Limbaugh Says He'll Fundraise For Hillary...

[CatWoman]

Rush Limbaugh is ready to do his part for the GOP by putting on his own fundraiser. Even if that fundraiser is for the only politician that he believes can unite the party -- Hillary Clinton.

From today's show:

RUSH: All right, folks, I need to ask you a question, personal question from me to you. Do I sound like I need cheering up here? I'm getting e-mails from friends, "Boy, you sound like you could use a little cheering up." And they're sending me these stupid little Internet jokes, "for you to smile," like an Internet joke would cheer me up. Spam would cheer me up. But do I sound like I need to be cheered up? I can't wait 'til the Drive-Bys get hold of my thought, my consideration of helping Hillary raise money. They'll miss the reason. They'll just publicize, "Limbaugh is so upset at Romney getting out, he's thinking of raising money for Hillary, period."


But the reason for raising money for Hillary is because that apparently my party is relying on fear and loathing of Hillary to get the nomination, to unite Republicans, who are, some of them, off the reservation. The Republicans do not seem to be relying on leadership in their party to unite the party. They seem to be relying on all these external things, nobody is going to vote for Hillary, negative turnout factor. What if she's not the nominee? We've got make sure she's the nominee if the Republican Party is to be unified. What more loyal thing could I do than to run a fundraiser for Mrs. Clinton? You watch, though, you watch how that will be questioned.

Limbaugh said yesterday that "if Obama is the nominee, we are doomed, and you should get ready and prepared for it now," and previewed what he thinks will be the Democratic arguments against McCain:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/07/limbaugh-says-hell-fundr_n_85593.html

[Thrill]

1. They want Hillary bad. Why do you think Newt has been claiming

Hillary is going to be President since last summer

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Are you for real?

:eyes:

[Thrill]

10. Yes Newt has been saying since

Last summer Hillary is going to be President.

[jasmine621]

8. Bill and Hillary already beat Newt and his ilk TWICE!!! nt

[Tatiana]

19. Actually, since 2005.

New odd couple: Hillary Clinton and Newt Gingrich
By Raymond Hernandez Published: SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2005
WASHINGTON: What do Newt Gingrich and Hillary Rodham Clinton want from each other?

In the 1990s, these two rivals stood on nearly opposite ends of the political spectrum, with him leading the assault on the Clinton presidency and helping derail the ambitious health care plan she championed.

But oddly enough, something has changed since then, and it has people talking.

Gingrich, the former Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, has been working alongside the wife of former President Bill Clinton, now a Democratic senator from New York, on a number of issues, and even appeared with her at a press conference on Wednesday to promote - of all things - health care legislation.

But more puzzling than that, Gingrich has been talking up Clinton's presidential prospects in 2008, to the chagrin of conservative loyalists who once regarded him as an iconic figure. Last month, he even suggested she might capture the presidency, saying "any Republican who thinks she's going to be easy to beat has a total amnesia about the history of the Clintons."

What gives? For Clinton, standing side-by-side with her husband's onetime nemesis gives her the chance to burnish her credentials among the moderates she has been courting during her time in the Senate.

But in recent comments, she portrayed the rapprochement as one born of shared policy interests, not calculated politics.

"I know it's a bit of an odd-fellow, or odd-woman, mix," she said. "But the speaker and I have been talking about health care and national security now for several years, and I find that he and I have a lot in common in the way we see the problem."

(more....)

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/13/news/clinton.php

[Benhurst]

2. Yeah, if Limbaugh says it, it must be true.

If you can't trust Rush Limbaugh, who can you trust?

[mitchum]

What's he gonna do to raise funds? Set up a sucking booth?

[CatWoman]

9. nah

he's selling custom made butt-plugs :)

[mitchum]

12. I don't even want to think about his quality control testing...

for those items :)

[CatWoman]

14. rofl

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

16. Lim-bungs? n/t

[BeyondGeography]

3. She's good for business

in fact, there's nothing better.

[Nitrogenica]

4. My gut tells me this is a ruse.

I definitely have no reason to think anything Rush says is real.

[Submariner]

5. Is that druggie child-sex pervert still on the air?

Has this country no shame?

[busymom]

7. Life has been great with for Rush these last several years...

I think that there is a great chance that Obama will lose the General Election (one of my big reasons for not supporting him). The republicans and MSM have pushed him too hard and I think part of that has to do with the republican's electile dysfunction this year. Limbaugh made his career hating on democrats and I think he'll be ruined by a McCain presidency.....What will O'Reilly, Hannity, Coulter and Limbaugh have to complain about, write books about and shoot independent films over if not for a Clinton....

[Thrill]

15. NOT

Ann Coulter, Rush, Newt, etc......Have been pushing Hillary. Bill Bennett is her personal Cheerleader on CNN. Wake up. No one energizes their base more the Bill and Hillary Clinton.

