Washington – America’s Most Powerful Radio Personality Rush Limbaugh Electrifies The Republican Party At CPAC

    52

    Washington – Seizing the opportunity to speak to a national TV audience, conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh told a packed house of cheering supporters at the 2009 Conservative Political Action Committee’s annual meeting in Washington to resist President Barack Obama’s plans to expand government and not “think like a minority.”

    Join our WhatsApp group

    Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email


    Moments before bringing Limbaugh to the CPAC stage, American Conservative Union president David Keene had gleefully reported a record attendance of 8,500, noting that when Reagan spoke at the first CPAC conference in 1973 only 125 people attended. Keene said the conference, which has steadily moved to larger venues over nearly four decades, had now outgrown the Shoreham and will move to “bigger quarters next year.” In a statement that harkened back to Bill Clinton’s defiant claims of relevancy in the wake of the Republicans’ 1994 electoral victories, Keene assured the audience that “We’re here, we’re alive, and we’re interested in ideas.”

    Slated for 30 minutes, Limbaugh spoke for more than an hour. His address started out quite strong, interrupted regularly for throaty ovations. In an early, not-so-subtle dig at the president and what he cheekily refers to as the “drive-by media,” Limbaugh clarified for anyone wondering that he doesn’t need a teleprompter to deliver a speech. He acknowledged Obama’s persuasive powers, and even said the Democratic president had the “power to destroy” the Republican Party were he to use his communication skills to inspire Americans. (Apparently, Limbaugh watched a different national election, transition and opening month of the Obama administration, given that three-quarters of the country currently approves of the new president’s performance.)

    But Limbaugh limped through the final half-hour, rambling and repeating points he had already covered. He may not have needed a teleprompter, but by the end of the speech what he most needed was the hook. And despite buzz in some quarters about a possible Limbaugh bid for the presidency in 2012, if he truly had electoral ambitions, he would speak more often in the second person or first person plural, rather than solely about himself.


    Listen to the VINnews podcast on:

    iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Podbean | Amazon

    Follow VINnews for Breaking News Updates


    Connect with VINnews

    Join our WhatsApp group


    52 Comments
    Most Voted
    Newest Oldest
    Inline Feedbacks
    View all comments
    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    If this am’haoretz and Booby Jindal is the best the Republicans can do, Obama should start planning his girls chasanahs in the East Room of the White House. If you listen to the speech, he tries to be nasty in his usual sarcastic way regarding wanting the President to fail etc. but after about 10 minutes, it all sounds like a bitter, mindelss rant. Maybe he was back on medications again or there was some other reason for his slurring words, repetitive comments on the same points. etc. I’m beginning to think we may need to bring backSarah Palin.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    He should be our president in 2012!!!

    dovid
    dovid
    15 years ago

    rush is a great person and he loves jews and israel not like obama and his lefty liberal democrats .

    Abe
    Abe
    15 years ago

    I watched the whole speech (slap, slap). I must say it was a good speech that can help revigorate some long-lost conservatives that watched it. It was a little long, but it was his regular self more than a teleprompter speech.

    Gefilte Fish
    Gefilte Fish
    15 years ago

    Rush was great usual, I watched the whole speech and he had me glued!
    He made some great points in his “first address to the nation”
    He surely got some people at home thinking, he brought out our (conservatives) profound love for America, life, freedom and pursuit of happiness!

    But what was even better than his speech, was the one of Ann Coulter, what a wonderful woman, a pleasure listening to.

    Let’s hope they will help the (authentic) republican regroup for 2012, and get this country rolling the way it is supposed to.

    baron
    baron
    15 years ago

    i disagree strongly i watched most of the speech his ego and “getting caught up with himself” kept on throwing off his point he might be lauded but his ego and rapture kept on throwing him off from making a simple point soo no his monolouge without verbal support from viewers and listeners kind of threw him off

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    hes nothing more than a republican partyy hack, its his fault the republicans lost the congress, and its his fault mccain was the partys nominee. who want to hear his loud mouth now? he is far from the true conservative.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    pathetic that this party has absolutely nothing that it needs an uneducated hypocrite drug addict to get them off on themselves. duh vote palin! lol

    robroy560
    robroy560
    15 years ago

    That’s what most of you don’t get… he’s not an egomaniac. He does it to mock the main stream media. Rush doesn’t write his speeches or monologues on the radio. He doesn’t use the Obamapromter.

