(CNN) - Rush Limbaugh responded to Roberta McCain's criticism of his tough radio persona Thursday, joking over the fact "McCain's mother is dumping on me."
"She is absolutely right" in her assessment that that she belongs to a different Republican Party than he does, Limbaugh said during his radio show: "The Republican Party she belongs to gets shellacked election after election after election."
In an appearance on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno Wednesday, the outspoken 97-year-old mother of Sen. John McCain said, to cheers from the audience, that Limbaugh "does not represent the Republican Party that I belong to."
"I belong to the Republican Party," she said. "What he represents of the Republican Party has nothing to do with my side of it. I don't know what the man means, I don't know what he's talking about."
On his show Thursday, Limbaugh made clear he found the criticism quite amusing.
"Sending Sen. McCain's mother out to dump on me?" Limbaugh said, laughing. "I love it."
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what have these folk fell to
Limburg where thou art thy limit? You have to be a mad man. Its true.
uh oh Mother McCain you better apologoze to Rush QUICK or you're not a real Republican anymore!
wow. Am I the only one who recalls High School here? Yikes. At first I was amused, but now, its just sad to watch.
No, Rush. The Republican Party YOU belong to gets "shellacked" all the time because your views are so extreme that you are unable to draw Independent voters. Idiot.
Limbaugh is so out of touch with reality (probably his legendary drug habit) that he doesn't realize that it's HIS Republican Party that's getting "shellacked election after election after election."
Now Limbaugh is going after a 97 year old woman. Limbaugh belongs to the side of the party that represents about 21% of the vote, talk about a "shellacking"/
The fact that he's responding in his same old nasty way to a 97 year old woman is so boring and predictable.
Why does CNN constantly cover him?
Investigate Pelosi!
Why is Limbaugh even relevent today? He does nothing but spew hatred and should be ignored by any person with a brain.
CNN: stop giving Limbaugh a soap box to stand on. Maybe if we just ignore him he'll go away and take Cheney with him!
What a pompous fool!
Only in this great country can a drug addled ex used car salesman with absolutely no moral compass rise to such prominence. Mr. Limbaugh is one of the people dragging the USA down. He should be tried for treason.
I'm sorry but this really is funny. Hey guess what Rush... I love it too! But for very different reasons!!!
Why does Rush persist to insult everyone? Only because he is a loud mouth ego maniac that doesnt know when to shut up! Rush doesnt have have a shred of humanity much less dignity. I guess if you get bad press its better than no press at all Mr Limbaugh. Keep alienating America with your small rabid fan base of nutjobs that cant think for themselves!
McCain ought to use his aligator arms and beat Rush up. How can he stand him talking about his momma like that. The GOP is in shambles. It won't last for ever, but it it mighty fine to look at for now.
I do encourage those in the Republican Party to closely hang on every word that spills from this man's mouth. He, Cheney, Ensign, Palin and the rest of the Neo-Conservative, extreme right of the party will then ensure that common sense prevails – Because the Moderates will continue to stay in power.
Elephants, please do get well soon. America needs you, along with the donkeys.
Anybody remember the Woody Allen line (when he was funny) about "baseball bats and bricks"? He was referring to a Nazi march that some folks said they were going to protest. His point – Nazis don't understand protests, much in the same way that Rush fails to distinguish between what is subtle or nuanced. I pray for consequences to visit hate-mongers like Rush and Sean Hannity.
Rush Lumberjerk and Mrs. Magoo each have their own traits that represent the republican party. Some they have in common and some they don't. Here's the list:
Rich (the haves)
Very rich (the have mores – thanks Bushy Boy)
White
Ignorant
Stupid
Old
Fat
Hippo
Hypocritical
Bald
Rush Limbaugh has no idea what he represents, he does not represent the Republican Party because what he talks about is complete hatred. Maybe Rush should think about retirement as well as Dick Cheney
Limbaugh is wrong. It is the Republican Party he belongs to that is getting shellacked election after election after election. They hijacked the Party from the like of McCain and have trashed it with their right wing bigotry of all those who aren't 'with them'.
He doesn't get it. Likely never will. He is too arrogant, too bigoted, and too myopic to see otherwise.
That, and the fact he is nothing more than a simple entertainer....
Go Mrs. McCain lol
You go girl! Give it back to Rush.
Well,he belongs to my side of the Republican Party and I'm sooooo proud of it. I'm also proud of him.
Old woman,your stupidity is showing.............go home.
Did Lush Limbaugh fire back at Wanda? I don't think he wants to go there, but I would love to see him try. Her response would be hillarious. Still LMAO
Limpballs. Keep up that line of reasoning, PLEASE! You are shrinking the Republikan party YOU believe in and killing the Republican party of my father, Mrs. McCain, Colin Powell, Arlen Specter, etc...
Wow, RUSH obviously your still on some sort of "medication" Your imaginary party has not faired very well in recent elections either, unless we're counting west va. as a power move???
When is everyone going to realize that Rush Limbaugh is only concerned with the profitability of his commercial enterprise. He will say anything that; is politically provocative, exploits racially based preconceived notions, anything that inflames existing notions about race, sexual orientation, religion or class structure in order to get more listeners to his radio program and viewers to his web site. Unfortunately, people are buying the garbage that he is selling.
Wow. Limbaugh talking "yo mamma" smack. I may not have the most respect for John McCain, but I'm pretty sure he could kick Rush's draft dodging butt up and down.
Rush, how could you attack a sweet little old lady? Too afraid to fight with a young black dyke but you respond to this old crow? And we can thank you for Obama because of operation chaos. Why would you play such a game and then get upset with his policies. Oh I forgot, your a nut.
Has there been any time in his life that Rush Limbaugh has be able to keep his mouth shut?
Here comes this corpulent chap chargin' at the coy ol' lady. We think that this portly pig RL, with oxycontin history, should fade away into insignificance and irrelevance. He is not smart and dedfinitely not entertainin'.
Well let's see what those at faux news say about this. And he wonders why his republican party is a regional party. He obviously didn't get the memo that his repubiclan party is the one that the American public rejected and voted against. I wonder if Ed Rollins believes in intolerance and no new ideas. Rush limbaugh the republican gift that keeps on giving.
How did conservatives become so delusional and sanity-challenged? The endless wild, ludicrous accusations they regularly fling around as "truth" are just astounding. Liberals are socialists? Terrorists or siding with terrorists? Traitors? America-haters?
How did you people get so frantically insane? How can you actually believe such hate-filled, psychotic delusions?
How long before you froth-mouthed nut jobs get violent on your neighbors?
You are correct ol' oxycontin breath.....Rush does NOT....I repeat NOT belong to the same GOP.
Rush belongs to the GOP mantra of hate, divisiveness, bigotry, and all of those warm and fuzzy Klan type feelings.
I still think that Rush is the best weapon the Dems have at this point and it is not costing them a cent.....and Cheney's mouth....ow!!.....that has to be another big winner for the Dems.
Pandering is actually against the law, but the way the current crop of "GOP" leaders? are acting you wouldn't think so.......pander to the right wing nuts.....now that is a short street to destruction
that rush is a class act all the way. i mean, laughing at a 90 some year old woman and saying that he is the republican party. what a guy. i know i love it when one person defines everything i must be to belong to a group. that's bold. keep it up, rush.
CNN be nice leave the republicans alone as the eat themselves. I really feel bad for moderate republicans. Their party does not want them. Moderates must always feel like "guess who's coming to dinner"
When you are a pile of cr@p people tend to take a dump on you.
