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Limbaugh: Christine O‘Donnell ’Moved the Conservative Ball Forward’

During his first post-election broadcast Wednesday, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh pushed back against certain GOP establishment criticisms that the tea party should have nominated more moderate candidates.

It’s the Democrats who have lessons to learn from this election, says Limbaugh, not the tea party:

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:45pm

    All I know is that the 30 minute ad that she put out just before the election had have a little more time, I think she could have pulled it off. But then again, the people already know that Coons will do nothing for them and they voted for him anyway. If they go broke then they can‘t say they weren’t given a chance.

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  • dontbotherme
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:45pm

    We don’t want moderate candidates (representatives). We want representatives who will fight for our constitution!

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  • temple62
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:39pm

    These baby kissing politicians are all on probation from this day forward to the election in 2012.This probation movement applies to both parties on the Federal, State and the local dandies as well. When you take my money, understand you work for me now or I’ll organized movement to put you out of office. Enjoy your retirements and lets work to thin them out with term limits – one term for all!

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  • LuvThisCntry
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:31pm

    Rush is right, O’Donnell has helped us moved Delaware. Maybe not this election, but we will have a good chance in winning more of these states in 2012. I think Karl Rove needs to be a little more careful with his words.

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  • adifftake
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:25pm

    Such a heavy burden to be right all the time. They, the republican progressives sold them out.

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  • trukmek
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:20pm

    Rugnuts is right. If O’Donnell got half the money that Fiorina got (about $4 mil)
    she probably would have won. She was fighting the dems and repubs.

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  • JohnnyJT
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:18pm

    GOP better learn.

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  • Sinclare
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:15pm

    Personally, I think he is right on. I have come to the conclusion that I will vote for the most left liberal progressive person I can find before I ever vote for another RIHNO!!!!!

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  • temple62
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:11pm

    What is disappointing is that the Republican Party turned their back on the O’Donnell opposing the Democrat. Which way do the Republicans want to play the game in 2012? I recommend they get their complacent and complicit heads screwed on or be content with four more years of status quo. Were they trying the “unity” pitch ahead of the outcome? There is no unity and the goal is the defeat of the Democratiers.

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  • GrannyATL
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:09pm

    Karl Rove has shown that he’s just another Right-Wing Elite. He‘s never liked the Tea Party from the beginning and used his platform on Fox to slam Christine O’Donnel right up to the end. I hold him accountable for her defeat just as much as the GOP who refused to back her.

    We need to put pressure on him, too. Send him your comments at his website — http://www.rove.com He needs to know we‘re not going away and will be holding the GOP’s feet to the fire.

    This IS their last chance!

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    • chazman
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:20pm

      She’ll write a book … “I’m not a Witch, I’m not a Witch!”

      That’s what did it to her. The past comes back to haunt us all. Some get creamed worse than others, though. I still like her and I hope she sticks around.

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  • RON MARTIN
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:58pm

    This win comes too late to save America. Doesn’t matter if anyone agrees with me or not. Its-over.info

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  • ManFromNowhere
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:56pm

    If the tea party backs anyone who has “tea party member” then we are no better than the GOP pushing anyone who has an (R) after their name. We need to have qualified candidates in office and ODonnel was not qualified. She should have never been anywhere near the primary let alone the midterm. The tea party should be building viable candidates now for 2012. Candidates like ODonnel hurt the movement’s credibility and longevity. We need less ODonnels and more Rand Pauls.

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    • GOPatheist
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 3:43am

      True. She was more a religious right candidate tha a Tea Party one. The Tea Party should focus on fiscal and constitutional issues and stay away from the social ones. I’m a libertarian at heart and an atheist. I do not want anyone pushing their morality on me. Limited government means no religious agenda in addition to no over bearing regulations and taxes.

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    • MemphisViking
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 3:56pm

      Why is it that even conservative (I assume) atheists think that Christians are going to get into office and try to force religion on everyone?

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  • Rugnuts
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:52pm

    fact of the matter is odonnel got the same percentage of votes as the other repubs in the state. she didnt get less. if she would have actually gotten help from the repub party she would have done better the others

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  • heavyduty
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:52pm

    She sure did win in a lot of ways. The only thing that really hurt her was Karl Rowe. I like Karl but he was wrong when he didn’t back O Donnel. You always stick with your party, you might not like it but you don’t go against it. He will find this out later. The GOP is either going to get on board or get left behind.

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    • MarkInSavannah
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:09pm

      Entirely agree. The one comment, indeed the 11th commandment according to Ronald Reagan was this: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican”. It is a shame that so many from our side of the aisle forget this directive a long time ago.

      Note: Yes, I know this quote was not one of his originals but he certainly cited it often enough.

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  • SND97
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:51pm

    I seen this gal give Greta an inteview on Foriegn Policy and she was outstanding, she got a bum rap and most somehow lisented to the media. This gal was good.

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  • Probity
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:50pm

    I liked the way this race brought out the Right wing Elites. The good old boy’s club is alive and well. Rush must like that fact. After following Rubio here in Florida, he is the republicans best bet moving forward, if he doesn’t fall on his sword. He speaks better than any candidate ( even if what he says isn’t true) look presidential too. Obama had nothing more than that to start with. Now the question is will the good old boys hold him up or will he be the one to break them up?

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  • secondgenamerican1984
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:48pm

    This is sad Rush gets it and Obama doesn’t.

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  • cnerd
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:47pm

    What a way to break into politics. I hope she gets some armor, (and better handlers) and makes another run at it.She was refreshingly honest.

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  • FSUDAVE
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:46pm

    I would have rather seen O’Donnell and Angle lose than have a RINO in the seat that allows the left to claim a bill passed with bi=partisanship. In addition, how close these candidates came without being stellar showed good future candidates that they can beat the poitical machine.The country is better off that they ran for office.

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    • computerdweller
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:23pm

      The Tea Party has yet to even coalesce on who we are.
      So far its no to socialism, no to high taxes, no to runaway government
      But we need to explain why socialism, high taxes and big government stagnates and kills creativity and job creation. We have yet to have adopt a platform that explains that we don’t want to end social security, medicare/aid, or food stamps etc. We want a net to assist those that fall. We just want it delivered in a manner that those that need it also have an impetus to get back on their own two feet. Remember welfare to workfare. We have time now to work on that presentation.

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  • teaputts
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:39pm

    I have to agree with Rush. Did you see Steele‘s face when Fox News pointed out the statement from Rubio this was the the GOP’s second chance? He still doesn’t get it. WE DON”T WANT THE GOP. WE WANT HONEST CONSERVATIVES!!!!! I would say Rubio has it wrong. This is the GOP’s LAST CHANCE!!!

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    • FSUDAVE
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:48pm

      And the country as it was intended to be by the founders.

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    • computerdweller
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:52pm

      No you have it wrong. Were taking over the GOP. This election showed we can take over the GOP, The GOP is the New Conservative Party. We just have to repeat what we did next election cycle and we will take back this country. In the meantime we must help who we elected to stop the obama agenda. This is not the GOP second or last chance. This is the Tea Party take over of the GOP. Let Rove and Graham say what they will. They are irrelevant.

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    • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:00pm

      @computerdweller

      I feel we are taking the GOP back, or getting it ready to become what the people and conservatives intended it to be in the first place.
      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

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    • Orion the truth hunter
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 5:04pm

      Of course Rush was right. The Rinos and the media are trying to teach us to stay down and keep quite or they will distort your views and try to make you look like a clown. BUT what I noticed is that even with everything the national press and comics threw at her, her returns were nearly IDENTICAL to the republican running for congress in Delaware (Glen Urquhart, who was ignored nationally). Perhaps the people voting in Wilmington and New Castle are just not ready for personal responsibility and freedom. The good news is that the people of Kent and Sussex are ready. Perhaps there is hope for that state yet.

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  • We Are Not Alone
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:37pm

    Once a primary is won, we need to surround the candidate and not cannibalize them. Christine didn’t have a chance. I hope she continues to fight for Delaware.

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    • teaputts
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:40pm

      Dead on!! They might as well of put a big dunce cap on her head.

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    • Maybe the GEESE Know More than the BEES Know
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:03pm

      that is what really bonded us together…that’s what the “establishment” doesn’t get.

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    • GOPatheist
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 3:36am

      Come on. She makes $8000 a year, lied about her education, has no real resume or history of personal success in anything. Her biggest religious crusade was a complete failure. Last I checked people are still masterbating like crazy.

       
    • We Are Not Alone
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 8:07am

      GOPATHIEST:
      Are you kidding me…. obama’s terrorist associations, church, communist friends, drugs were not a factor when he got elected but somehow Christine’s past made her unelectable….

      Want our country back  
    • We Are Not Alone
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 8:09am

      GOPATHIEST:

      Are you kidding me…. obama’s terrorist associations, church, communist friends, drugs were not a factor when he got elected but somehow Christine’s past made her unelectable…. REALLY!!!!!!

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:36pm

    Sacrifice fly to left center

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  • LSX
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:34pm

    Rush might have missed this one.

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    • MarkInSavannah
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:42pm

      How do you figure? Sure, O‘Donnell lost but not because she didn’t put forth what I thought to be a pretty good fight. She lost because she was treated by the ‘ruling class’ of the Republican party as an unworthy, unwashed commoner who audaciously went up against the establishment candidate and won. She lost because she lacked the respect from within her own party and the drive by media treated her and referred to her strictly as the “Tea Party Candidate”, as if her candidacy had previously been repudiated by the Republican side of the “Ruling Class”. Rush was right…….we either live as conservatives or die as moderates. Mr. Miyagi had the same philosophy……”walk down middle of road…….get squished like grape.”

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    • jsDway
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:55pm

      No RUSH has it just right! AS ALWAYS!

