Responding to Cornyn, Limbaugh urges audience not to forget "that the Democrat Party was and is vicious"
LIMBAUGH: The bash-Rush -- the pass key for RINO Republicans to get glowing media treatment -- works for Colin Powell, it worked for Tom Ridge, and it's now working for John Cornyn, a person from -- I'm probably going to embarrass him by saying this, but I was asked by friends to do a fundraiser for Senator Cornyn when he was running, and I did -- flew to Texas and I did it. Yesterday on NPR, John Cornyn was asked this question: "We've heard Rush Limbaugh. We've heard the Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calling Sonia Sotomayor a racist, saying that she should withdraw." I didn't say that, Newt did, but that's the question. "What do you make of the rhetoric that's tumbling out of these people these days, Senator Cornyn?"
CORNYN [audio clip]: I think it's terrible. This is not the tone that any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional abilities of advice and consent. Neither one of these men are elected Republican officials. I just don't think it's appropriate. I certainly don't endorse it. I think it's wrong.
LIMBAUGH: All right, now we'll talk about this in detail as the program unfolds here. But we can not forget something here, ladies and gentlemen -- that is that the Democrat Party was and is vicious.
From a May 28 post to Ben Smith's Politico blog:
"I think it's terrible. This is not the kind of tone that any of us want to set when it comes to performing our constitutional responsibilities of advice and consent," Cornyn told NPR's "All Things Considered" of the attack on Sotomayor as "racist."
"Neither one of these men are elected Republican officials," he said of Gingrich and Limbaugh. "I just don't think it's appropriate and I certainly don't endorse it. I think it's wrong."
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Rush is this > < close to completely losing it.
The racist smear is falling apart in record time.
And we can not forget something else here, ladies and gentlemen -- that is that Rush Limabugh was and is a big fat idiot.
(Al Franken was right.) :-)
Keep it up Limbaugh - represent the GOP as angry, bitter people who want the President to fail.
Democrats... vicious? Pfffffft!
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Then again Texas has a healthy amount of Hispanics there. He might not backtrack since his career is literally on the line if he follows Dear Leader too far. Limbaugh loses nothing trashing minorities and women, he still has his fat contract and McMansion to lay back on. Republicans in office loses everything because the demographics isn't what it use to be, with Obama single-handedly destroying the Southern Strategy. Getting the "angry white man" vote is not enough to win elections anymore. Republicans better step up and steer their party to where they want it to go, rather than allowing wealthy, egomaniac entertainers like Limbaugh dictating its future.
This particular non-sequitor is so out there that it's obvious Rush is losing it. He may well have made himself irrelevant by this time next week if, indeed, he hasn't been led away in a straitjacket.