Rush started the fight.
He knew what he was doing.
He can take it.
He can, but he obviously doesn't suffer backstabbers lightly. He's not the typical gelding Republican.
“Michael Steele has been around long enough to know that the liberal media will use him by twisting what I say or what others say. He took the bait, he bit down hard on the bait, he launched an attack on me even though the premise of what was said to him was false.”
Michael Steele should have answered the question correctly. He should have said, I want the country to succeed but the Obama Administration's policies need to be defeated. Obama’s massive spending and taxing and nationalization plans, will destroy this nation and they need to be opposed. Mr Steele should have seen the truth in Rush's words and spoke up for Rush.
This strategy to tie Rush around the neck of the Republican Party could have been easily countered by reestablishing the context that the DemonRATs omitted.
Finally, Rush really nailed it today:
“I'm going further and telling you today it's not that I want Obama to fail; that's not it anymore. The president is presiding over economic failure. The president is watching it, doing nothing about it. He's watching unemployment grow; he's watching the stock market plummet; he is watching people sign up for unemployment. The president of the United States is doing nothing to stop the downward spiral of this economy. He has no economic recovery plan. The truth is, the president of the United States and Rahm Emanuel, who, remember, said, “Crisis is too great a thing to waste.” What does that mean? They want you suffering, they want you miserable, they want it worse, they want you rejecting conservatism. They want you rejecting capitalism. They want you turning to them in fear and desperation and angst for an immediate fix to the problem. They want you thinking you have no ability to fix your own problems. They think you have and they want you to have no ability to take care of yourself. So as the stock market now approaches minus 2,800 since Obama was elected, the statement today is to speed up the economic recovery, we're going to focus on health care. Ask yourself how that is going to get you your next job?”