The GOP Moderate “Modernizers” Prop Up McCain, Hate Mitt Romney
Here’s another example of why Rush Limbaugh is the undisputed King Of Talk Radio. Rush has the platform to say to 20,000,000 people what we conservatives talk about with friends and family.
~~John Cronin~~
Rush Limbaugh.Com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955389/posts
This is Disa in Redmond, Oregon, I’m glad you waited. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi. I’m glad to be on. Hey, I am livid over that comment I just heard that guy say. First of all, Romney is a sincere guy, and, you know, the media hates him, and that is clear. It is a miracle he is doing as good as he’s doing right now. I have heard over and over again, “He didn’t win Iowa, he’s out. He didn’t win New Hampshire, he’s out.” It is a miracle. He has gotten first and second in everything. It is a miracle he’s doing what he does with them against him like that. Okay, he can turn things around. He is one of the sharpest guys I’ve ever known. This man can analyze — he goes to a company, what does he do? He analyzes it, he says, “Okay, what’s going wrong, why isn’t this company working?” He sees what’s wrong. He cuts the waste and he increases productivity. Okay, this guy is amazing. If this guy wins the Republican nomination, he’ll take us to the White House, and no one else will, because, you know what, McCain is not a conservative. Huckabee, he should be a vice presidential candidate for the Democrats, okay? He’s a nice guy, but he is a liberal, okay, they can get some of the religious vote if they take him as a vice presidential candidate. I’m sorry. Am I getting too excited?
RUSH: No. I love women who are excited, especially when they’re talking to me.
Below is an example of Rush cutting through the liberal fog to call them out on their attempts to manipulate this election.
CALLER: — the real thing is, I like him.
RUSH: Disa.
CALLER: Yes. Sorry.
RUSH: No, no, no, no, no. Don’t apologize. Your instincts here are exactly right. I want to go further. I want to tell you what this is really all about to help your blood pressure levels. The media, in propping up Huckabee and McCain, I don’t care if they’re Republicans or Democrat Drive-Bys, they’re trying to destroy the conservative movement. This is why they are salivating over the possibility that Huckabee might have gotten the nomination. They think they could take out two of their biggest enemies in one election, conservative Christians and the evangelical vote, and they would love that. I’ve had a number of these Drive-Bys confirm that to me. Same thing with McCain. They just despise conservatives, period. They despise conservative leaders, people that have a chance to lead and govern with conservative policies, because the big target of conservatives is Big Government, and that’s God to these people! We’re going after their savior. Liberalism, if you look at it like a religion, God is their temple, abortion is their sacrament. And conservatives go after both of those things. And they’ve got to be destroyed. So, of course, they’re going to prop up a guy like McCain. Of course, McCain’s gone out and tried to make the Drive-By Media his base, not Republican voters. It’s no surprise to me McCain didn’t win Michigan. Republicans aren’t going to vote for him. The two primaries where he came close and won, independents and Democrats are voting.
January 18th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I think most of we Romney supporters are livid with the media at this point. They give Romney no credit. They belittle his wins as flukes and they say he is all finished over and over again. Never do they state that he is ahead in electoral votes and/or popular votes. Rush is one of the very few to tell the truth. Thank goodness he is willing to stick his neck out along with a very few others.
God Bless Rush Limbaugh
January 18th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Just heard an interesting viewpoint on NPR tonight. Some of McCain’s supporters are touting that he is the only one with military experience, and therefore the only one qualified to lead us in our war on terror.
I am proud of our military leaders and our brave soldiers, those still in uniform, who have done a tremendous job conducting the military portion of the war on terror. They have kept us safe and secure. And though I don’t disagree that McCain is emminently qualified to pick and win fights, that’s not the only thing we need in a president at this time.
The war on terror needs not only a strong military mindset, but also a strong diplomatic mindset. Our next president needs the people skills to renew and build strong alliances, to work with the democracies, governments and leaders of the free world to develop and implement new and creative solutions for the terrorist threat. So here’s some straight talk: McCain doesn’t have this critical skill. There are 99 oither senators that will vouch for this. Belligerence is not statesmanship.
So though he is strong in some areas, McCain and his short fuse are wrong for the broad spectrum of challenges we face.
Don’t shed a tear for yesterday, don’t lament and bemoan with pessimism what was and will never be again. Let’s look forward to tomorrow. Governor Romney has the people skills, the managerial skills, the economic skills and the vision to see us to a safer and brighter future at home and abroad. And he won’t do it alone. We’ll all play our part and he’ll enlist others around the world to join our cause.
January 18th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Did you see these comments from Ross Perot - Very Interesting
http://www.newsweek.com/id/94827
When Ross Perot Calls…
The former presidential candidate blasts John McCain, and gets an education about Barack Obama’s religion.
By Jonathan Alter
Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 9:25 PM ET Jan 16, 2008
The phone rang and it was Ross Perot, who hasn’t given an interview in years. Perot, who won 19 percent of the vote in the 1992 presidential election, making him one of the strongest third-party candidates in American history, got straight to the point.
“Remember what you wrote about John McCain in the March 13, 2000, NEWSWEEK?”
