On 03-14-13, BOB KLAHN said to TIM RICHARDSON:   
      
   TR> On 03-13-13, DAMON A. GETSMAN said to ALL:   
      
      
   DA>>Re: RE-Listing The Echo   
   DA>>By: TIM RICHARDSON to DAMON A. GETSMAN on Sun Mar 10 2013 15:16:00   
      
      
   DA>>At this point in the discussion I just want to state that I find   
   DA>>it completely and utterly ridiculous that there is no way for me to   
   BK>verify DA>>who the legitimate moderator of the echo truly is.  This is a   
      
      
   BK>ridi   
      
      
   Rush Limbaugh is a much-hated conservative radio personality. He's the one who   
   pointed out the four hundred pound gorilla in the room (one of them) in the   
   *Sandra Fluke* nonsense....where this idiot liberal babe tells a congressional   
   committee that she's having so much sex (she's *un*-married, by the way...did   
   any news media happen to mention that little factoid?) it costs over $3000 a   
   year for her birth control? Limbaugh had the nerve nobody else seemed to have;   
   he pointed out that a female like that is usually called what she is: a slut!   
      
      
   Well.......the liberals and their sidekicks in the press went berserk!   
      
      
   The only thing I saw that Limbaugh did wrong in that instance was issue an   
   apology. He shouldn't have. He should have doubled down and did the math on   
   her `over $3000 per year claim and exposed her as the liar she was!   
      
      
   In any case....here's Limbaugh doing what he does....making waves:   
      
      
   Rush Limbaugh Mocks 'Brainiac' GOP Consultants over Pat Caddell's CPAC Rant   
      
      
   Breitbart.com   
      
      
   by Tony Lee15 Mar 2013255post a comment View Discussion   
      
      
   On Friday, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh praised Pat Caddell, the   
   frustrated Democrat who has often spoken out against the political   
   establishment, for his thunderous speech at CPAC on Thursday condemning the   
   Republican consultant class.   
      
      
   Caddell accused GOP consultants of caring more about money than winning   
   elections or principles and engaging in acts that could border on   
   racketeering.   
      
      
   Limbaugh said Caddell "launched both barrels at CPAC" and let the Republican   
   consultant class "have it" while blowing "the lid off of CPAC" with what   
   Limbaugh described was a message that "the Republican consultant class is   
   taking the party down the tubes, that they're making filthy amounts of money-   
   -$150 million a campaign--whether the candidate wins or loses."   
      
      
   "In my party we play to win. We play for life and death," Caddell said at a   
   panel in a room that was only one-third full when it started and was standing   
   room only once word spread throughout CPAC that Caddell was blistering the   
   Republican elite. "You people play for a different kind of agenda...Your party   
   has no problem playing the Washington Generals to the Harlem Globetrotters."   
      
      
   Caddell said this mentality infected Romney, whose campaign consultants thold   
   him to "back off" toward the end of the 2012 election and failed to realize   
   that "you must also get your base" while courting independents.   
      
      
   He then blasted the "CLEC--the consultant, lobbyist, and establishment   
   complex," which he said was a "self serving interconnected network of   
   individuals and organizations interested in preserving their own power far   
   more than they're interested in winning elections."   
      
      
   "I blame the donors who allow themselves to be played for marks," Caddell   
   continued. "I blame the people in the grassroots for allowing themselves to be   
   played for suckers....It's time to stop being marks. It's time to stop being   
   suckers. It's time for you people to get real."   
      
      
   Limbaugh read these quotes on his radio show and wholeheartedly endorsed them,   
   for Limbaugh told his listeners that for years he has warned of consultants   
   who claim they have the secret formula for winning over so-called   
   "independents" at the expense of conservatives, and the "candidates fall for   
   it year after year after year" and lose.   
      
      
   "They're all moderates. None of them are really conservative," Limbaugh said   
   of the GOP consultant class. "They say they are, and they think they've got   
   the recipe to win."   
      
      
   Limbaugh said the consultant class thinks "people in the middle, these great   
   moderate independents, aren't conservative. And furthermore, they think that   
   conservatism scares these people" and they "make no effort to educate or   
   inform or correct that impression."   
      
      
   The conservative radio show host said he has always been confused by   
   consultants who think Republicans will turn off independents by getting   
   aggressive because "Democrats are the meanest, most extreme, insufferable"   
   people and, "there's nothing nice about them."   
      
      
   "Somehow that doesn't scare the independents," Limbaugh said.   
      
      
   Case in point: Romney's 2012 loss to Obama.   
      
      
   "He won the independents, just like these brainiacs said," Limbaugh said. "But   
   four million conservatives sat home and didn't vote."   
      
      
   Limbaugh noted that Caddell was right to know that consultants get advertising   
   commissions whether the candidate wins and the GOP leaders threaten candidates   
   they will not receive institutional support if the candidate does not hire   
   their cronies from a list of "approved" consultants and strategists.   
      
      
   He said this was the "foundation for Caddell's speech at CPAC" and consultants   
   who led the charge of, "The era of Reagan is over," are not big fans of him or   
   conservatives. He emphasized that he has always been confused about why   
   Republicans have the two Reagan campaigns as blueprints for how to win   
   majorities by running on core beliefs and principles and fail to use them.   
      
      
   Limbaugh said Caddell's speech about the CLEC was "really important" because   
   it explains why Republicans continue to lose national elections because the   
   consultant class just wants to be liked by the liberal Washington mainstream   
   media and ecosytem.   
      
      
   "You're happy to be walked all over. You're just happy to be in the game.   
      
   You're happy to be acknowledged," Limbaugh said of the permanent political   
   class. "I really believe the pursuit to make everybody like you is the   
   greatest prison you could put yourself in."   
      
      
   Limbaugh said Republicans who want to get liked "cease being" who they are and   
   then "you end up not even knowing who you are."   
      
      
   Limbaugh blamed Romney's consultants for telling Romney to "back off" on   
   critical issues like Benghazi and not attack Obama in the final days of the   
   campaign because they did not want to be disliked by their liberal peers in   
   the mainstream media and Washington's permanent political class.   
      
      
   "You try to be all things to all people, and that can't be done," Limbaugh   
   said, noting that the mainstream media wants Republicans to be content with   
   being "perennial losers" who know their place. "This effort to make themselves   
   liked never gets anywhere. They never gain respect."   
      
      
      
      
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