I found this to be very interesting and I did not want to just let this go without being noticed by Jim Webb's supporters.
Below is the transcript where Rush Limbaugh, George Allen's good buddy who wanted him to be President in 2008, says this about Jim Webb:
"Jim Webb is not a liberal. He's conservative."
It is very interesting that Rush Limbaugh strongly supported George Allen in his 2006 Senate race when Allen kept on calling Jim Webb "a liberal Democrat" and kept on mentioning Jim Webb along with people such as Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, and Howard Dean who he says are all "liberal Democrats!"
That is called hypocrisy, a double standard, and people just saying anything to win in my book!
Mitch Dworkin
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Listen to Gen. Wes Clark fight for Dems on Sean Hannity's radio program: An excellent example for all of us to follow and what we all need to be doing to help fight against extreme right wing Neocon smear propaganda which will help our local candidates to win their races!
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Big Government GOP Flushed Majority Down Toilet
November 10, 2006
BEGIN TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: I read this headline today, ladies and gentlemen, and I just busted out laughing. I didn't even need to read the story. Here's the headline: "Rhode Island Senator," and that would be Lincoln Chafee, "May Leave the Republican Party." (Laughing.) May leave the Republicans? Linc, you never were a Republican! You left the Republican Party a long time ago. He's in such a snit over the fact that he lost. He's so upset that Bill Clinton didn't come campaign for him that Lincoln Chafee has promised to kill the Bolton nomination. His vote wouldn't help anyway, because the Democrats are not going to allow this to happen. Biden has said so.
"Two days after losing a bid for a second term Senator Lincoln Chafee said he was unsure whether he would remain a Republican." Don't make me laugh (and I am certainly not going to cry). Folks, a lot of people are trying to describe what happened here. I myself have come up with my own theories, and I do believe, the primary theory is -- and I'll back this up with some polling data here in just a second -- is that the country is not moving left. The country's moving right, and didn't like the direction the Republican Party at large was going, which was left. Look at the Medicare entitlement. That was aimed to pick off seasoned citizens. They didn't want it.
These moderates, the independents, they're not into new entitlements. That's not the direction the country's been going on. They don't want that, they don't want bloated budgets, they don't want earmarks or any of that, and that's what the Republican Party came to stand for, be identified with. No elected conservative leadership at the top, and so they said to hell with it. But they didn't vote for liberalism because liberalism was not per se on the agenda. Jim Webb is not a liberal. He's conservative. The guy running against J.D. Hayworth out in Arizona tried to out-conservative J.D. Hayworth.
All these conservative House candidates, freshmen now at the Democrats nomination. There's no question the direction the country is going, and that's what's really frustrating. The McLaughlin & Associates polling firm issued a release. I happened to get it last night, yesterday evening. "It appears that the Republicans have lost their advantage on the philosophical issue on the size of government. Among the people who have voted in this past election, 59% favor a smaller government with fewer services, and only 28% favor a larger government with many services. Among those who voted for a Republican for Congress they favor smaller government by a five to one margin.
"However, the plurality of voters who voted Democrat also support smaller government. Six in ten Americans favor smaller government." The real frustrating thing about this is, to me, it means we won the argument. Those of you who have been informing and attempting to educate the American people for all these years, we won the argument, and guess who blew it? Our own party. Leaders of our own party blew it sky high. They forget it or thought they could get by without being held accountable on this, and now to have this current crop of Democrats elected, who make no mistake about it have no intention of going anywhere... Let me go to the audio sound bites. I want to play #4, Mr. Maimone, and then #5. We'll play four, five, and six here. This is what I said yesterday, and I repeated it today from yesterday from the archives what I said about the Democrats number one goal.
RUSH ARCHIVE: I'll tell you, the one thing in their mind now is how do they never lose the power they won on Tuesday ever again, and that's what will motivate them forward.
RUSH: And let's go to a pep rally yesterday, Senator Chuck Schumer.
