Dole to Limbaugh on McCain: Back Off ...

The former Senate Republican Leader has written a letter to radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh asking him to back off from the attacks on GOP presidential nomination frontrunner, John McCain. The Politico's Mike Allen has more ...

Bob Dole, the former Senate Republican leader, wrote an insistent letter to Rush Limbaugh on Monday and suggested that for the good of the party, the conservative talk-show host should stop his strafing of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

On Monday's show, Limbaugh asserted that McCain has "lied about his reason for opposing the Bush tax cuts," and added: "I think McCain has an animus toward the Republican Party. I think ever since South Carolina 2000 he's had it in for the Republican Party, and one of his objectives is to destroy it and change it."

McCain, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, has always had a shaky relationship with the party’s conservative base.

In a letter released Monday evening by McCain's campaign, Dole strongly defended the senator’s conservative credentials, noting that his voting record is opposed to abortion and supportive of gun-owner rights.

As McCain’s campaign gained steam, Limbaugh has used the airwaves to remind listeners daily that he does not consider the senator to be a conservative.

Limbaugh has even suggested he might not vote Republican if McCain were the nominee.

Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008 at 05:45:16 PM
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