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Rush Limbaugh Joins Palin In Condemning Rove’s Critique Of Christine O’Donnell

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Well it looks like the GOP Civil War might be getting even bigger. On the night that Christine O’Donnell won the Republican Primary, Karl Rove rained on her parade by slamming the Sarah Palin backed candidate for being “nutty,” then feeling the right-wing heat himself. This engendered an unusual backlash towards rove from host Sean Hannity and guest Michelle Malkin. Today, Palin joined the anti-Rove chorus only to be joined by Rush Limbaugh.

Writing for Talking Points Memo, Evan McMorris-Santoro reports:

O’Donnell’s nomination has created deep divisions between the Republican Party and right-wing activists. Last night, Rove bashed O’Donnell — and her chances of being elected — and insisted that she’s said a lot of “nutty things.” He was attacked by some right-wingers for those comments. O’Donnell whacked him back in a televised interview this morning. And then Rove responded to O’Donnell and his right-wing critics, daring them to ‘prove me wrong’. Then Palin slammed Rove. Now it’s Limbaugh’s turn.

“If 51 seats was really the objective — if getting the majority is really that important, then let’s go balls to the wall for Christine O’Donnell!” Limbaugh screamed on his radio show today after playing a clip of Rove’s already infamous anti-O’Donnell interview on Hannity last night.

In the clip below you here Limbaugh enthusiastically exclaim “if 51 seats was really the objective — if getting the majority is really that important, then let’s go balls to the wall for Christine O’Donnell!”

He followed with a specific comment about Rove’s appearance on Hannity from last night. “Everyone I know that saw this was just–they were perplexed and said, ‘What’s going on? Why is he so mad at a Republican?’” said Limbaugh, later adding “Where was this anger directed at a Democrat ever?”

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  • murf

    Let’s start it now …

    GOOD BYE .. TOKYO ROVE !

    Hehe

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Rush is right as usual.

  • TfT

    Clearly all the movers and shakers, in the mind of mediaite, live on the right. Nary a word about a single democrat on this board.

    Seems even the lefties who write here recognize who has the power.

    Good job.

  • redleaf

    Gordon, seriously. You’ve admitted listening to 14,000 of Rush’s 15,000 hours of radio programming. For you saying “Rush is right as usual” is like saying the sun will come up tomorrow. Have you ever disagreed with Rush? Is your head so far up his ass that you sit at your radio with a pen and paper scribbling down every brilliant thought and regurgitating it at dinner parties and message boards?

    Can you actually answer the question without asking, “well, um, have you ever disagreed with anything Keith Olbermann has said?”

    I understand that 100% party purity must be maintained, but seriously, have you no mind of your own?

  • The Real Royal King

    Yes, goodbye and good riddance, O’Rove. You’ve done nothing but bring shame, disgrace and defeat to the Republican party. Be gone. Now.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    As much as they want there to be a civil war on the right — and there very well may be one brewing, in an Old School vs. New School manner — there is little mention of the deep schism that exists already on the left. Look at how many candidates running in primaries avoided connections to the President, with a few declining offers to have him stump on their behalf. Few even bragged about the accomplishments of passing health care, and the like.

    If anything there is a reality facing the leaders of the Republican Party that they need a shift in their thinking and start hewing less to party purity and begin going back to the conservative concepts and constitutional thought.

  • The Real Royal King

    redleaf said:
    Gordon, seriously. You’ve admitted listening to 14,000 of Rush’s 15,000 hours of radio programming. For you saying “Rush is right as usual” is like saying the sun will come up tomorrow. Have you ever disagreed with Rush? Is your head so far up his ass that you sit at your radio with a pen and paper scribbling down every brilliant thought and regurgitating it at dinner parties and message boards? Can you actually answer the question without asking, “well, um, have you ever disagreed with anything Keith Olbermann has said?” I understand that 100% party purity must be maintained, but seriously, have you no mind of your own?