SCHUMER: Our joy today will vanish if we can't produce for the American people. We must never lose sight of them, and it is our job, it is the mission that they have entrusted us to make their lives a little bit better. If we can do that, if we can keep our focus on the average family, we will stay a majority for a generation, and that is what we aim to do.
RUSH: Stay a majority for a generation. Then Schumer slobbered all over Dingy Harry and his roommate, Dick Durbin.
SCHUMER: I just want to say to Harry, thank you, especially during those tough times for bucking me up and being there and doing every single thing we have asked (applause) and to my roommate, Dick Durbin, I eat his cold cereal, he buys a whole box of soda, and it's gone before he gets to drink one can.
RUSH: Awe.
SCHUMER: But far more important than that, Dick Durbin has been a true friend, and even more important than that, somebody who carries in his insides the integrity and desire to make our country a better place.
RUSH: They say that: their desire and their power, cementing it and holding onto it, and creating as much dependency as they can. When they talk about never losing sight of the average family, don't forget and don't ever forget, they have contempt and they condescend. There is an arrogance about these people when they look at the average family -- and by that I mean they don't see them as competent. They don't see them as having the ability to escape whatever dire circumstances they see them to be in. Can't do it without liberals, can't do it without Democrats and their programs and their compassion and so forth, and they seek to create as much dependency as possible and that's how they hold onto their power.
It's going to be interesting, because 60% of the American people favor smaller government. These guys are not going to be able to resist the urge to grow government in ways that make people dependent on them. It's entirely possible they're going to misread what happened here as well. A lot of victors do. A lot of people that win misread the reasons and they are primed to do that. I'm not predicting. This is too soon. We'll just have to wait and see. But the best way to describe what happened on Tuesday, folks, we had a giant toilet flush. When I saw this Lincoln Chafee, "Rhode Island Senator May Leave the Party." Sir, you just got flushed down the toilet of politics. We lost some good people when that toilet got flushed. You know when a toilet flush happens, circulates down there like a hurricane in reverse, and, bam, you're in the pipe, and nobody's ever seen you again until you get to the sewer. The American people flushed the toilet. They just had a giant toilet flush, and there were a lot of people in that toilet the American people thought deserved to be flushed. So, Linc, we'll see if the Democrats will have you if you change. He's not the only one. There will be others.
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Read the Background Material...
(AP: R.I. Senator May Leave Republican Party)
(McLaughlin & Associates: Post-Election Memo)
*Note: Links to content outside RushLimbaugh.com usually become inactive over time.
Limbaugh alone has an audience of over 20 million people:
ANALYSIS & DOCUMENTATION: PEW stats on Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly & the Media!
Limbaugh, Hannity, and talk radio show hosts just like them all over the country reach "30 million people per week" which is about half of all the people who voted for Bush in 2004:
DOCUMENTATION & ANALYSIS: Bush met with Sean Hannity & Media to Firm Up Support!
By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: October 17, 2006
As Talk Radio Wavers, Bush Moves to Firm Up Support
"Still, officials said, the meeting with the radio hosts gave Mr. Bush a chance to speak intimately with a group that reaches an overwhelmingly Republican audience of 30 million people per week."
While these talk radio show hosts came to the White House in groups, Limbaugh gets his own private audience with Bush and Karl Rove:
"(Mr. Limbaugh said that he met with Mr. Bush and Karl Rove, the president’s chief strategist, in the Oval Office in June, but generally tried to keep his distance to maintain independence.)"
Nobody who is informed and who knows better listens to Limbaugh but he controls most of the GOP activist base and he is fast growing with the many new listeners who he converts!
Limbaugh is very dangerous and Democrats need to deal with him in an organized, credible, and national manner well before the 2008 elections so that they can define their own message instead of having it for them him by Limbaugh and his clones like how they did to John Kerry in 2004!
It is interesting to me and a contradiction worth noting that Limbaugh said "Jim Webb is not a liberal. He's conservative." when Allen (who Limbaugh wanted to be President as his first choice in 2008) said the exact opposite about Jim Webb in this campaign!