fact that it's not clear gives me great concern.

291 posted on 03/02/2009 6:11:42 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: VictoryGal
where the Republican party really is

Our Republican “Leadership” lacks the political fortitude to oppose Obama and call him what he is; a Marxist. What they don’t understand is their political future depends on this very thing.

292 posted on 03/02/2009 6:13:13 PM PST by topfile
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To: Dan Nunn

The RNC has been so entertaining lately that I wouldn’t pay them five cents to drop dead.


293 posted on 03/02/2009 6:18:31 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (The inmates are now officially running the asylum.)
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To: Mamzelle
THEY'RE NEVER GOING TO LIKE US. PLEASE, ACCEPT THIS FACT.

That was one of the salient points of LImbaugh's speech at CPAC:
"We are what is. The people who want control regard us as the enemy."

294 posted on 03/02/2009 6:20:17 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Praise and worship" is my alternate lifestyle.)
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To: jennyjenny
It's not if you fumble, it's when you fumble. Steele blew it and yes he got carried away with the homies. He is now an embarrassment and needs to exit stage left.
295 posted on 03/02/2009 6:21:59 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Liquidity is a state of mind.)
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To: wolf78
It was the Republican “intellectuals” who spent the entire campaign of 08 navel gazing....bemoaning the fact that their lessors (Palin and Joe the Plumber) dared to speak their minds.

Some even went as far as to vote for Hussein, and encourage others to do so also, claiming their hand was forced because the Republicans had white trash on the ticket, and at the rallies.

Everyday in the papers or on TV, was a “Republican” saying our party must give up on the old fashioned ideas of Reagan, and move towards the middle, and give the people what they want.

Any so-called “love-in” for Rush is simply saying no to those who want to usher in a new Europe, a new sophistication, a new coolness.

296 posted on 03/02/2009 6:22:22 PM PST by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: Dan Nunn
If Steele doesn't understand the very basic "divide and conquer" strategery of the Dims, there's diminished hope for the kind of leadership we need in the RNC.

Leni

297 posted on 03/02/2009 6:22:33 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: weef
Make sure you tape that letter to a brick. The USPS will charge appropriately.
298 posted on 03/02/2009 6:23:48 PM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Liquidity is a state of mind.)
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To: beaversmom

I agree. I want to see ALL Republicans laugh at those stupid nazi comments, and call them exactly what they are and why! They are projection, from start to finish. The first Republican who calls them that, and laughs, has donations coming from me! I am sick of them playing all nicey nice with these vicious hateful people.


299 posted on 03/02/2009 6:27:05 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: Dan Nunn; mnehrling

It is racist to call whites nazis but the left has been doing it for years. Blacks like Hugley are allowed to spew racism and they are militant about it. It’s a hard road that black conservatives have to hoe but this anti-white racism must stop. It’s apparent that a group has to be formed with financial backing and grassroots support to specifically combat anti-white racism without being racist towards another other group. It is imperative now.


300 posted on 03/02/2009 6:28:04 PM PST by TheThinker (Shame and guilt mongering is the Left's favorite tool of control.)
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