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Limbaugh On ‘Listening Tour’ Republicans: “These People Hate Palin, Too. They Fear Sarah Palin”



May 4, 2009 27 Comments ›› Pat Dollard


  • Professor Bill

    Jeb talked about moving past Reagan, well I want US politics to move past the Bush family, I dream of a day when the entire Bush family is relegated to the history books. His dad raised taxes and his brother spent money like a drunken sailor and is a fine example of missed opportunity. From the leftists own playbook GW Bush let a good crisis go to waste(9/11). Could have dismantled the IRS, all in the name of stimulating the economy after 9/11. This is just one of several major agenda items he could have accomplished but didn’t have the core value or beliefs in those items.

    Go away Jeb, we can live better without you.

    • EDinTampa

      I can’t argue with your logic Professor Bill. I do know that if we don’t dump these Republicans that want to recast without the Reagan mold, I will be voting 3rd party or not at all in 2012.

      Look at Reagan’s success and educate the population. It isn’t so long ago that those under 40 cannot learn. The blueprint is there, we only need the right leader!

  • GRIZZ

    What a bad joke.These morons dont even get it.FUCK everyone of you minions.

  • Phil Byler

    I am FOR Ronald Reagan. His speeches remain as relevant and directional as ever. BUT Rush is being overly simplistic in criticizing Republicans at the Town Hall and in saying all that we need to do is to repeat the Reagan formula. A conservative message is but one part of what is needed. With among other things media bias, Soros money, ACORN operatives, and demographic changes, it is going to be more difficlut than just talking conservatism.

    I did not understand Jeb Bush to be saying that Republicans should dispense with Ronald Reagan, and no one else said that either. Also, the purpose of the Town Hall meetings is not to let the people there dictate what Republicans do in terms of policy. As with the TEA parties, getting closer to people is a good thing for Republicans when they bring a message of market solutions domestically and strength in foreign policy.

    • EDinTampa

      Phil, you don’t a more liberal Republican than McCain. Granted, his age was another factor, but some liberals were ready to vote for McCain if Hillary was the D nominee.

      WE HAVE TRIED THE REACHING ACROSS THE AISLE, IT IS TIME FOR CONSERVATISM! I will accept nothing less!

      We have CONSERVATIVES, let’s elect them! Anything less is submitting to defeat and I’d rather fight the stinking bastards and lose than just submit!

    • Phil Byler

      Sorry, ED in Tampa, while I agree with you about needing a conservative message, there are plenty of Republicans who are more liberal than McCain. You should review this year’s voting record rather than relying on Rush’s constant running of anti-McCain parodies. Right now, McCain has as good a conservative voting record as any Republican in Congress. He voted against tax cheat Geithner to be Treasury Secretary, against ultra-lib Kagan to be Solicitor General and against pro-abortion Sibelius to be HHS Secretary. He voted against every Obama budget and bailout bill, denouncing them publicly as “generational theft”, a phrase used frequently by Sean Hannity attributing it correctly to McCain. Yet, Rush talks about McCain as if he were the same as Specter who made Obama’s budget possible. WRONG. While McCain read the 2006 election as meaning that the American people wanted bipartisanship, which was not unreasonable given what happened, this year McCain has stood solidly against Obama’s insane fiscal policies.

      McCain is pro-life fiscal conservative who supports the appointment of strict constructionists to the federal bench (have you forgot McCain at Saddleback?), and he is a hawk regarding foreign policy, military matters and national security. People forget that McCain’s strength concerns those subjects. Had the 2008 election been about those subjects, you would feel very differently. McCain advocated the surge in Iraq before it was implemented, and he fought off Democrat efforts in Congress to cause us to lose in Iraq. Pardon me for remembering that McCain stood loyally to our troops in harm’s way, but one of them was my older son, then a U.S. Army First Lieutenant infantry platoon leader in his first tour of duty in Iraq and now a U.S. Army Captain in his second tour. McCain knows his stuff concerning foreign policy, military matters and national security; he was very qualified to be Commander in Chief. We are going to be paying for the foolishness of electing someone to be POTUS who is not competent to be Commander in Chief.

