[arthurus]

How could Rush be "distracting" Republicans? Republicans are either not paying attention or they worry that the socialists might be right after all. Listen to some other really smart Republicans and right libertarians on the radio- Hewett, Gallagher(well maybe not all of them are smart), Prager, Boortz, even (though Boortz seems to have cleared up his thinking a bit). All of those guys have been accepting the need for the government to "do something" and to spend tons of money, they only disagree about what the government should spend the money on.

[dr_who]

Republicans aren’t the audience. There are a few dumbass Republicans who fell for Obama, but I think they’re a minority compared to the other voters. Non-affiliated / split ticket voters are the people that Obama wants to keep in the dark about his policies are. So he makes Rush Limbaugh an issue instead of going beyond slogans to justify his agenda.