    You ought not be so hard on Basil, I mean Gordon. When has Rove ever accomplished anything for the Republican party? Orson, I mean Rush is right and so is Basil, I mean Gordon.

  • The Real Royal King

    MartiniShark said:
    As much as they want there to be a civil war on the right — and there very well may be one brewing, in an Old School vs. New School manner — there is little mention of the deep schism that exists already on the left. Look at how many candidates running in primaries avoided connections to the President, with a few declining offers to have him stump on their behalf. Few even bragged about the accomplishments of passing health care, and the like. If anything there is a reality facing the leaders of the Republican Party that they need a shift in their thinking and start hewing less to party purity and begin going back to the conservative concepts and constitutional thought.

    But, we always have divisions. We’re not the Goose-stepping down the Strasse sort.

  • Big Eddie

    Maharushi is a brilliant , funny man . Who on the the left is his equal ?… Not a soul .

  • The Real Royal King

    Big Eddie said:
    Maharushi is a brilliant , funny man . Who on the the left is his equal ?… Not a soul .

    Well, we certainly have no one as fat or as Viagra addicted.

  • R.I.N.O.

    So, Rush can call “R.I.N.O.s” every name in book, but the second the pragmatists in the GOP (The GOP all the TEA party people claim they do not belong to) bring up the point that with one more Olympia Snow health care would not have passed, we are the Elite Establishment. I have never been to D.C.

    So, Gordon you and Rush donate to O’Donnell’s campaign so she will have money to pay her rent while Coons is in the Senate.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    The Real Royal King said:
    But, we always have divisions. We’re not the Goose-stepping down the Strasse sort.

    How very Godwin of you.

    There’s a difference between divisions, and candidates turning tail and running away from any connection of the President.

  • chucken

    What O’Donnell is going to have to do and has no choice but to answer the litany of rather serious charges made by a GOP heavyweight Karl Rove.You can’t just blow this off and hope it goes away.It does not.If this was a Democract in the same position the Republicans would be pounding this 24/7.The way experienced pols do it is face the firestorm(NOW) take your hits and pray for mercy.And after that say it it is old news.Nothing like a good old media fedding frenzy.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    R.I.N.O. said:
    So, Rush can call “R.I.N.O.s” every name in book, but the second the pragmatists in the GOP (The GOP all the TEA party people claim they do not belong to) bring up the point that with one more Olympia Snow health care would not have passed, we are the Elite Establishment. I have never been to D.C. So, Gordon you and Rush donate to O’Donnell’s campaign so she will have money to pay her rent while Coons is in the Senate.

    Sure that was comparison you wanted? Considering how Snowe voted I fail to see how the GOP needs more of her ilk.

  • The Real Royal King

    MartiniShark said:
    How very Godwin of you. There’s a difference between divisions, and candidates turning tail and running away from any connection of the President.

    All the Marys in Heaven, that happens at some point with every president. Raygun, Poppy, President Clinton, W, President Obama, have all experienced it. With W, it was a deluge.

  • R.I.N.O.

    So, Martini Shark I was wrong about Snowe’s vote on Healthcare?

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    The Real Royal King said:
    All the Marys in Heaven, that happens at some point with every president. Raygun, Poppy, President Clinton, W, President Obama, have all experienced it. With W, it was a deluge.

    Yet it is happening before his second year is even in the bag, while people are still saying, “Give the man a chance to fix things.” I’m not saying it is novel, I’m saying it is happening early, and often.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    You said, “with one more Snowe health care would not have passed.” Except she voted “Yea”. So how does that square?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Andy-Lamb/1085325013 Andy Lamb

    Big Eddie said:
    Maharushi is a brilliant , funny man . Who on the the left is his equal ?… Not a soul .

    The Real Royal King said:
    Well, we certainly have no one as fat or as Viagra addicted.

    Rosie O’Donnell is fatter. Michael Moore is fatter. And Obama must be Viagra addicted, I can imagine no other way he can continue screwing both the economy and the middle class without using it on a daily basis.

