Mr. Can’t Talk Without a Teleprompter is so obviously petrified of Rush. What a small, petty, mean, scared little man Obama is.

The thing that jumped out at me when this all started is the utter preposterousness of aiming all your big guns at one person while simultaneously decrying that person as irrelevant and beneath contempt. Everything is a lowest common denominator manipulative game to them.

….Rush would have mysteriously dissappeared one night, having gone out for his evening walk and just wandered off into history never to be seen or heard from again.
Oh wait a minute, that’s what’s some of the planned activities of Obama’s Civilian National Police Force are supposed to be, when formed, a “Krystallnacht” for Conservatives.

They push the White House attack stories all week…and then, when Limbaugh fights back, they just drop it? They declare this to be a “tired” story, “old” news and move on to something else?

If that’s what the MSM does over the next few days, as the Obama team has had time to digest/respond to Rush’s challenge, then IMO we should think of the MSM as the boxing referee who’s in the tank for one of the fighters. Then, when his favorite fighter is getting pummeled, the ref steps in to help his favorite.

While in campaign mode, the Democrats always accuse the Republicans of “their usual dirty tricks”, even when there is no controversy going on at the time. Why the heck don’t the Republicans nip that crap in the bud when it happens? This whole Rush thing is an example of doing just that. Somebody did their homework; found out about Rahm Emanuel, George Stephenapolous, Paul Begala and James Carville and called them out on it.

No they aren’t saying anything in their defense because the Republicans usually go hide in a corner when things like this happen and the Democrats get away with it. With all the attention this got, I think this situation caught them off guard. Even though I doubt the MSM is reporting this, the blogs and Fox News are. If they push their luck on this one, the MSM will have to report it and their scheme will be found out.

So far, Obama is like Teflon. With things like this and all the other lies Obama has been caught in, there is only so much time when the Teflon wears off (no offense to Teflon).

There is no way Obama will debate Rush. Let’s just remember back during the campaign when John McCain tried to get Obama to do several townhalls, only to be snubbed. Obama only did debates because he had to; it is expected and scheduled as part of campaigning. Honestly, I was surprised to see him do an interview with Bill O’Reilly. Rush is much smarter than O’Reilly, so Obama won’t come near him.

He has a hard time keeping his true self concealed (as does his lovely wife). Think of Joe the Plumber, his interview with O’Reilly (higher taxes are neighborliness), and with Steffie “my Muslim (oops) faith” (not saying he’s a closet Muslim, but that’s a heck of a slip), Even “lipstick on a pig” was probably off the cuff (which by the way was the high-water mark for McCain/Palin).

Rush is basically indestructible at this point, unless they do cart him off in the night. He’s survived deafness, addiction, divorces, and countless kerfuffles which, for example the McNabb one, increase his support on the right and his haters on the left (who cares about the moderates).

Him calling them out on his show I’m pretty certain they’ve planned for. They can ignore him easily and still hold on to enough of their credibility.

Him appearing on national television … now that’s an entirely different matter altogether.

Or is on the air to 20 million people every weekday for three hours.

Your points of moral critique of Obama and his minions are correct, but too oblique to matter. The final impression on the American people will depend on who expends the greatest tonnage of total rhetorical energy against whom. I expect Rush to lose in the general poll ratings, but for his audience to hold steady if not slightly grow.

I watched for eight years under Clinton as the conservative media exulted at each new twist and turn of Clinton’s squalor, delighting that now he’d finally be exposed, the long-awaited “backlash” would occur, the hypocrisy and mendacity laid bare for the people. Never happened. It just went on and on. This too will just go on and on. The only difference here is the basic destructiveness of Obama and his policies, and the operatic heights the media will go to cover for him and them. Whether this destructiveness demoralizes the American spirit into resignation at the futility of either party, or generates a renaissance of Republicanism — I don’t know. After so many years of political betrayal by both parties, I’m guessing resignation,

is to the kinds of people who’d be watching those pablum shows on the big networks. Fundamentally, anybody in America that will stand up to a confrontation and who can speak in complete standard English declarative sentences just scares the bejeezus out of a huge percentage of Americans. The majority of the single or bitterly divorced women watching Rush on Today would immediately recognize him as the sort of mean man that might actually try to discipline their whelps. The castrati will immediatedly recognize him as a man who might yell at them or even hit them. Both will hate that mean man.

There is a reason we have the sort of nothing white bread, milquetoast people we do running for and winning political office. The reason the Ds are more successful is they are willing to lie and give the smiling face and milquetoast words while being vicious inside knife fighters. The Rs are just smiling milquetoasts.

At the same time, people are fascinated by moral courage. The ability to stand up and keep your head and humor as you take on the liars is a signal American virtue that must exist in our collective DNA at some level. I keep wondering about this, and at the breathtaking absence of it in our time. For instance, what would have happened if Sarah Palin had politely interrupted Charles Gibson in her first TV interview and turned the whole put-down lying agenda on its head with a firm refusal to “play the milquetoast” game? She would have frightened people for sure, but wouldn’t she have been simply enacting the primary duty of a moral leader, and wouldn’t this have moved people?

It is kind of sad that the role falls to Rush Limbaugh. I like him all right, but he’s not my idea of a modern Pericles.