Yeah, Mr. Limbaugh, and how many Republicans have you gotten elected lately?????
He loves it? Does that mean I can take a dump on you too Rush? I'll go grab the TP...
Ignore the fact that she's a woman, the mother of a candidate for U.S. President who achieved some electoral success and a decorated war hero to boot, a man who has served his nation with honor.
Ignore the fact that she's essentially reacting to something very much within the public eye at the moment, and that she's doing her damnedest to return some dignity to a party that frankly has lost some.
She's 97 years old, which gives her some perspective and some wisdom. Chairman Limbaugh, instead of pretending she's someone you are even _allowed_ to talk about and respond to, show some RESPECT and some DEFERENCE, you charmless slug!
I guess Rush will do anything for ratings, including making a big deal over comments made by a 97 year old woman.
Talkin mess about a man's momma? Good lord this man almost tries to look like an ass. I can't believe we're from the same planet, let alone the same state.
This proves it you know. A man with even an iota of class left would have let it go rather than allow pride to mandate a counterattack on a 97 year old woman.
Ya gotta love the mental image of Rush beating up on a 97 year old woman.
Some things ya just don't do.
Now he's attacking a 97 year old woman?
Well.. I gotta say it... Obama was WRONG! Rush Limbaugh DEFINITELY can qualify as troubled asset to the republican party
This guy is truely "THE DEVIL" as well as anyone who follows him.....purely heartless. The only thing he loves is HATE! We need checks in balances, but this quy is off the scale!
Get rid of him!
It warms the cockles of my heart to hear these boneheads bicker among themselves. So completely out of touch it's ridiculous. And getting nowhere.
You stupid old woman....................you're not a Republican.
I am no longer a republican because of people like Rush, I did not like the way Sarah and John ran their campaign. But I sure applaud Mrs Mcain for standing up to Rush and he was very disrepectful talking to a 97 year old woman like this. I wonder if John will come out and defend his mother is to be seen. So far Megan is scared to stand up to Rush. Maybe she will come out and defend her grandmother.
why didn't John Mccain listen to his mother.... John McCain is not a bad man.... He was just influenced by people like Rush.
This guy is truly one of the lowest forms of protoplasm in the known physical universe. And the fact that he makes some 35-40 mil per year is one of America's ugliest sins. Fellow citizens, this is not something to laugh about or be proud of. He is a reflection on ALL of us whether we agree with him or not. Rush Limbaugh, more than any other person or phenomenon, actually makes a reasonable person question the merits of the first amendment to the US Constitution.
Ummm... her son did lose... so I guess she does belong to the part of the Republican party that needs to be rejected.
Rush has met his match. If he was a wise man(which he's not), but if he was, you should see that trading jabs with a 97 year old woman i not in your party's best interest.
Crazy conspiracy theory of the day...Rush is a liberal!
1-He has taken at least $400 million away from the conservative "cause"
2-Has never run, nor ever will run for office out of fear of being thoroughly humiliated
3-He is destroying the GOP from the inside
So what parallel universe is Limbaugh living in then? What 'other' Republican party is NOT getting shellacked in elections?
Shame!
"Limbaugh said during his radio show: "The Republican Party she belongs to gets shellacked election after election after election."
Yet Lord Limbaugh's Party of No gets soundly trounced for the past two elections- and the demographic shifts are ensuring they remained marginalized. Limbaugh's plan? Shift even more right-wing. Yeah, great plan in a rapidly left-leaning America.
Far be it from Boss Limbaugh not to go after a 97 year old woman. Stay classy Republicans.
Hitting back at a little old lady...nice guy.
Where is John McCain? Why isn't he sticking up for his mother? What a coward.
And the Entertainer continues to entertain us, destroying the Republican party, merely to increase his ratings and salary. What a hero!!
Apparently Rush Limbaugh does not realize that whatever Republican party he belongs to has been repeatedly shellacked election, after election, after election.
This guy is pure sick. He reminds me of some of my family that says your either with me and agree with me or you're wrong and and don't understand. The lady is 97 years old, you demwit, I'm sure she knows a lot more than you will ever know.
1. Limbaugh DOES realize that the party he's the titular head of is the one that keeps getting "shellacked election after election after election," right?
2. Sending himself out to dump on McCain's 97 year-old mother? I love it.
who cares
I call for a celebrity death match! Really. Lets get Limbaugh in the ring with McCain. No gloves or hits below the belt to settle who reins supreme in the Republican party....
If McCain is not up for the bout, i vote Powell and Limbaugh spar. All the proceeds from this pay-per-view event will go toward rebuilding the republican party in the way the victor sees fit.
Uh-oh, Limbaugh is popping off about a guy's Mama....
I don't get it. He belongs to a completely different group known as the the Republican Party that won a whole mess of elections lately? What is his point there? Get a real job.
I'm surprised that Michael Steele, Liz Cheney or some of the other evangelicals didn't jump on her first. Oh, I forgot they are only concerned about anyone that doesn't identify themselves as conservative. I am also surprised that CNN (Fox lite) would publish anything about Rush or a republican without first allowing them to reply at the bottom of the article.
So now he's beating up on a 97-year-old woman? Is he insane? Has his ego swollen so huge that he can't see over it to the real world?
Limbaug has disgraced himself even more, by attacking a 97-year old lady who only wanted to speak her mind. Limbaug should respect his elders, instead of insulting them.
So Limbaug's Republican party was been winning elections? Where?
He just had to say something. Says a lot about this bonehead. Couldn't even let that one slide. WOW.
I think he has it backwards..."The Republican Party HE belongs to gets shellacked election after election after election."
limbaugh attacking old women now. nice. his recent "performances" suggest he is still doctor shopping pills. personally, i luv the guy out front with dick as the spokesmen for the virus, er, the gop. the "real" news is far funnier than stewart and colbert combined.
Alexander Mooney:
STOP WRITING ARTICLES ABOUT EVERYTHING RUSH LIMBAUGH SAYS!!
why have you not written anything on the ticker about what keith olbermann spews every single night on msnbc??? each of them are on the extreme sides of the party and each are talking everyday. but for some reason you only post what Rush says, why?????
Archie Bunker....ah I mean Rush Limbaugh (excuse me, you know they look so much alike now!) is a disgrace and an embarrassment to this country.
Man, is he a jacka$$.
As if the Republicans have been losing because they've been too inclusive all this time.
Yes, Rush, what the Republicans have really needed all along was to assimilate themselves into clone-like bots who think like you!
Ha!
Has the Oxyi-Tard given up attacking the Libs? Now he's going after 100 year old ladies. I hope she beats him with her cane.
Please, no more news stories about Rush Limbaugh or Dick Cheney. I've heard enough from both, and am no longer interested in their thoughts.
I'm sure Charles Manson would love to keep speaking his mind, but everyone ignores him–let's do the same for Rush and Dick. They've had their 15 seconds.
I'm surprised Rush did not accuse her of faking old age.
Wait a second ... it was Limbaugh and Bush's extreme neo-con party that got shelacked in 2008 .... eight years of extremism at the cost of common sense is why they lost.
I'm enjoying Limbaugh and his party as they become a black hole. I'd vote for a civil and responsible Republican party any day, but as long as Limbaugh is at the reigns, it ain't happening.
LOL, which republican party is Rush in that has been winning elections lately. This guy is pretty silly
rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot.
I think I want to be a democrat....too much drama in the GOP party!
Limpballs taking on a 97 yr old woman.....and he is way overmatched.
Will ol'oxycontin breath ever shut up????
