From Sam Stein's HuffPo report of the reaction at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to Romney's speech today that he's leaving the race:
"It is like now I have to choose between the left and the radical left," said Jeffrey Goldberg, a Michigan Republican and Romney supporter.
"John McCain's appearance here will be like David Duke going before the NAACP."
wo-boy.lol
That`s pretty cold.
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Romney's introductory speaker, Laura Ingraham, had set the stage by taking digs at McCain, declaring, among other things:
"It is not enough to say you were a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. The question is what have you done for conservatism lately."
And: "An obsession with endless bipartisan compromise does not keep us free."
And Rush.....
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2008/02/05/romney-backpedals-over-bob-dole-comments/
"Rush Limbaugh kept up his relentless criticism of John McCain on Super Tuesday, opening his nationally syndicated radio program with a blast at McCain’s conservative credentials and integrity.
Limbaugh, whose show is heard on 600 stations across the country, accused the McCain camp of being “dishonest,” “insecure” and “resorting to the same kind of politics as Hillary Clinton.”
RUSH: "I understand what you're saying. I hate to tell you this, but she's not alone. I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party, it's going to change it forever, be the end of it. A lot of people aren't going to vote. You watch."
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Limbaugh repeated NewsMax.com's false claim that McCain "admitted that torture worked on him"
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Tom Delay trashes McCain at private event.
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Rush Limbaugh, as befits the grand master, has put it most correctly, and probably first (I don't know for sure, since I don't regularly listen to the other two). The mainstream media is CHOOSING John McCain for the Republican Party, along with the Republican establishment. As I have told you, McCain has sucked up to the mainstream media for 20 YEARS or so, and this is his payback (even though I have also told you that they will abandon him in the general election). I did not come to this view of McCain recently. I formed my view of McCain way back--as a result of his constant, publicity seeking appearances on the old "Imus in the Morning" radio program. McCain has been perfectly willing to TRASH conservatives over this period of some twenty years. The point here is that this week's WINNERS of "the Finger" were perfectly aware of this BEFORE IOWA. Limbaugh, in fact, took on McCain--in favor of the present President Bush--in the 2000 Republican nomination fight.
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What Rick Santorum said:
what Santorum said about McCain to Mark Levin last week: "The bottom line is that I served 12 years with him, 6 years in the United States Senate as leader, one of the leaders of the Senate - the number-three leader - who had the responsibility of trying to put together the conservative agenda, and almost at every turn on domestic policy, John McCain was not only against us, but leading the charge on the other side."
I think some members of the conservative establishment (notably Rush Limbaugh and most of the writers of National Review) are also going off the deep end in their obsessive attacks on John McCain. Rick Santorum, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and Katherine Lopez need to take a chill pill and stop trashing the GOP's potentially strongest general election candidate. And, even though he is not my candidate, they could lay off Mike Huckabee too.
Will the neo-cons fall in line behind someone they despise?
Or will the GOP split into the regular republicans(like McCain) and the neo-con lunatic fringe?
