I don't think that "fear" has anything to do with it. This sounds more like the Dems' opening shots for 2012, and it has a very good chance of working for them.
They figure, probably rightly, that these three will make perfect targets for a scare campaign. (Recall the one they used to such excellent effect back in 1995-96, with Newt Gingrich as their whipping boy.)
Consider: far more people do not listen to Beck or Limbaugh, than do listen to them. Most people don't pay direct attention to Sarah Palin.
They are, however, willing to be told about Limbaugh, Palin, and Beck, and the Dems and their pet media are more than happy to be the ones doing the telling.
You dismiss this at your peril.
I dismissed it when you guys tried that crap on Reagan... peril... ha.
LLS
David Plouffe is a liar. Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin are neither intolerant nor extreme; especially not intolerant. These anti-american communists, like Plouffe, are one trick ponies that scream RACIST, RACIST, RACIST at the top of their lungs hoping that the main stream media will echo their rants. It's mindless, infantile, gibberish, trash.
Rush's call screen is black, his minister is black, and his top guest host is black. He's a RACIST, RACIST, RACIST, they say.
Beck, Limbaugh, and Palin are attempting to save the AMERICAN principals enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, and if the country cannot be saved on the basis of those principles then it is not worth saving. I don't dismiss him, but I'm with those who pledge their lives, fortunes and Sacred Honor.
They came right out of the shoot attacking Limbaugh; calling him the head of the GOP, back when Obama had just taken over in 2009.
It didn’t work then, it won’t work now, and it won’t work in 2012.
Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton. (Ben Franklin?)
First, I think these three are just stand ins for the tea party movement. Last year, Pelosi and the Dems vigorous attacked the tea party only to be smacked down in the elections. This is the Democrats method of attacking the movement vicariously.
Second, what the Democrat part seems to have missed is that most Americans correctly perceive the Democrats as the radical extremists. The tea party movement resounds with the public precisely because they represent middle America responding to this radical progressive Congress and Administration. When Ploof attacks them he is merely drawing a circle around the the Dems weakness.
Third. this is not 1995. In 1995, Clinton has reformed his administration and moved toward the center on many issues, the economy was fine and getting better and the Republicans were in charge of Congress. The situation is just the opposite today.