Rush thinks that his audience is the "true" face of America.......does he really??/... or is he just milking all of this for ratings....my bet is the money honey because Rush is into the cash
Goodness, this man, has a BIG MOUTH!
Rush, is it remotely possible in your mind, that you are the reason for the "shellacking"
CNN Please convey my message to Rush Limbaugh, I want him to respond to me:
My Message to Rush Limbaugh:
Limbaugh you are Loud Mouth Donkey. Bray Bray Bray
Limbaugh you Look Like a Monkey, You Talk like a Donkey.
Bray Bray
The Republican Party SHE belongs to gets shellacked time and again? Which one is Rush in then? Some alternate reality where they win?
And tell us, Rush, how narrow you imagine the 4th Commandment.
Sheesh Rush, she is 97 years old and has a ton of life experience. Leaver her alone!
This guy is a joke. He only represents a small portion of the Republican party, and this is the part that needs to wake up and change their ways. The good Republicans need to kick him out of their party.
Rush's tone gets to the problem with the right-wing. There are not two Republican parties, one belonging to him and one to her. There is only one. They all stand together or fall apart. They've chosen the latter.
Is there nothing this man won't respond to?? You know most people would just let it go, but not Rush. I feel like I went back in time about 20-25 years and I'm in high school or junior high.
And about getting "shellacked". I hate to be the one to break it to Rush, but the reason the GOP is getting shellacked is not because they are too moderate, but because they're so far to the right that nobody except the ultra conservative, which represents a fairly small portion of the population in this country agrees with them.
Why doesn't Limbaugh find a nice, dark alley, where he can pop his drugs in peace, leaving the public finally free of this repulsive slug!
@ nice!..... How funny! You know it could be........ TRUE! Thanks for the giggle!
The headline says it all: Limbaugh hits back at McCain's mom.
If he had any dignity he would say nothing, insult or no insult.
Limbaugh and his version of a 'republican' party has turned their back on real conservatism and drove the party off a cliff. They gave up basic conservative principles of responsible budgets, non-interventionism, and respect for privacy in favor of Bush and Cheney's big government liberal neoconservatism. And they are constantly trying to hide that fact with their lies and hypocrisy. Now they claim it is somehow not Bush and the neocons' fault that republicans were thrown out in 2006 and took a further dive in 2008? Limbaugh needs to shut his mouth and learn history!
Leave it to a pig like Limbaugh to beat up on a 90-year-old lady.
I guess if he were to pick on someone his own size he would have to go to the livestock show. I mean the size of his intellect, not his waist.
ha ha ha ha!
that's all I have to say. He is fighting with everyone. People who defend this guy are low.
omg.....Are you kidding.....I mean seriously...she's 97 years old and she's standing up for her principles and yet Rush has to stoop to this....to this???
No matter your political status – This is just WRONG. Rush has got something mental going on, and none of us need to feed it with attention.
Perhaps more Republican's should follow-up on Wanda Sikes's commentary on this blowhard!
Dan May 14th, 2009 4:54 pm ET
It warms the cockles of my heart to hear these boneheads bicker among themselves. So completely out of touch it's ridiculous. And getting nowhere.
*********************
does anybody really actually know what a 'cockle' is????
just wondering......
has to be more interesting than most of the ticker stories CNN has been running lately.
Rush has gotta be a liberal or at least a Democrat in disguise. Why else would he resemble the Democratic Party symbol every time he opens his mouth?
again, we would like to know why cnn has not reported on the inside conflict of the feinstein bill on cash for clunkers, similar to that in place in Europe..why don't you report things that are relavent, and affect the short and long term buying habbits of the American people/automobile industry..
I grew up voting for both Republicans and Democrats – the old best one for the job thing. Since Rush, the extreme right, Dick Cheney and the neo-cons took over the Republican Pary I have not voted for one. Not since Reagan – and I regret that vote.
Wow! Rush is picking on an old lady. Why would he try to take her on? He didn't say anything to Wanda Sykes. He kept very quiet, I wonder why? See, he knows who to mess with! He knows Wanda will eat that but alive!!!!
Maggie May 14th, 2009 4:54 pm ET
You stupid old woman………………..you're not a Republican.
Well that's just real nice Maggie. Have you been hanging out with Rush lately??
What dream world is he is in!! Every single candidate he endorsed lost, even his attempt to have folk vote for Hillary backfired as Obama l won the nomination and evenutally the presidency. Moderate republicans rejected his call to vote for some one other than John McCain as McCain won thhe GOP nomination. Limbaugh is nothing but a blow hard and he only plays well for a very small base of people.
The headline is VERY misleading. I wouldn't call that "hitting back." It was a response. I mean, he AGREED with Roberta McCain. If he attacked anyone, it was Sen. McCain by claiming McCain sent his mother to attack him.
I do not understand how this qualifies as news when Pelosi is blatantly lying about her knowledge of waterboarding. CNN needs to focus on real news... I mean, they resemble E more than a news network.
Limbaugh should have let this one slide and taken the high road. Sorry but the young people of America our future will never belong to a party that houses fanatics like limpbaugh, assailing a 97 yr old women is definitely below the pail, limpbaugh you truly messed this one up!
anyone who takes this windbag seriously could not possibly care about this country.
Yeah... no hate here. You guys are nice as pie.
Rush Limbaugh represents his pocketbook, and surely doesn't represent any other party. If Republicans still "honor" him, then they deserve the losing that they get or will continue to get. They didn't lose the Presidency for many years out of the last 16 or more. He certainly gives the comedians their topics without scratching their heads at all to come up with routines.
thanks to limba, the repugnant party wmight disapeer one day
Thank you mother McCain for telling the truth. Rush Limbaugh is a fool, and anyone following him is an even bigger one. Doesn't he realize that he's destroying the Republican Party? I guess he doesn't care, and maybe he can come up with his own party...THE KKK!
yeah, before you know it he will be replying to the
mccain's butcher because the butcher doesn't like
what bigfatlimbaugh's saying about mccain's mother.
tit for a tat, right bigfatlimbaugh?
yeah, this is priceless...
this is YOUR VOICE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
you people are really sad.
I thought you lefties said John McCain was too old. But now his mom has the wisdom of the ages? – I don't care how old you are, when you go after Rush, he returns the favor.
Love it – the more of an idiot Limbaugh makes of himself, the better the other party looks....keep it up! Self-destruction of this blowhard is so amusing.
Those pain killers are continuing to kill brain cells. Keep popping them, Rushy – it'll be over soon...
ok, where's john? I truly hope he has something to say about this. this is getting better and better and better all of the time.
rush is such a blowhard & a bully. he just can't let anything go can he? I'm a Dem but if I were a Repub I'd give serious thought to leaving the party if RL were really the "face or voice" of the party. the guy is an embarrassment to all Americans.
Of course Roberta belongs to another replublican Party than Rush does, She was a girl when FDR was around and Then the Democrats acted like Republicans and the Replublicans acted like Conservatives,Now you can see how she raised her son as a moderate,liberal,bed wetter,partial conservative.,While the Republicans have become more Moderate the Democrats have become more Socialist.
When I read the article about Mrs. McCain's comments I thought she was spot and a I thought to myself, Does either Boss Limbaugh or Keith Olberman have the temerity to respond to the comments of this sweet lil old lady?
Okay, I knew that Boss Limbaugh, De facto leader of the GOP, was petty enough to do someithing like this
But what about Keith? My guess is Keith is going to talk about Limbaugh's response and that's it. How do I know? sometimes liberals think alike
I don't think any party wants to claim they know Rush anymore. He's a complete embarrassment!
