Why Rush disses Mitt Romney?

[FreddyE1977]

I don't know that Rush is necessarily "dissing" Mitt Romney either.
(at least not the way he used to dis John McCain, playing parodies that
make him sound like a snarling chihuahua, etc.).  It is well-known that
the bad blood between Rush and McCain was real and it was palpable.

I don't get the sense that he has such deep personal negative feelings towards Romney.
Probably more so towards some of the GOP insiders who are pushing the Romney candidacy.
He is just pointing out what most of his audience is thinking....Romney is not
as conservative as most of them would like.  And until he can better explain
his muddled positions on Romneycare and Climate Change, those misgivings are
likely to persist.

[Lazy J]

I am willing to bet that most Americans see themselves as Moderate-Left or Moderate-Right. I think Mitt Romney is actually doing himself a huge favor by not denouncing some of his moderate views. It will be easier to sway Democrats toward someone like Romney than to someone like Perry, Cain or Bachmann. It doesn't do us any good if we nominate an ultra-conservative who can't win the general election.

It only takes one look at satellite photos from the last 20 years to know the polar ice caps are melting fast. For Republicans to flat-out deny global warming makes us look very ignorant. We ought to be denying that it's man-made or can be reversed.

As for health care, my son was in the hospital for a week with pneumonia. The final bill was $84,000 dollars. Luckily we had Children's Health Insurance through the state and it only cost us $1,500 out-of-pocket. What would we have done without gov't health insurance? We would have gone bankrupt and lost our home, all because my kid got pneumonia?! Maybe RomneyCare isn't the best answer, but NO is also not a good enough answer.

Romney can beat Obama, if the Republicans don't destroy him first.

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

I am willing to bet that most Americans see themselves as Moderate-Left or Moderate-Right. I think Mitt Romney is actually doing himself a huge favor by not denouncing some of his moderate views. It will be easier to sway Democrats toward someone like Romney than to someone like Perry, Cain or Bachmann. It doesn't do us any good if we nominate an ultra-conservative who can't win the general election.

May your tribe increase!

My congressman is one of those ultra-ultra somewhere-beyond-the-horizon conservatives newly elected to congress in the backlash-vote of 2010.  He recent sent me a newsletter explaining one of his votes and I got a real good serving of somewhere-beyond-the-horizon thinking.

I doubt it if did much good but I wrote back and suggest what he was selling as foundational economic truths reminded me of some voodoo religious practices of the natives on some island in a Bing Crosy/Bob Hope "On the road" movie....  a religious practice involving a lot of chicken entrails.  And that if he was successful in passing the bill he was writing in support of, I expected to spend the rest of my days living off a retirement diet of chick entrails and their equivalent.

How does either party really hope to win elections if we continue with political rhetoric that has stooped to the point that I feel compelled to write a letter that stoops such a low level?  Will we have a nation for our children and grandchildren to even worry about if we go to some of the extremes proposed in either direction? 

And to bring this conversation back to broadcasting:  If radio continues to be the pipeline to feed the liquid fertilizer to help grow the crop of political thinking that cannot be separated out from the chicken entrails in the cook's pot...  is there a future for broadcasting to worry about?  News headline for 27 years from now:  "Satellite photos today revealed that just as the polar ice caps melted a dozen years ago,  scientists today today announced that 23% of the United States has now melted down into what has been dubbed the "Appalacheepoochee Gumbo Marsh".  Tonight Show centenarian host Jay Leno announced in his monologue:  "It tastes like chicken."

[Jimme]

Limbaugh WANTS Obama to get re-elected:
http://open.salon.com/blog/holland_cooke/2011/10/16/why_rush_limbaugh_disses_mitt_romney

Very late in that article, you make a reference to Limbaugh still invoking Obama's middle name "Hussein".

Ironically, not only is that a really lame attempt still by some conservaclones to incite some "suspicion" about Obama ('cause that worked so well: 65 million votes), but the name "Hussein" for me, only stirs up memories of how the last administration misled us into a very expensive war in Iraq.

That whole "Hussein" thing, if anything, helps reasonable people quickly identify a moron on the air.

The on;y time I ever hear Rush refer to Obama with Hussein is when he follows it up with an "MMM  MMM  MMM" making reference to the ssong school children were singing in a classroom.  Use of Hussein is still employed by other hosts.  It isn't nice, but nobody seems to complain when MSNBC refers to "Willard M. Romey" instead of "Mitt Ronmney">

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

The on;y time I ever hear Rush refer to Obama with Hussein is when he follows it up with an "MMM  MMM  MMM" making reference to the ssong school children were singing in a classroom.  Use of Hussein is still employed by other hosts.  It isn't nice, but nobody seems to complain when MSNBC refers to "Willard M. Romey" instead of "Mitt Ronmney">

Those who find the use of Hussein (with a vocal emphasis on the H word) a bit vulgar and tasteless see it as an effort to paint the President as connected with a people and a religion that is unpopular with some
Americans.

If nobody complains about MSNBC folks using Willard,  maybe it is because there is not a comparable vulgar and tasteless quality to the quip.  The quality of the conversation on MSNBC would probably be slightly more mature without the Willard.