    If Rush is irrelevant, why is Obama so afraid of him? It’s utterly amazing that the President is attacking a private citizen excercising his freedom of speech. If you don’t like hi, don’t watch and and don’t listen.

    #1… lay off your scotch… you’re ideas are all over the place.

    #4 He’s not interested in a pay cut, and he’s a conservative first. Running for Presdient as a Republican would force him to bend many of his principles.

    robroy560
    robroy560
    15 years ago

    Once again, you misunderstand conservatism and Republicans. They are not synonymous. The Republican party has become Democrat-light. Conservatives may vote Republican, but it’s not a sure thing.

    I’m a Rush 24/7 member. If you were a listener, you would know how many truck drivers and average Joes call in. They identify with his ideas because they are very simple – freedom and liberty. Liberals don’t understand that basic concept, and many Republicans do not either.

    Rush will never be owned by the Republicans… he is his own conservative man. You should listen to his show more. Perhaps you would learn something.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    That’s not his real picture, he looks hear like a mashigener.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Rush is the man. We need more people like him. Rush, Hannity, Beck, Oreily, Levin, and Savage these are people that Yidden should listen to if they have a chance.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    I know rush, he struggled a lot, that’s an old picture, it’s bishash!!!

    Rebitzen
    Rebitzen
    15 years ago

    If only our Rebbes had the persuasiveness of Rush Limbo our community would be in better shape.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    The Republicans are contracting down to the core white country-club set. If this is the best they can do, don’t bother tuning into the 2012 election.

    Government is NOT the solution to the problem, government IS the problem!!!
    Government is NOT the solution to the problem, government IS the problem!!!
    15 years ago

    Gee of course the tone of the story was heavily biased to the left. Afterall that IS Salon!

    As a Conservative I could tell you that I am NOT a Republican. Granted I might be a registered Republican only because they are closest to my political leanings. Rush will tell you as well – he is not a Republican, he is a Conservative.

    I saw the speech and it was great. I guess most of you people krechtzing here thought he would start crying about losing the elections. However if you have been listening to the show since Election Day, you would know he NEVER did that. Rush is an eduacator and he has been going back to that lately. He actually used to do that a lot more when the show first went national in 1988.

    From the amount of anti-Rush posters here I would go out on a limb and put money on the fact that it is only 2 people kvetching like only Liberals know how to do.

    Government is NOT the solution to the problem, government IS the problem!!!
    Government is NOT the solution to the problem, government IS the problem!!!
    15 years ago

    Actually I will differ with 32 as well as all the naysayers above. If you want to go by stats then here is what you really need to know.

    Most of the country (I beleive the stats show well over 60 percent) lean to the right one way or the other and if the right candidate comes along they will vote Republican. The right candidate means someone who is really fiscally conservative and true to the conservative values. If that’s what happens, he/she will win the nomination. The country is never all too happy with RINOs and if you dont know what I mean, look at McCain.

    Of course it helps when the libs put up someone who doesnt “get” the country. So far, Obama doesnt get it and if the first 30 days, 4 TRILLION DOLLARS, SOCIALISM are a pointer to what lies ahead, the right better have someone good otherwise it will Chas V’Sholom be the same ol same ol in the last 4 years of Obama’s legal term.

    USA
    USA
    15 years ago

    If Actor Ronald Reagan Made It.. So Can Radio Personality Rush Limbaugh!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    When Rush came on the air over 20 years ago, I was crazy over his show and his ideas. (his show used to be funny. Updates, songs, etc). I enjoyed him and learned from him for many years after that. However, after Clinton left office, he still rambled on and on about how everything was Clinton’s fault for years after that. That was when I realized how ridiculous he sounded. That was also when I realized that the show wasn’t entertaining anymore, it was boring. The show was about himself. That was also when I began realizing that the frum world was becoming brainwashed by him and was quoting him all over the place without having a mind of its own. Being conservative politically has become all about quoting Rush, Hannityc, etc. Now he doesn’t even care about our country, only about Obama failing.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    15 years ago

    Ann Coulter is Not an anti_semite. Read her books and see. The comment she madet o Deutch was her personal Christian belief about how people who don’t believe in J.. need to be saved. So what..? That’s her religion. Don’t we thank G-D every day ” Shlo Usani Goh..?? Does that mean we hate non-Jews..?