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Gingrich vs Rush
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... "You've got to want the president to succeed. You're irrational if you don't want the president to succeed. Because if he doesn't succeed the country doesn't succeed... I don't think anyone should want the president of the United States to fail. I want some of his policies to be stopped. But I don't want the president of the United States to fail. I want him to learn new policies," - Newt Gingrich. ...
Graham vs Rush
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... Limbaugh's prominence in the Republican Party is not what we are talking about. I think his prominence in the radio world to gin up people for conservative causes is prominent. He doesn't play in the Republican Party. He is not an elected official," said the South Carolina Republican. "I'm Lindsey Graham. He has been on me for two or three or four years for different things and I take it for what it is worth. ... Stop talking about Rush Limbaugh at the White House," - Lindsay Graham. ...
Rush whacks Newt: 'He wishes they were running TV ads against him'
Ben Smith's Blog —
Rush Limbaugh responded on today's show to Newt Gingrich's shot at him with a broadside at the former speaker.
"I'm frankly getting tired of talking about Newt. I mean, it's a pointless exercise," Limbaugh said of Gingrich's dismissal of him on Meet the Press. "I'm surprised by nothing when I'm dealing with people in the media who think they're in politics.... They are fly-by-night operators, and most of them stand for nothing until they see a poll about what the American people want, and then they go out and try to say one way or another what ...
The obligatory “Rush rips Newt for calling him irrational” post
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... . Watch the clip of Gingrich on MTP insisting that it’s “irrational” to hope Obama fails but okay to hope he changes his mind on policy; ...
It’s Jets vs. Sharks in the RNC!
Firedoglake —
... Hey, daddy-o, it's switchblades and Chuck Taylors down by the Hudson. And it sounds like Newt Gingrich, playing Steele's "Action Boy", don't want no stinkin' war council: ...
Newt vs. Rush
The Democratic Daily —
... I really don’t like giving the pompous, full of nothing but hot air bag, Rush Limbaugh any space on this blog, however I did find it amusing that Newt Gingrich stepped up today to be the latest Republican to take him on. And, as to be expected… Rush shot ...
Now It’s Newt Gingrich Versus Rush Limbaugh Versus Newt Gingrich
The Moderate Voice —
... Steele.
The latest is that the conservative icon with the big radio ratings (who is a turn off to many other Americans who don’t see those who disagree with them on policies as ill-intentioned, dumb or a step down from evil) is now at war with Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker who clearly views himself as the potential brains behind a 21st century conservative revival (and already reportedly dropping hints he wants to run for President in 2012).
First Gingrich threw down the gauntlet by saying this on “Meet The Press” ...
Limbaugh vs. Gingrich
Political Animal —
... conservatives need to "stop assuming that the way to beat them is with better policy ideas." On Sunday, Gingrich made the next move on "Meet the Press," arguing , without mentioning the right-wing radio host's name, "You've got to want the president to succeed. You're irrational if you don't want the president to succeed. Because if he doesn't succeed the country doesn't succeed.... I don't think anyone should want the president of the United States to fail." Limbaugh naturally assumed the former Speaker was calling him out, so he ...