[Colobo]

11. Go Rush! Campaign for Hillary!

[mtnsnake]

13. Surrre, Rush. Like we really believe you when you say you're doomed if Obama is the nominee. lmao

[Mr.Fitzgibbons]

24. This is exactly what I was thinking when I first heard this -- is Rush capable of reverse psychology

It seems to me that he protested his fear of Obama a bit too enthusiastically.

[mtnsnake]

26. Welcome to DU, Fitz

[whatchamacallit]

17. She's win/win for the republicans - easier to beat or most likely to keep PNAC alive if she wins n/t

[DemGa]

18. Rush is not saying Obama is formidable in any sense

He's saying that the republican party is in such disarray, they will only come together in opposition to Hillary. He's faulting the Repugs for having no internal direction. It's essentially sarcasm pointing out the weakness of the Repugs.

This may seem obvious to some, but Rush is using some seriously twisted logic on his poor listeners.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

20. AHAHAHA. only if he promises to pole dance

[sjdnb]

21. I think the GOP is scared s/l of Hillary ....

which is why they keep trying to undermine her by indicating their support. They think we are that gullible.

They're probably fearful of Obama, too, but not as much.

They've demonized both Clintons since the beginning - both are a successful, intelligent, popular, politicians who happen to be Democrats and support those principles. There's nothing scarier than that if your a Republican.

[GoldieAZ49]

22. Carl Rove - Clinton will win the nominee

He just went through the delegate count, did the math, O will do well the rest of this month, and raise more money than H, but come March 4 H takes OH and TX

also some of the states O won, Idaho and Utah, ND will never go dem in the GE

This is his game, politics & elections, really a bummer

[Kermit77]

29. Both Karl and Bush have been proclaiming Hillary the nominee since May 07

Karl and Bush are just licking their chops waiting for us to nominate Hillary. They know that if we nominate Obama they are through.

Don't pay attention to what Karl says. He is just cheerleading for his GOP "get out the vote" mascot - HILLARY.
:yoiks:

[mmonk]

23. He already does.

[Crooked Moon]

25. limbaugh is, and has always been, about limbaugh.

my suspicion is that limbaugh foolishly bet the ranch on romney and has trashed mccain so thoroughly that there is no escape from eating a lot of crow in order to line up behind mccain. and he can't do that.

i also suspect, but could not track down the ratings to prove it, is that limbaugh's ratings (and therefore his income) were higher when he was a voice of opposition and that, somewhere, in his tangled psychological web of idiocy, he yearns for hillary as a foe for four years, during which time he can put any move to the left on her part under a microscope and then pretend to be a potential kingmaker by pushing romney again for 2012.

the beauty of it all for him is that he can do all this by playing the self-righteous arch-conservative who can't sell out to mccain.

far-fetched perhaps, but i can't imagine a scenario where he basically has to come out and say he was wrong about mccain. his credibility, such as it is, is on the line in a big way.

[rasputin1952]

27. You almost got it, Limbaugh backed Thompson, saw him as

the "white Knight" of conservatism, and he used Romney as a back-up plan.

When Fred went dead, he figured Romney would pick up and take off, he was wrong. Bashing McCain all over the place, he has no where else to go, if he backs McCain now, he'll look like the complete idiot he is. He backed the wrong horse, plain and simple, and both Thompson and Romney thought Limbaugh's veiled endorsements would mean something....they did, they meant that those that hear Limbaugh don't necessarily listen to Limbaugh, something he has never figured out.

The GOP is standing at the head of the grave bush dug for it, they are about to jump in, and Limbaugh is trying to keep some semblance of "respect" by giving the GOP CPR via the wrong orifice.

[Crooked Moon]

28. indeed.

[lwcon]

30. A more honest title for your post would be...

"Rush Limbaugh hearts Obama."

I've turned his show on a few times in recent weeks, and he's constantly praising "Barry," and giving him advice on how to beat Hillary.

Oh, but that's supposed to reflect badly on Hillary. Sure.

[O.M.B.inOhio]

31. Didn't the Repukes' unofficial mouthpieces say they hopes Dean got the 2004 nomination?

... because Howard Dean would be such an easy opponent to defeat? Nonsense.

Didn't they act so afraid of Kerry? Their narrative was that our Herman Munster candidate was the most likely to defeat their Good Ol' Boy character? (Kerry did win, but barely.)

Now, is it more likely that the people who want the GOP to win are going to broadcast their strategy and honest assessment, or that they are going to deliver carefully orchestrated talking points?

Oh, and Lieberman said that he had it on good authority from an Australian government source that a high-level GOP strategist said that Joe was the only "Democrat" candidate that the Bush saw afraid of?

[Yossariant]

32. Thanks again, Rush.

:hi: