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What's good for Rush Limbaugh is bad for Republicans
National Post ^ | David Frum

Posted on 01/29/2009 9:48:49 PM PST by indcons

Gallup's latest polling reveals the continuing collapse of the Republican party's base vote. The news is so very bad that there will be only one possible response from GOP party leadership and our radio talkers: Ignore it.

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Instead, our congressmen talk to and about Rush Limbaugh like Old Bolsheviks praising Comrade Stalin at their show trials. Rush is right! We see eye to eye with Rush! There is no truth outside Rush!

Rush and Hannity and O’Reilly and Ann Coulter and the others have their place and their role. They spoke for an important section of public opinion, and it is a section our party needs. But it is only a section, and not the whole. The more the party allows them to become our public face, the more embattled and endangered the party becomes.

The relationship between these radio talkers and the larger Republican and conservative world has become parasitic and antagonistic. They flourish and profit to the extent they can polarize and radicalize. The GOP will recover only to the extent that it moderates and reaches out. They benefit from controversies that position them as the leaders and designated speakers for conservative America. But the more visible they become, the more our party is shoved to the margins and rendered unelectable. What is good for Rush is bad for the GOP, and what is good for the GOP is bad for Rush.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 111th; collaborators; conservatism; davidfrum; frum; gop; limbaugh; lukewarm; puke; rino; rinopurge; rinos; talkradio; vichyrepublicans; waronrush
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1 posted on 01/29/2009 9:48:49 PM PST by indcons
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To: indcons
David Frum , DC insider rhino elitist alert !
2 posted on 01/29/2009 9:49:58 PM PST by ncalburt (Read all about)
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To: indcons

To me Rush is Charles De Gaulle without all the french stuff.


3 posted on 01/29/2009 9:50:03 PM PST by Porterville ( I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass... and I'm all out of bubblegum)
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To: indcons

What’s good for Rush Limbaugh is best for Americans.


4 posted on 01/29/2009 9:51:21 PM PST by steelyourfaith (ObamaNation: Tax cheat sworn in as Treasury Secretary --- you can't make this stuff up !!!)
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To: indcons

Sad to say, but, fruck fum.


5 posted on 01/29/2009 9:51:22 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (Actually, it all started back in Mayberry. Helen Crump was a traveler and Floyd, well, you know...)
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The Barf Alert should be posted alongside the title. Now you made me read 10 lines of this crap..


6 posted on 01/29/2009 9:51:22 PM PST by libh8er
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To: indcons

So sayeth Mr. “axis-of-evil”.


7 posted on 01/29/2009 9:52:10 PM PST by SeeSharp
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Instead, our congressmen talk to and about Rush Limbaugh like Old Bolsheviks praising Comrade Stalin at their show trials. Rush is right! We see eye to eye with Rush! There is no truth outside Rush! ??? Since3 when did the GOP ever listen to Rush?
8 posted on 01/29/2009 9:52:26 PM PST by GeronL (Had the flu. Not well yet.)
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The GOP will recover only to the extent that it moderates and reaches out.

Frum is just another, "Hey, a little bit of cancer won't kill you," scumbag.
Ignore him.

9 posted on 01/29/2009 9:52:58 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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Oh, how I wish one wouldn’t get banned for saying what you want to say, cause I feel the exact same way.


10 posted on 01/29/2009 9:53:10 PM PST by NinoFan
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To: indcons

Frum is an Obama Republican I guess


11 posted on 01/29/2009 9:53:21 PM PST by GeronL (Had the flu. Not well yet.)
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From reminds me of Hitler in his last days: he imagines entire divisions of moderates who do not exist.


12 posted on 01/29/2009 9:53:43 PM PST by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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Instead, our congressmen talk to and about Rush Limbaugh like Old Bolsheviks praising Comrade Stalin at their show trials. Rush is right!

Is he on crack? Has any elected official ever praised or mentioned Rush Limbaugh. (Until Obama)

13 posted on 01/29/2009 9:54:03 PM PST by nickcarraway (Are the Good Times Really Over?)
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his new site is aimed at one thing, destroying the conservative wing of the GOP.


14 posted on 01/29/2009 9:54:21 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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Seen the comments from Frum’s site about Sarah Palin. The New Majority’s posters hate Palin as much as the Huffington Post.


15 posted on 01/29/2009 9:56:29 PM PST by yongin
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Great analogy


16 posted on 01/29/2009 9:57:29 PM PST by indcons (An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth.)
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"To me Rush is Charles De Gaulle without all the french stuff."

How do figure that?

17 posted on 01/29/2009 9:57:34 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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“his new site is aimed at one thing, destroying the conservative wing of the GOP.”

That’s been Frum’s style ever since the little carpetbagger oozed his way over the Canadian border.


18 posted on 01/29/2009 9:58:32 PM PST by Pelham (Beheading is just a different way of expressing ones relational milieu)
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To: libh8er

“The Barf Alert should be posted alongside the title. Now you made me read 10 lines of this crap..”

Consider it “Interpretive Headline Reading 101” (no disclaimer needed). Besides, you’d miss the comments.

Nice pic on homepage btw


19 posted on 01/29/2009 9:58:33 PM PST by This_far
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To: yongin

I read them... and made some pointed replies to them as well.


20 posted on 01/29/2009 10:01:15 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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