Unless you were *gasp* serious??

Or more specifically, Ariel Sharon reversing the Exodus some 3,000 years later. I still remember the slogans: “Visit Israel and see the pyramids”.

Only I hope Rush is allowed to destroy his enemy Third Army.

It will backfire on them but let them go ahead and try. What will happen is they will make a figurative martyr of Rush (I don’t think they would actually kill him). Silencing will be like silencing all of us.

I seriously doubt Obama will debate Rush but he should repeat the offer at least once every day during his show. It will be interesting to see what kind of excuses Obama comes up with to avoid such a debate.

…the audience to register as a speck on a pimple on a blip on anyone’s radar screen, and thereby rate any White House’s cycles.

that the WH is behind msnbc covering rush?

It’s Barack Hussein CARTER (not Nixon). Otherwise 555555555!

And now the Dims are in the White House, so apparently not setting the record straight is “Unpresidential.”
It sure got Republicans out of the White House.

Regards

…then they’ll more than likely stay in Rush’s audience. They know it’s not Limbaugh’s stimulus bill pushing the Dow towards 5,000, or Limbaugh’s Cabinet nominees who aren’t paying their taxes. Those Independents who hate Limbaugh already or just don’t care will stay as they are.

In any event, Limbaugh charges up the base, and Obama has just handed him an even bigger bullhorn with which to do that. And good luck trying to paint Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer (or whichever media figure next commits the apostasy of questioning The One) as “faces of the Republican Party”. Pretty soon the thin-skinned act will start wearing, uh, thin.

The Clinton White House tried to make Limbaugh the symbol of the Republican Party after the Okla City bombing, Then came the ’94 midterms.

“Rush is a simplistic hyper-partisan, and if Obama can get independents to listen to him, than Rush will do much more to bring indys over to the liberal side than Obama ever could.”

First half-sentence: You mistake Rush’s excellent teaching abilities for him being “simplisitc”. He’s educating the masses. Besides, what’s so complicated? These people, thier motives and their policies have been known since before Tocqueville – really, since Gramsci spelled them out.

Second half-sentence: Rush is much more engaging than these people, and you apparently, know and expect. I’d bet my paycheck that vthe the super-high negatives come from people that have never listened to one full show. If the President brings him an audience, Rush will convert them.

What’s the old addage about not picking fights with people that buy ink by the barrel? How about with people that host the largest and most influential talk-radio programs in the country?

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First, after listening to Limbaugh for even a short while it is not hard to notice he’s not a simplistic hyper-partisan. You may be confusing incisiveness with simplicity. His sharp analysis of the Obama mindset and the motives of the Left — and his ability to popularly articulate them — are furlongs ahead of most serious conservative thinkers. His appeal is precisely because of this.

And, yes, the motives of Obama and co. are absolutely to destroy Rush. There may be other motives, but the Left always, as a matter of course, wishes to destroy its critics. This is simply a given.

I was one of those people who didn’t really like Rush. Whenever I heard him on the radio I quickly turned it off, disliking his style. But when I saw his speech to CPAC, I was astonished. He was articulate, warm, witty, and expressing my thoughts in a much more eloquent fashion than I ever could have.

The idea that Rush is a blowhard, lowbrow, angry white male is about as accurate as the idea that Sarah Palin is a bimbo cheerleader. And the problem for the Dems, and their mis-step, I think, is that the more exposure Rush gets from this, the more he demonstrates that he’s not divisive, stupid, etc., etc., and he in fact has some pretty well thought out criticisms of Obama and the Democrat’s mission. In short, he’s actually quite a good representative of Conservative thought (something the Republicans have strayed from). He’s not dividing the Republican party – his CPAC speech was a call to arms, a reminder of what we should be about and what we can agree on.

The more air time Limbaugh gets, the better.

They got used to beating Bush up without his responding, and think they can still get away with that whole diversion thing with impunity. They don’t have Bush to kick around anymore, so they chose the next biggest conservative icon. Bush wouldn’t fight back. Rush makes his living talking to a 20 mill or so audience three hours a day, five days a week, and has done so for 20 years. They’re amateurs at this sort of thing (as they clearly are at most things) and Rush is the consummate professional.

I’m reminded of Marilyn Monroe so enamored of herself and not understanding the true nature of the situation that she asked Joe Dimagio if he had any idea what it was like to have 10 thousand people in one place cheering just for you.

