Conservatives Have No Idea How to Handle Buttigieg

[DonViejo]

At first, many conservatives said they loved the military veteran from the heartland. But as his polls rise and he teases a 2020 announcement next week, opinions have changed.

Maxwell Tani, Will Sommer
04.04.19 4:59 AM ET

Cigar in hand, Rush Limbaugh spent a Sunday evening last month watching a CNN presidential town hall. As a hugely influential conservative talk radio host who helped Donald Trump win the White House, Limbaugh isn’t the kind of voter that the Democratic presidential hopefuls think they can reach with town-hall events.

But Limbaugh had to admit he was impressed by one of the candidates: South Bend Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

On his radio show a few days later, Limbaugh predicted that the “personable” Buttigieg would “make mincemeat” out of his primary rivals.

“There was no radicalism,” Limbaugh said.

Just a month later, Buttigieg is rising in the polls—and Limbaugh doesn’t like him anymore.

On April 1, the same day that Buttigieg announced that he had raised $7 million, Limbaugh told his audience that Buttigieg now had plenty of “radical ideas.” He went much further a day later, suggesting the millennial mayor’s recently deceased father, an expert on Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, had indoctrinated his son into communism.

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[InAbLuEsTaTe]

1. Mayor Pete scares a lot of people... one of the reasons I'm really starting to like him!!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[Laf.La.Dem.]

2. Limbaugh wants to cause choas for the Democratic Party!!

Rush Limbaugh has launched a Para-military style public campaign in an effort to affect the outcome of the Democratic Party primary.

He did this in the last election and he wants to do the same this election.

When he "talks" DO NOT listen to that FAT SOB!!

[patricia92243]

3. And so the hate starts from the GOP. The sheep have to be told who to hate, so Limbaugh is just

doing his job

[bearsfootball516]

4. They're scared to death of him.

[bullwinkle428]

5. LMAO!! I can still recall back in 2004, when a then-State Senator Barack Obama

did the keynote address at the Democratic Convention. I participated on a board with lots of RWers, and some of them fell all over themselves with praise for him, saying how great he sounded, calls for bi-partisanship, etc.

Fast forward a couple of years, where he becomes U.S. Senator, and then eventually on to the Presidency, and I don't have to remind anyone here about all of the slime that got thrown at him. It's like once they realize someone becomes a genuine threat to their beloved status quo, "Operation Demonize" goes into overdrive.