LIMBAUGH: "We don't hear a single Republican defending free enterprise."

[max]

LIMBAUGH: "We don't hear a single Republican out there defending free enterprise."

I suppose the now highly visible Ron Paul has been touting Marxism then?.......God I hate that pompous piece of crap...but I'm compelled to listen because I do enjoy his attacks on the Annointed One.

[IPSecure]

How many times does Rush say "I" per hour? I gave up counting...

[SWATH]

This is what all the "conservative" talking heads keep saying. They go on and on about how nobody is defending free markets, nobody is defending the Constitution, and there is nobody to listen to. They just keep having to say it louder to drown out Ron Paul, so that others don't hear him and then realize that they are lying.

[max]

This is what all the "conservative" talking heads keep saying. They go on and on about how nobody is defending free markets, nobody is defending the Constitution, and there is nobody to listen to. They just keep having to say it louder to drown out Ron Paul, so that others don't hear him and then realize that they are lying.

what really burns me up is all the sudden references to "the framers" by these born-again "constitutionalists" like Hannitty-Levin-Scarborough-Limbaugh...

How can one profess to revere the framers while supporting the FED, trillion dollar foreign adventures, PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security, FISA courts, domestic wiretapping, NATO etc.....

Hannity has karl Rove on as a guest now....good grief!

[MRoCkEd]

Ron Paul needs to buy one of those 30 minute infomercials like Obama did to address the American people

[Athan]

Ha ha ha... born again Constitutionalists. If only that was true.

[thasre]

I think these talk-show guy deliberately drive it into their audiences' heads that "NO ONE is defending the free market" so that when it comes time for whoever they consider their neo-con savior to run for President in 2012, they can say, "Oh, look! He's the ONLY person defending the free market!" It's just diversion. Make the audience assume that EVERYONE is so utterly corrupt and repulsive that we have to take this guy who's a LITTLE LESS corrupt and repulsive and make him dictator.

"Well, sure, listeners, Mitt Romney screwed up Massachusett's health-care and he changes policy positions more frequently than he changes underwear, but he's THE ONLY ONE defending the free market right now, and that's what we need!"

[zach]

rush is a douche.

[max]

if RP ever won the GOP nomination....these taking heads would abandon the GOP ticket in a heartbeat in favor of a third party Romney-Gingrich-Jindal-Sanford ticket....even if it meant guaranteeing an Obama re-election

[AuH20]

The way I feel is this: I feel liberated, and I’m going to tell you as plainly as I can why. I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don’t think deserve having their water carried. Now, you might say, “Well, why have you been doing it?” Because the stakes are high. Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country’s than the Democrat Party and liberalism does.

I believe my side is worthy of victory, and I believe it’s much easier to reform things that are going wrong on my side from a position of strength. Now I’m liberated from having to constantly come in here every day and try to buck up a bunch of people who don’t deserve it, to try to carry the water and make excuses for people who don’t deserve it. I did not want to sit here and participate, willingly, in the victory of the libs, in the victory of the Democrat Party by sabotaging my own. But now with what has happened yesterday and today, it is an entirely liberating thing. If those in our party who are going to carry the day in the future — both in Congress and the administration — are going to choose a different path than what most of us believe, then that’s liberating. I don’t say this with any animosity about anybody, and I don’t mean to make this too personal.

Rush, being so deathly afraid of the left, undermined the core consituency of his party. Its tragic and fitting.

[paulitics]

what really burns me up is all the sudden references to "the framers" by these born-again "constitutionalists" like Hannitty-Levin-Scarborough-Limbaugh...

How can one profess to revere the framers while supporting the FED, trillion dollar foreign adventures, PATRIOT Act, Homeland Security, FISA courts, domestic wiretapping, NATO etc.....

Hannity has karl Rove on as a guest now....good grief!

They're not sincere. Mixing truth with bullshit is one of the most tried, tested and effective means of propaganda there is. The stuff that makes their audience grow is the patriotic stuff, the stuff we get excited about. This is why Beck has jumped up in ratings since he changed his rhetoric. The others are now following his lead.

They are using the true conservative principles to lure them in , and then conditioning them slowly over time to accept statist stuff like wiretapping and torture, as patriotic. This is how otherwise good intentioned people who just love their country become absolute neocons on foreign policy and war on terror. It is no accident.

[NMCB3]

Limbaugh and the rest are the enemy, there`s no doubt about it.

[Theocrat]

The reason why Rush Limbaugh doesn't hear a single Republican defending free enterprise is because he's too loud (and arrogant) to listen to what Congressman Paul is saying.

