Posted on 03/04/2009 11:19:19 AM PST by presidio9
Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House.
The strategy took shape after Democrats included Limbaugh’s name in an October poll and learned their longtime tormentor was deeply unpopular with many Americans. Then the conservative talk-radio host emerged as an unapologetic critic of Barack Obama shortly before his inauguration, when even many Republicans were showering him with praise.
Soon it clicked: Democrats realized they could roll out a new GOP bogeyman for the post-Bush era by turning to an old one in Limbaugh, a polarizing figure since he rose to prominence in the 1990s.
Limbaugh is embracing the line of attack, suggesting a certain symbiosis between him and his political adversaries.
"The Administration is enabling me,” he wrote in an email to POLITICO. “They are expanding my profile, expanding my audience and expanding my influence. An ever larger number of people are now being exposed to the antidote to Obamaism: conservatism, as articulated by me. An ever larger number of people are now exposed to substantive warnings, analysis and criticism of Obama's policies and intentions, a ‘story’ I own because the [mainstream media] is largely the Obama Press Office.”
The bigger, the better, agreed Democrat James Carville. “It’s great for us, great for him, great for the press,” he said of Limbaugh. “The only people he’s not good for are the actual Republicans in Congress.”
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Click on Bud Hedinger pic at right and it will take you to a poll asking if you want Rush to run for President and the second question asks if you think he will win.
http://www.540wfla.com/main.html
Johnathan Martin appears to be another gay clone of Jayson Blair:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-hptb5&p=Jonathan%20Martin%20%20%2b%20gay&type=
Ah. So that's like perky Katie Couric's famous "Many people say..."
Rush plays the Rats like a violin. The Pub leaders are already getting more vocal and forceful in opposing BO.
Rahm Emmanuel channeling H R Halderman ... how Retro!
Ditto (yes, I’m a Ditto-head)!
Too bad for them that gold is really fools gold! Why is the Whitehouse going so far out of it’s way to attack a private citizen’s rigth for free speech?
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