The Rush Limbaugh Thread

[DACrowe]

So who thought "Charlie" owned Limbaugh? I think it shows he cannot take a fair argument.

 

[VampElvis]

Charlie? I'm sorry I don't understand. Can you provide context?

 

[Kelly]

Charlie? I'm sorry I don't understand. Can you provide context?

The caller into Rush's show......

 

[SuBe]

Which caller?

 

[Marx]

Are you guys talking about the guy who called into the show and apparently called Rush a 'brainwashed Nazi'?

 

[The Major]

Are you guys talking about the guy who called into the show and apparently called Rush a 'brainwashed Nazi'?

Yes.

 

[The Major]

I agree, but I still wonder why people care....

People care since its seems to have become real. Before Steele and the various Republican politicians and pundits apologized for disagreeing with Rush I never would have believed he was the leader of the party. Now I can't deny the possibility whether it was true before Obama talked about it or it became a self fulfilling prophecy.

 

[StorminNorman]

Limbaugh isn't the leader of the Republican Party. He IS a symbol and a leader of the Conservative movement. Along with Sean Hannity and other similar popular figures. It goes beyond simple Party.

 

[Kelly]

The Republican Party, doesn't have a leader.....that is its problem.

A leader is someone that leads and people follow right behind him/her, and have a strong passion for what they are believe....

Republicans disagreeing and then apologizing are not followers of a leader.......they are apathetic idiots that have no idea what they truly believe in....or what they are fighting for. Some may not have liked what Newt did years ago in Congress.....BUT, HE was a leader of Republicans.....that is what a leader does.

 

[The Major]

Limbaugh isn't the leader of the Republican Party. He IS a symbol and a leader of the Conservative movement. Along with Sean Hannity and other similar popular figures. It goes beyond simple Party.

Then why did he have that much influence to make pundits, analysists and high ranking politicians whimpering like babies whenever he raised his voice at them? When the head of the RNC caves into a radio show host within 24 hours it really looks like he isn't a leader. Rush is definitely a leader, unofficially, with the power he wields. Head and shoulders above the politicians the Republicans voted for.

 

[Marx]

Limbaugh isn't the leader of the Republican Party. He IS a symbol and a leader of the Conservative movement. Along with Sean Hannity and other similar popular figures. It goes beyond simple Party.

The Republican Party, doesn't have a leader.....that is its problem.

A leader is someone that leads and people follow right behind him/her, and have a strong passion for what they are believe....

Republicans disagreeing and then apologizing are not followers of a leader.......they are apathetic idiots that have no idea what they truly believe in....or what they are fighting for. Some may not have liked what Newt did years ago in Congress.....BUT, HE was a leader of Republicans.....that is what a leader does.

But when you have these high profile Republicans, including the chairman of the RNC cowtailing to Rush Limbaugh, it's hard to argue who really runs the show.

As for Newt, don't get me started. He knows politics, that's for sure. He's got quite a ways to go on the ethics front.

 

[Kelly]

But when you have these high profile Republicans, including the chairman of the RNC cowtailing to Rush Limbaugh, it's hard to argue who really runs the show.

As for Newt, don't get me started. He knows politics, that's for sure. He's got quite a ways to go on the ethics front.

"looking like you are running the show" and "being an actual leader" imo are 2 different things.

One is simply louder than the other, and I think you can figure out which one.

 

[Zar25]

"looking like you are running the show" and "being an actual leader" imo are 2 different things.

One is simply louder than the other, and I think you can figure out which one.

True but in politics, perception is often reality. Somebody has to step up.

 

[Kelly]

True but in politics, perception is often reality. Somebody has to step up.

I don't know that perception is reality.....but it is certainly a person's "truth" whether it is indeed the truth or not.....

 

[Marx]

CONGRESSMEN TIAHRT BECOMES THE LATEST REPUBLICAN TO BACKPEDDLE TO LIMBAUGH
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/21/rep-todd-tiahrt-rush-limb_n_188281.html

Less than a week after calling conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh a mere "entertainer," the apology from Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Ks.) has arrived. Not only did Tiahrt deny any attempt to denigrate Limbaugh, Tiahrt's spokesman called Limbaugh a "great leader."

"The congressman believes Rush is a great leader of the conservative movement in America -- not a party leader responsible for election losses," the spokesman said, according to the Wichita Eagle. "Nothing the congressman said diminished the role Rush has played and continues to play in the conservative movement."

 

[StorminNorman]

A Congressman like Tiahrt is stupid for trying to speak out against Limbaugh.

Honestly, Republicans in Washington should stop falling for this. Any time they try to attack Limbaugh, all it does is hurt them and the party (because when they apologize it continues to feed the perception), the only ones that benefit are James Carville and Rush Limbaugh.

 

[DACrowe]

Well, in all honesty Stormy when all the party leaders and representatives who make even the faintest of unpraiseworthy remarks about Rush, including GOP Chairman Michael Steele, apologize within a week...maybe it is more than a perception. The party is so fractured they are being beaten around by a raido host.

 

[StorminNorman]

The Republican Party has always been about grassroots, though. Limbaugh has more power in the Conservative movement, Steele has more power in the Republican Party itself.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Perhaps...but the Republican party is nothing without the Conservative movement.

I mean...where else do the Conservatives go? Indepedent? They now own the Republican party. Without them...Republicans are pretty much just an empty seat.

I'm constantly baffled at how it goes down too. I mean...if your going to say something bad about Boss Limbaugh...know what'll happen.

Otherwise, you'll end up another politician filling out the Apology to Boss Limbaugh template letter.

 

[StorminNorman]

Which is exactly what I said three posts ago.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I arrived three posts too late, Norm.

 

[DACrowe]

It still simply reflects on how weak and poorly run a party without a sense of direction that the Republicans are.

 

[Marx]

It still simply reflects on how weak and poorly run a party without a sense of direction that the Republicans are.

It's not that they don't have a sense of direction, they have TOO MANY senses of direction.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

The biggest problem I see is that the Republican concept of "less government" is ********.

If you believe in less government...in keeping the damn governement out of MY affairs...then why do they want to ban gay marriage? why do they want to ban abortion? Those seem like MAJOR government intervention issues that the supposed party of "less government" wants more government control.

Having things like the patriot act and being able to arrest people for no reason as if they were the Galatic Empire over the past few years only hurts more.

 

[Malice]

I agree with you Chris...