  • BatBoy

    Rush is making a good point….

    Count me “all in” on O’Donnell!

    As far as the analysis…”O’Donnell’s nomination has created deep divisions between the Republican Party”

    To borrow a phrase from Mark Twain…The Rumor Of “The Republican Party” Demise Has Been Greatly Exaggerated!

    Wishful thinking just won’t do you libs…sorry!

    “Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept,
    the nomination of my party for another term
    as your President.” Borrowed by Barack Obama, March 31, 2012,
    from LBJ, 3/31/68!

  • R.I.N.O.
  • chucken

    Now we will see the same tired act used by conservatives when one of there own is being accused of very specific and very serious charges.It will be the swift pivot to “What about Rangel”What about Rev Wright”Bill Ayers,Tim Geithner taxes,everything except Christine answer the charges at hand.

  • RazorsEdge

    The Real Royal King said:
    But, we always have divisions. We’re not the Goose-stepping down the Strasse sort.

    RRK. I’m assuming you mean by “we” , that you’re referring to the ‘left’. I’m surprised that you would find some admirable principle in the so called “GOP civil war” even though I’m assuming you disagree with Rove and much of the ‘right’ policies/candidates. Big of you to recognize both the ‘left’ and right’ have divisions frequently (you used the word always) and is acceptable in the political process. Unless you were denouncing the ‘left’ frequent divisions?

    I personally am no Limbaugh fan, but I did not expect you to by insinuation, defend it.

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    R.I.N.O. said:
    I see the roll vote as Snowe as a “Nay” http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00396

    That was the final vote, this March. This time last year however she helped usher it forward from committee, and even received a thanks from the President by name as the lone Republican to break ranks. Got plenty of airtime for that move. One thing Reps don’t need is another centrist political animal more interested in their political survival.

  • http://www.libertarianism.com/ Burnnotice

    let’s go balls to the wall for Christine O’Donnell!”

    Rush. Yer asking a lot out of the RINO Party….. They are done, done, done. They have been exposed for what they are…..

  • R.I.N.O.

    Point taken about the committee vote, however, the Senate vote was on Christmas Eve. However, it does not take away from my point another vote in the Senate would have stopped Healthcare.

  • Jim R

    And quick as a snake Rove turns on the rubes and useful idiots he, Ralph Reed and Jack Abramoff snickered about in getting them to support their Indian casino donors by attacking their competitor across the state line.

    Or when Karl scared the beejebus out of the devoted by running against the gay menace to re-elect the worst President in American history. Did you think they wouldn’t turn on you too, Karl?

  • http://www.nukethefridge.com MartiniShark

    R.I.N.O. said:
    Point taken about the committee vote, however, the Senate vote was on Christmas Eve. However, it does not take away from my point another vote in the Senate would have stopped Healthcare.

    I agree, but with a caveat; not just any Rep would qualify. Take Delaware, where Rove is so upset with the result. Castle had declared he was going to vote in favor of cap-and-trade. So what is the difference between him and a Democrat then? That was part of what ushered O’Donnell into her win.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    redleaf said:
    Gordon, seriously. You’ve admitted listening to 14,000 of Rush’s 15,000 hours of radio programming. For you saying “Rush is right as usual” is like saying the sun will come up tomorrow. Have you ever disagreed with Rush? Is your head so far up his ass that you sit at your radio with a pen and paper scribbling down every brilliant thought and regurgitating it at dinner parties and message boards?

    Why do people that don’t listen to Rush think they know what his show is about? Rush has lambasted many republicans as I have and that includes Bush one and two. I was in politics long before Rush and I was on the radio saying the same things he says before him. I was kicked out of two classes in college because liberal profs didn’t like what I said and what I wrote about JFK and the progressive educations system. That was before Limbaugh left high school. Since Rush and me think alike why would I disagree with him.

