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Rush Limbaugh 2011: Mitt Romney Not A Conservative; Rush 2008: Mitt Embodies Conservative Stool

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by Tommy Christopher | 7:35 am, October 14th, 2011

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Maybe there’s something in the water now, or there was in 2008, but there seems to be a case of retroactive Romney Fever among conservatives who now think the former Massachusetts governor is the bastard offspring of Phil Donahue and Howard Zinn. The latest victim is conservative megastar Rush Limbaugh, who emphatically declared on Wednesday that “Mitt Romney is not a conservative,” but who, in 2008, said he embodied “all three legs of the conservative stool.”

That’s a hell of an endorsement, coming from a guy who knows conservative stool better than anyone. Now, though, Limbaugh not only says Romney isn’t a conservative, he says it over and over. “Romney is not a conservative. He’s not, folks. You can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn’t….He’s a fine guy. He’s very nice gentleman. He is a gentleman. But he’s not a conservative.”

What changed? The reasons Limbaugh now gives for Romney’s un-stooliness are all things that were true in 2008, when he said Mitt was the embodiment of conservatism.

In 2008, Republicans were faced with a choice between Romney, Sen. John McCain, and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, so Rush can surely argue, like others, that this was a case of putting lipstick on a pig, but then it’s fair to ask which Rush can the Dittoheads trust? Ironic, isn’t it?

As a liberal, I know from holding your nose in the ballot box, I did it in 2004. Rush and co. may be happier with the field this year than they were then, but there’s a big difference between “He’s the best candidate available,” and “(he) embodies all three legs of the conservative stool.”

Here’s the MC Escher-esque audio of Rush Limbaugh flip-flopping about flip-flopper Mitt Romney. Hopefully, the space-time continuum survives:

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2012 Election, Howard Zinn, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Phil Donahue, Rush Limbaugh

Anonymous

That’s a hell of an endorsement, coming from a guy who knows conservative stool better than anyone.

Tommy said it best.
No need for any more comments.
lazzzlo

Interesting headline, especially when coupled with the pic.
Anonymous

You’ve got a picture of the probable next president as an animal .

How about one of the Dem candidate done up as some sort of beast ? Equal time .
Tony the Fist

Plenty of RINOs, but I think the DINOs may be extinct.
Interesting fact about Mitt Romney: in some countries, his nose is thought to be an aphrodisiac.
Strange but true.
Happy Friday, wankers. ;)
Anonymous

Let FOXnews take care of that. They are the balance to all this left wing media bias.
Brincar

Rush has spoken..you know the influence he carries..remember how well Operation Chaos worked..thanks Rush you helped elect Obama….keep talking ViagrOxyMan
Irish189

a political pundit can’t be consistent with their opinions?

Shocker
Rufus Danegro

Well you can blame “El Rusbo” between all the pill popping and young Dominican boys he gets a mite confused.

Happens all the time with this guy.
Anonymous

The Republican dissatisfaction continues.

It looks like Romneycare will probably come back with a vengeance to haunt Mitt as well. Difficult argue it when it was used as a model for Obamacare.

…It should make for an interesting debate.
Brincar

“oh Snerdley..bring the car around front and take Juanita to the Walgreens parking lot”
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002836618324 Michael Kessler

Does this reduce Fats’ accuracy from 99.999% to merely 99,99%?
Anonymous

There he goes again! ‘Ol Brush Himoff, motor mouth, fat-faced addict that he is spewing BS on the Every Idiot Bastard)EIB network! You’d think the people would see how much of a liar he his! Too bad he won’t make himself disappear!
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

This man and the Republican party believe that corporations are people and money is speech. Why would anyone who works for living vote for them is beyond rational thought. But rational thought in the teapublican party is not their strong suit of late, because they have been infected with a cancer that is eating at their core and is causing the rest of the country to fight back in the streets. A real tea party is growing now………
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

This man and the Republican party believe that corporations are people and money is speech. Why would anyone who works for living vote for them is beyond rational thought. But rational thought in the teapublican party is not their strong suit of late, because they have been infected with a cancer that is eating at their core and is causing the rest of the country to fight back in the streets. A real tea party is growing now………
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

Wrong there isn’t plenty of Rino’s since it’s made up so claims are lies. Mitt isn’t Rino never has been will be just like the rest.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

Rush is wrong Mitt Romney is a conservative and Rush isn’t a gate keepper on who is conserative.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Kevin-Pearson/731178130 Kevin Pearson

How does asking people to vote for Hilary help to elect Obama? I don’t understand. Please enlighten me