Rush Limbaugh toxic poison to Republican Party says former George W. Bush speechwriter

NY Daily News ^ | March 9th 2009, 6:53 AM | By Jane H. Furse

[meandog]

Speechwriter David Frum says Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is hurting the Republican Party.

Rush is new (talking) head of the GOP His controversial quips come faster than a locomotive and he leaps over spineless Republicans in a single sound bite.

He's Rush Limbaugh - and he's kryptonite for the GOP, says conservative pundit David Frum. Frum, an influential former Bush speechwriter, charges in this week's Newsweek that the bombastic radio talk show host is trashing the Republican Party by allowing the Democrats to anoint him de facto party leader.

"Limbaugh is kryptonite, weakening the GOP nationally," writes Frum, who coined the term "Axis of Evil."

Frum notes that Limbaugh is a seriously polarizing figure among swing voters, independents and women.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) - who in 2002 compared Limbaugh with a circus clown and then apologized if he had offended circus clowns - called the Limbaugh chatter "a distraction" from "the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression."

[Captain Kirk]

Frum is pleasing his neocon masters.

[Nonstatist]

Nobody reads Frum. He’s the Canadian version of Andrew Sullivan.

[Westbrook]

Go away.

And close the door tightly when you leave.

The Conservative movement is not leaving you.

You have left us.

Goodbye.

[floozy22]

Man, these people are totally clueless. And they’re the ones making life and death decisions for the rest of us. Pray hard.

[longtermmemmory]

RINO poison is good for america.

Frum needs to put his dunce hat on and sit in a corner.

[villagerjoel]

This explains a lot of what was wrong with his adminstration...

[The_Victor]

Speechwriter David Frum says Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is hurting the Republican Party.

Forcing the GOP to choose between conservative, and democRAT lite is not a bad thing.

[Nonstatist]

Frum is pleasing his neocon masters

And who are these people, Captain? Or are you just talking in generalties ?

[sofaman]

Frum’s a squish. “Words just words” may equally apply to him

[hellbender]

Under Frum's master Bush, the Republican Party became toxic poison for conservatism and therefore for the nation.

[LeavingNewYork]

Brooks
Frum
K.Parker
Noonan

Just making a list, that I will add to when the opportunity arises of the ‘journalist/columnists/ who should not be given a second of thought when it comes to who should run the GOP.

There’s more I know that. The list will grow.

[redk]

Yes and Sarah Palin is a “fatal cancer” we get it guys.

[screaminsunshine]

Rush nor I are even Republicans. We are conservatives. Mostly vote GOP but not for RINOS.

[MNDude]

we need more republican’s like Collin Powel and Peggy Noonan.

[roses of sharon]

Commie propaganda.

[VeniVidiVici]

Somebody tell Frum that the self-proclaimed national Republican leaders are doing just fine wimpifying the party on their own.

[St. Louis Conservative]

How much of a following/influence does David Frum have exactly?

[hoosierham]

G.W. Bush was and is toxic poison to the conservative ideals once part of the GOP;I know of several friends who refused to vote for McCain because "it will be just a continuation of Bush's term".

G>W. Bush failed to justify his policies to the American people ,failed to control spending;actually expanded the government spending,control over your life,eroded privacy,and his ties to Haliburton and the huge profiteering by corporations related to the Iraq war all hurt the GOP more than Rush.

Rush speaks when the GOP will not.

[chimera]

Isn't it obvious what is going on here? The ‘Rats and their friends in the media are conflating Limbaugh and the GOP to make both a caricature of their true selves. That way whomever the ‘Pubs nominate in ‘12 is painted with Limbaugh's face. That is the reason for the flood of unflattering pictures of Rush and all the chatter among the ruling classes. If the nominee in ‘12 is Palin or Jindal or Cantor or whoever, they are going to make him/her a latter-day version of Barry Goldwater in the ‘64 campaign, IOW, a total distortion. The way things are going, the country will be in such bad shape by then that it is the only way Obombah and the ‘Rats can win.