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	<title>Obama&#039;s Enemies List: A Growing List of Obama&#039;s Enemies &#187; Rush Limbaugh</title>
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		<title>Michael Medved Wants A Different Conservative Base</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What is it with Salem Radio&#8217;s major hosts? Geez. You want to find out what the Romney campaign thinks, flip on Michael Medved or Hugh Hewitt or a number of the other Salem Radio hosts and you&#8217;ll find a host fully in line with Mitt Romney and fully out of step with the bulk of the conservative movement. In fact, it is striking to find Salem&#8217;s radio hosts so in the tank for Romney when the top radio shows in the country from Rush Limbaugh to Sean Hannity to Glenn Beck to Mark Levin to Neal Boortz to Laura Ingraham have all either stayed on the sidelines or gone largely against Romney. And if being out of step with the larger conservative movement on this issue weren&#8217;t enough, Michael Medved has decided to trot out the newest pro-Romney talking point with some serious condescension. You see, it is not Mitt Romney. It is you hicks, rubes, and idiots that are to blame. &#8220;Dammit, why won&#8217;t you like him??!!??&#8221; Medved comes close to asking. Mitt Romney has not changed. You people have! This follows an earlier Michael Medved lament where he threw out every straw man he could at both Rush Limbaugh and me in the name of defending his Massachusetts Moderate. Most interesting, in that earlier opinion piece Medved claimed the Republican Party had to abandon conservatism to win in 2012. This time around, Medved claims Romney actually is a conservative. It&#8217;s just conservatives have become radically conservative. He seems to be shifting positions as often as Mitt Romney. To paraphrase Bertolt Brecht&#8217;s &#8220;The Solution,&#8221; it seems a lot of Romney&#8217;s ardent supporters have viewed the base of the Republican Party and decided the base should be replaced with a new base rather than admit the their candidate is the problem. Many Romney backers, as indicative of Medved&#8217;s latest column, do seem to want another conservative base instead of the one that exists since the majority of the one that exists keeps rejecting their candidate of choice. To believe Michael Medved we must accept that Mitt Romney has not changed since 2008, but rather the party has changed. Except Romney has morphed on immigration (again), taxes (again), has scaled back his language on conservatism and is, in fact, running very much as John McCain did in 2008. We must also ignore the fact that more of the base was focused on Giuliani, McCain, Huckabee, and Thompson in 2008 than on Romney. Medved may have been consistently for Romney as a lot of Republican oriented opinion leaders have been, but the base never was. Romney supporters who claim Romney has been wholly vetted forget that in 2008 all eyes were on Giuliani till his collapse, shifted quickly to Fred Thompson, and then spent a good deal of time dealing with the unexpected rise of Huckabee. Romney is only just now being more fully vetted by conservative voters. A lot of the opinion leaders who supported Romney in 2008 and reject him now supported him in 2008 as a way to stop McCain and also did not expect the post 2008 Romney to revert to a brand of Massachusetts moderation. In fact, it is largely accepted that Mitt Romney is running from McCain&#8217;s play book this time while in 2008 he ran against and to the right of John McCain. That the base of the party sees it, resents it, and has redoubled their distrust in Romney because of it, Medved not only does not see it, but drips with condescension at the base because of his willful blinders. About the only thing we can learn from Michael Medved&#8217;s piece is that the Romney campaign serves up some powerful kool-aid. But hey, at least now Medved doesn&#8217;t think we should abandon conservatism in favor of moderation. No, now it is that Mitt Romney has always been conservative and the rest of us are just too radical now. ]]></description>
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		<title>Thank Him, Santorum!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Remember Rick Santorum, the neb who finished a distant third in Florida 's king-making primary last week? There was a lot of buzz about him after that outcome, mostly speculation about whether he should walk off into the Sunshine State sunset. He had only one victory, in tiny Iowa, and even that one was retroactive, announced weeks after the voting. He had no money, no rich backers, no famous billionaires with comb-overs to offer him apprenticeships. And he definitely needed to lose that lame sweater vest. The pundits wrote him off and I was prepared to accept their verdict… until the Limbaugh endorsement. Suddenly, Santorum has a head of steam and he is pulling ahead of his team of competitors. Minnesota minimizes Mitt! Missouri misses the Romney bus! Colorado colors in Santorum! "Wait a second. What are you talking about? Everyone knows Rush Limbaugh does not endorse candidates!" "I didn't say he did. I was referring to the David Limbaugh endorsement." "HUH?!" IT IS TRUE THAT RUSH LIMBAUGH has a long-standing practice of refraining to choose sides in primary elections. That is a good plan for a man who holds a position of public trust as an arbiter of a particular set of values. His job is to lay out principles that others can apply to life situations. If he starts telling people what to do, he becomes a private-sector version of big government: a know-it-all who figures out other people's lives for them. Every four years during the primaries season, people call in begging him to jump on one of the horses in the Republican race, and he wisely holds back. This time around things are different. Barack Obama has lied about many things but he has been truthful in his terrifying Inauguration promise to "remake" America. It may be too late to undo much of the damage he has wrought but one thing is fairly certain: giving him another term will guarantee a legacy of deep systemic damage to this nation. The pressure was building on Rush to accept that this time was the exception that proves the rule. When Rome is burning, Nero cannot be fiddling.]