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What's the 2012 ticket going to be anyways? Palin/Plumber? Jindal's obviously the most qualified and best candidate the GOP has so far, but his skin color doesn't fit in too well with their southern strategy.
Yet another post WC pulls out of his ass with no justification.
What's the 2012 ticket going to be anyways? Palin/Plumber? Jindal's obviously the most qualified and best candidate the GOP has so far, but his skin color doesn't fit in too well with their southern strategy.
Romney won the CPAC straw poll.
Romney took 20 percent of the vote, followed by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal with 14 percent, Texas Rep. Ron Paul with 13 percent, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with 13 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with 10 percent and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 7 percent, Politico reported.
rush is a fine entertainer... I seem to remember that conservatives hate liberal entertainers joining in on the political discussion..Rush is killing it. If only a GOP candidate could speak like this to the people. Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd with no teleprompters, wow. Obama couldn't hold a candle to this guy one on one.
the UnUnited Nanny States of amerika.
Do not want.
it's a sad day when your hero is a fat, bloated racist with a drug addiction.
so then the republican shrinks even more.. Please keep up the good work conservatives! Shrink your base even more for the Republican party!!!
Huckabee 2012!
I hope you're a millionaire many times over, because otherwise his tax plan makes no sense.
Rush needs to pack up some Viagra and haul his sick, hate-filled, obese ass back to the Caribbean to bugger more little black boys.
yet another educated liberal spewing crap about the FairTax.
awww is boutons butthurt?
Tell me again how a straight consumption-tax doesn't kill the middle class, when they have to spend a greater proportion of their income on necessities like housing, food, transportation, etc vs people who can afford to just put their money in the bank. That'll be a great way to get people spending money; punish the out of them for the purchases they make and encourage the rich to hoard their wealth even more. The fact that it effectively includes welfare for the poor doesn't mask its true intentions. The Fair(
yet another educated liberal spewing crap about the FairTax.
How can board Republicans call anyone butthurt after their savage beatdown last election and their nonstop whining since?awww is boutons butthurt?
Your long journey through the deserts of political irrelevancy begin here. Pack a lunch.
I only wish. Do you really think so Pixel Pusher? I'm seeing him on TV more.
I meant to refer to the Conservative "movement", not Rush personally. Rush runs the Party now.
Wander, baby wander...
Huff Po harvests them some low-hanging limp balls
Tom Watson
Posted March 1, 2009
Limbaugh in the Lead: A Gift for Obama
Looking for all the world like the sweating floor manager on the late afternoon shift at Larry Flynt's Hustler Club in an unbuttoned shiny black shirt and undersized sport coat,
Jowls rolling like thunder from the right via CNN's unfortunate high-definition feed, Limbaugh took control of the sad and tattered remnants of the mainstream conservative movement, and urged continued allegiance to the noble Lost Cause of Reagan, metaphorically carrying his rebel-yelling followers into the hills like modern-day Quantrill's Raiders standing firm against change.
If there's any doubt that the GOP's own Paulie Walnuts is now firmly in command of the Party of Lincoln, the "breaking news" style coverage of Limbaugh's bellow-cose rant dispelled the notion. CNN, for one, went wide - with the kind of uninterrupted live footage usually reserved for Presidents and Popes, followed by a panel of analysts to weigh and consider the import of the speech to this republic of ours. There were other dancers on the stage, to be sure - including Ward Connerly, Ann Coulter, Phyllis Schlafly and Karl Rove - but only Limbaugh's hour-long ramble (he went over by 30 minutes) garnered opposition leader status. "As the movement searches for a front-and-center spokesman to provide inspiration and direction, Limbaugh's refusal to tilt toward the center may place him out front in a Republican Party already suffering from a disappearing moderate wing," wrote Tom Schaller in Salon.
Limbaugh is a showbiz talent, and he is taking full advantage of this moment of rudderless, thoughtless spinning in circles by Republicans to seize the stage in full-throated opposition to the overwhelmingly popular new President - and virtually everything he stands for. In rooting publicly for Barack Obama's failure, Limbaugh may be leading the conservative movement to a smaller, fringe-like existence in the halls of power - but it will an existence that he can easily dominate.
Leading gullible Republicans into the hills of guerrilla ideological resistance during the nation's toughest economic crisis in 80 years cons utes a gift of incredible political proportions for the Obama Administration. Instead of principled point-by-point opposition by a chastened party of experienced professionals ready for tough dealings at the bargaining table, President Obama is blessed with clownish truculence and pure rejectionism - embodied in the Republican response to the President's forceful Congressional address by Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a moment of excruciatingly tone-deaf ideology rescued only by the attention lavished on its shockingly poor delivery.
President Obama, of course, is aware of this lumbering and clumsy gift from the right - so much so that he sent chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to Bob Schieffer's CBS studio this morning to declare Limbaugh "the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party."