      In 2008, what were the alternatives on the GOP side? Nobody had McCain’s experience and knowledge concerning foreign policy, military matters and national security; and at a time of war with the radical Islamists, you would think that would be critical. Pro-choice Guiliani, a friend of McCain, was far more liberal on social issues. Romney had been, not that long ago, the pro-choice Governor of Massachusetts who appointed plenty of Democrats to the judiciary. Huckabee had been a spender as Governor of Arkansas. Thompson was McCain’s friend who had voted for McCain-Feingold and simply did not have the energy. McCain won the GOP nomination by earning it with the voters and by a comfortable margin.

      In September 2008, McCain went into the lead in the polls, but then the financial “crisis” hit, the Bush bank bailout had a very bad effect, Bush unpopularity was (unfairly) prevalent, the Obama money advantage (7 to 1) paid for plenty of what was false political advertising and media bias worked as a propaganda machine for Obama.

    • EDinTampa

      I don’t even listen to Rush Limbaugh, never did! And I know all I need to know about McCain since the election and especially his campaign against Obama.

      He didn’t bring it when he needed to and he is definately not even to be considered in 2012.

    • DesignR

      McCain is a RINO.
      Every Bush is a RINO, but for National Defense.
      The Governator’s a RINO.

      It’s hard to find a Republican that even comes close to being truly conservative in action. Maybe they don’t exist as politicians anymore. They all speak a good game at election time looking like Ronald Reagan Incarnate and then vote like Arlen Spector once they get in.

      It’s time we cleaned house! We need a bloodbath in our own party to scare the shit out of our idiot Republican Party leadership. We need to elect Joe the Plumber types EVERYWHERE replacing the lazy pricks we put in!

      Third party candidates are a non-starter for me. A third party run is certain suicide and a loser. It is a sure way to kill us all, literally!

  • lastconservativeblackmanonearth

    What Jeb is saying is that he has much in common with Arlen Specter.

    Face up to it, people: these politicians are spineless snakes in the grass. They’ll say anything, while standing for nothing.

    You know, I’m old enough to recall that Reagan both disliked and distrusted Bush 1. I remember the campaign of GHWB, and how this ‘Rockefeller Republican’ attempted to call Reagan’s politics ‘outdated’, and that GHWB should be the shape of the new conservative movement. GHWB was selected as VP by Reagan for political expediency, pure and simple.

    Jeb continues the tradition of ‘country-club’ Republican. He–and others in that camp–must not be trusted. In fact, there’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the ‘limousine-lib’ and the ‘country-clubber’: they’re both feeding from the same hog trough.

    The only true conservative is a STRICT CONSTITUTIONALIST. This ‘income redistribution’ crap is a major diversion used by Democrats to fatten the purses of Lord knows who. Trust me. After all is said and done, the ‘little guy will fare no better–indeed, he’ll be much worse off.

    Is anyone out there listening?

    • nospyme

      Amen buddy.

      How about Duncan Hunter and Alan Keyes in 2012?

    • DesignR

      I remember that as well.

      I’m with you on this. But please, NO THIRD PARTY BULLSHIT! It is certain suicide!

      Let’s fire all the current Republicans and put in Joe the plumber types everywhere! It can’t be any worse than what we have now!

    • unkaglen

      :arrow: nospyme couldn’t have picked a better team myself.You get a big HELL YEAH from me

    • fas76

      I agree. If we clean up the Republican Party,take the garbage out,there will be no need for third parties,third party members will return to the Republican Party,Remember they did not leave the Republican Party,The Republican Party left them.

  • Phil Byler

    Again, I don’t think Jeb was saying that Reagan is irrelevant, and no one else said that either at the Town Hall meeting. I think Jeb is saying that Republicans need to relate to people in society today, which is correct. That does not mean we abandon the conservative message. It does mean that we don’t reminisce and think that we are accomplishing something. Reagan won in 1984 with a conservative message, but he was also an incumbent President at a time of prosperity and peace; Clinton also won in 1996 without of course a conservative message but again at a time of prosperity and apparent peace.

    I also don’t think that the Republicans at the Town Hall were anti-Palin. Thinking about it, Jeb Bush’s comment about nostalgia is not anti-Palin at all, but may be a diplomatic criticism of Rush. It would be valid criticism.

