Typical McCain, flip flops on Rush "Phony Soldiers" Limbaugh

[ProSense]

McCain To Obama: Leave Limbaugh Alone!

Over the past week, the fealty of GOP lawmakers to hate radio host Rush Limbaugh has become increasingly clear. They have been reluctant to criticize his comment that he hopes Obama fails, and those who have spoken out have been forced to retract their statements and beg forgiveness from the hate radio host.

Today on Fox and Friends, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) further circled the wagons, saying that Obama shouldn’t have made critical remarks about Limbaugh (which were made in a private meeting with Republicans and then leaked to the press):

McCAIN: I don’t know why he would do that. Mr. Limbaugh is a voice of a significant portion of our conservative movement in America. He has a very wide viewing audience. He is entitled to his views, and he has a lot of people who listen very carefully to him. I don’t know why that the President would take him on. He’s part of the political landscape, and he plays a role.

Watch it:

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In September 2007, Limbaugh controversially claimed that U.S. service members who support withdrawal from Iraq are actually “phony soldiers.” At the time, McCain spoke out against the remarks and :

Any American who risks his or her life to defend us has earned the respect and gratitude of every American citizen, irrespective of their views on this war. If Mr. Limbaugh made the remark he is reported to have made, it reflects very poorly on him and not the objects of his offensive comment. I expect most Americans, whatever their political views, will have the same reaction. He would be well advised to retract it and apologize.

So before the election, when McCain was trying to establish himself as a maverick, calling on Rush to criticize for his offensive remarks was fine. After the election, McCain appears more than happy to join his caucus as a ditto head.

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Why do the Repubs think blowhard Limpy is off limits?

[Cha]

1. mccain has a history of embracing his

tormentor. Thank Goodness he failed.

[ProSense]

2. People will soon realize that Limpy is fighting to stay relevant

He's their new Palin: Someone to clog up the news cycle with idiotic banter while GOP elected officials like McCain play along.

The Repub party is so pathetic that McCain, the 2008 presidential candidate, doesn't even have a platform to stake out a leadership position.

Their world is a vast wasteland of self-serving assholes.

[Cha]

3. And, the corporatemediawhores

play along because they forgot how to be relevant a long time ago.

It's the same ol' thing as in the primaries and general..all the corporatesmucks against Obama and the Peeps.

Gotta think we're stronger now and we need to keep building.

[karynnj]

4. McCain is the big loser with the attempt to designate Limbaugh as the Republican leader

I hadn't though of that until seeing this post. When the lame duck session started, there were many articles that were essentially rehabilitating McCain after his disgraceful campaign. (I actually was jealous (if that's the right word - that correcting the smears (in his case, the need was to correct lies,not rehabilitation) for Kerry after a classy high road campaign that came far closer to winning was not done. ) In them, there was a refrain that a return to McCain's moderate (pre 2000) nature would make him a nature leader of the Republicans working with Obama in bipartisan harmony. (I assume that did not mean voting against S-CHIP)

In fact, though Obama had a dinner honoring him - he is not a leader of the right wing Republicans and he hasn't made any of the actions that Snowe, Specter, Collins etc have made to be bipartisan. He is not rising to the times at all. Now, Limbaugh who trashed McCain endlessly in the primaries is being given attantion as the natural leader.

[DailyGrind51]

5. McCain has truly gone over to the Dark Side!