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Rush Limbaugh: 'I Like Rubio'

Eric Kleefeld | November 25, 2009, 11:38AM

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The Marco Rubio campaign has now posted a very interesting YouTube video, in which the conservative insurgent candidate for Senate wins the praise of a notable right-wing activist and Florida resident: Rush Limbaugh.

"I like Rubio," said Limbaugh, in a guest appearance on a local Florida radio show. "I've never met him, nor have I met Crist, but I know that there's a sea change brewing and effervescing in this country."

And Limbaugh took aim at Charlie Crist's provocative insistence that he's a conservative, and Crist's ridicule of his detractors: "I noticed that Crist is out there now, 'Hey what do you mean, who says I'm not conservative? I'm pro-life, I'm pro-gun, well I don't know what more I have to be, except angry.' That's not gonna sit well."

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The Decider

November 25, 2009 11:43 AM

It's too bad that Charlie Christ has that name that sounds like the liberal guy in the Bible. He's gonna try to feed the hungry or help the poor or something...

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ericf

November 25, 2009 12:21 PM

Mike Huckabee kept saying during his presidential campaign that he was conservative but not angry about it, and the ideologues had no issue with it. But now the same line comes from someone they don't like.

After Crist got rid of paperless voting machines and allowed former felons to vote without so many hoops to jump through, he seemed like a refreshing change for a Republican. If Limbaugh hates him, I like him even more.

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joejustice

November 25, 2009 12:39 PM

the only thing "effervescing" is the rabid froth from rush's mouth.

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breakspear

November 25, 2009 5:59 PM

and another thing Crist isn't, is fat. Unlike 'always angry' Limbo.

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Kuyleh

November 25, 2009 6:31 PM

One more reason not to vote for him.

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ilovebacon

November 27, 2009 11:43 AM

Limbaugh loves Rubio because Limbaugh finds him more attractive. It was on a PBS documentary in the '90s. Limbaugh had homosexual relationships in high school.

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