'Conservative' Pundits Battle Over Romney, McCain
There's an interesting battle shaping up between conservative pundits who support Sen. John McCain or former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and those who support former Mass. Gov. Mitt romney. Basically, the dispute boils down to which candidate best represents 'real' conservative values.
Talk show host Rush Limbaugh fired a broadside during his show Monday against the "numerous pundits on the left who write their conservatism to be read by liberals." He pillories them for focusing on McCain in particular, while never mentioning how well Mitt Romney did in Wyoming and Nevada. And now, Limbaugh says, conservatives like him are supposed to be quiet for the good of the party.
"Why should we in talk radio sit here and take our marching orders from the Drive-By Media and others in our movement who write what they write, for liberals in the Drive-By Media."
Accompanying the transcript of the comments on the website is a mashed-up photo of Limbaugh holding a megaphone, shouting at an image of conservative writer William Kristol, who is showing wearing a McCain 2008 t-shirt. Kristol recently joined fellow conservative David Brooks as an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In a glowing column about McCain yesterday, Kristol described him as a "neo-Victorian - rigid, self-righteous and moralizing, but (or rather and) manly, courageous and principled."
1:40 PM ET | 01-22-2008 | permalink
