Comments on: I’m a bit surprised at Rush Limbaugh

By: Ymarsakar

Ymarsakar — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:17:12 +0000

The Left lies. You can state the opposite of what they say and assume it is true, and you will be right 99% of the time. One must understand that in tradecraft, the double cross is a basic maneuver, not an advanced one. So goes it for the “double blind” deception or misinformation. If people vote for X because they think X is what their political opponents want, they get demoralized. If people don’t vote for X based upon X being what their political opponents want, and their political opponents wanted people to be turned off by X through endorsing them, then they’re even more demoralized.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:45:46 +0000

Hangtown Bob: you assume that, if most of the other candidates dropped out, none of their votes would go to Romney. But we have no evidence for that. It may be true, or it may not be true. I think it most likely that a significant portion would go to Romney, but not necessarily a majority of them. But if enough did, it would give him a majority.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:41:50 +0000

foxmarks: and Gingrich would inspire only those grassroots conservatives, leading them to a convincing defeat.

But hey, at least he’d stand for conservative principles like the defense of capitalism as he takes them all down, right?

By: foxmarks

foxmarks — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:33:23 +0000

SteveH:

Limbaugh would get behind Romney just as he got behind McCain. Rush did what he could to try pulling McCain across the finish line. There’s no passion in it.

Romney will not inspire the grassroots enthusiasm necessary for a convincing victory, and for down-ballot wins.

By: SteveH

SteveH — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:13:03 +0000

Rush will get behind Romney when the time comes. But i don’t see where he’s wrong about voicing concern for Romney during the selection process. He is the McCain endorsed candidate, if you’re looking for some eye opening perspective on where Rush is coming from.

By: Hangtown Bob

Hangtown Bob — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:49:27 +0000

Romney is strong now only because the “anybody but Romney” vote is split between 4-5 others. Unfortunately, this may guarantee Romney’s nomination. It’s the “third party dilemma” showing itself in the primaries.

By: Sami

Sami — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:28:57 +0000

Rush Limbaugh and Newt are on a self-defeating scorched earth campaign against Romney.

I can’t figure out Rush’s motive other than ratings, but Gingrich is clearly a selfish jerk bent on revenge. Gingrich can’t win and he’s willing to sink our likely nominee and hand the election over to Obama to get his pound of flesh.

I’ve been a 24/7 subscriber to Limbaugh for years, but I just let my subscription expire because I can’t stand to listen to his illogical vitriol against Romney. He’s handing the election to Obama by discouraging the Republican electorate and impugning Romney. Limbaugh used to be creative and funny, now he’s just a BORING angry old white guy.

The single most important thing for the good of the U.S. is to get rid of Obama and elect a more mainstream president. Newtie and Rushie are seriously placing that goal in jeopardy.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:51:31 +0000

Rush, et al, assumes that Democrats all get together and plan out some sort of elaborate pre-primary spoiler strategy to get their choice of candidate in for the enemy camp.

All you have to do is look at how hard it is for any candidate to coordinate their own campaign staff and keep them on message to know that this is just a bunch of nonsense. The byzantine strategy of talking down the candidate that they want the most would have to be stategized amongst pundits and professional politicians alike, and memos would have had to go out to all the people who are responding to those match-up polls.

This was just Brazile attempting to spin an “Obama wins” meme out of the debates, as every good party hack will do. Nothing more than that.

By: foxmarks

foxmarks — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:47:19 +0000

RickZ:

Realigning the parties may be a path that avoids much domestic violence. Rearrange the factions in to the liberty-libertine Constitutionalists and the warsocialism Internationalists. The two most extreme quintiles at the ends of the standard linear political axis have more in common with each other than with the two center quintiles.

Everybody has to face some cognitive dissonance if they want to survive.

By: RickZ

RickZ — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:03:50 +0000

How can Romney take on Owebama when Romney has the albatross of RomneyCare hanging over his head?

Romney may be articulate, like another candidate we heard that about, but he is not conservative, no way. What we are seeing with this Republican primary season is two things that are repeating like ‘Groundhog Day’:

1) The media are doing their damnedest to pick the Republican candidate by winnowing the field of perceived threats to Owebama’s reelection with their biased coverage;

2) The RINO’s in charge of the Republican Party have taken conservatives for granted for so long, and still continue to do so as they show us, once again, they believe in that ‘it’s X’s turn to be the candidate’ BS.

This election might very well kill off both our major political parties: The Progressive/Communist Party and the Good ol’ Boy/Go Along To Get Along Squish Party. Now that would be a double victory.