    I have had republicans sue me because I had them removed from the S.F. Republican Central Committee. I have also been under attack by RINOS when I was a candidate because I didn’t kow-tow to liberal republicans in S.F. The only person with his head up his ass is YOU. You have no idea what you are talking about.

  • sideboom

    back to the good ole days when ya just wacked a big mouth , no talkin ! then ya went an had breakfast !

  • WildMan

    Karl Rove just needs to go away. He has done enough damage to the Conservative movement. Sean should not keep putting him and Newt on his show. Nobody cares about them two old dinosaurs anymore. Time for us to move forward. And to hell with that no balls opponent of Christine’s. He too is classless…doesn’t even have the guts to congratulate her.

  • JimBob

    Saw Coons on Tingles last night!
    Shoo in for O’Donnell for US Senator from Delaware!
    Guy don’t have a clue! Keith Olbermann and Mr ED the Talking
    Horses ASS have more charisma than this fool, Coons!
    He is toast

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robin-Smith/100000557649698 Robin Smith

    The Real Royal King said:
    Yes, goodbye and good riddance, O’Rove. You’ve done nothing but bring shame, disgrace and defeat to the Republican party. Be gone. Now.

    yes he did that by getting Bush in office

  • Hugo Daun

    The Real Royal King said:
    Well, we certainly have no one as fat or as Viagra addicted.

    Sorry King, but you’re mistaken. The Excruciating Impotent Blimp (EIB) is addicted to oxycontin.

    He uses the viagra for recreation, specifically when he is preying on underage Dominican lady-boys.

  • niniqw12

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  • The Real Royal King

    WildMan said:
    Karl Rove just needs to go away. He has done enough damage to the Conservative movement. Sean should not keep putting him and Newt on his show. Nobody cares about them two old dinosaurs anymore. Time for us to move forward. And to hell with that no balls opponent of Christine’s. He too is classless…doesn’t even have the guts to congratulate her.

    I agree. There is absolutely no room for talent, skill and intelligence in the Reformed Tea Party of the drop Out Governor of Latter Day Republicans.

  • The_Reasonable_Lib

    Rush likes O’Donnell for the same reason he likes Palin; she gives him that special feeling deep down in his pants.

  • bugspot1

    The Real Royal King said:
    I agree. There is absolutely no room for talent, skill and intelligence in the Reformed Tea Party of the drop Out Governor of Latter Day Republicans.

    good humor

  • redleaf

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Why do people that don’t listen to Rush think they know what his show is about? Rush has lambasted many republicans as I have and that includes Bush one and two. I was in politics long before Rush and I was on the radio saying the same things he says before him. I was kicked out of two classes in college because liberal profs didn’t like what I said and what I wrote about JFK and the progressive educations system. That was before Limbaugh left high school. Since Rush and me think alike why would I disagree with him.

    I have had republicans sue me because I had them removed from the S.F. Republican Central Committee. I have also been under attack by RINOS when I was a candidate because I didn’t kow-tow to liberal republicans in S.F. The only person with his head up his ass is YOU. You have no idea what you are talking about.

    In other words, you’re even worse than we thought: you’re the self-appointed Party Purity Police, hunting down and disgracing anyone who doesn’t adhere to your version of conservative mantra. In a sense, I now feel sorry for you, since you seem to spend an inordinate amount of the only life you’ve been given on an angry crusade to rid political discourse of those who don’t think like you. I’m sorry there’s no room in this world for those you disagree with. You are both angry and sad.

  • J Baustian

    Quote: “Writing for Talking Points Memo, Evan McMorris-Santoro reports…”

    Why would you… why would anyone care what someone from TPM has to say on this topic? Unless no one else was discussing the Delaware election results!?