[heavenlyboy34]

What drama the posturing, pretentious corporate media is giving us! What will happen next? Perhaps there will be Hannity-Limbaugh sex tapes that "mysteriously" show up? :eek:;) The foolishness of the "right" media is truly hilarious and somewhat astounding to behold (on par with the loony left, no less!). :D:)

[micahnelson]

I think a phone bomb is in order. We haven't done anything in a while as a forum besides that NPR poll event/fiasco. Its time to take on Jabba the Rush.

[specsaregood]

I think a phone bomb is in order. We haven't done anything in a while as a forum besides that NPR poll event/fiasco. Its time to take on Jabba the Rush.

Well tomorrow is "open line friday".

I'd give him a call but would want to actual read the transcript from the show today, to know exactly what he said and the context of it.

[satchelmcqueen]

Ron Paul needs to buy one of those 30 minute infomercials like Obama did to address the American people

best plan yet. i wish he would do it just for fun/spite.

[specsaregood]

Ok, found the transcript:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_040909/content/01125104.guest.html


Now, 53% say capitalism better than socialism, can somebody name for me -- honestly, now -- name the last Republican candidate to actually articulate the advantages of capitalism. It's easy. Reagan. How long ago was that? Twenty years ago. Even President Bush said that we have to abandon the free market to save it. That doesn't exactly make the case for capitalism.

We haven't had a Republican president make the case for capitalism since Reagan. It's one of the reasons programs like this and Mark Levin's great book are going through the roof, 'cause capitalists do not have an elected leader. Nobody in the Republican Party's willing to stand up for it. The so-called conservative intelligentsia that wants us to become more like Democrats, be more moderate and understand we need a bigger government, they're not talking about capitalism. When they say the era of Reagan is over, I mean, if the era of Reagan is over, then capitalism is over and tax cuts are over, individual liberty, yeah, we can't be guided by any of those things. So it's understandable that people under thirty are not being caught capitalism. They're being taught the opposite, being told that capitalism sucks, it's unfair, that it's mean-spirited, it leads to people being homeless and poor. It's why it's 53%.


I don't think the thread title is completely accurate -- if I found the correct transcript page -- he does have a point.

[anaconda]

Ron Paul needs to buy one of those 30 minute infomercials like Obama did to address the American people


How much campaign money remains?

[ItsTime]

Ron Paul needs to buy one of those 30 minute infomercials like Obama did to address the American people

That or a blimp it is really a toss up

[The_Orlonater]

That or a blimp it is really a toss up

Blimps are a waste of time and money and it's only a few words.

[DGambler]

I distinctly remember several years ago Hannity calling Libertarians confused liberals, he now embraces Libertarian beliefs, which is it douchebag?

::boggle::

[silverhawks]

More proof that by and large, almost anyone and anything associated with Fox News is as a fair, balanced and un-biased news source as Arctic snow is a great firestarter.

[acptulsa]

Limbaugh doesn't hear anything! I'm convinced he went deaf because his ears atrophied from a lack of use.

[paulitics]

I distinctly remember several years ago Hannity calling Libertarians confused liberals, he now embraces Libertarian beliefs, which is it douchebag?

::boggle::

haha. He did. I almost forgot about that too. We need the youtube of this. What an ass.

[acptulsa]

haha. He did. I almost forgot about that too. We need the youtube of this. What an ass.

Show me a liberal who isn't confused today and I'll show you someone who either is crooked or isn't paying attention.


More proof that by and large, almost anyone and anything associated with Fox News is as a fair, balanced and un-biased news source as Arctic snow is a great firestarter.

lolol Don't single out Faux, though. You just perfectly described the whole of the modern mainstream media!

[wgadget]

RON PAUL won the NPR 2012 candidate poll....CHECK IT OUT!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2009/04/ron_paul_tops_jim_demint_wins.html

[anaconda]

I distinctly remember several years ago Hannity calling Libertarians confused liberals, he now embraces Libertarian beliefs, which is it douchebag?

::boggle::

A douchebag is a confused NWO operative.

[anaconda]

RON PAUL won the NPR 2012 candidate poll....CHECK IT OUT!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/politicaljunkie/2009/04/ron_paul_tops_jim_demint_wins.html


Cool. But NPR listeners would probably take Paul over any of the others. What does intrigue me about this, however, is that it might be a significant measure of the Ron Paul Revolution's inroads into the left. Which could mean a lot more crossover votes from Democrats in 2012. I still think RP could do some heavy damage in a third party run in 2012. I still think Kucinich/Paul or Paul/Kucinich would be widely popular. Possibly enough to throw the general election into the House of Representatives. Other possible persons joining Ron Paul might make for a popular ticket as well.