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Super Tuesday’s Biggest Loser: Rush Limbaugh

Posted by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review at 6:47 AM on February 6, 2008.


The truly most divisive figure in the 2008 race is not Hillary Clinton, it's John McCain.
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The truly most divisive figure in the 2008 race is not Hillary Clinton, it's John McCain. His ascendancy has ripped the Republican Party asunder -- and his most vicious and vocal conservative opponents include the loudest mouths in America: Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and, especially, Rush Limbaugh.

They don't like McCain because he is a leftwing Republican who advocates policies on campaign reform, illegal immigration, taxes and other policies they find to be insufficiently doctrinaire. The fact that he has promised to continue George Bush's occupation of Iraq for another century is not good enough for them.

On Monday, Limbaugh told his followers that McCain's true mission was to destroy the Republican Party:

"He's going to reach out to Democrats in Congress," Limbaugh said, citing "McCain-Kennedy" and "McCain-Feingold" as examples of McCain-sponsored bipartisan legislation. "This is how he's going to get even with Republicans for defeating him in South Carolina in 2000," Limbaugh said. "The Republican Congress will effectively be neutered."

And:

"It was just six months ago that if a candidate was endorsed by the liberal media we were instantly suspicious of them," Limbaugh said. Now he said, "we've got drive-by media organizations having orgasms about McCain."

And -- despite the fact McCain has a solid record of voting to cede women's control of their reproductive organs to government bureaucrats:

"It's pro-choicers who are voting for McCain. That's who liberals are!" Limbaugh said.

And then there was the amazing spectacle of Ann Coulter saying she would vote for Hillary Clinton if McCain were to become the GOP nominee. (Someone should get her a Clinton 2008 yard sign and bumpersticker, post haste.)

After McCain won the Florida GOP primary last week, Limbaugh and the others went into overdrive to get word down to their followers to vote for Mitt Romney, who, they say, is the "true" conservative. (Who cares if he held positions far to the left of Mccain just three years ago.) Secondly, the Limbaugh cabal also warned their listeners that a "vote for Mike Huckabee was a vote for McCain" -- their logic being that since Huckabee doesn't have a chance, votes for him will eventually accrue to McCain.

Well, the votes are in, and, there's no way other way to say: Limbaugh lost big time:

Sen. John McCain cemented his Republican front-runner status Tuesday, piling up big wins coast-to- coast, according to CNN projections...

McCain capped the night by taking California and all its 170 delegates ...

McCain also won Connecticut, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Delaware and Arizona, his home state, according to CNN projections.

McCain has gathered 514 delegates so far in his presidential campaign, including Tuesday night's projections. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has 177 delegates, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has 122.

Early in the evening, the pundits were laying odds that if Romney lost California, he would quit the race. After word came around 9:15 p.m. that McCain had trounced him here (McCain 42.2 percent, Romney 33.3 percent, Huckabee 11.5 percent), Chris Matthews and Tom Brokaw were on the set talking about Mitt in somber tones like the guy had just died. No word yet today when Mitt will pull the plug, but it appears to be a matter of time.

As has been stated here before, it is too early to write the obituaries for the conservative movement, but the results from the Feb. 5, 2008, primary do provide evidence that these Reagan era dinosaurs are losing their sway among their own kind.

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Tagged as: coulter, mccain, hannity, limabugh, conservat

Jon Ponder is regular blogger for the Pensito Review


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At last, At last We're Free at Last
Posted by: Sissy on Feb 6, 2008 7:15 AM   
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from the clutches of this drug taking, draft dodging, raving twit who has held in his hands for far too long, the fate of politicans who are nothing but ditto-heads and who bowed and scraped to this total loser.

Thru the years I have been continually astonished at the power he has held over the Right. People marching in lock-step like the Stepford Wives, bowing, scraping, ditteoing us into a lot of the mess we're in. This is a guy who admittedly never voted until the mid-80's yet he commands millions of dollars a year for his whacked pontifications. Its about time that people woke up and accepted him for what he has always piously claimed he was, especially when he was caught red-handed in a lie, distortion, or trashing reputations that he knew nothing about. An "entertainer" and a pretty bad one at that..

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» RE: At last, At last We're Free at Last Posted by: jpopphan@charter.net
OK Rush, take the hint!
Posted by: Grandma Crabby on Feb 6, 2008 7:48 AM   
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Will this finally make the idiot shut up? Probably not.

Nothing would make me happier than to see Rush Limbaugh loose his power and influence.

He is such a jerk!

