Monthly Archives: February 2011

Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin are RINOs

It’s funny, I remember when Glenn Beck was first singing praises of Chris Christie, Christie ducked a question when asked if he’d ever appear on the Glenn Beck show. When Beck was asked aboot it, his response was basically “If avoiding me is going to reform New Jersey, so be it.” Compare that to his colleagues Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, who are apparently upset that Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels hurt their poor little feelings.

It’s in response to Daniels speech at CPAC.

Now, could I have done without some of the speakers and anything Ron Paul related? Of course. You don’t boo Dick Cheney at anything that has the word “conservative” in it, and if Campaign for Liberty is going to pay to have people shipped in to disrupt CPAC on behalf of Ron Paul, it can be solved by no longer inviting C4L or Ron Paul. That stuff was such a small part of the event; I thought the rest of it was a success.  I digress…

The problem with Daniels, and the part they have an issue with, is that after talking aboot conservative health care reform, conservative education reform, conservative tax reform, conservative entitlement reform, and conservative economic reform…he insinuated that in order to beat Obama, we need to reach out to voters other than just those who listen talk radio. Rush and Levin saw that as an attack on talk radio, pandering to the mainstream media, and selling out conservative principles.
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Proponents of limited government are not proponents of limited drinking (and other CPAC ’11 thoughts)

I forget where I stole the title from (probably the Twitters), so if it’s you…hi!

Here we are, back on Long Island after spending the last few days at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference, also known as the CPAC’s. My liver hurts and I’m looking forward to hibernating for a day or two, but before I do I wanted to expand on my random thoughts from the other day. I might even use spell check this time.

For starters, I can’t begin to say how appreciative I am for the relationship that’s been built between FTR Radio and Smart Girl Politics, and all the friends I’ve made. It started for me at last year’s CPAC’s when I had a drink (actually many of them) with programming director Tom LaDuke and he said, “I hear you got this little radio show.” So I would be remiss if I didn’t start by giving a shout out to Fingers, Paulie, Beregond, Jenny, Ashley, Jimmie, Josh, Mark, Molly, Brent, Tabitha, Stacy, Teri, Michelle and whoever else I’m sure I’m missing.

I also feel that I’ve finally arrived as a conservative internet personality…I was in the Kruiser Kabana.

Now, on to politics…
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[VIDEO]: The Cartel

If you missed “Waiting for Superman” and am waiting for it to come on your On Demand cable service, I highly recommend checking out “The Cartel.”  You won’t be disappointed…