"Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday that there was plenty of “sadness and disappointment” among the country’s conservative ranks after Rick Santorum suspended his campaign."
“I’m just trying to accurately describe the thinking and the feelings of a lot of people,” Limbaugh said on his three-hour program soon after Santorum announced that he was dropping out of the race.
“There is a degree of sadness and disappointment over this, because of a lost opportunity ... So where does that leave us? Well, it leaves us now where the establishment candidate is the nominee.”
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"The conservative radio host, who had refrained from endorsing a candidate in the GOP primary, described to listeners what he said had struck him as a “curious Republican primary” in which the GOP establishment had prioritized shoring up support among moderates instead of appealing first to the conservative voting bloc."
“It was remarkable. They had their candidate, which was Romney, and then all the others which were conservatives. We ended up splitting the conservative primary vote,” Limbaugh said, according to a transcript of his show."
"The way that the nominating process had played out was “extremely frustrating” for many conservative voters, Limbaugh said, particularly following the landslide victory that the Republican Party celebrated during the 2010 midterm elections."
“I can’t tell you how that frustrated a lot of people who had such high hopes. People really had, because of the tea party and its success in 2010, the greatest of hopes and expectations that that would continue into the presidential year and be another shellacking all the way from top to bottom of the ballot with victory in the White House,” he said. “And now that hasn’t happened. So there is great disappointment.”
"As he declared the primaries effectively “over,” Limbaugh also hinted at the possibility that the Romney campaign may begin to alter its message as it gets ready to battle President Barack Obama in the general election."
“It will be fascinating … to watch Romney and listen to the shape his campaign takes now, how ideological will his campaign be,” he said. “Will it be rooted in conservatism? He doesn’t have to talk conservative anymore. Will he continue to do so? We will find out. It won’t take very long.”
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I am disappointed. I mean Romney is such a phony. He's running against everything he ever did in Massachusetts. And he's going to insult our intelligence, we get to hear him over and over attacking "Obamacare?"
Interestingly though on the day the Republicans lost Santorum they get a blast from the past. President George W. Bush who wisely has kept out of things since stepping down chose yesterday of all days to get political. Yesterday he was out pushing for extending-what else? The Bush tax cuts. He laments that they are called the Bush tax cuts. Maybe if they were named after someone else they'd have a better chance he mused.
What's clear is the Republicans definitely think so. The last thing thing they need is Bush advocating his own legacy. No doubt this will be a central issue in the upcoming campaign. The GOP is going to make the case that they shouldn't be ended-though it is not really up to the next President and Congress to deal this but actually the current Do Nothing Congress-is it really plausible that this Congress can get anything done much less something as big with as much division as doing something about the Bush tax cuts?
No matter what the last person they want for the public face of the Bush cuts is their creator himself. If he becomes the face of them, they will become even more unpopular. Meanwhile the GOP will be trying to argue for these tax cuts that are as big a budget buster as anything while at the same time wearing the fiscal responsibility hat.
I'm going to miss Rick like when he said it's snobby to want Americans to be able to go to college and that he doesn't care about the unemployment rate. But if we gain a George W. Bush at the same time I won't feel so bad. Maybe, dare I say it-I am becoming a George W. Bush liberal Democrat? Wow never thought I'd see that day.
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