Limbaugh to Powell: 'Become a Democrat'

[George Gervin's Afro]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/



Limbaugh to Powell: 'Become a Democrat'
Posted: 08:22 PM ET

From CNN's Lauren Kornreich


Limbaugh took aim at Powell's comments about the GOP.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Rush Limbaugh fired back at Colin Powell for his critical comments earlier this week, saying Wednesday that the former secretary of state should join the Democratic Party.

"What Colin Powell needs to do is close the loop and become a Democrat instead of claiming to be a Republican interested in reforming the Republican Party," Limbaugh said on his radio show Wednesday.

Limbaugh also took aim at Powell's decision to endorse President Obama over John McCain during the presidential election, repeating his earlier sentiment that Powell's move was "solely based on race."

"He's just mad at me because I'm the one person in the country who had the guts to explain his endorsement of Obama," Limbaugh said. "It was purely and solely based on race."

During a speech on Monday, Powell said the "the Republican Party is in deep trouble" and said the GOP would be better off without Limbaugh, according to a report by the National Journal.

"I think what Rush does as an entertainer diminishes the party and intrudes or inserts into our public life a kind of nastiness that we would be better to do without," Powell said.

Let's make it official. Hush is the face of the conservative movement in this country.....:lmao

[baseline bum]

LOL @ Powell being the one Republican with the balls to stand up to that fat fucktard.

[Ignignokt]

LOL @ Powell being the one Republican with the balls to stand up to that fat fucktard.

Standing up to a talk show host in a free country? that shows gonads? okay!:lol

[ChumpDumper]

I can't think of another Republican has stood up to him, so yes.

[Ignignokt]

I can't think of another Republican has stood up to him, so yes.

McCain. that was easy.

[ChumpDumper]

Sorry, I didn't catch that one. When did he stand up to him?

[Ignignokt]

mccain

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/09/mccain_slams_rush_demands_he_a.php

newt.

http://guntotingliberal.com/?p=4990

[ChumpDumper]

Good for them. I guess they have enough profile to eschew the fawning fealty other Republicans have been showing him.

Thanks for the links.

[PixelPusher]

mccain

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/09/mccain_slams_rush_demands_he_a.php

newt.

http://guntotingliberal.com/?p=4990

Not all that surprising. McCain has already had his fill of the hard right shit sandwich during the campaign, and Gingrich is the only Beltway Republican capable of looking beyond the next news cycle.

[Ignignokt]

Good for them. I guess they have enough profile to eschew the fawning fealty other Republicans have been showing him.

Thanks for the links.

no problem, don't waste that whole bottle of jergens on them.

[Ignignokt]

Not all that surprising. McCain has already had his fill of the hard right shit sandwich during the campaign, and Gingrich is the only Beltway Republican capable of looking beyond the next news cycle.

You're right, Standing up against Rush like some idiot troll implied is not tuff stuff.

[ChumpDumper]

no problem, don't waste that whole bottle of jergens on them.gtown is fantasizing about me again.

How sweet.

[ChumpDumper]

You're right, Standing up against Rush like some idiot troll implied is not tuff stuff.It is very difficult for many.

[Ignignokt]

gtown is fantasizing about me again.

How sweet.

i think i posted first, creep.

[ChumpDumper]

i think i posted first, creep.Exactly.

[Ignignokt]

Exactly.

Good, now that you've acknowledged you've stalked me, the best thing to do is stop yourself before becoming even more creepier post by post.

[ChumpDumper]

Stalked you?

Please. Are you going to fly into masturbatory fantasies every time I ask you a question?

I didn't know I had that effect on you.

[Ignignokt]

Stalked you?

Please. Are you going to fly into masturbatory fantasies every time I ask you a question?

I didn't know I had that effect on you.

You're the master baiter, no fantasizing here, it's called ridicule, your the one that always implying a sexual attraction here. :lol

[ChumpDumper]

Me: Thanks for the links.


gtown: I'm thinking about you jerking off right now.