  • Tater Salad

    As a Tea Party member and $$ contributor myself, Carl Rove is out of line on this one. He was an advisor to GWB who also was moderate to right progressive. If Mr. Rove doesn’t want to get on the conservative band wagon and bet this country pointed the “right” direction then he needs to go buy some land in Crawford, Texas and settle down. Having a R.I.N.O. in office like Castle is the same as having a Nancy Pelosi in there times twice.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    Poor ignorant redleaf, I feel sorry for you because no matter what anyone says you change it to what you think they said. You have a real problem don’t you? Keep this in mind, NOBODY cares what YOU think. People don’t even know who you are so you have no influence on anyone. People like you, WHOEVER you are, must learn that when you wax eloquent without real name behind it, it is MEANINGLESS.
    I say what I mean and I put my real name behind it. I don’t hide under my bed like you. I have appeared on tv shows have been a guest on many radio shows because people want to hear what I have to say.
    It is strange that I have not seen or heard anyone named “redleaf”, “Real Royal King” or “bugspot” on any tv or radio show. I wonder why?

  • bugspot1

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Poor ignorant redleaf, I feel sorry for you because no matter what anyone says you change it to what you think they said. You have a real problem don’t you? Keep this in mind, NOBODY cares what YOU think. People don’t even know who you are so you have no influence on anyone. People like you, WHOEVER you are, must learn that when you wax eloquent without real name behind it, it is MEANINGLESS.
    I say what I mean and I put my real name behind it. I don’t hide under my bed like you. I have appeared on tv shows have been a guest on many radio shows because people want to hear what I have to say.
    It is strange that I have not seen or heard anyone named “redleaf”, “Real Royal King” or “bugspot” on any tv or radio show. I wonder why?

    And all of the people you agree with who do not use their real names are Meaningful because YOU say so.
    I bow to you sir.

  • redleaf

    gordonbloyershow said:
    Poor ignorant redleaf, I feel sorry for you because no matter what anyone says you change it to what you think they said. You have a real problem don’t you? Keep this in mind, NOBODY cares what YOU think. People don’t even know who you are so you have no influence on anyone. People like you, WHOEVER you are, must learn that when you wax eloquent without real name behind it, it is MEANINGLESS.
    I say what I mean and I put my real name behind it. I don’t hide under my bed like you. I have appeared on tv shows have been a guest on many radio shows because people want to hear what I have to say.
    It is strange that I have not seen or heard anyone named “redleaf”, “Real Royal King” or “bugspot” on any tv or radio show. I wonder why?

    Those are your best retorts?
    1) I use my real name.
    2) I’ve been on TV.

    If that’s what you tell yourself to give your life a sense of worth, then have at it. But since you’re not refuting the assertions I made in my previous post, I will consider my previous post accurate and you’re just lashing out in wild and desperate fashion. I understand. How sad it must be for you to live in this world. To be the only one with all the answers. If only you were the one who called the shots. If only you had the power and influence over the party that you so desperately crave and feel you deserve. How much better this world would be? How it eats you up inside knowing there are so many people with so many thoughts that conflict with yours. How deluded and stupid they are. Just stupid, stupid children. If only they were as brilliant, incisive and camera-ready as me…

  • bugspot1

    @gordonbloyershow

    Even though on policy you and I would probably agree, when I see EVERY post begin with
    Poor ignorant (insert name here) I will jump to the defense of the person I disagree with

    and when I see this
    gordonbloyershow said:
    The only way to get aids without gay sex is by using drugs with dirty needles.

    I realize you don’t have a clue

    I guess this is where you insert
    marxist, nazi, mao, che, communist, socialist dummy

  • http://none pyrope

    The_Reasonable_Lib said:
    Rush likes O’Donnell for the same reason he likes Palin; she gives him that special feeling deep down in his pants.

    Typical trash from the left wing lunatics.

    What’s your take on getting a “thrill up my leg?”

  • http://none pyrope

    Hugo Daun said:
    Sorry King, but you’re mistaken. The Excruciating Impotent Blimp (EIB) is addicted to oxycontin. He uses the viagra for recreation, specifically when he is preying on underage Dominican lady-boys.

    Another liberal class act.

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