Rush Limbaugh Compares Rick Perry To Fidel Castro
Rush Limbaugh Compares Rick Perry To Fidel Castro
Rush Limbaugh lashed out at Rick Perry on Wednesday, comparing the Republican presidential candidate to Fidel Castro for his attacks on Mitt Romney.
Limbaugh has been aghast at the attempts by many GOP hopefuls to tarnish Romney's tenure at Bain Capital, the company he helped found. On Wednesday, he played a clip of Perry strongly criticizing Romney.
After hearing Perry attack so-called "vulture capitalism" and hit Romney for presiding over layoffs at companies Bain helped buy out, Limbaugh was incensed.
"That is indefensible!" he fumed. "It's absurd...this is the language of leftists! This is the way Fidel Castro thinks, or says he thinks."
Keep on attacking each other!!!
Cool first post with new DU editor. I likes it!
= new reply since forum marked as read
Texas Tribune 1/11/12
Perry Takes Heat From GOP Voters On "Vulture" Comments
COLUMBIA, South Carolina — Rick Perry is running into some blowback from voters over his attacks on “multimillionaire” Mitt Romney and the brand of “vulture capitalism” the former Massachusetts governor supposedly practiced at a corporate takeover firm.
Perry’s repeated swipes at Romney’s track record at Bain Capital, which specialized in turning around and in some cases shutting down troubled companies, have largely drawn blank stares at the events the Texas governor has been staging in South Carolina.
After the speeches, some voters have said they don’t understand why turning a buck, as long as it’s done legally and without government bailouts, should haunt a Republican candidate in a staunchly conservative GOP primary. And they worry that the attacks could weaken Romney, who has won the first two contests already, if he clinches the Republican nomination.
“In capitalism there are some winners and some losers. And it’s unfortunate, but that’s how our system works,” said Colleen Morrow, who came to see Perry speak at Doc’s BBQ and Southern Buffet in Columbia on Wednesday. “I’m not going to condemn Romney for that.”
As it turns out, Perry had dropped the line from his speech by the time he got to the event in Columbia. Aides say it had nothing to do with the controversy the remarks have been generating, but Perry didn't say anything about it at a subsequent stop in Aiken, either.
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"Yo soy un hombre sincero de donde crecen las palmas"
"rofl:
Guantanimera!
Oh you made me spray my tea all over my screen!
There's no spray smiley anymore. 
Here ya go! It still works and much deserved by ashling's post. : spray :
I still don't see it in the "smilies" line up from the post editor, but that's great it still works. Wonder why they took it out of the line up. I even checked the second level.
Perry's attacks on Romney don't play well with key conservatives
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Perry's case against Romney and a similar one made by former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich have come under attack from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others who say such criticisms don't belong in a Republican primary.
The pushback against Perry indicates just how poorly his presidential campaign is going. Perry had hoped by now to be heading toward a one-on-one slugfest with the former Massachusetts governor in South Carolina. Instead, he is one of several Republicans hoping to stop a Romney nomination that seems increasingly inevitable. And as that sense of inevitability around Romney builds, key voices on the right are coming to his defense.
"All this talk about sucking the blood out of companies and leaving corpses, limiting how much somebody can make in profits?" Limbaugh said on his radio show Wednesday. "This is the language of leftists. (Filmmakers) Michael Moore and Oliver Stone, they popularized this. This is the way Fidel Castro thinks, or says he thinks."
It's worth noting that Clear Channel Communications, the radio company whose subsidiary has an eight-year contract with Limbaugh, was acquired by Bain and Thomas H. Lee Partners in 2008.
Ha ha - Limpballs is doing the Bain's work. Shilling for Romney indirectly to keep his radio contract.
Incredible. Just incredible.
But what's even MORE incredible is that there are tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of right-wingers fool enough to believe Limbaugh's pronouncement.
The Republicans: Dumbed-down candidates. Dumbed-down discourse. Dumbed-down shills.
All to (Phillips-head) Americans working and surviving middle classes.
Let these clowns destroy one another. Each and everyday these clowns get before a camera, they show Americans just how intellectually challenged , how racist, how mysoginistic, and how misinformed they are. They are full of hypocricy. They want to control women's vaginas.
These people are very sick in the head. They will do anything to get to the pile of shit they are in . 
It's fodder for Democratic Party ads in the coming elections.
From wanting to control women's vaginas, I mean. But sadly I have seen so many backwards steps in the progress women made in prior decades and it makes me so sad. Sad this happened under our watch. I just don't know how to explain this to younger women.
We have failed to protect those basic human rights that women sacrificed to much to obtain for us. 
This was on FB:
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(I confess: I inserted the above info. just so I could use the new formatting tools :
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