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Limbaugh Bashes Biden: “Why Don’t You Grow Up And Rea c quaint Yourself With Our Constitution?” 
  
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 VP Joe Biden is in Upstate New York, campaigning for the Democratic candidate Bill Owens in the hotly-contested 23rd district congressional race today. 
  
 And after he went on the attack against Rush Limbaugh and specific GOP politicians, Limbaugh fired back even harder on his radio show just now. 
  
 “The idea that Rush Limbaugh would handpick [the] successor is kind of unusual,” said Biden at the Owens rally today, also attended by former GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava. 
  
 Well Rush was ready with a response. “How lucky am I to be attacked by Joe Biden?” he asked. “It’s Christmas every day for me. It’s Christmas every morning for me, that’s what my life is. 
  
 “Why don’t you grow up and reacquaint yourself with our constitution,” he continued. “I bet he thinks our founding fathers were absolutists, I’ll bet he thinks the American Revolution was unncessary, that instead the colonists should have negotiated some deal with the King.” 
  
 During Biden’s speech, he used Dick Armey’s involvement with the conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, who is now leading in some polls, as a jumping off point. “He’s a decent guy, but he represents a view so alien it seems to me to the pragmatism to the North Country. Sarah Palin, a former governor – her views are real and consistent with Army’s and Limbaugh’s and Dick Cheney’s…This is a different ideology. This is different than anything I’ve known in my 45 years of being familiar with this district. You know, they may not have any room for moderate views in the Republican Party upstate anymore, but let me assure you, we have room, we have room.” 
  
 Limbaugh closed out the segment, saying of Biden, “You’ve never had to earn an honest living, you’ve never participated in the market system, you don’t understand what makes this nation work and that’s why you pose a great threat.” 
  
 Needless to say, this little congressional race is becoming one of the biggest, if not the biggest, race in the entire country. We’ll have more on NY-23 later. 
  
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 filed under ||||| Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) on Monday responded to Vice President Joe Biden's comments about her support for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in a hotly contested special election. 
  
  
  
 Biden appeared at a Monday rally for Democratic candidate Bill Owens, during which he attacked conservative leaders such as Palin, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), Dick Armey and Fred Thompson for supporting Hoffman in the upstate New York special election that has attracted widespread national attention. 
  
  
  
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 "The fact of the matter is, Sarah Palin thinks the answer to energy is 'drill, baby, drill,' " said Biden. "It's a lot more complicated, Sarah!" 
  
 Biden's debate opponent during the 2008 presidential campaign fired back. 
  
 "There’s one way to tell Vice President Biden that we’re tired of folks in Washington distorting our message and hampering our nation’s progress: Hoffman, Baby, Hoffman!" she wrote on her Facebook page. 
  
 In a stump speech, Biden blamed ideological conservatives for pushing Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava out of the race. He said that conservative opposition to Scozzafava was tantamount to letting "Rush Limbaugh hand-pick" the successor to former Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.), who resigned to become Army secretary. 
  
  
  
 Scozzafava dropped out of the campaign on Saturday and backed Owens. 
  
  
  
 Palin was the first figure mentioned by Biden to respond to the vice president. Palin is among the 2012 presidential hopefuls who have lent their support to Hoffman. 
  
  
  
 Palin also took aim at Biden for saying that her energy policy is solely to drill for more oil. Palin said that she supports an "all of the above" energy plan, with domestic oil drilling as a "top priority ... in order to meet America’s consumption and security needs." 
  
 She attacked Biden's "extreme opposition to domestic energy development" and quoted conservative columnist Ann Coulter in saying that Biden opposed the construction of an Alaskan oil pipeline. 
  
 "This nonsensical opposition to American domestic energy development continues to this day. Apparently the Obama-Biden administration only approves of offshore drilling in Brazil, where it will provide security and jobs for Brazilians," she added. "This election is about American security and American jobs." ||||| PREV NEXT Order Prints 
  
 While praising Democratic Congressional candidate William L. Owens as a man of values, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. took shots at supporters of Mr. Owens’s opponent during a campaign appearance Monday in Watertown. 
  
 Appearing at the North Side Improvement League on Mill Street, Mr. Biden claimed Conservative candidate Douglas L. Hoffman was “handpicked” by radio host Rush Limbaugh as successor to Army Secretary John M. McHugh. 
  
 Mr. Biden said Mr. Hoffman’s views are consistent with those of Mr. Limbaugh, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey and former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who he lumped together as right-wing neoconservatives who “will not tolerate” dissenting views. 
  
 “I know what they are against, but I don’t know what they’re for,” Mr. Biden said. 
  
 He said Mr. Owens, who served in the military, “gets it” when it comes to matters that affect soldiers and would work to more closely regulate Wall Street. 
  
 “He’s for making sure Wall Street doesn’t run roughshod over Main Street,” Mr. Biden said. 
  
 Mr. Biden, who attended Syracuse University and once was a life guard at Sandy Pond in Oswego County, said he came to know of and support Mr. Owens after talking to friends from college. 
  
 “The thing I like best about him is his values,” Mr. Biden said. “This is a guy who’s not afraid to take a stand.” 
  
 Mr. Biden spoke for about a half hour before a crowd of about 250 people. |||||

Joe Biden took aim at a variety of GOP and conservative opponents today at a rally for New York congressional candidate Bill Owens. The VP said Conservative candidate Douglas Hoffman was “handpicked” by Rush Limbaugh, adding that Hoffman is in line with conservatives like Sarah Palin who “will not tolerate” dissenting views, the Watertown Daily Times reports. Stand back! Biden’s charge that Limbaugh enabled Hoffman’s candidacy by forcing out GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava set the conservative talk show host off, Mediaite reports. “Grow up and reacquaint yourself with our constitution,” Limbaugh said, before suggesting cryptically that the VP thinks American “colonists should have negotiated some deal with the King.” Palin shot back on Facebook, notes the Hill, suggesting “one way to tell Vice President Biden that we’re tired of folks in Washington distorting our message and hampering our nation’s progress: Hoffman, Baby, Hoffman!”