tnvoter
04-06-2008, 12:15 PM
Straight from Newsmax:
Top radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh isn’t softening his criticism of John McCain now that he’s the presumptive GOP candidate — and Rush says he won’t abandon his conservative principles even to defeat the Democrats.
Responding to a caller who suggested that Rush spends “too much time criticizing” McCain and could in effect help elect the Democratic candidate, Limbaugh said on April 2: “If that happens to be the case, there will be one person responsible for that, and that will be Senator McCain, not me. Senator McCain is the one actively seeking Democrat votes.
“Senator McCain gives a speech at Annapolis today, and he basically tells the achievers of this country, the people who are working, that they are cynical and lazy, and that they have had wealth come to them too easy and they need to go out and do public service.
"He needs to give that speech to the people in the entitlement industry in this country who are sitting around waiting for handouts from their fellow citizens.
“The Republican Party is the home of people who believe in American exceptionalism, and Senator McCain's speech is not about American exceptionalism. He's clearly targeting liberal Democrats as his support base.”
Rush told listeners that after he delivered a recent speech, someone in the crowd told him to "get over it," referring to McCain being the GOP nominee-in-waiting.
Limbaugh said on his show: “I said, ‘Get over it? You're asking me to get over my principles! You're asking me to get over what I think is best for this country. You're asking me to get over what I think needs to be done, and that is liberals need to be defeated and not joined and not appeased.’”
Rush also said that if he did endorse McCain now, not only would he “lose my audience,” but liberal Democrats and independents who are going to vote for him “would scram, if they think that I all of a sudden like him. The worst thing I could do is come out and endorse the guy.”
Later in the show Limbaugh changed course and referred to a shocking recent study that found that three out of 10 American public high school students do not graduate, and in many cities less than half receive a diploma.
“There's no question that inner-city schools are failing minority kids,” said Limbaugh.
“These are primarily black and Hispanic kids in Democrat Party-run cities, and they are left to fail year after year, decade after decade! Liberalism is giving us this problem, and it has for a long time . . .
“Liberal politics is designed to keep unions strong, including the teachers and minority kids underachieving. I mean, to the extent that there's institutional racism in America, it is in these blue states, run by liberal Democrats for years.”
Limbaugh did return to his earlier target, John McCain.
“The problem, folks, is liberalism — liberalism which controls most of the government and how it seeks to transform our society for the worst,” Limbaugh stated.
“Senator McCain could easily address that and contrast himself with the Democrats also seeking the presidency, but he doesn't; he doesn't address it in this way. He doesn't blame the government or liberalism for this, because he believes in a lot of it.”
Top radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh isn’t softening his criticism of John McCain now that he’s the presumptive GOP candidate — and Rush says he won’t abandon his conservative principles even to defeat the Democrats.
Responding to a caller who suggested that Rush spends “too much time criticizing” McCain and could in effect help elect the Democratic candidate, Limbaugh said on April 2: “If that happens to be the case, there will be one person responsible for that, and that will be Senator McCain, not me. Senator McCain is the one actively seeking Democrat votes.
“Senator McCain gives a speech at Annapolis today, and he basically tells the achievers of this country, the people who are working, that they are cynical and lazy, and that they have had wealth come to them too easy and they need to go out and do public service.
"He needs to give that speech to the people in the entitlement industry in this country who are sitting around waiting for handouts from their fellow citizens.
“The Republican Party is the home of people who believe in American exceptionalism, and Senator McCain's speech is not about American exceptionalism. He's clearly targeting liberal Democrats as his support base.”
Rush told listeners that after he delivered a recent speech, someone in the crowd told him to "get over it," referring to McCain being the GOP nominee-in-waiting.
Limbaugh said on his show: “I said, ‘Get over it? You're asking me to get over my principles! You're asking me to get over what I think is best for this country. You're asking me to get over what I think needs to be done, and that is liberals need to be defeated and not joined and not appeased.’”
Rush also said that if he did endorse McCain now, not only would he “lose my audience,” but liberal Democrats and independents who are going to vote for him “would scram, if they think that I all of a sudden like him. The worst thing I could do is come out and endorse the guy.”
Later in the show Limbaugh changed course and referred to a shocking recent study that found that three out of 10 American public high school students do not graduate, and in many cities less than half receive a diploma.
“There's no question that inner-city schools are failing minority kids,” said Limbaugh.
“These are primarily black and Hispanic kids in Democrat Party-run cities, and they are left to fail year after year, decade after decade! Liberalism is giving us this problem, and it has for a long time . . .
“Liberal politics is designed to keep unions strong, including the teachers and minority kids underachieving. I mean, to the extent that there's institutional racism in America, it is in these blue states, run by liberal Democrats for years.”
Limbaugh did return to his earlier target, John McCain.
“The problem, folks, is liberalism — liberalism which controls most of the government and how it seeks to transform our society for the worst,” Limbaugh stated.
“Senator McCain could easily address that and contrast himself with the Democrats also seeking the presidency, but he doesn't; he doesn't address it in this way. He doesn't blame the government or liberalism for this, because he believes in a lot of it.”