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Giving conservatism a bad name
Posted by: kabac55 on Feb 6, 2008 7:55 AM   
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I'm not a "conservative" as defined by Rush or other so-called political pundits, but rather a liberal socially progressive independent thinking voter. For years I've been offended by their inaccurate verbal assaults on "liberals", "progressives", "feminists" etc. But Conservatives with average intelligence should be appalled at being included in their fold, because these folks have no heart. Rush and his crowd are not conservative--they are selfish, egotistical manipulators of public opinion to those gullible enough to listen and not use the brains God gave them. God help us that there seem to be so many.

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» RE: Giving conservatism a bad name Posted by: jpopphan@charter.net
Repubs eating their young
Posted by: Quannah on Feb 6, 2008 8:23 AM   
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This is the best thing that could happen in this election! All of these wing-nut mouthpieces have deluded themselves into thinking they are "kingmakers" and now that they have been left out of the loop, they are beginning the buffet!!! Go ahead! Eat your own! Give the election to the Democrats!

(Or maybe that is what Rush really wants? Limbaugh, after all, was at the apex of his popularity because of his screeds against the Clintons! Perhaps because his popularity has been lagging the last few years, he sees a Democratic President as a way to re-invigorate his own flagging career! And Coulter, too. Hmm. Something to think about.)

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» RE: epubs eating their young Posted by: Quannah
» RE: Following Orders Posted by: Sissy
Rovian?
Posted by: Rishy on Feb 6, 2008 9:01 AM   
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I wondered about the motives of both Limbaugh and Coulter while reading these articles. Are they begging not to be thrown into that briar patch? Merits consideration methinks.

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It's Wednesday now,
Posted by: hurricane hugo on Feb 6, 2008 11:01 AM   
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and he's still the biggest loser.

jdfu!

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What's with Rush's Anal Fixation
Posted by: JSquercia on Feb 6, 2008 11:24 AM   
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He seems totally locked into tthe use of the anal thing .What with his criticism of Lindsey Graham referring to Lindsey Graham as being close enough to John McCain to get Anal Poisoning . He used the same phrase to describe Terry Mccaulif and Hilary Clinton . It is both Offensive and NOT funny .
Though perhaps it is just Rush's fond remberance for his own Anal Cyst that enabled the World's Foremost Chicken Hawk to avoid the Military .

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What is this?
Posted by: Doubtom on Feb 6, 2008 11:28 AM   
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Has Alternet gone bonkers? Why has this fat-assed, blowhard, COWARD been given any space at all, on this site?
Keeerist! the very sight of that bloated pig is enough to induce major retching.

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I PREDICT . . .
Posted by: luckypuck on Feb 6, 2008 11:38 AM   
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the Conservative extremists' movement will completely vanish in four years and Limbaugh, Coulter, and the rest of their ilk will reinvent themselves as radical "progressives," change their names (I suggest Rush Coulter and Ann Limbaugh) and they'll continue to bloviate and bloat their egos as "not-me," unapologetic, new-born Democrats.

Or, better yet, they’ll give in to their "I'm always right/They're always wrong" fantasy and wind up taking welfare checks, living in homeless shelters and standing in soup lines. The worst of the worst for them? No one will remember who the hell they are. A consummation devoutly to be wished.

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» RE: An epitaph Posted by: luckypuck
Real issue of War belongs equally to McC and Hillary
Posted by: herbal on Feb 6, 2008 3:48 PM   
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McCain and Hillary have everything in common, then...
Paul Krugman and other mainline press & media are trying to portray health insurance as the only perceptible difference between the corporatist Hillary and the conciliator Obama. Obama has accepted the ´peace branch´from Hillary when he desperately needs to be more agressive about the war issue that distinguishes him from WAR.

We must mount a grand effort to write letters to the editors of large and small newspapers in the upcoming primary states to warn people that Hillary is a warmonger Bush supporter. At this point we internet hacks are only preaching to the choir!

Write now to head off this disaster of a Clinton who will bring only more of Bill´s foreign policy and alliance with Bush=Cheney Empire.

Even Ron Paul says we can´t afford anything else but war. Write the Chicago Sun Times to endose the only chance for real change, an end to the perpetual wars.

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» How do we end war? Posted by: luckypuck
JAY LENO SAYS THAT JOHN MCCAIN'S WIN IS RUSH LIMBAUGH 'S WORST NEWS SINCE
Posted by: Raymond Emerson on Feb 8, 2008 9:58 PM   
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he lost his source for 30 oxycontin a day. Thank you, Jay. You won't need writers.

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