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inanna

(3,547 posts) Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:09 PM Dec 2015

Conservative radio changing its tune on Trump after ‘stupid’ remarks

Source: The Canadian Press

The Canadian Press, Published on Tue Dec 15 2015

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Two of the biggest names in conservative talk radio ripped a strip off the Republican poll-leader for remarks he’s made over the last few days, amid a shifting dynamic in the presidential race.

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The catalyst was Trump’s decision to attack the Texas senator, whom he’d so far spared. Now with the firebrand conservative surging in Iowa, Trump doled out the same treatment he’s dished out to others.

Suddenly, he was attacking a conservative hero. Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin let him have it Monday, in on-air monologues that were either a one-off or the harbinger of a new narrative.

Levin launched into one of his characteristic shouting soliloquies while accusing the billionaire of having committed a “trifecta” of conservative sins: defending ethanol subsidies, criticizing Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and calling Cruz a “maniac” for his inability to make friends in the Senate.

Read more: http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/12/15/trump-slammed-by-conservative-radio-hosts-for-stupid-remarks.html

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Conservative radio changing its tune on Trump after ‘stupid’ remarks (Original Post) inanna Dec 2015 OP

Wonder if they'll get the toothpaste back in the tube? Kber Dec 2015 #1

... 2naSalit Dec 2015 #2

Rush Limbaugh..... does anyone actually listen to him anymore? groundloop Dec 2015 #3

"They" made this monster Botany Dec 2015 #7

They bolstered the TParty, too, and that got completely away from them, too. JudyM Dec 2015 #12

The "word" is out from the powers that be Trump must be stopped Botany Dec 2015 #4

I'm still a bit suspicious that this has been either an intentional set-up or an libdem4life Dec 2015 #9

Another of the Rethugs so called Action Plans. Wellstone ruled Dec 2015 #5

It's the racism that is so appealing to his supporters hibbing Dec 2015 #8

Sure as heck is not the Rethug Party of Ike. Wellstone ruled Dec 2015 #10

Watch for something out of the Willard Romney Camp. Wellstone ruled Dec 2015 #6

That explains the nonsense I drifted by on Fox News last night underpants Dec 2015 #11

Wow, looks like even Limpballs is going with the RNC plan now. SunSeeker Dec 2015 #13

What happens if there's nobody left standing after the GOP primaries/circular firing squad? tanyev Dec 2015 #14

The GOP and the fucked up media own this one. Ivan Kaputski Dec 2015 #15

Kber

(5,043 posts)

1. Wonder if they'll get the toothpaste back in the tube?

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:11 PM

Dec 2015

2naSalit

(86,646 posts)

2. ...

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:12 PM

Dec 2015

groundloop

(11,519 posts)

3. Rush Limbaugh..... does anyone actually listen to him anymore?

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:14 PM

Dec 2015

I figured by now he'd only be on 100 watt AM stations.

(And isn't it fun watching the right wingers eat their own? )

Botany

(70,516 posts)

7. "They" made this monster

Reply to groundloop (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:24 PM

Dec 2015

Nobody from the right said word one when Trump was pushing his President
Obama birther crap.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-obama-muslim_55fed420e4b0fde8b0ce9ef2

"Trump is actually one of the forefathers of the Obama birther conspiracy. He made
headlines in 2011 after persistently demanding to see the president's birth certificate
while raising doubts over Obama's birthplace in Hawaii. Even after the White House
released an official copy of the document, Trump questioned its authenticity."

JudyM

(29,251 posts)

12. They bolstered the TParty, too, and that got completely away from them, too.

Reply to Botany (Reply #7)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 03:08 PM

Dec 2015

I hope it stays out of their control and comes to define them for the next generation.

Botany

(70,516 posts)

4. The "word" is out from the powers that be Trump must be stopped

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:18 PM

Dec 2015

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-karl-rove_566c34e2e4b0e292150e19b7

Karl Rove, who served as an adviser to former President George W. Bush, warned Republicans that nominating Donald Trump could be a death wish for the party.

In a Wall Street Journal column published Friday, Rove acknowledged Trump's consistently strong standing among Republicans in the polls, and the impressively high percentage of backers -- 46 percent, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll -- who say they won't stray from Trump before the primaries.

Hitting Trump for his antics -- citing the Republican presidential candidate's beef with Fox News host Megyn Kelly and insults of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for being captured in Vietnam -- Rove lamented that there's seemingly no line Trump can cross to lose the backing of his loyal supporters, who "eat up stuff like that."

But in a matchup against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the general election, Rove wrote, Trump would get "creamed." He called Trump a "dream candidate" for the Democratic Party.

libdem4life

(13,877 posts)

9. I'm still a bit suspicious that this has been either an intentional set-up or an

Reply to Botany (Reply #4)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:50 PM

Dec 2015

unintentional one with benefits. He is right about the Dream Candidate for Dems. I can just see Trump bloviating and Bernie just looking at him with a bit of dismay, ignoring him, then continuing on his same old-same-old message.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

5. Another of the Rethugs so called Action Plans.

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:18 PM

Dec 2015

Keep the sheeple stirred up,Trump out,Cruz in till February,Cruz out,John Ellis Bush in.

hibbing

(10,098 posts)

8. It's the racism that is so appealing to his supporters

Reply to Wellstone ruled (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 01:43 PM

Dec 2015

I have been thinking for months that there is no way the establishment will allow Trump to win and it would be !, but every time he goes off script he proves he is even dumber than his brother. I still think it will be, but my confidence in that has diminished significantly.

Peace

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

10. Sure as heck is not the Rethug Party of Ike.

Reply to hibbing (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 02:02 PM

Dec 2015

This is the Party that Nixon wanted and here it is. When Roger Ailes turned Limpdick on Trumpy,that pretty much put Medias plan in motion. There is more coming,these are just trial balloons. Still betting on Bush or a Romney draft. Noticed Paul Ryan Statement early this morning about not running with Willard in 2016. People in Utah are reading a Willard run.