Rush: "..Going FReeper on me"

Rush Limbaugh Radio Show ^ | 6-5-02 | Rush Limbaugh

[Matchett-PI]

Around 1:20 PM, judt before he play the latest Paul Shanklin parody entitled, "BAD MOOD ON THE RIGHT", he said, now this is just in fun, and "I don't want anybody "GOING FREEPER" on me".

[Deb]

Bush was responding to a question from a reporter about the NYT article. He didn't "come out" and do anything.

[anniegetyourgun]

Oh, I think there are several here who have put themselves in his shoes. And they've decided they all know better.

[Sabertooth]

Shamu? Isn't that Clinton's new dog's name? :-)

He replaced Willard?

[Spiff]

So, your guys loses, you don't even vote. No wonder there are some Republicans who are not willing to make up for your "non-vote" elsewhere in the electorate. They can't count on yours in November.

I didn't say I wouldn't vote at all. I said I wouldn't vote for that specific office. Would you vote for a RINO who voted against the Partial Birth Abortion Ban all 6 times it came to a vote? There is no excuse that he is even allowed to call himself a Republican. The party should have tossed the pink RINO out on his ass long ago. Yet, you condemn me for not casting my vote for him just because of the (R) next to his name. How dare you!?

[OldFriend]

It seems that Rush's desire for power has over-ridden any sense of patriotism or understanding that we are at war. He thinks it's all about him!

Rush has become a bore and a boor.

[McGavin999]

I pretty much agree with you Miss Marple. I just turn him off now. I get enough Bush bashing on FR I don't have to spend my off time listening to someone who fails to do his homework and just goes with the flow.

[hchutch]

You know, you just proved the point behind my analogy. Robert E. Lee ordered Pickett's Charge because he didn't want to seem timid. Instead, he proved he was capable of being an idiot at times when the stakes were high. He didn't know when to cut his losses at Gettysburg.

And by the way, I did hit the button. The moderators apparently didn't seem to feel as I did. I accepted that fact, and moved on with life. Maybe you ought to learn to do the same thing.

[Howlin]

I thought he did a political show. I must be wrong. Well, I'm glad I don't listen all that much then; I can see that on Animal Kingdom.

[WRhine]

Actually, I will never listen to him again. The George W. Algore thing was the last straw, as well as the morph on his web site

I listen to Rush from time to time and up until recently he has done nothing but carry water for Bush and make excuses for his leftward drift. Even now he takes pains (too much imo) to not go overboard in his criticisms of Bush. So I find it a bit perplexing that you, a fervent (fanatical?) Bush supporter, would go absolutely nuclear on the guy. Can't you accept ANY criticism of Bush? And is this how you treat people that truly support Bush but have a few bones to pick with him?

The more I read posts like yours on FR the more I understand how cults get started and how fascists come to power. You demonstrate well the dangers of Blind Loyalty.

[trevorjohnson]

Great post by Pat!!!

[lasereye]

DESPITE all this, he has managed to get a few things passed and win the confidence of the American people. This is no small thing. His cabinet is stellar, his actions in the war have been spot on, and he has managed to speak out for those things which are most important(right to life, welare reform, military funding, missile defense, anti-Kyoto, etc.)

Don't forget that his judicial appointments which Leahy and Daschle have been tying up have been mainly conservative. The importance of this can't be minimized. It's often been said by conservatives that the courts have had a bigger impact on this country in the last several decades than either the President or Congress. I'm as p.o.'d as anyone about some of his actions, especially the steel tariffs. However, if Bush's only conservative legacy was to leave us with a conservative Supreme Court I would consider his Presidency worthwhile.

I'm convinced that other than a couple of things like abortion and maybe affirmative action, many liberals don't care that much these days what the President does except for his judicial appointments. And on abortion and affirmative action, it's largely the courts that have made all these liberal policies. That's why they could look the other way when Clinton signed welfare reform for instance. They figured he needed to do it to get reelected, so he could keep stocking the judiciary full of liberals. Clinton could have varied from liberal orthodoxy on alot of things and I think most of them would have yawned, as long as his court picks were solidly liberal, which they were.

I'm starting to think that liberals are just smarter than conservatives. Here you have a golden opportunity to create a much more conservative judiciary, and a Supreme Court with a solidly conservative majority for the first time in about 60 or 70 years, and all these idiot conservatives won't vote for a GOP senatorial candidate because they don't like the farm bill. And Bush has still not backed down from other conservative positions, like social security investment accounts and drilling in Alaska. It's either stupidity or they are in some way taking Bush's deviance from conservativism personally. Maybe they've had alot of personal disappointments in life, where someone didn't turn out to be what they hoped, and they view a voting decision like it's a personal thing.

[hchutch]

The fact doesn't change that you'd leave a slot blank. For that race, you might as well have stayed home. It doesn't matter WHAT your intentions are, the result is still the same.

It seems I struck a nerve. The RINOs stayed home or left slots blank or voted elsewhere in the two races you mentioned. Again, I fail to see the difference in the results of between your actions and the actions of folks like Warner and DiFrancesco.

And like it or not, you don't get judge by intentions in anything, you get judged by the results.

[Miss Marple]

I accept criticism. I do not accept personal attacks, on President Bush or on myself. (Hint, hint.)

Rush crossed the line when he launched a personal attack. Until then I pretty much ignored him and felt that everyone was entitled to his own opinion.

Of course, you would know about criticism, wouldn't you, one of the biggest Bush-bashers on the forum. Tell me, can you name one thing that President Bush has done that you like?

[Sabertooth]

And by the way, I did hit the button. The moderators apparently didn't seem to feel as I did. I accepted that fact, and moved on with life. Maybe you ought to learn to do the same thing.

I'm aware that you hit it, I had no doubt that you would and every confidence that the Mods would view your complaining as they did... as a Pickett's charge.

If you want to move on, then don't refer to the thread again, as you did at #201.

[Carolinamom]

Rush has become a bore and a boor.

A-MEN. I heard him plugging his show today on my car radio.....claimed we should tune for "CREDIBLE and entertaining" info. Remembering what an ass he'd made of himself and compounded it by trying to weasle out the next day, I laughed out loud, then turned THAT off too.

[Sunshine Sister]

Just impatient because at the repeated posting of the same words. I saw it once. Why over and over?

[ruoflaw]

you are right on and you know it and so is Marple and Dog and ArneFufkin and all the rest that see through Rush's huge ego and big mouth...We don't need people to tell us how to think! I think President G.W. Bush is doing a good job and I don't feel like I need to control him...besides, he told us when he was running his campaign, that he would be work with both parties and he has tried...now some Freepers act like they never heard him say it...how convenient!

[hchutch]

Please explain exactly where in post 201 I referred to the thread.

And if you can't, I expect a retraction or a correction.

[KantianBurke]

Blind obedience and unconditional tailwaging are traits more often found in dogs or feminist supporters of Bill Clinton. Nice to know you celebrate your inclusion into such a group. Most other people prefer to use whats called "critical thinking."

[truthkeeper]

Furthermore, I remember 1992. Rush mercilessly ridiculed Perot, and tried to persuade people not to waste their time, votes and money on "The Little General."

He certainly did. BTW, that was his BEST imitation. Remember "They're coming to take me away..."