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Links – February 2, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Today is February 2nd. On this date in 1863, Mark Twain was &#8220;born.&#8221; Which is to say, Samuel Clemens (born November 30, 1835) used the pen name for the first time. Also on this date, Buenos Aires was founded, and New York City was incorporated (at the time named New Amsterdam), in 1536 and 1653 respectively. Today would also be Ayn Rand&#8217;s 107th birthday. If she weren&#8217;t dead. Which she is. Thanks a lot, OBAMA ! And finally, we would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t note that today is Groundhog Day. And finally, we would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t note that today is Groundhog Day. And finally, we would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t note that today is Groundhog Day. Links, Open Thread , etc. Mitt Makes Himself a Target Again &#124; Rush Limbaugh &#8220;But I even have a problem with this in context. &#8216;I&#8217;m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.&#8217; The safety net is one of the biggest cultural problems we&#8217;ve got! We had better be worried about it &#8230;&#8221; Calls Confirm Planned Parenthood Misleads on Offering Mammograms &#124; LifeNews.com &#8220;Every one of the Planned Parenthood centers admitted they could not do mammograms. Every Planned Parenthood, without exception, tells the women calling that they will have to go elsewhere for a mammogram, and many clinics admit that no Planned Parenthood clinics provide this breast cancer screening procedure.&#8221; Indiana: the Nation’s 23rd Right to Work State &#124; Hoosier Access &#8220;After over 40 hours of testimony, debate, and discussion over the past year House Bill (HB) 1001, Employee’s Right to Work passed the Indiana House of Representatives last week and today passed the State Senate.&#8221; Obama: Biblical principles prompted me to push for Dodd-Frank and Obamacare &#124; Hot Air I think I speak for everyone when I say &#8230; THEOCRAT!!!!11!!!!! Today&#8217;s Word of the Day comes from Dictionary.com , and applies to so much in politics. peroration (per-uh-REY-shuhn): noun 1. A long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language. 2. Rhetoric The concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force. ]]></description>
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		<title>Daily Links – February 2, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Today is February 2nd. On this date in 1863, Mark Twain was &#8220;born.&#8221; Which is to say, Samuel Clemens (born November 30, 1835) used the pen name for the first time. Also on this date, Buenos Aires was founded, and New York City was incorporated (at the time named New Amsterdam), in 1536 and 1653 respectively. Today would also be Ayn Rand&#8217;s 107th birthday. If she weren&#8217;t dead. Which she is. Thanks a lot, OBAMA ! And finally, we would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t note that today is Groundhog Day. And finally, we would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t note that today is Groundhog Day. And finally, we would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t note that today is Groundhog Day. Links, Open Thread , etc. Mitt Makes Himself a Target Again &#124; Rush Limbaugh &#8220;But I even have a problem with this in context. &#8216;I&#8217;m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there.&#8217; The safety net is one of the biggest cultural problems we&#8217;ve got! We had better be worried about it &#8230;&#8221; Calls Confirm Planned Parenthood Misleads on Offering Mammograms &#124; LifeNews.com &#8220;Every one of the Planned Parenthood centers admitted they could not do mammograms. Every Planned Parenthood, without exception, tells the women calling that they will have to go elsewhere for a mammogram, and many clinics admit that no Planned Parenthood clinics provide this breast cancer screening procedure.&#8221; Indiana: the Nation’s 23rd Right to Work State &#124; Hoosier Access &#8220;After over 40 hours of testimony, debate, and discussion over the past year House Bill (HB) 1001, Employee’s Right to Work passed the Indiana House of Representatives last week and today passed the State Senate.&#8221; Obama: Biblical principles prompted me to push for Dodd-Frank and Obamacare &#124; Hot Air I think I speak for everyone when I say &#8230; THEOCRAT!!!!11!!!!! Today&#8217;s Word of the Day comes from Dictionary.com , and applies to so much in politics. peroration (per-uh-REY-shuhn): noun 1. A long speech characterized by lofty and often pompous language. 2. Rhetoric The concluding part of a speech or discourse, in which the speaker or writer recapitulates the principal points and urges them with greater earnestness and force. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rush Should Credit Andy McCarthy, Not Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Morning Briefing for February 1, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ RedState Morning Briefing For February 1, 2012 Go to www.RedStateMB.com to get the Morning Briefing every morning at no charge. 