Limbaugh Under Fire

Pajamas Media ^ | March 4 | Adam Graham

[AJKauf]

Unlike the leadership of the Republican Party, Limbaugh is trusted by most conservatives. The flap over Limbaugh admitting he hopes Obama fails is a prime example of why people have faith in Limbaugh and not Republican leaders. Limbaugh raked Steele over the coals on Monday and demanded to know why, if Steele wants Obama to succeed, he keeps getting RNC faxes challenging, attacking, and exposing Obama’s agenda?

When many on the right say they hope Obama succeeds, they don’t mean, “I hope Obama is able to socialize medicine, get card check, and the Freedom of Choice Act passed, while getting every Christmas tree item he mentioned during the campaign passed through Congress.” Usually Republicans mean, “I hope Obama doesn’t crash the economy or make a foreign policy mistake that leads to thousands of Americans dying.” Or they hope he succeeds by forgetting everything he campaigned on and becoming a supply-sider.

Rush’s “I hope he fails” is far closer to the hearts of conservatives who really do not want Obama to succeed in pushing through his agenda, even if they’re not cheering for the country to go down in flames.

Rush Limbaugh isn’t perfect, but he’s closer to the minds of most Americans than the party’s leaders in Washington are. This doesn’t mean he should be the leader of the conservative movement...

[JaneNC]

Emanuel is spending most of his time demonizing Rush.

This is hardly normal. And for the President of the United States to single out a private citizen is pretty darn gross. Hello?

[go-ken-go]

you mean, the THUG of the United States. thats all he is.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

It is not Rush who is under fire. It is that cheeky Kenyan and his crooks who are under fire.

[holden]

No teleprompters and a check of each other's ears for IFB's.

HF

[Verginius Rufus]

Obama's world view was shaped by people like Frantz Fanon, Saul Alinsky, Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright. When he talks about "hope" and "change" he means he hopes to change the US so much that Americans of an earlier generation wouldn't recognize it. The only question is whether he'll be content to try to make the US a Cook County writ large, or if he wants to transform the US into a Venezuela, a Zimbabwe, or a Cuba.

If the opposition party is so weak it can't put up a candidate with the chance of winning, like in many Congressional districts today, Obama can screw up everything and still be re-elected. Michael Steele is doing his part to ensure that the Republican Party lies in shambles.