Rush Limbaugh's Silent Influence
Rush Limbaugh’s silence regarding endorsements in the conservative South Carolina Republican primary is deafening. Although Limbaugh has gone on record as saying that he doesn’t endorse candidates in the primaries, he has said complimentary things about former Senator Fred Thompson. Limbaugh is against the candidacies of McCain and former Governor Huckabee, neither of whom he regards as conservative enough.
But the radio host reserves a special hostility for Huckabee. On yesterday’s program he replayed several times a clip in which the former Arkansas Governor admitted to cooking squirrels in a popcorn cooker as a college student, clearly playing on class resentments.
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