pajamasmedia.com - 3/2/2009
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Rush delivered a magnificent speech. However, there is one important arena in which, put plainly, I think he was wrong.
thinkprogress.org - 3/2/2009
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thinkprogress.org —
Last night, RNC Chairman Michael Steele appeared on
D.L. Hughley’s show on CNN and disputed Hughley’s statement...
that Rush Limbaugh “is the de facto leader of the Republican Party.” “I’m the de facto leader of the ...
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RNC Chair Michael Steele on Limbaugh: ‘Yes, it’s ...
theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 3/2/2009
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com —
Whoa. Rush Limbaugh's bid to cement his own
role as head of the Republican Party just took...
a wild new turn, with Limbaugh launching a brutal hit on RNC chair Michael Steele, mocking the GOP for being in a "sad sack" state and suggesting that until ...
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Rush Limbaugh Launches Brutal Hit On Michael Steele
salon.com - 3/1/2009
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salon.com —
March 1, 2009 | WASHINGTON -- Seizing the
opportunity to speak to a national TV audience, conservative...
radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh told a packed house of cheering supporters at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Committee's annual meeting ...
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Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party | ...
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John Hawkins: where Rush Limbaugh went astray at CPAC
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He writes:
Having the best principles and philosophy is all well and good, but we’re not going to win future elections in this
country if we spend all our time talking about the philosophies of Hayek, Burke, and Friedman, while ignoring the
day-to-day issues that voters care about.
(...)
To name one issue, it has gotten to the point where I cringe when a Republican starts talking about income tax cuts like
they’re a political powerhouse. That sounds almost like conservative sacrilege, ...
Larwyn's Link Kerplosion: "Just whose side is he on?"
Doug Ross @ Journal —
... Says : Bloomberg How Obama and Biden fought the Surge : S Obama's phony pullout from Iraq : Post (Peters) Faster, Cheaper, Lighter : Crittenden Eric Holder's Tragic Prison : AT (Kaitz) Brown woos Obama on 'Global New Deal' : Times (UK) 15 DOs and DON'Ts of New Progressive Order : People's Cube Is it Jimmy Obama? : PJM (Ledeen) Automatically under suspicion : NMJ (Jeffers) Pension Form Fun : AT (Alter) Where Rush Limbaugh went astray at CPAC : PJM (Hawkins) Coulter brings down the house at ...
The ongoing war on rot
Classical Values —
The ongoing war on rot Reviewing Rush Limbaugh's CPAC speech, John Hawkins warns the conservative movement that losing the next election might be more devastating than what has already happened: Conservatives have better solutions than either the left or the moderates in our own party can come up with -- ready to go, ready to improve the lives of Americans -- but very few people on the right are promoting those ideas. Sure, it's possible we could win in 2012 on the same old stale agenda. But what if we don't? What if we run a conservative like Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama ...
Chait Defends Limbaugh
Riehl World View —
... headlines links to Hawkins at PJM pointing out Rush's one alleged failure - a lack of appreciation for the need for new ideas in order to win. ...
More fun with Rush
Maggie's Farm —
... up a lot of dust in all quarters. He loves that: it gets him listeners, and he loves being provocative. Truth is, I have never heard Rush say a single hateful thing. Plenty of humorous mockery, of course. As far as I can tell, the guy loves people, and respects them and their potential enough to not want them to be serfs of the State. Anyway, a few links:
Rush to Chairman Steele: Where are your guts?
Where Rush went astray at CPAC. Hawkins at Pajamas
Rush to the Kultursmog. Driscoll ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 3/4/2009 — All these highbrow conservative attacks on Limbaugh keep missing the point.
1) There is a certain sort of genius there that can do 15 hours of talk per week, ad hoc, and hold an audience of 20 million plus for over 20 years. There are about one or ...
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From NBC’s Winston Wilde WASHINGTON -- The last day of the Conservative Political Action Conference here saw Ann Coulter back up to the podium to deliver some of the comic relief of the afternoon. She did not come to lend wisdom as to where ...
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