Lord have mercy, this is so sad. The Republican thing just keeps looking and sounding more and more like the Jerry Springer Show.
You go Rush...
The more you and DICK trash what's left of the Republicans, the likelier it will be Democrats pick up additional seats in the senate next year.
Go for it. Slash each other and eat other's lunch. Like the Locust Conservatives you belong to - after you've eaten all there is of the farm you can turn to eating each other!
Cazart,
I agree with you, but Limbaugh isn't the titular head. that's Steele. Rush, he's the REAL head of the party.
(no, really, look it up)
For the first time since knowing of George Bush, I can say that he is being smarter than someone. You notice how Bush ain't saying nothing, but Dick Cheney & Rush Limbaugh are. George Dubya is finally getting something right. Move on and let it go.
Of course the fat, 3-time divorced, drug-addicted would say something. Do you really think his is the "all-mighty" rethuglican? Oh yea...they do!
Lamborough stop playing the dozen!
The press gives too much attention to Mr. Limbaugh who is a bombastic big-mouthed bag of hatred-filled wind.
Whenever he is attacked, you merely fuel his rhetoric and give undeserved credability to the things he says. In addition as he twists half truths into complete lies, his followers gain courage and their hatred for President Obama and anyone whom receives the label of "Liberal" is fueled and inflamed.
I suggest strongly that you at CNN to ignore this man by refusing to air any and every distorting self-serving statement that he utters.
Rush Limpwrist had to be that kid who was picked on in grade school and now he has dedicated his life to creating havoc whenever and where ever he can.
Show a little respect for the elderly, Mrs, McCain has earned that and I would take her wisdom over Vomit-boy's any day....he's an entertainer and nothing more!
Obama/Biden
2008/2012
come on Limbaugh is a JERK
CNN you are such an extremist disgusting organization you allow people on this blogsite to threaten the POTUS's life I mean look at that nutjob's name : "The Death of America by Obama:."
Rush must belong to some imaginary Republican party that's been winning election after election in his own mind. It's actually good for America that nut jobs like Rush are so out of touch with reality. We're better off with them digging in their heels. And staying right where they are. In the peanut gallery slinging meaningless insults as our country gets back on track.
Rush Limbaugh is a morbidly obese, smelly, drug-addicted chicken-hawk who wants to see our country fails and who enjoys keeping a penis-shaped cigar in his mouth while lying on the radio.
Has anybody heard what Limbaugh and Pat O'reilly bastard child Glenn Beck has had to say about this?
I am with Wanda.... fail fail.
Wow! CNN comment sections get all the crazy!
So now poor little Rushie baby has to fight back against the mean ole 97-year-old woman who could probably take him in a wrestling match? Poor poor little Rushie.
Rush Limbaugh's is now resorting to attacking a 97 year old woman, who , by the way, is exactly right when it comes to the republican party! The party has gotten so extreme that people like John McCain and his family are now perceived as liberals by radical conservatives like Rush Limbaugh. What a worthless piece of garbage that scumbag Limbaugh is!
MING,
We welcome you to the Democratic party. The only criteria for joining is..... oh, that's right, there isn't any. We are indeed the "big tent" party.
We don't march in lockstep. As Samuel Clements wrote, "I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat."
And proud of it.
I am amused by the ENTERTAINER for calling everyone who disagree with him to live the GOP. Never hear anyone asking RUSH to live. Is this guy that POWERFUL as most of these folks think?
limbaugh( i call him dumbaugh) is such a fat ego riddled pile of bs that he has no idea that people can see through him and his rancid hatred of anyone who disagree with him.
i notice he was afraid to take on wanea sykes-but taking on a 97 year old women is more his speed-poor rush–he probably does not realize that ms mcCain just made him look like the ignorant bully he is.
If I was in charge of the Democratic Party, I would be secretly funding Rush LImbaugh. He's done more damage to the Republicans than anything the Democrats have ever even considered. He is trying to cast the Republican Party in his own image, which is a fat, racist, loud mouthed, middle aged fool. These are not attributes that get people elected.
I would throw a cream pie at the guy, except I'm pretty sure he'd snap it out of the air like a trained seal grabs a fish.
Rush is loving all this publicity of late ... he doesn't care one bit for the Republican party, he only cares for his own notoriety and financial gain. Too bad he'll take the Republican party to its lowest point in his quest for more. Insatiable indeed he is.
wow this guy thinks the republican party that mom McCain belongs to gets wiped ..he is sadly mistaken . it is infact the group that Rush, cHENEY AND rOVE AND THE LIST GOES ON ..they are the ones that get shellacked.
the jack ass is reaching or I should say grasping at anything he can . its no longer about his radical radio crap its about the group of people that had control of america for the last eight years .. threats and lies
his minority group of jackels have finally fallen ..time for more yahooooos and happy days .. we have spoken and our new president is listening and making good things happen . the carpet baggers days are over nex will be Fox news ..not a big enough audience to keep them afloat. crunch the numbers and see . most of america and the world like the direction we are now going in ..
Limbaugh should be in a psych hospital. It is about time we reject this man and his extreme ideas.
Just because I am sick of all the Limbaugh bashers I felt this is needed.
Ad hominem: Attacking a person as opposed to attacking the IDEAS they espouse. It is a logical fallacy.
Attacking Rush Limbaugh for his past has nothing to do with his ideas. But I am glad the CNN moderators are hard at work. I think 90% of these comments have been personal attacks aimed at Rush. Rush has ideas, if you do not like them, respond without logical fallacies.
Thank You
Rushblow will even stoop to dissin' someone's 97 year old mother to get attention. Un-believable!
And this is what the GOP core of "purists" want in thier leaders?
Get this guy and his trailer park trash posse to the psycho ward and quick!
To any republicans that may read this. The Dems LOVE it when the Republicans fight within their own party. Both Limbaugh and Roberta McCain are right in their opinions. The audience cheering on Jay Leno's are mostly liberal, I know because I watch Jay Leno regurlarly and his audience loves anything liberal. It's best to allow those who have an opinion to have an opinion. Read this somewhere recently and is relevent to todays politics: "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and small minds discuss people."
No comment would have been a little more classy. But this is Mr. Limbaugh we're talking about. The more i listen to him, the more I realize how much he does not represent what is best of America. It's a sad state of affairs in the republican party right now, if he's their voice.
Keep talking dummy. Why do i have to see that bloated face in the news everyday? Lose some weight tubby. How can a guy who can't even control his eating habits or his drug abuse be taken seriously?
Get that rat sized brain on a treadmill and lose the hippo sized body.
I would love to see Rush and Momma McCain take a picture together. They would look like the number 10.
I'm really beginning to have a lot more appreciation for Rush. He really does represent the republican party ideals. His thoughtful analysis of the world really is the guiding light for republican and conservative values and shows the intellectual basis of their philosophy.
Leave Rush alone. Please! He needs to be alone on some island stuck in a war of time. Oh, I think there is a TV show about that. Please let Rush land on that crazy island away from all of us and alone.
If Rush had any class at all he would have applauded McCain's mother for taking an active interest in politics at her age. He could have acknowledged that they have viable differences in their views thereby giving credibility to his own positions. However, his ego being as fat as his head took center stage and the negativity that endlessly flows from his mouth is what we are all unfortunately exposed to.
I may not have an impartial view but I believe the majority of Republican party does not view themselves as Oxycotin pill popping drug addicts in denial.
Did I miss something is there another Republican Party that is winning elections?
The end is near for Rush!!!