This is actually going to be fun to watch (er… listen-to that is).

The hyper-partisan rants of Rush are very attractive to his base. The thing is, Rush’s base just can’t understand that those hyper-partisan rants just aren’t appealing to moderates and independants.

The Democrats are peeing-in-their-pants happy that Rush is in the limelight. They absolutely want him to stay there, with all attention focused on him. Two reasons: because they think he’s repulsive to independants, and that eventually he’ll cause a huge rift between moderate Republicans and conservative Republicans.

The strategy isn’t so dumb, really.

1. Obama seems to be doing what you’re criticizing Bush for not doing – repsonding to criticism.
Got, like a specific? Other than the fact that he’s talking like a BlueDog and legislating like Karl Marx that one escapes me.

2. I think you’ve misread the motives of Obama and Co, they’re not trying to destroy Rush, they’re trying to make him the symbol of the Republican Party and harm it…
And just what planet do you live on? Of course they’re trying to destroy Rush – and the Republican Party, too – because the most effective way to destroy the Party is to destroy it’s symbols. Which is why I’ve advocated for years that we should be doing exactly that to Democrats – and I’ll throw in moderates too. We should have a media team whose job is to lynch the symbols of the Democratic Party in the media every day. Unfortunately we don’t and they do.

Rush is a simplistic hyper-partisan, and if Obama can get independents to listen to him, than Rush will do much more to bring indys over to the liberal side than Obama ever could.
People just like you made the same arguments against Ronald Reagan and against Newt and the Contract With America. Guess what? Both were overwhelming landslides with the American People and it took fools like GHW Bush, Christy Whitman, etal to actually stop the conservative tide.

Gosh….. he’s a conservative.

Rush would praise even a Democrat who would follow the principles of conservatism..

Have you listened to Rush, btw?

Democrats got their hustlers
Pelosi’s got her bum
K Street got Big BO Soreto
He’s the hoops shootin’ pol, he’s TheOne™
Yeah he’s as duplicit as they come
He’s craftier than ‘ole Slick Willie
And to the press corps delight, teleprompter in sight
You know they all call Big BO boss, just because

And they say you don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit at the press show
You don’t pull the mask off an ‘ole Lone Ranger
And you don’t mess around with BO

Well outa South Missouri come a humble boy
He said I’m lookin’ for a man named BO
I am a a tax payin’ man, Steeler’s rootin’ fan,
But on air they call me El Rushbo
Yeah I’m lookin’ for the king of K Street
He rides in two new Air Force Ones
And last week he took all my money, and it may sound funny
But I’ve come to get my money back
And everybody say Jack, ooh don’t you know

That you don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit at the press show
You don’t pull the mask off an ‘ole Lone Ranger
And you don’t mess around with BO

Well a hush fell over the country
And BO come boppin’ in off K street
And when the talkin’ was done
The only part that wasn’t bloody was the soles of
The BO man’s feet, woah
Yeah BO’s act was cut in a hundred places
And his cred was shot even more
And you better believe they sung a different kind of story
When Big BO ratings hit the floor, aw

Now they say you don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off an ‘ole Lone Ranger
And you don’t mess around with El Rushbo

(Spoken)
Yeah Big BO got his hat, find out where it’s at
And it’s not hustling people strange to you
Even if he do, wait til two-thousand one-two…yea

Now they say you don’t tug on Superman’s cape
You don’t spit into the wind
You don’t pull the mask off an ‘ole Lone Ranger
And you don’t mess around with El Rushbo

NT.

But I think this strategy is fraught with peril. By making Rush the headliner for days upon days [and apparently this is going to be a routine thing for many months], they absolutely ARE going to drive traffic to Rush. Especially some of those moderates. And once they hear Rush, they’re gonna like him. And they are going to be persuaded rightward as voters.

Second, the coverage is by necessity going to include some of Rush’s spectacular parries of Obama attacks – I’ve already heard some on the horridly leftist ABC Radio News feed. That is being pumped straight into the mainstream.

So, I say they are gambling with something that ultimately could very quickly go out of their control.

Please elaborate why you think this is so?

Regards

What YOU’RE missing is that 20% of self-proclaimed conservatives voted for Obama (and many others just abstained) in order to send a message to the GOP that nominating a RINO will not be tolerated. They probably also think it’ll set us up for another Reagan in 2012 – whether or not that assumption plays out remains to be seen, but the Democrats picking a fight with Rush probably increased the odds of it happening.

