Rush Limbaugh

[toasty]

Is anyone else as astonished as I am to see the republicans kowtowing to this guy? FFS the head of the RNC just issued a public apology for deigning to speak ill of Rush.

Rush Limbaugh proudly represents an ideology that has been roundly rejected by voters in the last two national elections. Consider this: starting with the 2006 elections, the GOP has taken exactly zero seats from Democrats. I don't mean that they haven't netted any seats, either -- I mean they literally have lost every race against a democratic incumbent, or that was previously held by a dem but was open. Every. Single. One. Also, they've been relieved of command of many seats formerly held by Republicans.

According to a recent poll, Limbaugh has lower approval ratings than former president George W. Bush. That highlights, I think, the extent to which the dude is on the fringe of the party and outside of the mainstream -- and this is the guy the GOP has decided to hitch its horse to.

Shit like this makes me think the GOP is just crying out to be replaced by a new party. If Limbaugh is really going to be the face of the party, it might make the really hardcore republicans happy, but they're going to get creamed at the polls. Again.

[Mariner1]

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Rush Limbaugh is a conservative. The Republicans have not been conservative for some time. Rush is about the last big wonder that gives the RNC any legitimacy. Of course they're going to kowtow to him. If Rush goes Libertarian, it's over for the GOP.

[Miroslav]

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Rush is about the last big wonder that gives the RNC any legitimacy. Of course they're going to kowtow to him.

um.... maybe it gives legitimacy to them in their eyes but the rest of us on the planet sure don't think so.

[Mariner1]

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um.... maybe it gives legitimacy to them in their eyes but the rest of us on the planet sure don't think so.

Wait. You're telling me that you'd think more of the GOP if there was no Rush Limbaugh? How absurd. Just sayin...

[Miroslav]

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Wait. You're telling me that you'd think more of the GOP if there was no Rush Limbaugh? How absurd. Just sayin...

No, I'm telling you that I'd think more of the GOP if they didn't find Rush Limbaugh's drivel to be reasonable and sympathetic to their views.

[chloe harris]

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fuck ya worst move they could possibly do. fucking brilliant.

[Shpira]

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The support for republicans haS GONNE out the window...at least untll obama screw's up...
p.s. my attempt of being serious in this state

[Shpira]

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I didn't realize this was a movies thread...scrap what i had posted above...p.s. I wrote this without spell checdk

[Localizer]

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Rush Limbaugh is a conservative. The Republicans have not been conservative for some time. Rush is about the last big wonder that gives the RNC any legitimacy. Of course they're going to kowtow to him. If Rush goes Libertarian, it's over for the GOP.

Rush won't go libertarian. He has a strong belief in faith-based initiative programs which are a breech of the 1st amendment (though for some reason Alito didn't think so).

[Mariner1]

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Rush won't go libertarian. He has a strong belief in faith-based initiative programs which are a breech of the 1st amendment (though for some reason Alito didn't think so).

Perhaps check your premises with Alito? As with Bush, calling someone a conservative does not make it so. I've begun drafting some ideas on doing away with this right/left nonsense that seems to confuse everyone, and replace it with an up/down scale so that everyone is under the same definitional understanding (more on this at some later point).

Until Rush comes to the realization that the necessity of sound economic policy and law trumps every last fucking thing he supports, he'll never get this ideas through. So long as his faith-based nonsense and spreading democracy with bombs and fighting wars abroad to 'protect' American soil mentality trumps economics, he will continue to be on the losing side.

I think this is why I've started to listen to Beck more, and turn off Rush. I think Beck is probably more batshit insane about religion than Rush, but he's 50 times more dead-on about the economy and certainly gives it more treatment in his programs.

[MJDub]

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how about we just get rid of government based on religious beliefs for a while. kthxbye

[toasty]

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Rush Limbaugh is a conservative. The Republicans have not been conservative for some time. Rush is about the last big wonder that gives the RNC any legitimacy. Of course they're going to kowtow to him.

Even if it makes ideological sense, it's political suicide. That was the intended point of the post, FWIW.

[Mariner1]

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Even if it makes ideological sense, it's political suicide. That was the intended point of the post, FWIW.

I just don't see the relationship you're trying to make out here. I think there are greater factors at play than a sole radio personality.

[toasty]

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I just don't see the relationship you're trying to make out here. I think there are greater factors at play than a sole radio personality.

Well, of course there are more moving parts than just Rush Limbaugh, but that's beside the point. I guess what I'm saying is that although Rush is enormously popular with a certain part of the Republican party, he's viewed by the public as a whole in lower regard than the dude that got the GOP into this mess to begin with (Bush). Embracing this guy as the standard-bearer for the party isn't going to help the GOP regain the trust (and respect) of the millions of independents and moderate republicans that have been voting Democrat for the last few cycles because they hate what the GOP has become.

[Erik Mitchell]

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Embracing this guy as the standard-bearer for the party isn't going to help the GOP regain the trust (and respect) of the millions of independents and moderate republicans that have been voting Democrat for the last few cycles because they hate what the GOP has become.

Fine with me!