Rush is like Ann Coulter ... the more contrversey they stir-up THE MORE MONEY THEY GET PAID hello 400 MILLION dollar contract
The damage he does is irrelavent as long as his bank account remains fatter than he.
ps I would bet a grand he's still eatin oxy's for breakfest.
Rush Limbaugh could have let that go. This shows how disrespecful he is to the elders. Just maybe he could have set back and learned something from Mrs.McCain. In this country being old is a desease. But in realit,y getting old and being smart means you've won the lotterty of life and must be pretty smart to have made it.
Sure is nice watching the elephants trample each other.
Rush never went to college. He was a F- student. Collin Powell was the last general to win a war for America. He fought and commanded ground troops. Rush is a fat drug addict. Why does anyone care about the words that are coming out of his mouth.
Do you know why there isn't a Democratic counterpart to Rush? Because Democrats don't need anyone to tell them what to think..... Especially a college dropout who, according to his mother "flunked everything" including a ballroom dancing class.
There's nothing scarier than ignorance in action... Be gone Rush!
Let me see if I understand this. Right wing kooks' reasoning is that if the republican party appeals to a narrower and narrower segment of the population and kicks out the moderates, they'll win more elections? How exactly does that work? Have a nice day!
Rush Limbaugh is rude and crude. The fact that he has come to represent any part of the Republican party should be a wake up call to the GOP. Or at least some portion of it. Kudos to Mrs. McCain for saying something that ought to have been said by many more people before now.
More words of wisdom from an entertainer who isn't really all that entertaining.
So this is what it looks like when a party implodes. Interesting.
Grrrr-Awful-O May 14th, 2009 4:41 pm ET
Investigate Pelosi!
Anything to change the subject eh? Typical republican with your little red herring, I love it!
Understand this Rush. YOU belong to the party that got shellacked last election. This election was not a statement against the moderates, it was a statement against the hillbilly right that you represent. The fact that you have to even respond to a comment made by a 97 year old lady says alot about you. You're one of those people that if I heard that you got shot in the street, I'd be the first one pissing on your grave. Our society is done with people like you and the extreme hillbilly, uneducated but opinionated, bible thumpin but not God fearing idiots that you represent. We proved that once and for all in November and it will only get worse for you and the 4 percent of society who actually takes you seriously.
I just want to put Limbaugh and Cheney in a time capsule and send them back to B.C.....or just any other time that is not today, tomorrow, or anywhere in the future! Can we do that??
There is no room in the republican party for disagreements or individual thoughts. That is the main reason why they have falling so far from grace.
If you are a party of less gov. A party of individual rights. A party of "christian" religionist beliefs. Then act like it. Stop bashing others within and outside of your party.
But clearly they are not. If they were then they would not have Rush or orther like him.
The Dems are so scared of Rush. Rush Limbaugh is NOT an elected official, but Obama is. Obama has spent $4Trillion dollars and the only noticeable change is that we are in more debt than we were before. Obama plans/policies aren't working. Stop focusing on Limbaugh and more on the idiot in chief Obama.
You would do better to keep Mum! Mister, Barage-Balloon...
Just keep spinning, Rush. The DEMS will win even more elections.
Matthew (Reading, PA) May 14th, 2009 4:58 pm ET
Alexander Mooney:
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why have you not written anything on the ticker about what keith olbermann spews every single night on msnbc???
I agree with you, but think about it: is Keith Olbermann the defacto head of the Republican Party?
Do you see Jeff Kaine and Terry McAuliffe apologizing to Keith Olbermann? Does Obama have him over at the White House on his birthday? Do Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid change their "listening tour" to a "teaching tour" the next day after Olbermann gets indignant about what they say?
I don't even LISTEN to Keith Olbermann, mostly because it's a bunch of liberal cheerleading and who really needs that crap? I've learned from watching the other side that there's no faster way to vanish up your own posterior than to listen to only one point of view.
Typical Rush can only Bully girly man republican reps and old woman. Yopu know those druggies, oh yeah the ones that hypocrite railed about that should be locked up. Shame Fl doesnt have an honest prosecutor or he would be in jail if he had been seeling in say NY or PA
The problem is that no one in either party, is looking at the real problem. We can not spend our personal life into prosperity and the fed govt can not do like wise. Until we get people in congress that understand that it is our personal $$ they are spending and not just something made up out of thin air we are all in deep du du. I agree that the rep party has not shown responsibility but neither has the dems. It seems that the reason they go to Washington is 1 to line their pockets and 2 get reelected to continue more of #1.
Problem is Rush really is a typical republican.
I belong to Mamma McCain's Republican Party. Rush is right, he is in a different party, his kool-aide crowd are LimPublicans. Anyone can join, buy his book and pay $29 a month....comes with all the kool-aide you can drink.
Rush is an inspiration an a breath of fresh air.
I only wish he was our president and not that socialistic dictator. Just maybe we would then have a great country that our children can inherit. I think the USA is doomed and will not survive 4 years of an Obama presidency.
Rush is a genius? I mean he has these morons who believe everything he says. This guy and many others are the reason why people do not flock to the Republican party. John McCain should stand up for his mother, she is correct. John McCain would have won the election had stayed the way used to be. The Right Wing or maybe the Rush Wing will never win an election again, at least not the White House. Rush is nothing but Wind Bag.
What a DOG!!
the little fat guy is having another temper tantrum – why do people listen to this guy? But then he is just part of the destruction of the republican party and that's not a bad thing- another more intelligent party will appear without the right wing idiots that are currently wasting our time.
Does ability and willingness to stand up to Linbaugh skipa generation? Sen. McCain could do himself ,his party and his country a favor and call that big fat idiot a big fat idiot.
McCain cannot earn my vote (not that he would be looking for it) but I look forward to respecting him again.
Rush you should be ashamed of yourself. You have "no" respect for you elders. What a FOOL.
how dear rush talk about macain's mom. what she forgets is not nearly half of what he willknow in his lifetime
It's the other way around. It's Limbaugh's republican party that got shellacked over and over again at the polls. A majority of the people in America does not share the same hateful, exclusive, divisive ideals that he espouses. It's a wonder why they keep on sticking to the same old, tired formula, when they keep on losing on the same principles.
There is a reason, Mr. Limbaugh, that so many republicans have left the party, and so many conservatives are too disillusioned to vote. You just need to look in the mirror. Limbaugh has defended Bush's big government spending, interventionist, privacy-invading policies for eight years, and counting! Hence many of us left the party by 2006. In the 2006 elections it was not McCain that lead the party to ruin. It was Limbaugh, Bush, Cheney, and their neocon big government apologists! We real conservatives will not return until these people leave our GOP party!
This proves Rush, the addict Limp-baugh can't control his mouth. He is too stupid to know when to shut the heck up.
Should we be surprised? I'm only surprised he didn't hit at her harder. I wonder how many times they counter each other until John McCain intervenes. Haha, GOP catfights are good distraction from our economic woes.
Oh please, don't stop it, please! I am enjoying it so much!
Yep...the GOP's "values" at work right here...this just screams "respect for elders" and "god-fearing humility" does it not?
"Deafening silence" is an example of an oxymoron in the english language. Any words which emanate from the mouth of "ol' Rushbum" are always an example of that very rarely utilized item known as an "oxycontinmoron."........... Rush is a prime example of having served his country; and in his continued practice of "Republican family values"..........
Buddhists don't even bother listening to Rush as the teachings clearly illustrate that the more a person runs their mouth the less they know what they are talking about. Ridiculous chatter breeds ignorance and Rush has fathered and advanced alot of ignorance and misinformation in this country for his own personal gain. He is sucessful and rich but not a wise nor a great, or happy man. Pray for his deliverance and be kind to him for he is blind to the true spiritual path of the Way. Peace be your way.
