Is this true? Limbaugh attacking McCain?

[SlipperySlope]

Somehow I overlooked that this had happened. Probably because I usually don't give a crap about these people:

From: http://mediamatters.org/columns/200802120001

Rush Limbaugh, the marauding Frankenstein's monster of the Republican Party, is on the loose again, causing all kinds of political damage with his signature off-balance swings. But as has become his custom recently, the pain from Limbaugh's rampage is being felt by his creators -- his enablers -- inside the GOP.

Limbaugh and the rest of his get-John McCain brain trust -- Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Michelle Malkin, and campus instigator Ann Coulter -- have been tripping over themselves to get in front of a microphone (preferably a television one) to denounce the Republican Party's presumptive nominee and to suggest that perhaps conservatives should even vote Democratic come November.

If so, this is just delicious!

[ingac70]

1. Oh, yeah...

RW Radio has been whining about him since the SC primary.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Since McCain is winning so many primaries,

it is really showing that the influence of these rwing talkers is waning.

[Olney Blue]

4. But of course, they would never see that!

[yellowcanine]

3. Oh yeah this has been going on for awhile. One of the "pubbie blondes"

even said she would vote for Hillary over McCain - don't remember if it was Laura I or Anne Coulter - probably the latter.

Hannity has been hedging of late I believe.

[SlipperySlope]

5. Well ha-ha on them.

I hope they self destruct and all the fundies stay home for the election. Better yet, I hope they go out and vote "D" to spite the pugs.

[AlinPA]

6. It's all a fake show. The rpigs will be out in full force in November. McCain has

not yet waved the cross, bashed the gay people enough or waved the flags enough. By October all you will see will be crosses and flags. With Huckabee as his running mate, they will introduce constitutional amendments declaring gay people non-citizens and to eliminate science from schools replacing it with bible study.

[yellowcanine]

7. I am not so sure. McCain really has made a significant number of enemies in the

ranks of the conservatives.

He has really trashed the fundies.

Campaign finance reform.

Immigration.

Flirting with the idea of running as Kerry's running mate.

I have heard all of these cited over and over again by the RW blowhards as evidence of McCain's perfidy to the causes that conservatives hold dear. One common meme is "We can afford to sit it out for four years and go for a real conservative in 2012. We did it in 1976 and we got Reagan in 1980." Never mind that 2008 is about as much like 1976 as it is about 1936. These guys are true believers and really don't care.

[AlinPA]

10. OK, but he first spoke out against the Robertsons and Falwells and then sucked

up to them by going to their school in VA.

[tularetom]

8. I think they truly want Hillary to win

They are drooling over the prospect of at least 4 more years of a Clinton administration to trash. Should be very lucrative for them. They all made a shitload of money off the Clinton administration in the 90's and they are looking forward to a new payday. These people do not give a rats ass about ideology or policy. They make money getting the yokels pissed off.

[dysfunctional press]

11. bingo.

they've been drooling over the prospect for the past 8 years.

[yellowcanine]

12. Yes they are afraid Obama will be the Democratic equivalent of Reagan and

pull in a lot of moderate Republicans and independents. And of course he will. They would rather have Hillary because they figure they can scapegoat and demonize her more easily.

[tularetom]

13. No I think they want her to be President not just the nominee

they know that bush has left a big stinky mess which will take more than one term for any president to clean up. They can sit back and take pot shots at her for four years knowing she has an uphill battle ahead of her. It will be just like the 90's when they made tons of money trashing Clinton and his admin. They really have no policy preference they can just make more money getting the dumshits all riled up. It'll be just like the good ol days for Rush, Ingram Coulter & co.

[malaise]

9. Well the entire Bush gang is backing him

There's Kay Bailey-Hutchison. 'uglying up my TeeVee. :puke:

I hope they have a fight on live TeeVee.

[salin]

14. By early Spring (one month) they will all be supporting McCain

it is as predictable as Arlen Spector - making noise then rolling over for Bush.