“Sure,” I lied.
“When McCain called Perot ‘nuttier than a fruitcake’?”
The Texas billionaire, now 77, still has some scores to settle from the Vietnam era, and his timing is exquisite. Just days before the South Carolina GOP primary, he wants me to know that McCain “is the classic opportunist–he’s always reaching for attention and glory. Other POWs won’t even sit at the same table with him.”
Mark Salter, McCain’s longtime top aide, says the Arizona senator has plenty of veteran support and many close friendships among other former POWs.
The Perot-McCain relationship goes back to McCain’s five and a half years of captivity in Hanoi. When McCain’s then-wife Carol was in a serious car accident, McCain’s mother called Perot for help. “She asked me to send my people to Philadelphia to take care of the family,” Perot says. Afterwards, McCain was grateful. “We loved him [Perot] for it,” McCain told me in 2000.
Perot doesn’t remember it that way. “After he came home, he walked with a limp, she [Carol McCain] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona [Cindy McCain, his current wife] and the rest is history.”
Perot’s real problem with McCain is that he believes the senator hushed up evidence that live POWs were left behind in Vietnam and even transferred to the Soviet Union for human experimentation, a charge Perot says he heard from a senior Vietnamese official in the 1980s. “There’s evidence, evidence, evidence,” Perot claims. “McCain was adamant about shutting down anything to do with recovering POWs.”
Not surprisingly, McCain sees it differently. He has told me several times over the years that the myth of live POWs was a cruel hoax on the families. He chaired hearings into the issue in the 1990s and found nothing. “The committee did an exhaustive job and pored over thousands of records and every claim of a sighting, no matter how outlandish,” says Salter. “It was all untrue.”
Perot says he intends to vote for Mitt Romney in the Texas Republican primary on March 4, citing Romney’s experience in business and his family values. “When I went to the Naval Academy and met my first Mormons I asked why so many were excellent officers,” Perot recalls. “I learned it was because of their strong family unit.”
When I asked about Barack Obama, Perot said he admired his eloquence but thought it “a little odd that we would be less concerned about his background than being a Mormon.” Perot was pleasantly surprised when I told him that Obama was a Christian, not a Muslim, and relieved when I informed him that the e-mail Perot (and untold others) received about Obama not respecting the Pledge of Allegiance was a fraud.
Perot isn’t a Hillary hater, but he’s not a fan either, relating the bumper sticker he received that reads: “Monica Lewinsky’s Ex-Boyfriend’s Wife for President.”
The founder of a data-processing empire is still sharp in diagnosing what ails the United States. “The situation in 1992 was not nearly as bad as it is now,” he says. “If ever there was a time when it was necessary to put our house in order, it’s now.
“It’s like having cancer and being in denial. The conduct of the House and Senate is an embarrassment to the nation.” President Bush, Perot says, is a “decent person, but you can’t say the same thing about the people around him.”
Perot is appalled at the specter of big banks having to borrow from foreigners to stay afloat: “We have to go around the world with a tambourine and a tin cup.”
He attributes the success of China to the fact that even uneducated Chinese must learn 3,000 characters early in life, compared to the 26 letters in the English alphabet. “Their hand-eye productivity is incredible because of drawing the symbols,” Perot says, noting that most of today’s Ph.D.s in engineering are from China and India, and only a small percentage from the United States.
Perot offers no easy solutions, instead emphasizing “a strong moral and ethical base, strong homes and the finest schools.” He says he’s disappointed that big textbook companies successfully lobbied in the Texas state legislature to reverse his landmark school reforms.
The pint-size Texan with the funny voice and the big ears isn’t planning to run for president again, but says he will launch a Web site next month with plenty of the charts and graphs he made famous when explaining the deficit in 1992.
Before hanging up, Perot asked me to read the books he recommended on live POWs. I promised him I would.
URL: http://www.newsweek.com/id/94827When Ross Perot Calls…
January 18th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Rush said, “They despise conservative leaders, people that have a chance to lead and govern with conservative policies, because the big target of conservatives is Big Government, and that’s God to these people! We’re going after their savior. Liberalism, if you look at it like a religion, God is their temple, abortion is their sacrament. And conservatives go after both of those things.”
I say, “That sounds like Mike Huckabee to me. Come on, Rush, Huck is not a liberal. You just don’ t like him because he insulted you. Grow up and get over it. ”
And by the way, Vic….
Ross Perot is voting for Romney?! That is hillarious. If I were you, I wouldn’t put it on my website! I’m thinking about posting it on mine as a reason to vote for Huckabee!
This is hilarious!
Matt
January 18th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I’ll have to agree with Matt: the Perot endorsement is not that useful.
I’ll also remind Matt that Vic didn’t post this, though. Annie did. Apparently anyone can post any old thing on these blogs. ( Isn’t that great?
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January 19th, 2008 at 3:06 am
I guess all of you may be too young to remember the 92 (?) election with Ross Perot. He was very exciting then because he represented change. He came on with his business head, and business success, and everything he said made sense. Many of my relatives voted for him. So Mitt should be proud of his endorsement.