  • sassysuz

    As I said before forget any Bush’s forget Romney, McCain he ain’t even worth mentioning. Let’s not waste out time with RINOS

    We need to join Rush and support Palin the only conservative with courage in the political arena to date. Wonder why they attack her so desperately?
    They know what the Gipper did to them and he came out campaining for Goldwater in 1964. Let’s not overlook another Gipper for 15 years

  • http://www.myspace.com/methushelah Demogorgon

    Back on August, 29, 2008 – at McCain’s “Road to the Convention Rally” – when ‘our’ then presidential nominee officially introduced Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running mate; I have to admit I knew very little about her. But I do recall the near-instant burst of ‘electricity’ her selection had on McCain’s, up until that time… lackluster, campaign.

    I subsequently never really bothered to research Governor Palin, for the swiftness, ferocity, and sheer brutal ugliness of the media’s (Leftist Ministry of Propaganda’s) attacks on her, all alone, convinced me back then that Sarah Palin was the ‘future’ of the Republican party.

    As for this “Republican [still not] Listening [to us] Tour” – Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney are not going to cut it with a whole lot of ‘real’ Americans (especially Jeb Bush). For the ‘blue’ streak of RINO runs strong in both of them. As for McCain, he seems to be taking a page right out of the Democrat Party’s handbook; that being ‘he’ considers himself now, somehow, to be a major force in the Republican Party simply by virtue of his failed bid to win the Presidency.

    My view is this:

    If the current ‘leadership’ of the Republican Party can not commit themselves to small-government Reagan Conservatism – a government bound by the limits placed upon it by the Constitution – then they need to move to the back-of-the-room, sit the [censored] down, and shut the [censored] up! I would wholeheartedly support any ‘official’ – and naturally professionally written – resolution or proclamation issued by our new ‘organization’ to this effect.

    Sarah Palin is exactly what our Founding Fathers intended for this Federal Republic; she IS the quintessential American ‘Citizen’ politician. She is someone who did NOT set out from ‘figuratively day-one’ of their life seeking the power, prestige and ‘perks’ of high public office.

    Old men of the GOP, your time has come and gone. It is OUR time now!

    • sassysuz

      Well said!

      LISTENING TOUR what are they all little Hitlery’s now :mrgreen:
      When you listen you shut the f…k up, so listen to this go away, we have no need for chicken shit politicians :evil:

    • http://conservative-alliance.oli.us/index.php FreedomBill

      AMEN!

      Mitt, Jeb, MukPain… hit the road! And take Huck with you!

    • GRIZZ

      Asshats.F em.

  • http://www.Dissent-From-Day-One.com DissentFromDayOneDOTcom

    If a Republican politician needs a “listening tour” while Obama is literally destroying the country, then you freakin’ morons ARE THE PROBLEM.

    You don’t know what to do?

    You destroy Obama and the Dhimmicrats at every freakin’ turn, no holds barred.

    These fruitcakes—every last one of them—won’t get a dime of my money or a minute of my time.

    Palin/Bachmann 2012

    • DesignR

      “If a Republican politician needs a “listening tour” while Obama is literally destroying the country, then you freakin’ morons ARE THE PROBLEM.”

      Yup!

      - – - – - –

      Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) and Sarah Palin 2012?

      This is the first I’ve heard the combination mentioned. A quick google on the ‘duo’ brings up Leftist Bile and Vomit. I like that!

      I’m all for Palin, but don’t know Michele. Thoughts anyone?

    • http://www.myspace.com/methushelah Demogorgon
    • DesignR

      I must’ve been absent from school that day! Thanks! :beer:

      If what I’ve read so far is true, Her and Palin would be the ideal ticket. To top it off, nancy Pelosi would soil her depends at the thought of no longer being queen bee.

  • jasjfarrell

    Rush did not say the people on the “listening tour” hated Palin. What he did say was that there were some moderate Republicans who did hate Palin.

    The headline is a little misleading.

  • Mr. Standfast

    What do you get with a bigger tent? Answer: a bigger circus!

  • Ji

    Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) and Sarah Palin 2012?

    Sounds real good to me.

    Bushes go to hell. What he gave with one hand, he took away with the other.

  • John H

    I have been a staunch Republican for sometime now, however after the “bailout” supoort by GOP, I am now going to vote 3rd party, maybe it’s pissing in the wind, but I will not support a party anymore that has turned it’s back on core values, and is now more left then the Democrats of the 1960′s