1. Susan G. Komen Listened. Have You Responded? 2. The Fat Lady Hasn’t Sung, But She’s Warming Up 3. The Bad Messaging of the Newt Gingrich Super PAC 4. The Inconvenient Constitution &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- 1. Susan G. Komen Listened. Have You Responded? Yesterday, the Susan G. Komen Foundation announced it would stop giving money to Planned Parenthood. Conservatives have been pushing on this issue for a while. As a result of the announcement, the left has gone on the attack. It is important that you who wanted Komen to do this say thank you. You can email them at news@Komen.org . More importantly, you can donate to them . If you are not willing to support an organization that takes a stand you want when they come under attack, you cannot be surprised when less organizations listen to you. So say thank you . Please click here for the rest of the post. 2. The Fat Lady Hasn’t Sung, But She’s Warming Up If I were a national Republican operative, I’d be very worried about tonight. If I were a Mitt Romney fan, I’d be ecstatic. The Romney win in Florida was huge. He won the hispanic vote. He split tea party activists and evangelicals. He won where people live. Gingrich won the panhandle and largely tied in the few northern Florida population centers, but it was Romney’s night. He is on the way toward the nomination. The fat lady is warming up. But it is not a done deal yet. He still has a fractured base and lost the heart of the base. He has trouble with tea party activists and evangelicals though he roughly tied with Gingrich in capturing their support, and he has trouble with strong conservatives. Nonetheless, his get out the vote operation was a phenomenal success and the 15 to 1 advertising ratio in his favor clinched it for him. Ron Brownstein has a solid analysis on Romney’s win. It is worth nothing that in the last week of the race only 0.1% of advertising was pro-Romney and roughly 70% was anti-Gingrich. The panhandle held for Gingrich, which is more typical of a number of upcoming primaries than the rest of the state. Here’s why I’d be nervous if I were a GOP operative. Please click here for the rest of the post. 3. The Bad Messaging of the Newt Gingrich Super PAC I was surprised to land in Miami today for CNN’s coverage of the Florida Presidential Preference Primary and hear one Newt Super PAC ad over and over. I heard it on rock stations. I heard it on Rush Limbaugh. I heard it on a sports talk station. It attacked Mitt Romney for abortion. Abortion. In a state with a massive housing crisis and a state that led the way in the fight on Obamacare, the Newt Super PAC decided to run ads in Miami, FL on abortion. There is just one ad that the Newt Super PAC needs to run and that the Newt campaign itself needs to run. They need to take Rick Santorum’s attack on Romneycare from the CNN Jacksonville, FL debate and turn it into a commercial. Please click here for the rest of the post. 4. The Inconvenient Constitution As a United States Senator, I have sworn an oath to support, defend, and bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. Complying with this Oath is not always convenient. Sometimes this requires voting against legislation that embodies policies I agree with, other times it requires taking a stand when doing so may not be popular. The Constitution itself is not a document of convenience. It specifies an onerous process – bicameralism and presentment – with which the government must comply to enact legislation. And it imposes separation of government powers and a system of checks and balances between the different branches. Please click here for the rest of the post. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Bad Messaging of the Newt Gingrich Super PAC</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I was surprised to land in Miami today for CNN&#8217;s coverage of the Florida Presidential Preference Primary and hear one Newt Super PAC ad over and over. I heard it on rock stations. I heard it on Rush Limbaugh. I heard it on a sports talk station. It attacked Mitt Romney for abortion. Abortion . In a state with a massive housing crisis and a state that led the way in the fight on Obamacare, the Newt Super PAC decided to run ads in Miami, FL on abortion. There is just one ad that the Newt Super PAC needs to run and that the Newt campaign itself needs to run. They need to take Rick Santorum&#8217;s attack on Romneycare from the CNN Jacksonville, FL debate and turn it into a commercial. Costs are up in Massachusetts. People wait 44 days to see a doctor. And Mitt Romney considers his brainchild such a success he once wanted it as a model for the nation. Run that over and over and over. Spending that much money on an abortion attack on Romney in Florida should warrant Sheldon Adelson getting a refund. ]]></description>
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		<title>Florida: The more things change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ [Posted by Karl] On the eve of the Florida primary, RCP&#8217;s Scott Conroy  reports on increased support for Mitt Romney among the Sunshine State&#8217;s Hispanic community.  Conroy&#8217;s story is corroborated by the weekend&#8217;s  Miami Herald/Mason-Dixon poll , which has this pivotal demographic breaking for Romney over Newt Gingrich by a 52-28% margin.  This split echoes the 2008 primary in which McCain tied Romney among non-Hispanics, but won approximately 54% of the Hispanic vote.  Indeed, Rudy Giuliani was the second-place candidate for Hispanics; Romney was a distinct third. Thus, it appears that for a second cycle, Florida Republicans will likely back the nominally establishment candidate over the nominally non-establishment candidate, due in large part to the Hispanic vote.  &#8220;Nominally&#8221; is the key term here, as the former Governor can argue he is less of the Beltway than the former Speaker of the House.  Nevertheless, perception often passes for reality in politics . Moreover, the degree to which the GOP elders have sided with Romney over Gingrich is a reality, and Newt (for all his heresies) arguably has more conservative policy achievements to claim than Romney. Yet the similar dynamic does not produce an identical result.  For all of the grief Romney gets &#8212; much of it justified, imho &#8212; the right should take stock of where Florida and the GOP stand now when compared to 2008.  In the last cycle, East Coast moderate neocons like Jennifer Rubin was flacking for John McCain over Mitt Romney, but now flacks for Romney.  Conversely, grassroots talkers like Rush Limbaugh were backing Romney as the conservative alternative to McCain in 2008, but now back Gingrich over Romney. If Romney wins the Florida primary as expected, some on the right will surely grumble about the party apparat having its way again.  But the apparat is arguably having to accept more conservative candidates as time goes on. &#8211;Karl ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;An Absolutely Stunning Piece&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>richwas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ That's what Rush Limbaugh has called Jeff Lord's Elliott Abrams item posted below, spending the entire first half hour of his show today discussing and reading from the item, which certainly raises disappointing questions about Abrams. Was he used, or has he simply forgotten neoconservative history? Hard to imagine a great neoconservative doing the latter. ]]></description>
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		<title>Stalking the Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cougar01</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What do Rush Limbaugh and I have in common? Well, besides for similar political beliefs, mutual friends and determination not to put weight on in middle age. Survey says: we are both "A voters" in the rolls of registered Republicans in Florida, which means our phones are ringing off the hook all day. An "A voter" is an inside-baseball campaign term for people who have voted in 4 of the last 5 elections, including primaries. Back in 1992, Rush got in trouble when it was revealed that he was not registered to vote. Since then he never misses a chance to cast a ballot. I had made similar mistakes, first scheduling an intercontinental trip that prevented me from voting for George H.W. Bush in 1988 and then moving from Ohio to Florida in late 2000 so that I wound up unable to cast a vote for George W. Bush in either state. Now I am a fanatic penitent who never misses a vote on any level of government. The campaigns pay big money to get those A lists (although I'm neither sure why they are difficult to obtain nor who compiles them in such an inimitable way), complete with phone numbers, and then subject them to a bombardment of telephonic persuasion. Apparently Santorum and Paul have no money, or prefer to spend it in less intrusive ways, so all week long Rush and I -- if the A list includes his unlisted number -- are being stalked by robotic voices. "Do you have doubts about Mitt Romney? So do I. Mitt was involved in creating a system in Massachusetts similar to Obamacare…" (sound of phone crashing) "Newt Gingrich says he was close to Ronald Reagan? Reagan only mentions Newt once in his diary, saying Newt's approach would not work…" (sound of phone smashing). "Mitt Romney says he is pro-life. When he was running for Governor of Massachusetts, he said he would honor the state's pro-choice laws…" (sound of teeth gnashing). "Newt Gingrich has lied so much about Mitt Romney's record that our Senator, Marco Rubio, was forced to come out publicly and call him on it…" (sound of teeth clashing). To make things even more confusing, the PAC backing Mitt is called Restoring Our Future and the PAC helping Newt is called Winning Our Future. Half of the messages come from these outfits, with the disclaimer that no candidate approved, and the other half come from the campaigns themselves, with the candidates signing off by announcing their approval of this message. On one episode of Jeopardy, the local ABC affiliate created a supreme version of equal time by running the Gingrich and Romney ads back-to-back. All in all they sound equally daft, they all skate right on the outer edge of accuracy, and it does not take long for their messages to blur together, the approved with the unapproved, both earning our disapproval. To think that people work hard to produce millions of dollars and then turn them over to these politicians who turn them over to these ad agencies and media networks seems like the epitome of futility. I guess before the dogs race to chase the bone, they must first race to chase their tails. The debate in Jacksonville on Thursday night told me more about this race in five minutes than five hours of this phone nonsense. People have complained about the surfeit of debates, but I welcome them ahead of nonsense ads. I'm for 'em; they are a wonderful forum. Both Gingrich and Romney acquitted themselves well, most notably when they stood up to a Palestinian-American Republican and told him fearlessly that the Palestinians are the problem, not the Israelis. Rick Santorum was passionate and articulate as well, and my voting decision will be based on the substance of their views. So you folks can stop calling me because I have already decided to vote for… wait, why should I tell YOU? ]]></description>
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