I’ve always figured that if you’re attacking the Vice Presidential nominee instead of the presidential nominee (Democrats 1988) or the candidate’s spouse (Republicans 1992) or some ‘nefarious’ group (Democrats after Swifties 2004) or person (Republians after Soros 2008), you’re running a losing campaign. The worm is turning. But we’ll need a positive agenda to run on.

Liberals have this pathological need for consensus, and an equal belief in its power.

I think it’s because they are afraid of standing alone, taking credit or blame as need be.

Yes, I know I’m supposed to be post-partisan now.

Fail.

Now that’s not very HopenChangy of them.

All they do is hate. Just go to any “news” site and click on any link that says “Palin”, you’ll see what I mean.

Honestly, they couldn’t have picked a worse target. This has to be like a second Christmas for Rush.

Free press, controversy, elevation of status… and natural entertainment value!

seems to be a perfect set up for a backfire. There are a few scenarios I believe will occur. One, Americans will see the focus on Rush as a waste of resources and frivolous and they would rather see their elected officials concentrate on Government matters. Two, a renewed interest is sparked in Rush Limbaugh’s program and his listenership. Three, the American people will become annoyed with the focus of attack on a private citizen who is a public figure. Four, Americans will agree with the Democrats and they will vote their GOP elected officials out of office.

I would venture to say it most likely with be a combination of the first three points along with some other angle that I did not include here and only a little of my fourth scenario will occur. The only people that are really going to care about what Rush says or does is the people who are already obsessed with demonizing this man as well as the GOP.

in obama lap. Focus Group Words just words only thing obama didn’t understand he fooled um once but he won’t fool them the second time.
God Bless America.

fun than any human being should legally or morally be allowed to have right now!

…Why couldn’t THOSE have been our choices in November. Sigh.

for being off all next week on one of his golf/football junkets in CA and HI. Yeah, now the timing looks even worse. I wondered who the Left would go after when they no longer had W (whom they haven’t let go of; check out some magazine covers – BDS rages on). Utterly idiotic to go after Rush who has (honestly) a bigger megaphone than the amateur in the WH. Spotlight on Rush, lots more listeners, more convert. Rush converted me, too. Escaping lefty-think is like escaping over the Berlin Wall to freedom. They are penned in and the guards are really, really scared. Their fear of Rush and the free expression of ideas shows their utter lack of confidence in their dogma. Stalinists.

I’m probably in the minority on this, but the GOP should fire back.

It has long been my firm belief that Republicans should never leave the field for Democrats to define the terms of the debate or allow them free rein to frame events in their favor.

It may seem like a waste of money on the Democrats’ part now, but make no mistake, this sort of thing is all-too-often a long-term psy-ops investment that can pay off massively further down in the cycle.

My recommendation is that NRSC/NRCC or some other organization immediately launch a counter-ad that makes prominent mention of the more objectionable (and porky) parts of the bill e.g. resodding the Mall, “Great Sex”, 2011 timetable, etc. and ending it with something like;

“Republicans in Congress proudly voted against it because it was a bad bill that wastes hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and will end up hurting our economy for the foreseeable future. And we’ll be proud to vote against it again.”

And left a comment supporting Rush. This is so funny!

Where was the ‘positive agenda’ when the Republicans were the majority? Let’s be up front about this and stop blowing smoke’ Democrats never stop their pitbull attacks and mentality. Pelosi and Reid have ignored Republican input, while Obama makes a small trip to the Hill and claims he wants to listen. Meanwhile Pellosi and Reid are writing the bill, and ignoring ANY imput from the Republicans. I’ve seen the ‘listening’ agenda up close from the left and have finally figured out that the only purpose for it is to marginalize the opposition and make them think they’re having a say.

If Obama wants full support of not only the Republicans in Congress and but the millions who did not vote for him, he will have to prove that he actually does care about what they think. The fact that Rush Limbaugh may voice some of those opinions is just too bad…. So far, we still do have The First Amendment in the Bill of Rights.

The “Stimulus Bill” predictably has turned into an opportunity for the Democrats to shameslessly spend billions on their own social agenda, when what the country needs now is the exact opposite. When you have spent more money than you make, gone deep into debt to buy what you cannot afford and your house is falling down around you; you fix the house – - you don’t build a swimming pool and buy a new BMW.