You progresives dont like Rush because he doesnt worry about whether he may be wrong, which he isnt.
Rush makes so much money (another reason libs hate him, class envy) because he does speak to many in the conservative party. And yes, when the republicans come back to the CONSERVATIVE party, they will win again.
Mccain was just about as moderate as humanly possible without actually running as a democrat.
This is so funny! Wake up people, Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer whose sole purpose is to generate advertising revenue! HE IS NOT A POLITICAL THEORIST!
Maggie May 14th, 2009 4:54 pm ET
You stupid old woman………………..you're not a Republican.
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if you can't express your opinion without insulting people, please go away. in fact, go join Rush on his station and you can insult the heck out of each other. thank you!
We have to remember that Rush is manifested for pure entertainment purposes. His success is based on ratings only. Obviously he is out to make as much money as he can and he does that by feeding into the hate culture. Without a conscience he will say the most outrageous things he can imagine just to create controversy and ratings. So don't take him seriously at all, maybe one day he will have a revelation and use his charms to unite instead of divide. Send him some love!
Wow,
now even McCain's mother gets dumped on by DUMBO. This man seems to know no boundaries or care to draw any boundaries. I just wonder if The Maverick is gonna allow Boss Limbaugh to disrespect his mom like that in public or is he gonna take his rightful spot with lips puckered up like the rest of his spineless GOP cronies and apologize to Sir Rush by bowing and kissing the ring on his hand?
Your move John McCain.
I personally can't stand ANY of the McCain's. As much as I detest Blimp Man, I'm on his side (this time). At least he is not a hypocrite. Is this the same woman who said "my son doesn't come with a lot of pretty words-he comes with experience or that stood proud while his supporters yelled "terrorist" and "kill him"? I'm glad I don't have to look at this fossil of a woman, her grand daughter (who talks too much) or her adulterous son and his drug addicted wife in WH.
America made the right choice for a change.
Rush in a clebrity death match with Colin Powell?? It would never happen. Rush would pee his little pink panties. Guys like Rush ONLY do their fighting with their mouths.
Rules Under Satans Hell, that spells Rush. Worth millions because of the lies he tells and the sad thing is people listen.
God Help US
Mike, I pity you and pray to Jesus this Sunday that he gives you some wisdom.
I also do not like Obama but people like Limbaugh and Hannity force me to support a lesser evil. and believe me there are millions like me in this situation.
Good piece of entertainment right there.
For eight years Rush has defended Bush and Cheney's huge deficit spending, and NOW he has problem with big government? He has no credibility! He is not a conservative! He's just a self-seving, attention starved clown!
Is it Christmas again?
Now I KNOW that Rush Limbaugh has lost it... Doesn't he know that you don't mess with somebody's Momma (especially an ex-POW's)?...You don't mess with mommas, even if they started it! Just walk away, Rush. Just walk away.
For those of you who think the Republicans are the only ones with a split party – there are plenty of Democrats who do not support BHO's ideas of spreading the wealth and spending the next 100 years worth of taxes by the end of his term. And this split will keep getting bigger with every new tax and spend program he dreams up.
Don't look now Limpbaugh, but YOUR GOP is getting shellacked election after election. Keep that big mouth going, it helps the democrats more ever day.
Dear John McCain:
Your career may be nearing its end, but Limbaugh just gifted you with an opoprtunity to go out with a bang instead of a whimper. He attacked your MOM. It's now your turn to say "enough is enough" and actually fight for something you believe in instead of waffling and kowtowing. Do you have the b@llz or will you go gently into that good night?
Sincerely,
America
This man will even go after a 97 year old woman but interestingly enough he didn't mention anything about Wanda Sykes scorching him! And yes he got scorched!
It is time for Rush to go back on his oxycontin binge....he was much less rabid when he was on it. In the same theme as Wanda Sykes, maybe he will taone too many pills and make our days better!!!
Its really quite strange. Rush and Cheney, who are not stupid, appaer incapable of understanding that their continued high-profile pronouncements are burying the GOP. Its a level of denial never seen before nor so publicly. Well, at least not since Bill Clinton
Limbaugh is an idiot!!!
With all due respect, in 2006 it was not McCain that caused the republicans to be thrown out of power. It was Bush, Cheney, the republican controlled Congress, and their neocon cheerleaders like Limbaugh that turned everyone away from them!
Rush is an inspiration an a breath of fresh air.
I only wish he was our president and not that socialistic dictator. Just maybe we would then have a great country that our children can inherit. I think the USA is doomed and will not survive 4 years of an Obama presidency
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Tell us Mike, just what would a Limbaugh Presidency look like? Legalizing stealing of prescription drugs? Buy a dozen get a half dozen donuts for free? How would LImbaugh do on the world stage? Please enlighten us with your "Joe the Plumber" theology please.
Rush is a traitor. From now on...whatever he represents I will oppose, and I will not buy from his sponsors.... he needs to be deported.
Limbaugh is real class act.
Rush Limbaugh is out of line when he begins to "hit" our elderly, who have been the key contributors to our country....and on whose shoulders he stands. If this is what the Republican Party stands for..then they deserve to lose all elections.
Our elders have always been there to support the greatness of our country and have fought and given their lives and the lives of their children to protect our freedom....including Limbaugh's freedom of speech.
The Republican Party needs muzzles for all those who do not know respect!
The people I feel most sorry for are the few idiots that left comments supporting that fat sack of pills. They are from HIS (Rush's) party, the "Republemmings"! Go on, run as fast as you can over the nearest cliff. It's fun to watch this slow motion self-destruction pick up speed every time this self-promoting moron opens his drug-popping pie-hole! I didn't vote for Sen. McCain, but I'd vote for his Momma!
Actually Rush, you belong to the GOP that loses election after election after election. If you can't see that, then you're probably back on the OxyContin.
Oh wait... I'm not allowed to make fun of that. Sure, you're allowed to pick on a 97 year old woman, but for some reason, nobody is supposed to bring up your ILLEGAL DRUG USE.
Rush should be ashmed of himself for getting into words with a 97
years old LADy. This is Unprecedented. He should refrain from word baiting this Lady. Rush is a PUNK
Another gaseous emission from Rush Limbaugh! Sad that just about the only Republican with enough guts to stand up to him is a 97 year-old woman. There you have it, folks...the new face of the Republican party is a high blood pressure, zero tolerance, we're-the-only-real-Americans, arrogant, ignorant, torture-loving, wrong-every-time amalgamation of Limbaugh, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich.
Good luck winning an election, kids. Do any other Republicans have the balls to stand up to this windbag? Or are you hopeless ditto-heads?
93 comments and only one partial defense? Wow. Try listening to Rush for once, instead of assuming that your image of him is correct. I'm not a fan, but I know he's not evil, or even what's wrong with the Republican party.
Take another pill Limpbaugh.
The Democrats are loving this! Keep it up Rush, and you'll guarantee the destruction of the Republican party.
Gee Limbaugh goes after people with MS, and now 90+ woman.
Goodness doesn't this guy have any character?
But then you people out there must remember he is a member of the republican party of NO. And he is defending the fact that he is pulling in billions of dollars from the trashing of those who are sick and old. Makes him look like a macho man doesn't it. Or does it make him look like any oxcy guy. You take your choice.
I think I would abstain from saying the Republican Party is dead until after 2010. We might get the surprise of a life time. Also you might remember the Democratic party did not have enough members to Elect Obama, it took The RINO's crossing over but now they say they are depressed with Buyer’s Remorse.
