23 mentions of Rush Limbaugh on MSNBC today. And one Limbaugh mention on their sister network CNBC that you can see for yourself tonight…made by former VP Dick Cheney.
We just got the transcript from the Larry Kudlow-Dick Cheney interview to air on “The Kudlow Report” at 7pmET.
KUDLOW: Speaking of political, I guess you’re trying to outline a message for the Republican Party here to limit government and limit taxation and so forth. You kind of took a shot at General Colin Powell the other day, said you didn’t know he was still a member of the Republican Party. He responded to you by saying that you were mistaken. He is a member of the Republican Party, and he regards himself a, quote, “Jack Kemp Republican,” end quote. Could you react to what Mr. Powell is saying?
Mr. CHENEY: Well, we’re happy to have General Powell in the Republican Party. I was asked a question about a dispute he was having, I think, with Rush Limbaugh, and I expressed the consent, the notion I had that he had already left since he endorsed Barack Obama for president. But I meant no offense to my former colleague. I wasn’t seeking to rearrange his political identity.
KUDLOW: So you welcome him back into the party.
Mr. CHENEY: We’re in the mode where we welcome everybody to the party. What I don’t want to do, in the course of trying to expand the overall size of the Republican Party and expand our base, is to talk away from basic fundamental principles. I think it’s very important that we remind people out around the country what it is that we stand for, that we do believe in a strong national defense, in low taxes and limited government; and giving up on those principles, in order to try to appeal to people who are otherwise going to vote Democratic, seems to me is a — would be a fundamental defeat for those of us who are essentially conservative, who’ve been long-time supporters of the Republican Party.