[Ignignokt]

Me: Thanks for the links.


gtown: I'm thinking about you jerking off right now.

That's how you percieve things, we get it, but you must not get alot of lay.:lol

or something.

Being the Toros fanboy must be tough.:lmao:lmao

[Ignignokt]

Standing up to a talk show host in a free country? that shows gonads? okay!:lol




Gtown said gonads! i must touch myself.

:lol, that sums it up.

[ChumpDumper]

That's how you percieve things, we get it, but you must not get alot of lay.:lolYour thinking about me sexually has nothing to do with my actual sex life.


or something.Or what? You are really thinking about me quite a bit.


Being the Toros fanboy must be tough.:lmao:lmaoIt's quite easy. My girlfriend is a big fan too.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol, that sums it up.Yeah, your thinking that and posting repeatedly about it sums it up. :lol

[Ignignokt]

Yeah, your thinking that and posting repeatedly about it sums it up. :lol

oops!


Me: Thanks for the links.


gtown: I'm thinking about you jerking off right now.


:lol self pwnage!!

[Ignignokt]

Your thinking about me sexually has nothing to do with my actual sex life.

Or what? You are really thinking about me quite a bit.

It's quite easy. My girlfriend is a big fan too.

Oh shit Toros boy is dissecting my smack now? did he do his google search for these too!:lmao

that's some scholarly stuff, A for effort, but an F for overall tardness.

[ChumpDumper]

oops!


:lol self pwnage!!Ah, this is where you start making no sense.

A little predictable, but still entertaining.

[Ignignokt]

Ah, this is where you start making no sense.


This is where i know i've hit a nerve.:lol

[ChumpDumper]

This is where i know i've hit a nerve.:lolThis is where you start declaring victory in every post :lol

[Ignignokt]

This is where you start declaring victory in every post :lol

This is past the point where Chumpdumper cannot settle without having the last word. :lol

[ChumpDumper]

Yep. You won't stop either. It's another impasse. :lol

[Ignignokt]

Yep. You won't stop either. It's another impasse. :lol

I've stopped in the past though, can't say the same bout the Master Baiter.

[ChumpDumper]

Of course I have. Last word smack is basically a white flag, so I lose interest thereafter.

[Ignignokt]

Of course I have. Last word smack is basically a white flag, so I lose interest thereafter.

Link?

[ChumpDumper]

Link?It was a two or three weeks ago. Some retired dude vowed to monitor the board forever to check for my last word post in the thread. I'm sure there is some way to find it using advanced search if you really want to. He made all kinds of proclamations about his money and full life. It was awesome.

[Ignignokt]

It was a two or three weeks ago. Some retired dude vowed to monitor the board forever to check for my last word post in the thread. I'm sure there is some way to find it using advanced search if you really want to.

:lmao , prove yourself. Obviously being a last word freak doesn't bother you.

[baseline bum]

last

[baseline bum]

word

[ChumpDumper]

So do you want me to not have the last word or do you want me to prove myself?

Either way this belies quite a bit of interest in me.

Again. :lol

[Ignignokt]

So do you want me to not have the last word or do you want me to prove myself?

Either way this belies quite a bit of interest in me.

Again. :lol

:sleep, i need my sleep, here go ahead you can have the last word.

peace.

[baseline bum]

OKAY... the last word will be Ignignoktsuckscockbutitsokbeausehesfuckingretarded andwhatelseishegoingtodo

[MiamiHeat]

damn, chumpdumper's whole existence is to argue on spurstalk's politics section

[Phil E.Buster]

damn, chumpdumper's whole existence is to argue on spurstalk's politics section

Your whole existence is to argue there is no God.

[Ignignokt]

OKAY... the last word will be Ignignoktsuckscockbutitsokbeausehesfuckingretarded andwhatelseishegoingtodo

lol!the last word actually went to baseline blahblulbahslurpChump'sdagreatest imgay4ubum.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

LOL @ Powell being the one Republican with the balls to stand up to that fat fucktard.