Liberal fools who took the Republican party away from it's Conservative values caused the election loss. McCain looked so tired and he tried to ride 2 horses. I lost track of the number of times he called himself a maverick and said he would cross the floor to govern. As a Conservative, I don't want a leader who puts his values aside and that's what I heard McCain promise repeatedly. As a result, Republican voters rejected him. Too bad because now America has a President who has NO VALUES. And Mrs. McCain has the limp Republican party that she thinks will win. Foolishness knows no age limit. If Liberals actually listen to what Rush says instead of clucking like a bunch of angry hens you will actually hear that the man understands what makes America great and he's giving you the means to get that back. But even some who read this will start to cluck your heads off and accuse me of all sorts of impolite things.
Rush, pick on someone your own size.
Come to think of it, is there anyone . . .
Oh, never mind - that would be too easy.
Now he is going after a 94 year old woman. This man is disgusting and if he and Cheney want to walk hand and hand as the face of the Repuplican party, then great because that will mean the end of it.
Frank says, The Dems are so scared of Rush. Rush Limbaugh is NOT an elected official,
We are not scared of rush, we are laughing hysterically at the throne that you dittoheads put him on..
We are in awe of his fatness and in total disgust of his stunning stupidity.
I would say to "El Rushbo" that there are probably more people in Mrs. McCain's republican party than his. His kind of hate and bigotry were not in the party when I joined it. And that is precisely why I do not support it now.
What's the difference between R. Limbaugh and the Hindenberg?
One is a overblown Nazi gasbag.
The other is a dirigible.
mike.... go back to the kids table and let the grown ups run the show for the next 8 years... then when we fix it...you crazies can go to work trying to break it again. Are your eyes completly swelled shut??!! Sheep.
hey all those obama haters- keep posting your hateful racist comments- we now know who you are...you don't need your white hood any more...
It's lucky for Lincoln that he isn't around now-pill addicted Rusho
would probably attack him as not a member of the "real"
Republican party He is SICK! SICK! SICK!
most american are sick and tired of rush we should boycott the companies that sponsor his programs he is a racist a dope head and a person who does does not support equal rights for women and non traditional americans we all use to think he was this funny guy who just wanted to fan the flames of democrats but most people have come to think of rush as a cancer who is trying to divide this country wake up american this guy needs to go away and stay away
This guy is a joke. High School education only. Managed to stay out of the military. Divorced 3 times. No children. Drug addict. Caught with viagra with someone elses name on it on his way back from Tawan. Old farts like him go to Taiwan to purchase the favors of very young girls. I would hate to have him as my party's mouthpice. How does he have the nerve to deride others behavior??
You just knew his MASSIVE EGO wouldn't even allow a 97 year old women to talk about him without having to respond.
Rush might have one of the largest inferiority complexes ever.
Someone please...put that elephant DOWN already!
I've read this article over and over, but gosh I just don't see the "attack", and the "hatred" from Rush to Mrs. McCain. Seems like he just replied to her comments. Makes me wonder if folks who comment negatively about Rush, actually ever listen to him!
After reading the comments to the article, I think I can see true "hate", not to mention poor grammar, misspelled words, and incoherent thoughts.
Why does anybody listen to rush Limburgers show? quit listening and he will be cancelled ... Then BYE BYE RUSH
What a BIG FAT SCUMBAG Limbaugh is. The biggest dumb ass republicans, Cheney and Limbaugh. If both of you think you're so popular why don't you BOTH run in 2012 and see the whole map go BLUE. there won't be 1 state that's red. Of wait a minute, there might be one, the state of denial known as TEXASS!!
The guy who wrote that most of the post are just personal attacks is right. The reason you do it is because you are unable to answer in an intelligent way the substance because you have no substance of your own so you have to make yourself feel better by knocking somebody else. Learn to get the facts and think critically. I guess this is where the last fifty years of govenment shcools has gotten us.
rush is part of a collective like the fiction on star trek ( THE BORG)
they have threatened and lied and hurded americans down the wrong road and the good people of the world see it and we are now moving in the right direction ( for the people by the people )..
the new name of the cheney group is now called the BORG.. kinda catchy..don't you think ?
Rush is a talking ass!
Anybody else notice that the smaller the republican party gets, the bigger and fatter Rush Limbug gets?
lush limpballs and the other morons in his clique are responsible for the resurgence of the Democrats in spite of the inept leadership of 'numbnuts' nancy pelosi and harry 'hat in hand' reid. An amazing feat for which President Obama and other forward thinking democrats should be understatedly ecstatic. Thanks lush!
Republicans dont read CNN comments.....they dont goto CNN at all
Theyre over at FOX ....its their only news outlet.
and the Social Conservatives....they dont do any news......just the Bible and Gung Ho magazine.
rush is right. its to bad that our country is being run by a bunch of liberal marxis who are following the path of internal ditruction.why are you people so stupid that you cant see whats happining ?
Only Rush would pick on a 97 year old. LOL Classic
re: Mike: "Rush is an inspiration an a breath of fresh air.
I only wish he was our president and not that socialistic dictator. Just maybe we would then have a great country that our children can inherit. I think the USA is doomed and will not survive 4 years of an Obama presidency."
How is it that every Republican forgets what we had before Bush came into office and what he left us with? If he'd used the MBA he received from Yale, MAYBE we wouldn't be in this mess. Then again, these same people forget what the supposedly great Reagan did as well, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised.
Seriously, if Rush thinks that he is the face of the GOP, let him put himself on a ticket somewhere and own up to his fat mouth.
I believe that he will be beaten miserably, and his true calling as an entertainer will be revealed.
What a blow hard.
Way to go Republiklans! Picking on a 97 year old woman. Lovely.
Next week: Watch Rush punch babies in the face and drown puppies for being socialists.
I liked the joke at the WH Correspondents dinner that he was the 20th hijacker on 9/11 but was so strung out on Oxycontin that he missed his flight. I wonder if the thugs that support this clown get their Oxy at a discount.
Funny how Rush immediately responds to a 93 year old, but didn't have anything to say about Wanda Sykes. The guy is a PUNK!
This guy cracks me up.... He is my source of comedy when I need it the most. But his followers make me depressed. They are my fellow Americans. Rush doesn't affect me but fellow Americans do. And some I personally know and love dearly. I know they are nice people but to be Rush follower, one has to have something missing in life.
good for rush! the routine is now established. someone who is related to a politician, such as mc cain's mom or daughter or someone who had a job with a covert agency or the army, etc., wants to get his/her 15 minutes of fame. so they attack limbaugh/bush/cheney/palin/the army/the cia. the liberal press gleefully picks it up and gives it wide coverage. this is all nonsense. these people don't know what they are talking about and shouldn't get 15 seconds, much less 15 munutes.
and how about that pelosi. first she denied being briefed about interrogation techniques, now she says she was briefed but was misled by the cia. yada yada yada!
She belonged to the GOP that produced men such as Dwight Eisenhower.....and she probably was just born after the reign of Teddy Roosevelt......Republicans worth the mention.....who by the way fought wars effectively, stopped wars, & taxed and spent..and built the America we know today.....
Teddy Roosevelt had the gumption to speak of universal healthcare, and confront the massive corporations engaged in corruption(known as the trust buster) of his time......and give America the "Square Deal".......He also made the panama canal Deal, and grew government w/ the FDA.....He was concerned about the tearing down of our Pristine environment, and set up national Parks like Yellowstone, and set apart the Grand Canyon....
