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Limbaugh:Trump Movement Exposes Low Regard Conservative Intellectuals Have For Ordinary Americans
Breitbart.com ^ | September 2, 2015 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 09/02/2015 2:14:36 PM PDT by Biggirl

Wednesday on his radio show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh discussed the backlash within certain conservative circles to the candidacy of GOP front-runner Donald Trump. Limbaugh specifically focused Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens, who unleashed a scathing attack in the Journal earlier this week aimed at Trump and his supporters.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: conservatives; limbaugh; trump
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To: JustaCowgirl
"The American people have discovered there is a nest of snakes under their house, and they’re calling an exterminator immediately. They won’t be asking him for the details of his past political maneuvers, or his planned affiliations, just get rid of the snakes and NOW."

That's a great way of putting it!

(I was thinking along the lines of a battlefield during wartime, where you need a medic to patch you up immediately in order to save your life, and you're not going to ask him if he is a surgeon, or what medical school he graduated from.   If you don't get immediate first aid in that situation, there's a good chance you might not survive to use the services of a more gifted and credentialed surgeon later on down the road. You'll be dead. America needs "first aid", right now, and the usual RINO suspects are not certainly going to provide it, no matter what they promise.)

61 posted on 09/02/2015 3:39:09 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Woe to those who call evil good and good evil!" Isaiah 5:20)
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To: Hot Tabasco

No. Not at all.


62 posted on 09/02/2015 3:40:00 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: Ge0ffrey

I agree and I join you in giving Rush a rest for a while and maybe longer.
I am surprised about how much I don’t miss him.


63 posted on 09/02/2015 3:40:59 PM PDT by Maris Crane (,)
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To: Steve_Seattle

That isn’t chaos.

They aren’t entitled to exposure. And if they were hitting these issues early and hard like Trump, then they could be where he is.

You can have the best conservative resume in the world, but if you cant cut through the GOPe and media smokescreen, then that is there fault.


64 posted on 09/02/2015 3:41:08 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: HiTech RedNeck
"If it takes a Johnny-come-lately to school the right wing in what it ought have been doing all the time, so be it."

You make a good point, and I hope that one long-term effect of the Trump phenomenon will be to embolden REAL conservatives to talk back to the media - to challenge their premises, to challenge their smug superiority - unashamedly and boldly and intelligently.
65 posted on 09/02/2015 3:41:41 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Steve_Seattle

Besides the point. The fact is that neither is Bret Stephens, probably George Will, others who are on Trump’s case, “one of us.”


66 posted on 09/02/2015 3:43:26 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Host of Obama dinner parties, George Will.


67 posted on 09/02/2015 3:43:30 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: VanDeKoik

It goes to show how far to the left the GOP has gone and how tied up they are with corporate lobbyists.

Take the Iran deal. You can bet corporate money is lined up a mile deep for this on the GOPe side.


68 posted on 09/02/2015 3:46:21 PM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: Steve_Seattle
Recent converts (to anything) are usually among the most zealous.
69 posted on 09/02/2015 3:47:02 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Fledermaus
Ok, all you Trump lovers: has he denounced abortion?; Planned Parenthood?; gay marriage?

Has he defended conservative business owners who oppose gay marriage? Has he defended Hobby Lobby's case against Obamacare? Would he conceivably do ANY of those things?
70 posted on 09/02/2015 3:48:05 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

But is Trump really a convert?


71 posted on 09/02/2015 3:49:00 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: miss marmelstein

In Canada, Conservatives are still called “Tories”, and wear the label proudly. Of course, we never had a revolution to break ties with British traditions.


72 posted on 09/02/2015 3:51:26 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Biggirl

I’ve been disappointed with the National Review guys for their snootiness towards the Trump surge. I know Limbaugh is a NR fan. I wonder if he’s said anything about them and their attitudes recently.


73 posted on 09/02/2015 3:51:43 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: BigEdLB

“O’Reilly isn’t as part of any list because he hates everybody.”


LOL I think O’Reilly even hates O’Reilly.


74 posted on 09/02/2015 3:51:48 PM PDT by freedomlover
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To: Steve_Seattle
Has John Kasich? Lindsey Graham? Carly Fiorina? Chris Christie? Jeb Bush? Rick Perry?

I don't give a rats ass about Trump either way. I just like the fact he's whacking the hornet's nest. What has pragmatism done for us?

75 posted on 09/02/2015 3:52:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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To: firebrand

We have 30 million immigrants and a hundred million citizens wanting their lives supported by big government, American values are not as pure as they once were.


76 posted on 09/02/2015 3:53:10 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

Tories mean something very different in the USA although we understand the modern usage.


77 posted on 09/02/2015 3:55:27 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Fledermaus

Actually, most of those people HAVE taken a conservative stand on one or more of those issues.


78 posted on 09/02/2015 3:55:48 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: VanDeKoik
It’s been very eye-opening to see so many on the right behave so callously towards a person that actually is saying the stuff they wanted and fighting back against the press like they hoped would have been done years ago.

Maybe. But Donald Trump hasn't been saying what he's saying now for all those years. There's a legitimate fear that he's somehow going to let conservatives down or leave them holding the bag.

If you feel that the establishment has been doing just that for years, you might want to take the risk and leap into the dark with Trump. If you are actually part of the establishment, you'd probably be less inclined to bet on Donald.

79 posted on 09/02/2015 3:55:51 PM PDT by x
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To: stephenjohnbanker
"Oh man, I stand corrected. Make that 2 people who need their teeth smashed out"

Nudge nudge ;)


80 posted on 09/02/2015 3:56:08 PM PDT by freedomlover
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