Sunday, November 02, 2008
Question for my readers:Who did Limbaugh support for president early this year? Way before McCain started doing well. I'm guessing it was either Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson. But was Romney in the mix? Or did Limbaugh not hold any preference? (Although wasn't he anti-McCain until the last moment?)
posted by Quiddity at 11/02/2008 05:15:00 AM
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Googling goes to this hot air article where it seems he endorses Romney.
RUSH: I think now, based on the way the campaign has shaken out, that there probably is a candidate on our side who does embody all three legs of the conservative stool, and that’s Romney. The three stools or the three legs of the stool are national security/foreign policy, the social conservatives, and the fiscal conservatives. The social conservatives are the cultural people. The fiscal conservatives are the economic crowd: low taxes, smaller government, get out of the way.
Of course, the foreign policy crowd is obviously what it is. I don’t think there’s anybody on our side who doesn’t care about national security, which is why I found it amazing that McCain gets the bulk of those, because the idea that Romney or Huckabee are going to punt national security? In Huckabee’s case, you might just say the things he’s saying about it represent an ignorance born of inexperience in the subject. I don’t think Huckabee has any deleterious intentions about the country. When it comes to the fiscal side, you cannot say — you just cannot say — that John McCain is interested. He’s even admitted he’s not interested in the social side. He’s not interested in the economic side. He said this, and when he has spoken up about it, he sides more often with liberal Democrats on fiscal issues than he does with his own side. That’s problematic. This is why I think — and why I have said — that the Republican Party, not conservatism, but the Republican Party is in big trouble if it is empowered and gets elected by attracting people who also hold liberal Democrat views simply because they like McCain because of his character, his honor, his prisoner of war story, and they don’t like Hillary or Obama.
Of course all the other googling shows Limbaugh "endorsing" Hillary (remember that?)
"The three stools or the three legs of the stool..."
That's a telling slip. Three stools is a much more apt analogy than three legs of a stool.
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