Eisenhower built the interstate highways, and was involved in peace talks for the korean war.......he sent U.S. troops to intergrate a Liitle Rock Arkansas highschool.
She knew far better republicans than we knew.....Rush you're right she's not part of the GOP that exist now.....
@ John
Bray Bray
CNN Please convey my message to Rush Limbaugh, I want him to respond to me:
My Message to Rush Limbaugh:
Limbaugh you are Loud Mouth Donkey. Bray Bray Bray
Limbaugh you Look Like a Monkey, You Talk like a Donkey.
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REPUBLICANS LOVE TO HEAR DONKEY'S BRAY
THAT IS WHY LIMBAUGH BRAYS 
Rush is so much louder with a Dem in the white house. He's loving all the attention he gets just for saying something outrageous. And I am loving all the turmoil he is causing amongst conservatives. Keep up the ridiculous comments Rush! The rifts you create only strengthen the liberal agenda. And PLEASE continue to preach about what a true conservative is to those people that need to be told what to think. The more you define who belongs in "your" party the more rifts you cause within a party with a lack of direction.
You ever been on a road and the only radio you can pick up is some right wing loon babbling on and on about this conspiracy or that nonsense? That's what the entire Republican party sounds like now.
I flatulate more intelligent hot air than that which emanates from this bloviating blowhard's facial orifice.
I have to make one more comment. One of the posters say rush has ideas. Yes he does and they all come out of his butt.
Rush is empowered by cnn for more audience in addition to the radio show he is generating revenue for. He is an entertainer shellacking his radio show for God sake. McCain's Mom is a life time republican and has twice Rush's age of experience. Leave her alone already!!
I am a registered Dem but vote Independent. Megan McCain is the voice and hope of the Republican Party. They would be smart to support her right now...but they won't...too bad for us all. Regardless of our polictical view, we need bright, caring visionaries running our country. Megan is the real deal...
The Republicans need to be smart, start another party for the fringe Limbaugh-Born again base and then Start a Libertarian Republican Party, based on LIbertarian, social-neutral, economic conservative values. Perhaps Romney could run on that ticket.
I think then the 20% or so could stay in teh GOP or start a COP (Christian Old Party) and then the new Repubilcans can get out of the culture war, and attract Independents. Then we'll have a new 2 party system!
This is the only way the Republican Ideals will work and survive, unite them to Libertarianism.
He's off his meds apparently.
Hey, hey, hey, people! It's just entertainment . This is how Republicans entertain themselves.
Class, pure class.
Limbaugh is the dinosaur here, not Mama McCain. The Party of Goldwater and Eisenhower are why people respected Republicans. It is the Republican Party of Rush that has lost that respect. Bring back Mama McCain's venerable old GOP and the Dems would be in for it.
The Republicans need to speak out against Rush however, there are people who believe in him. Maybe he wants to destroy the Republcian party or does he just want to start his own party. Whatever the case may be he definitely wants to take over something. I am disappointed he has sponsors. Those folks who like him will listen, the rest of us can change the channel. Let him keep talking and talking and talking the only folks who listen are those who like him. He seems to be making a fool of himself all by himself we need not respond to his vitriolic rhetoric. He makes Hugo Chavez look like a saint.
McCain won't stand up for his Mom...he let his daughter get slammed by Rush for her opinion.
That guy has ZERO backbone.
Radicals in the right is as bad as Radical Left. Rush is Chavez but with Right ideas.
Please Rush"over the cliff" go away, way far away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Saadi
Persian poet (1184 – 1291)
I buy nothing from any of his shows advertisers, nor from any of the Fox advertisers. Like they spoke of President Obama's budget cuts being a teaspoon of sand in the desert; folks, between us all, we can drive all these freaks off the air forever....
What if Limplips had a radio show and nobody listened.
Boycott his advertisers, whoever they are (I don't listen to the moron)
Why he isn't booted of the air is beyond me. The did it to the I Man.
Here's what I really hate about Limbug and his running dog Hattiny–when you want to challenge something misleading, or malicious, or downright stupid that they say , you cannot, because you will not be allowed on the air. Once in a while they carefully screen a not-so -smart caller and let him/her on to cynically give a whiff of fairness.
I would love a chance to go toe to toe with either one of them and whup their ass.
Lard ass just could not let it go. He just had to take on a 97 year old and try to discredit her. Even Glenn Beck, the mental midget, would have let this go. Rush should know that it will take 70 million to beat Obama in the next election, and his small, by comparison, following is not going to get the job done.
I've been a Democrat all of my life and I would dearly love to have a Republican party around that provided some competition. Unfortunately the Republicans are going so low on their practices and behavoirs that I am embarrassed for them. When I was growing up in Arizona, Barry Goldwater was King. Goldwater believed in the least government intervention as possible. Even in the bedroom. The Republican party of today wants to push their ideas on everybody else whether they want them or not. Mrs. McCain is right. The Republican party isn't the same one it was 40 years ago. 40-50 years ago, the Republican's expressed their ideas, not called other people names, they believed in less law, not more laws that infringed on peoples personal rights. Poor Barry would roll in his grave if he knew what some of the Republicans do these days.
FLUSH DUMB-BAUGH is the hillbilly ruining America. President Obama is still trying to clean up the mess the Republicans created over the last eight years.
Rush and Ann Coulter represent the WORST in America. He is not a spokeman for the Republican Party and he is definitely not an entertainer. He is a biased hypocritical typical right wing nut. Any radio station or any company that he represents immediately goes on my boycott list.
I have always thought that Rush is a closet liberal. Why else would he continue talking the way he does and drive people out of the party? Think about it. He is the perfect mole!
I keep thinking conservatives have had rock bottom, but they continue to sink lower and lower and lower. They seem to be going out of their to destroy all memory of their once power political status. They have become a national joke.
Oh my goodness Rush....have you no conscience? Leave this sweet lady alone....there are boundaries you know!
I must have missed something. She dumps on Rush and he basically laughs about it. Like him or not, he did not go after a 97 year old women. How ignorant are some of you to state he did? L for liberal, L for Liars.
They should split the Republicans, one called the Conservative party, the other a Rational one. Problem solved!
A new 400 million contract while all the Demorats are unable to get a show. Should tell you something folks. Even the Idiot Demo's are listening to him. When OBummer falls they will say they agreed with him all along. Why? Demo's have no spine, no eithcs, and no honor.
of course!
if he's not hitting back at gays, women, minorities...why not go after a 97 year old woman. he is THAT GUY
Limbaugh you are a tool!
The old witch of the desert did the same thing to Romney about his religion, and she did it on national TV. Sorry, Rush is a little bombastic at times, but this time he's right. Can't Cindy McCain cough up some more millions for the "old guy" and get better PR than his dried up old stupid fossil mother?
Yes it is not the Republican party she joined it is now the GOP (Greedy Orligarchical Plutocrat) party Rush Limbaugh aka the
Great Right Liar said that Mrs Mcain's Republican party gets
beat election after election yea like in 1952 and 1956 or in 1968
and 1972 or in 1980, 1984
@ frank
Frank? Frank Burns is that you?
All you conservatives offer is derisive, hate-filled politics. No solutions, no direction, no hope.
Perhaps if you'd get off your high horse and quit worshipping at the altar of Limbaugh and actually offer Americans something that resembles policy, you might win an election or two.
Anyone who takes Rush seriously does so at his/her own risk. Remember, he's an entertainer. he makes his money saying outrageous things. It's a sad time for our country that we now take someone like this seriously. We're going down fast...