Limbaugh: I'm McCain's 'most valuable asset'

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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Limbaugh: I’m McCain’s ‘most valuable asset’ « - Blogs from CNN.com

He's aggressively targeted John McCain ever since the Arizona senator began his meteoric rise in the polls, but conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday he may actually be the Arizona senator's "most valuable asset."
Commenting on the mainstream media's fixation with his feelings about McCain, Limbaugh said there may be more to his criticisms than meets the eye.
"If I really wanted to torpedo McCain, I would endorse him," Limbaugh said on his radio show. "Because that would send the independents and liberals who are going to vote for him running away faster than anything."
"What people don't realize is that I am doing McCain the biggest favor that can be done for him by staying out of this," he continued. "If I endorsed him thoroughly and with passion, that would end the independents and moderates, because they so despise me and they so hate me."
Limbaugh, along with several other prominent conservative radio hosts, have long spoken out against the Arizona senator over his stances on a range of issues and his history of working with Democrats on issues such as immigration and campaign finance reform.
Limbaugh's attacks in particular got so heated that former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole wrote the talk-show host last week defending McCain — calling him a "mainstream conservative" who supported the party on critical votes during Dole's time as the Senate Republican leader."
Limbaugh later said of the letter that McCain was "manipulating" Dole.
Yet despite the fiery rhetoric, Limbaugh on Monday suggested members of the media weren't digging deep enough into his comments.
"Couldn't it be said, if somebody wanted to…that I am secretly supporting McCain, because I secretly do want him to win, but I know full well that if I come out and endorse him, he's cooked?" Limbaugh asked. "Who may be in this whole kit and caboodle, this who shebang, the most valuable asset McCain has?"
"Me."
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I saw this and thought it was funny, but cue the Rush is a big fat idiot comments in 3,2,1...
 
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Rush knows how to play these things on both sides of the fence, doesn't he? If McCain would have been eliminated in New Hampshire, he would have taken credit for that. Now that he is the front runner, Rush is essentially saying that he's inoculating McCain by attacking him.

Whatever...
 
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If you listen to Rush on a regular basis, you'll understand that this is his way of taking a shot at the media and McCain combined. And I think his impersonation of McCain is hilarious.
 
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volsforever27 said:
If you listen to Rush on a regular basis, you'll understand that this is his way of taking a shot at the media and McCain combined. And I think his impersonation of McCain is hilarious.
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I stopped listening to Rush "on a regular basis" 3-4 years ago. All it sounds like to me is Rush trying to cover his @ss now that McCain is the favorite to win the nomination.
 
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volsforever27 said:
If you listen to Rush on a regular basis, you'll understand that this is his way of taking a shot at the media and McCain combined. And I think his impersonation of McCain is hilarious.
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Agreed, Im not the biggest "Rush" fan anymore, take him or leave him. But this is more about the media than anything else. 16 million listeners, and more money than the Pope, I don't think he worries about much these days. To be quite honest, he was probably more popular when Clinton was in the WH, than any time in his career. Misery loves company........
 
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iceman9 said:
Agreed, Im not the biggest "Rush" fan anymore, take him or leave him. But this is more about the media than anything else. 16 million listeners, and more money than the Pope, I don't think he worries about much these days. To be quite honest, he was probably more popular when Clinton was in the WH, than any time in his career. Misery loves company........
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I still like Rush, I started leaning towards Hannity, but then Rudy started his run and Hannity had him on every single freaking day. I guess I lean towards Levin now, but we don't get his program out here. I still would rather listen to any of them than trust CBS, NBC, ABC, etc.
 
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volsforever27 said:
I still like Rush, I started leaning towards Hannity, but then Rudy started his run and Hannity had him on every single freaking day. I guess I lean towards Levin now, but we don't get his program out here. I still would rather listen to any of them than trust CBS, NBC, ABC, etc.
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Its really one of those deals, where I'm in the car when Sean is on the air, I am a big fan. I like Levin, too, he reminds me my grumpy old neighbor, the one you can't help but like. I tell you, I really like Glenn Beck too, smart guy, who's been to hell and back. His prospective it different but fair. Plus his book is a riot, he absolutely goes off on the Global Warming, and Gore. Always a plus in my house........:)
 
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Rush knows how to play these things on both sides of the fence, doesn't he? If McCain would have been eliminated in New Hampshire, he would have taken credit for that. Now that he is the front runner, Rush is essentially saying that he's inoculating McCain by attacking him.
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Excellent point. Limbaugh has spent so much time of his career self-agrandising that he actually believes his own worthiness to the election process.

McCain doesn't need Limbaugh to endorse him, Limbaugh needs McCain to win so he can say "I told you so."
 
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