I can't think of another Republican has stood up to him, so yes. maybe, just maybe because he's a radio talk show host. a radio talk show host that has never written or signed any laws this country goes by. sorry to burst your bubble.

[clambake]

maybe, just maybe because he's a radio talk show host. a radio talk show hosts that has never written or signed any laws this country goes by. sorry to burst your bubble.

then why would so many republican politicians make public apologies to the same guy?

[Viva Las Espuelas]

then why would so many republican politicians make public apologies to the same guy?
???

[clambake]

???

you're saying there's reason for republicans to stand up to a talk show host....yet, several republicans have begged for his forgiveness.

if they have no need to stand up to rush........why do they feel the need to apologize to him?

[Viva Las Espuelas]

you're saying there's reason for republicans to stand up to a talk show host....yet, several republicans have begged for his forgiveness.

if they have no need to stand up to rush........why do they feel the need to apologize to him?

basically because they're stupid.

[clambake]

thats right. they're not standing up to him, but they publicly beg for his forgiveness when they make a statement that might irritate him.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

thats right. they're not standing up to him, but they publicly beg for his forgiveness when they make a statement that might irritate him.
who's begging?

[George Gervin's Afro]

who's begging?


The GOP Chairman

GOP leader Michael Steele's apology to Rush Limbaugh came with a price
Dawn Turner Trice
March 9, 2009
A "Sister Souljah moment"occurs when a politician tries to take the middle ground and finds himself having to repudiate a party extremist. The politician does this to show that he isn't beholden to the same-old, same-old.

When it comes to dealing with conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh, Republicans need a Sister Souljah moment.

I posted an item last week on "Exploring Race," asking readers whether Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele should have apologized to conservative talk show host Limbaugh. (You can visit chicagotribune.com/race to see the responses.)

This all began when Steele appeared recently on CNN's "D.L. Hughley Breaks the News" and disagreed when host Hughley called Limbaugh the de facto leader of the GOP. "Rush Limbaugh, his whole thing is entertainment," Steele said. "Yes, it's incendiary. Yes, it's ugly."



Dawn Turner Trice Bio | E-mail | Recent columns

Before the interview, Steele, who's the RNC's first black chairman, gave an impressive address to an overwhelmingly black audience at Tavis Smiley's "State of the Black Union" summit. By the time Steele arrived on Hughley's show, the chairman must have felt pretty cocky, which is why he slammed Limbaugh.

Two days later, Limbaugh lambasted Steele on his radio show and the chairman lost his Sister Souljah moment by apologizing.

The Sister Souljah phrase originated with Bill Clinton when, during his 1992 presidential campaign, he was forced to repudiate Sister Souljah, a black entertainer/activist/author, who had made some pretty harsh comments about white people. Clinton's rebuke came during a speech before Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.

President Barack Obama had his Sister Souljah moments during the controversies over Bill Ayers and Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

When Steele called Limbaugh an incendiary entertainer, it appeared the chairman was trying to signal that he wanted to change the perception of the GOP. In an almost Clintonesque way, Steele had told the "State of the Black Union" crowd that although he believed in the GOP's core principles, he still could feel their pain. He intimated that he was sensitive to the needs of people of color. Last month, Steele even said he would take the GOP message to the hip-hop community.

But, by apologizing to Limbaugh (who once told a black caller to take the bone out of his nose) Steele lost credibility and showed that he was concerned less about expanding his party's tent than about alienating the party's conservative base, a.k.a. Limbaugh's huge radio fan base.

If Steele is hoping to bring more people of color into the fold as well as appeal to the far right wing of the GOP, then he's in an untenable position.

But that's what happens when politicians find themselves having to share the stage with these outsized characters (Limbaugh, Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton) who appear so leaderly.

Nobody elects these guys so they're not accountable to anybody. But, with fire and brimstone, they know how to play to their party's base. Limbaugh isn't a "reverend" like the others, but he's certainly ministerial. Take a look at him during his recent keynote address to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

The Limbaughs, Jacksons and Sharptons know how to use an all-too accommodating media. This gives the misconception that they are leaders, but they're really activists—civil rights activists, conservative rights activists—who provide great theater.

