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Rich Galen :: Townhall.com Columnist
Rush, Sean, and Laura
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Who will win on November 4th?


With the exit of Gov. Mitt Romney there is no doubt that Sen. John McCain will be the Republican nominee.

The Popular Press is running around in tiny circles, eyes wide, arms waving, mouths agape selling themselves on the theory that McCain's impending nomination will signal the end of the Republican Party.

The Main Stream Media has a vision of the GOP which is that Republicans are a bunch of narrow-minded, widely-condemning, high-handed, low-opinioned, under-educated, over-critical brutes who subscribe to a political orthodoxy which brooks no deviation from a belief set laid down by disciples of Aimee Semple McPherson

Not all. But many.

Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and the others are doing the work of the New York Times and the rest of the popular press by railing against McCain all day, every day.

It appears on the surface that their goal is to make Conservatives stay home next November 4 and hand the White House to Hillary or Barack.

But the reality is they are doing it because it means good ratings. When their listeners get tired of hearing them beat up on McCain, they'll switch to something else.

If they were to ask for my advice (which they most assuredly will not) I would suggest they take on the issue of the Democrats in the Senate holding up - according to the Wall Street Journal - 208 nominees: 180 nominees to executive branch positions and 28 nominees to the Federal bench.

If Rush, Sean, Laura and the rest wanted to really do a favor for America, they would get their tens of millions of listeners amped up about the nominees who are being held up - some for as long as two years - by Senate Democrats who will not allow the President to govern and will not allow the Judicial Branch to function.

But, I digress.

It is not a surprise that Mitt Romney got out of the race yesterday. After spending some $40-50 million of his own money and perhaps $100 million overall, he needed be able to have said more than "I did somewhat better than Mike Huckabee" after Super Tuesday. Continued...
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Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. He currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

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Reply # 1
Date: Feb 10, 2008 - 10:58 PM EST
Subject: Talk radio is not going away..
... and thank goodness. The Clinton machine is/was terrible. While a million Rwandan's were being slaughtered, Bill-boy was more concerned with staining an interns dress. Bin Laden was available to be killed, Billy was on the phone trying to pick up Kathleen Willey. Hillary disrespected our military Generals while being a "first lady."

"First lady" not a position of power but one that had to be respected. She is the same old same old. Rush, Laura, Sean and the rest of the conservative talk radio hosts exposed the hypocrisy that exisited at the time and still does.

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Reply # 2
Date: Feb 10, 2008 - 8:56 PM EST
Article is correct=Good bye Talk Radio
For at least a decade, these people have made their money off criticizing the Clinton machine. If they continue their assault against Senator McCain, and Clinton/Obama or Obama/Clinton win the Presidency, I will never listen to them, watch their shows or ever believe they have anything worthy to say. In short, I would admit that I have wasted my time listening to them for all these years onhow bad the clinton machine is and was. Senator McCain is an honorable and decent man. I might not agree with everything he has said or done, but he is far superior to the dem candidates. If they don't see the difference, then they are a waste of my time.
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