Posted on 03/11/2009 1:57:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I have known Rush Limbaugh since his old radio days in Sacramento, before he became a GOP god. I've disagreed with him over the years. Last year I took on his bashing of Republican moderates and criticized Limbaugh and other talk-radio hosts when they were too harsh on not-yet GOP nominee John McCain. I've never apologized and we're still friends.
If you've watched cable news in the last week, you've seen how the Limbaugh story is playing. Limbaugh said he hopes Obama "fails." As he explained, "I've been listening to Barack Obama for a year and a half. I know what his politics are. I know what his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed. If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans have laid down."
Because Limbaugh used the f-word, Good Republicans are supposed to distance themselves from him. Thus Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele called Limbaugh "ugly" and "incendiary." Not a smart move. Later Steele called Limbaugh to apologize -- adding a new twist to a story concocted by Democrats.
As Politico.com reported last week, Demo gurus James Carville and Stan Greenberg first concocted the idea of making Limbaugh the GOP albatross last year after a poll showed that among younger voters Limbaugh's ratings were in the toilet. White House adviser David Axelrod and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs joined in the get-Limbaugh gambit, while White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican party" on CBS' "Face the Nation."
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Obama won, didn't he?
I agree.
That was a sudden stop reading sign.
Good thing I was wearing my HANS® Device!
Isn’t the word democrat derived from the word demonize? We all know the Demoncrat’s play book is to go after a person personally. They can’t nor won’t debate the issues. All we can hope is that the republican party will figure out a way to actually get it’s message across and that people will put down the Obama issued crack they are smoking and wake the EFF up to just what a Chicago Conman he is.
I think this is typical of Democrats as a whole. They love to do the petty things and avoid doing the heavy lifting to actually solve problems.
Control Limbaugh?
Why?
He is only a person.
He represents thought and ideas and questioning authority.
He represents everything that the One does not.
He is light while the One is darkness.
He is synthesis while the One is antithesis.
He is speech with thinking while the one is a teleprompter.
Limbaugh must be controlled. He might infect others with his questioning thought and questions must be avoided. The One can’t handle questions.
They weren't harsh enough, evidently.
(And I say that as a "mushy" moderate conservative.)
Mushy moderates don't win anymore and you backed one. Get it? McCain was just another 'my turn' Republican who knew he was going to lose and now snickers about it. It's not that funny, is it?
They are communists. Limbaugh is a capitalist. Moderates are socialists.
Barack Hussein Obama wants to be “Julius Caesar” without the blood shed.
Didn’t Present_ent Obama’s mentor Professor Bill Ayers and his Marxist radical group (The Weathermen) have a goal of killing 25 million Americans?
Obama won, didn’t he?
By Fraud thanks to ACORN.
Debbie is tough as bananas.
Not sure of the specifics, but yes, they did plan to kill a massive number of people. ayers actively encouraged children to murder their parents to “bring the revolution home.”
Emperor bammy surrounds himself with thugs and murderers by choice, you can be fairly certain it’s not because they are snappy dressers and have beautiful singing voices. Birds of a feather and all that...
It wasn't exactly a goal, but something they did deem necessary. They were willing to kill ten percent of the population of the country at that time to secure their communist "utopia". They are likely still willing to do so, thus the ante has been upped to 31 million. Think about it...
the infowarrior
He wants to be Mugabe..
Newsweak’s cover story this week is Rush with duct tape across his mouth. Article by David Frum, named as ‘conservative’. They’ll do anything to bury Rush. Whatever it takes.
Not without a fight though. Unlike Zimbabwe, America is ARMED TO THE TEETH.
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