What's good for Rush Limbaugh is bad for Republicans

National Post ^ | David Frum

[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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[FBD]

I have a book written by David Frum, called: ‘The sixties, and how we got here”

It’s going in the garbage. -and I’ll never read another thing by him.

[Mamzelle]

Frum is from the "Partisan Review" diaper babies. He got dumped from the Bush admin when he wrote his book about two weeks into his employment there.

How many feathers are left in your nest, David?

[Pelham]

I applaud you.

[Pelham]

Frum’s a Canadian liberal that wormed his way into the GOP. He’s one more “gift” from the neoconservative movement.

[ncalburt]

True, old David and his DC gang of fellow rhino DC insiders are the reason the GOP lost . I worked for Palin and I went door to door and heard the same thing , love her , hate him and I don't know if I can vote for him!