I must admit that I’ve given up listening to Rush Limbaugh (and don’t even bother with the thoroughly unlistenable Sean Hannity) over the past several weeks. It’s not that I’m a John McCain fan, far from it actually, but there is just something thoroughly unentertaining about a talk radio show that is really nothing more than a three hour campaign commercial for a former Governor from Massachusetts who now apparently pretends to be a conservative.
Which is why it’s nice to see somebody telling Rush to shut up already:
Bob Dole, the former Senate Republican leader, wrote an insistent letter to Rush Limbaugh on Monday and suggested that for the good of the party, the conservative talk-show host should stop his strafing of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
On Monday’s show, Limbaugh asserted that McCain has “lied about his reason for opposing the Bush tax cuts,” and added: “I think McCain has an animus toward the Republican Party. I think ever since South Carolina 2000 he’s had it in for the Republican Party, and one of his objectives is to destroy it and change it.”
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In a letter released Monday evening by McCain’s campaign, Dole strongly defended the senator’s conservative credentials, noting that his voting record is opposed to abortion and supportive of gun-owner rights.
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In a bill of particulars numbered 1 through 8, Dole wrote that McCain has a “Consistent pro-life record,” was a “Strong advocate for strict constructionist judges,” “Supported voluntary school prayer,” supported a balanced-budget amendment, was a strong advocate for cutting spending, consistently defended Second Amendment (gun-owner) rights, “opposed ‘Hillary Care,’ ” and was “Probably the Senate’s strongest advocate for strong national defense.”
See, the thing of it is that, a month from now, when McCain finally is the GOP nominee, I fully expect Limbaugh and the others to change their tune and start directing their attention to the Democratic nominee.
