If this is the best Limbaugh can come up with, I’m placing my money on the former Congressman from Georgia:
Rush Limbaugh responded to Newt Gingrich’s shot at him with a broadside at the former speaker on today’s show.
“I’m frankly getting tired of talking about Newt. I mean, it’s a pointless exercise,” Limbaugh said of Gingrich’s dismissal of him on “Meet the Press.” “I’m surprised by nothing when I’m dealing with people in the media who think they’re in politics. … They are fly-by-night operators, and most of them stand for nothing until they see a poll about what the American people want, and then they go out and try to say one way or another what the American people want while trying to falsely hold onto an ideology at the same time — and you can’t count on them. You can’t depend on them. They will sell you out; they will throw you overboard to save themselves, faster than anything. And they’ll use you on their way up as often as they can at the same time.”
“I mean, next week Newt could come out and profess his total admiration and love for me if it would serve his purposes,” he continued. “They’re running TV ads against me. Newt Gingrich wishes they were running TV ads against him.”
Yes, that’s right, the high school graduate talk show host thinks he’s more qualified to be a spokesman for the GOP than the former Speaker of the House.
Notwithstanding all my disagreements with some of the things he has said over the years, I’m rooting for Gingrich in this fight.
Here’s the audio:
March 9th, 2009 at 11:38 pm
[...] blogger reax — from the Right (of course): Doug Mataconis from Below The Beltway is rooting for Newt in this one; Allahpundit of Hot Air says enough is enough and Dan Riehl of Riehl World View says [...]
March 10th, 2009 at 4:14 am
Yeah let’s remember how much better qualified our affirmative action president is than old Rush. Talk about clueless analysis.
March 10th, 2009 at 9:59 am
“Yes, that’s right, the high school graduate talk show host thinks he’s more qualified to be a spokesman for the GOP than the former Speaker of the House.”
Yeah, I didn’t get that from that quote at all. You are so busy hating Limbaugh that you aren’t making sense. Why don’t you leave the right to their in-fighting and focus on important matters rather than the burning question of ‘who leads an insignificant opposition party?’
March 10th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Why doesn’t Rush Limbaugh just shut the f**k up ?
March 10th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Maybe Rush has run out of painkillers???