And it's that blustery intellectual force that convinces Republicans like Jindal and Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi that their political futures are enlarge and brightened by a nihilistic refusal of Federal funds to their own communities. "White kids on dope," jibed conservative Rod Dreher, one of a small cadre of right-wing commentators to take on the Limbaugh lemming movement, the willful ignorance of the current crisis and the nation's ultimate rejection of a failed a humiliated party leadership. "No need to return to first principles and recalibrate policies to account for new realities," wrote Dreher. "Just find a better messenger for the same old same old. You begin to see why nobody inside that bubble could grasp what a flop Bobby Jindal's reheated Republican mush of a speech was going to be ahead of time."
Rush Limbaugh is right about one thing: President Obama is indeed on a mission of reinvention. That much was clear from his speech on Capitol Hill last week - and even clearer in his budget proposal. And, as Limbaugh undoubtedly knows, the President holds the whip hand for the foreseeable future. So Limbaugh plays to that loss of power in his audience, and in a speech that referred bizarrely to "slave blood" and a defense of John Thain (who seems to literally be asking for a set of numbered orange duds from Andrew Coumo) and the spending habits of bail-out bankers, he laid on some false concern for Obama:
"President Obama is one of the most gifted politicians, one of the most gifted men that I have ever witnessed. He has extraordinary talents.
He has communication skills that hardly anyone can surpass. No, seriously. No, no, I'm being very serious about this. It just breaks my heart that he does not use these extraordinary talents and gifts to motivate and inspire the American people to be the best they can be. He's doing just the opposite. And it's a shame. [Applause] President Obama has the ability -- he has the ability to inspire excellence in people's pursuits. He has the ability to do all this, yet he pursues a path, seeks a path that punishes achievement, that punishes earners and punishes -- and he speaks negatively of the country. Ronald Reagan used to speak of a shining city on a hill. Barack Obama portrays America as a soup kitchen in some dark night in a corner of America that's very obscure. He's constantly telling the American people that bad times are ahead, worst times are ahead. And it's troubling, because this is the United States of America."
Yes, Rush this is the United States of America. And your timely and spectacular gift to the President is much appreciated indeed.
Do you ever listen to what people say, or do you always pull discrimination of ideas out your ass?
so then the republican shrinks even more.. Please keep up the good work conservatives! Shrink your base even more for the Republican party!!!
The republican party, as it is now, is already dying. The weeds need to be removed. There is no room for liberals in a party that wants conservative support. The republicans, as a party, have a choice to make. Become a freedom loving party again, or die. Liberalism is too authoritarian.
k, because we should listen to our opposition for advice.
also, i love Newt, but he's wrong, the era of Reagan is NOT over.
Are you sure it's not already dead? Something sure smells.
The GOP better get used to being a party of ideas, because the demographics look really ty for them. For sure they can't double down on their regionalized bull . Some philosophical coherence would be nice, but I think that's really too much to ask at this point.
Why hitch your wagon to the GOP if you like real conservatives so much WC?
It was a combination of Dubya's plan of military interventionism in Iraq and the do-nothing Congress letting lobbyists run the show in Washington while they rammed appropriation bills filled with record numbers of pork-barrel projects that led to the demise of strict conservatism, and the eventual split of the GOP to those groups who consider themselves 'Conservatives', i.e. the religious-right, limbaugh-Hannity loving crowd, fiscal conservatives, and Cons utionalists...
Yes, we're all conspiring to sabotage you. Do the opposite of whatever we say. The trick is, which one of us is trying to jerk your chain? The poster who warns of political irrelevancy or this guy:k, because we should listen to our opposition for advice.
SCHIEFFER: We talked about Newt Gingrich a lot this morning and now you bring up Rush Limbaugh. Who do you think now speaks for the Republican Party?
EMANUEL: You just named him: it is Rush Limbaugh. He has laid out his vision, in my view. And he said it clearly. I compliment him for that. He's been very up front and I compliment him for that. He's not hiding. He's asked for President Obama and called for President Obama to fail. That's his view. And that's what he has enunciated. And whenever a Republican criticizes him, they have to run back and apologize to him and say they were misunderstood. He is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party. He has been up front about what he views and hasn't stepped back from that, which is he hopes for failure. He said it and I compliment him for his honesty. But that's their philosophy that is enunciated by Rush Limbaugh and I think that's the wrong philosophy for America...
SCHIEFFER: Do you think that he's that important that other Republicans are paying that much attention to him?
EMANUEL: Well, he was given the keynote basically at the [CPAC conference] to speak. When a Republican did attack him he clearly had a turn-around and comeback and basically said that he apologized and was wrong. I think do think he's an intellectual force, which is why the Republicans pay such attention to him.
Partisanship happens kim sung.
Your butthurt happens, pinky.
its easy to sit and point out the weaknesses in obamas administration, then again his govt inherited a deficit and previous admin continue to run the country into the ground...in other words obama was set up to fail. While the opposition is reshuffling there cabinet seats and not offering any solutions to the problem, reason being? they are the fkn problem that cause this is the first place and continue to do so. It wouldnt even make a difference whoever is in govt now, cause this was a bubble waiting to burst. Just look around the world in the previous year which ever country had a change of govts who is in the same position as obama now.
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