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    • GOPatheist
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 3:32am

      O’Donnell lost by 17%. Make all the excuses you want. She simply was not the right nominee. Too much stupidity in her recent past.

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    • Steve Neiling
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 6:55am

      @GOPAtheist
      Too much supidity in her past? Really? Were you ever a teeneager, a college student, a young adult? I don’t know one person who has too much intelligence in their past. I look at my past with a lot of regret and head-shaking over some of the bone-headed stuff I did. But that’s the point–it’s not so much WHAT we did in the past, it’s HOW we regard it now. I grew up, Christine O grew up. Did you?

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    • GOPatheist
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 7:43am

      Hey Steve she’s 41. Most of her idiocy took place in her late 20s to early 30s. At age 33 Thomas Jefferson was writing The Declaration of Independence not campaigning against masterbation. George H W Bush was a naval aviator at 16. We really lowered the bar to get a candidate like this. She has no accomplishments and cost the GOP a senate seat.

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    • BSdetector
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 9:38am

      So you’re saying she was *gasp* a normal person?? One of us underachievers who wasn’t a naval aviator at 16? Or a “bearded marxist” at any point in our lives?
      Yea I guess you’re right, the Marxist was a MUCH better candidate than the average, level headed, common sense American and THATS why he won the general election. I guess that’s your reason for why we should have nominated a progressive(read: socialist) RINO as our candidate instead.

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    • Pericles
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 9:18pm

      She lost because she is crazy. If you have to have an advertisement that says that you are not a witch, you have problems. Angle was in the same boat. She claimed that she was called from God to be the next Senator. Really? That worked out well. We are not a country of extremes. We are a moderate country. Even the conservative pundits claim (falsely) that we are a right of center country.

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  • We Are Not Alone
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:34pm

    Once a primary is won, we need to surround them and not cannibalize them…. Christine didn’t have a chance. American woman STAND UP.

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:16pm

      This comment was written when Rove trashed O’Donnell right after she won the nomination.

      Carl Rove and Senator Graham (R, SC) believe that the “Tea Party Movement” is unsustainable. Perhaps, that is just wishful thinking on their part.

      The fact is that it is that either the “Tea Party Movement” or Carl Rove and Senator Graham will go the way of the Dodo bird.

      RINOS cannot survive in a nation of citizens that understand that FREEDOM RESULTS IN PROSPERITY AND THAT TYRANNY IS THE ROOT OF POVERTY AND DESPAIR. Mr. Rove’s action proves that he understands his peril. RINOS like Mr Rove and Senator Graham are more of a danger to the American Revolution than the admitted tyrants like Obama.
      http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • Jamestown
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 9:14pm

      I am totally with you WEARENOTALONE…blind faith even to rush is forbidden…just yesterday a woman called rush about these phony promises republicans I’ve….hanity today …to day still calls rove the architect….push away a caller…rove interviews….you can go to hell talk show host…listen more carefully than ever before….call a spade a spade…rush. You bette get off your fatA_s and adress this….I’m dam sick of hanity

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  • snowleopard3200 {mix art}
    Posted on November 3, 2010 at 7:33pm

    Thank God we are now back on the playing field with a good chance to change things for the better. Time will tell how it comes out.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 8:15pm

      RUSH IS RIGHT!!
      The establishment Republicans lost those elections. The establishment still needs hammering into shape. They let us and the candidates down. Fiorriena and Whitman didn’t get it and lost. O’Donnell did get it and they abandon her. Same with Angle. We are just beginning. Not only to turn this country around but to turn the Republican Party around too.

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    • AlaskaRick
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:05pm

      Demint and Rubio 2012!

      AlaskaRick  
    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 9:22pm

      why did Rush ignore the Harry Reed election fraud ?
      http://www.infowars.com/questions-loom-over-harry-reid-victory-as-steal-nevada-1-on-google/

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    • KingArthurUp
      Posted on November 3, 2010 at 10:24pm

      I have lost a great deal of respect for Karl Rove… I didn’t know that he was such a suck ass, but I should have recognized that in 2006 with GW’s run to the left…

      RUSH IS RIGHT!

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    • tea bagging patriot
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 3:05am

      Anybody got any oxy’s?

      tea bag patriot  
    • gobluebuckeye
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 8:07am

      I completely enjoy listen to Rush, the original Tea Party Leader. WE THE PEOPLE still need to be active and become increasingly more active. The Tea Party message needs to become stronger and get its message out to the people. Our work IS NOT DONE, and more now then ever the nation needs leadership. The progressives will evolve and be crafty as they have always been. We must fight with as much applied logic and principles as we can. The Cold War is no longer a battle outside of our boarders but within it. The Nation is still not awake but we are, now where do we go from here? If its on your couch me have lost what we have started, if it’s to the streets our battle will be won

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    • flfun2no
      Posted on November 4, 2010 at 12:47pm

      @SNOWLEOPARD320

      How are you always the first or second blogger to post a response on everysingle story on the Blaze?
      I like your comments but I’m just amazed that you are always at the top of the response list!

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