At any rate, turn that 20% around (and factor back in the abstainers), and McCain would have been in the White House now.

We have nothing to fear from moderates or so-called “independents.” Any of them who are even slightly curious about Rush – enough to tune him in – and who have any semblance of an open mind will, more likely than not, be converted. Those who don’t probably were never going to be convinced anyway. In either case, we gain numbers. Trying to appease moderates is what got the Republicans in trouble in the first place. They didn’t win very many of them over, and they alienated their base enough to reverse any gains they got with the moderates, and then some.

What I care about is that 20% of conservatives, along with the abstainers. They are the hand that rocks the cradle, and if they return to the fold, then Obama is going to have no choice but to count on additional ACORN voter fraud and amnesty voters to drag him across the finish line in 2012 – because the actual popular vote of Americans who’ve been playing by the rules all along will not be nearly enough to carry him.

Picking a fight with Rush is a terrible strategy because it will return the 20% to the fold in a hurry. All that will need to fall into place after that is for decent conservative candidates to get out there, bury the RINOs in the primaries, and go on to smack down the Democrats in Nov 2010 and 2012. (I know, that’s a big if – but picking a fight with Rush makes it more likely, not less likely).

This will galvanize the base – and there will be candidates who will fill the vacuum left by RINOs who dare to run afoul of the base. And then, in the general election, there will be the 20%.

Democrats couldn’t care less if more Republicans listen to Rush, or if he shores up his base even more. The “Rush is head of Republicans” strategy is all about pushing Rush into the spotlight. They WANT people to hear him.

It’s just that the Democrats are convinced that the moderates and independants will be repelled by his hyper-partisan rants, and the Republicans (well….Conservatives) are convinced that anyone who’s not a diehard liberal will have a come-to-Jesus moment when they hear Rush, abandon their independant ways, and become Conservatives.

It’ll be interesting to see how it all pans out.

Rush!!!

If President Obama accepts, he is branded as weak (which he is!) to have accepted a debate with “an entertainer”.

If he refuses, he is branded a coward (which he is!)

If he accepts and gets his clock cleaned by Rush (which he would!), he is branded as a fool!!

How can Rush lose????

in here but I couldn’t find it.

If you can say that Rush doesn’t address the “counter arguments of liberalism” you disqualify yourself from commenting on this subject on the grounds of sheer mendacity.

http://www.dccc.org/content/sorry

I care nothing about a proposed debate, and I think that THEY think they have successfully sold the “nasty old Rush Limbaugh” meme.

But I’m serious when I say this. MSM outlets are playing extended Rush segments (not just sound bites). And people are going to tune directly in to Rush, which will take away the media’s filter.

And another thing. Maybe it’s wrong, but I’m not doing any more “formal processes”. I think we can successfully kneecap Obama.

to be objective, things wouldn’t be like this…

We are constantly fighting the spin because no one else will….and I agree, it ‘looks’ like we’re fighting….the line is drawn

Not a good first impression for budding Moderates…….but I believe that regular people appreciate toughness and Intelligence and that’s what we never fail to project…

Fight on!!

sad really.

“Subsequently, several more prominent Republicans have been forced to make abject apologies to Mr. Limbaugh”

Yes, becasuse he’s in an official position of authority. He, as the head of a government agency, coerced them into response. Very well thought out, kurtismae.

I imagine much of your life is dark and smelly….

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hear the nervous chuckle.

No? Didn’t think so.

The Democrats are ON RECORD as saying they are making a coordinated effort to make Rush their Bush. They are not “focusing attention”.. They are making up mud pies and throwing them.

dude….liberals lie like no other

WE ARE NOT BUYING…get it?

What meat? You posted links that refuted your assertion. What is there to refute?

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‘several more prominent Republicans’…..I know of ONE…who else…with links

“Subsequently, several more prominent Republicans have been forced to make abject apologies to Mr. Limbaugh, which strengthened the meme. The Dems are supporting Rush in this.
You all can try to spin it the opposite way, but it’s not going to work.”

BS

Little button, BIG DEAL.

Learn it, love it, or leave.
– c

Steele apologized to Rush…..

Phil bent over…errrrr…apologized on ‘behalf of Republicans’….lol

Sanford didn’t do JACK….loser

..

Nothing personal.

Moe