Obama and the Congress should be telling people that they need to reconsider their credit card spending, buy homes they can afford and save their money. That’s not what is happening. Instead we have the largest spending bill and earmark in the history of this country and people lining up for their share.

I was hopeful that at least the upside of this crisis would be that we all finally wake up and realize that government control and their edicts that force local communities to spend was not the answer. But, no, school districts in places like New York State are salivating at the prospect of millions from the feds (blazing headlines last night in the local paper!). The school budgets continually rise, while the property owners are being forced out of their homes, even after their mortgages are paid. This new infusion of our own money tax money into the schools will only raise the bar – - resulting in more future costs to maintain whatever the school boards develop. Federal mandates are in large part to blame, along with the teacher union propaganda that students are now the responsibility of the school, not the parents. Taxpayers should pay closer attention to what is happening in the schools districts and how much money is redirected from actually teaching children the basics. In a city of less than 15,000 we actually have ‘paid greeters’ to ‘welcome the children to school’ each day….. PAID GREETERS. And that just the tip of the iceburg.

As far as the campaign against Rush, it has actually made me go to his website and become a member. Hope it bites them in the backside.

It looks to me in these post-ACORN days, that winning listeners is almost as important as winning votes. McCain didnt listen to Conservatives and lost the election. America didnt listen and now we have BHO. Thank God Jimmy Carter wasnt running again.
Rush has Values and standards that he lives by and stands for, Barry……….not so much. We have listened to “liberals”with their specious blatherings about George Bush for eight years and listeners wonder about what goes on in a “liberal” brain. We listened to so-called liberals trash Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin and listeners to “liberals” now know how “liberals” think and act. Can anyone tell us Ohioans where our “liberal” Sen Voinovich stands on ANYTHING? And how anyone that has listened to Air America’s Al Franken could ever vote for him is beyond me.
“Liberals” will make fools of themselves over Rush just like Dirty Harry Reid did and believe me , we will be listening.
Rick , the Operating Engineer

Or is this ad part of an effort to get the center (which is still willing to give Obama a chance) on board with the Fairness Doctrine?

Liberals have nothing.
And Rush, well, common sense,logic, the mind and the following of people to espouse what a privilege it is to be an American.

He also reminds his listeners not to lie down and take it. Stand up and fight.

That is what the left hates. They don’t have a leader who can make people understand what we have. They take it all for granted.

Rush doesn’t and neither do his listeners. Rush may be an entertainer, but he speaks the truth. And the truth hurts the left like cockroaches coming into the light.

…trying to intimidate R senators by running Limbaugh ads.

First the (D)s had to compare The One’s resume to Sarah Palin’s, now they’re having to compare the One’s stimulus package to a radio talker’s?

Make them spend it all, Rush.

But I thought that attacking (or simply criticizing) the President during a time of war was considered unpatriotic in the Redstate circle. How can a core value such as that change with the shifting of partisan winds?

In case you haven’t noticed our President happens to be more popular than Rush Limbaugh ever was (and Reagan for that matter, who never came near Obama’s approval rating), so it is good strategy to show moderates the type of unintelligible partisan hackery that Obama is up against.

The American people will understand that bipartisanship is a two way street and certain factions on the right have developed an aversion to compromise. After getting their own way under GW for so long they think compromise (or concession) is only something that they force Democrats to do. But now that their ideas have been rejected it’s time that they get back to work and stop using their office as a test kitchen for their free-market utopian bs.

But I thought that attacking (or simply criticizing) the President during a time of war was considered unpatriotic in the Redstate circle. How can a core value such as that change with the shifting of partisan winds?

In case you haven’t noticed our President happens to be more popular than Rush Limbaugh ever was (and Reagan for that matter, who never came near Obama’s approval rating), so it is good strategy to show moderates the type of unintelligible partisan hackery that Obama is up against.

The American people will understand that bipartisanship is a two way street and certain factions on the right have developed an aversion to compromise. After getting their own way under GW for so long they think compromise (or concession) is only something that they force Democrats to do. But now that their ideas have been rejected it’s time that they get back to work and stop using their office as a test kitchen for their free-market utopian bs.