Steele was right to call what Limbaugh does "entertainment." But entertainment isn't always benign. It has consequences.

A quasi-leader can incite and say things that are ugly.

A real leader should not. Steele backpedaled and looked weak. Not because he apologized, but because he forfeited an opportunity to take a stand on what was truly right.


linky..http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-trice-09-mar09,0,1999545.column

[Viva Las Espuelas]

linky..http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-trice-09-mar09,0,1999545.column

basically because they're stupid.

[George Gervin's Afro]

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/05/dick-cheney-tells-cbs-id-take-rush-limbaugh-over-colin-powell.html


Dick Cheney tells CBS: I'd take Rush Limbaugh over Colin Powell


Former Vice President Dick Cheney just made news in his appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation."

He weighed in on the sniping between radio host Rush Limbaugh and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

CBS' Bob Schieffer asked whether Cheney would side with Limbaugh or Powell in that battle of Republican titans. Here's the way Schieffer put the question: "Rush Limbaugh said the other day that the party would probably be better off if Colin Powell left and just became a Democrat. Colin Powell said Republicans would be better off if they don't have Rush Limbaugh out speaking for them. Where do you come down?"

Cheney said: "If I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I'd go with Rush Limbaugh, I think. I think my take on it was Colin had already left the party. I didn't know he was still a Republican."

Cheney cited Powell's support for Barack Obama.

Schieffer seemed astonished by Cheney's frankness. "You promised some news. I think we probably made a little," Schieffer said.



I'd like to thank Cheney for clearing up the question of who speaks for the Republican Party. I'd also like to invite moderate Republicans who identify more with Powell than Limbaugh to join the Democratic Party. We are truly the party that represents the great middle of America and we welcome people of good will even when we disagree on some policies. (As a pro-life Democrat, I am speaking from experience.)If your party has left you, welcome to your new home!

Dick please keep them coming. The comments ( in the comment section follwoing article) that accompany the article sum up nicely how I see this issue. Don't worry Dick we'll take all of those moderates you and Hush don't want.

Thanks for being a dick Dick.

[Yonivore]

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2009/05/dick-cheney-tells-cbs-id-take-rush-limbaugh-over-colin-powell.html



Dick please keep them coming. The comments ( in the comment section follwoing article) that accompany the article sum up nicely how I see this issue. Don't worry Dick we'll take all of those moderates you and Hush don't want.

Thanks for being a dick Dick.
Yeah, Arlen Specter's a peach. You're welcome to him...and Colin Powell.

[Winehole23]

The Democrats will be glad to receive him if he wants to switch.

[Winehole23]

Surely someone's asked him by now.

[Yonivore]

Surely someone's asked him by now.
That'd be fine with me. I'd love to see them screw Colin over like they did Arlen.

[Winehole23]

That'd be fine with me. I'd love to see them screw Colin over like they did Arlen.Voyeur.

[Wild Cobra]

I don't believe Powell ever was a registered republican until he took the appointment. He always was too liberal.

He has always fit better as a democrat than republican.

Talk him democrats!

[ChumpDumper]

Well as of last October....


Eighty percent (80%) of voters have a favorable view of Powell....15% have an unfavorable view

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/42_see_powell_endorsement_of_obama_as_possible

This could only help the Democrats.

[Yonivore]

Well as of last October....



http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/42_see_powell_endorsement_of_obama_as_possible

This could only help the Democrats.
Aren't there a bunch of rabid lefties still pissed at him over his U.N. testimony?

[baseline bum]

Is it any surprise Cheney shits on Powell? That's all he did back when Colin was in office.

[Yonivore]

Is it any surprise Cheney shits on Powell? That's all he did back when Colin was in office.
Seems to me Colin Powell emptied his bowels first.

[ChumpDumper]

Aren't there a bunch of rabid lefties still pissed at him over his U.N. testimony?Rasmussen says there aren't many at all.