Is there any end to the continuous embarrassment to Republicans and conservatives that is Rush Limbaugh?
He is so arrogant in his pronouncements that he makes me want to vomit. He continuously puts Republicans and conservatives in a bad light with the things he says.
I remember when he had a brief stint as as a talking head on ESPN’s Sunday Morning Countdown. Out of the blue Limbaugh launched into an attack of Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donavan McNabb stating that McNabb’s level of play gets a pass from the media because he is a black quarterback. Anyone who saw the reaction to McNabb’s lack of knowledge to the overtime rules last season knows McNabb does not get a pass from the media because he is black or otherwise.
Limbaugh’s most recent statements that the health care reform bill being proposed by President Obama will be named the Ted Kennedy memorial health care bill is his latest bit of bad taste. Senator Ted Kennedy is a very ill man. Although he has been a political opponent to Republicans and conservatives he should be treated with respect. Limbaugh is nothing more than an insincere jerk and no I won’t apoligize to you Mr. Limbaugh.
Can you imagine Ronald Reagan making pronouncements like Limbaugh?
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Yet our Republican leaders continue to bow down and pay homage to Limbaugh. Most recently National Republican Party Chairman Michael Steel criticized Limbaugh and was then called into the woodshed to apologize to the leader of the tattered conservative movement. How woulderful would it have been if Steel had a sister Soulja moment with Limbaugh? Our new leader would have been born.
All last year I wrote about the coming wilderness years for the Republican Party. Well here we are. We are in the thick of the woods no light breaking through the canopy of the trees. No shining city on a hill to march towards. Here we sit fighting among ourselves searching desperately for a leader. I can only hope that in this winter of discontent that the Republican party does not become the Donner Party.
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Rush is a national treasure. Just like Spike Lee.
You either hate them or love them or a little of both.
I subscribe to Rush and listen to the EIB network most mornings here on the Left Coast.
Rush is one of the best radio entertainers I have ever followed since Bob Prince, the voice of the Pittsburgh Pirates and inventor of the Green Weenie, and Myron Cope, inventor of the Terrible Towel.
I find that Rush is abrasive but only to toilet paper thin people that can’t take shit. Which recently includes not only CNBC, but Newt Gingrich and Michael Steele.
Those boys should grow a pair.
I don’t consider myself a ditto head. I’ve never called in to worship at Rush’s feet. But I do admire his panache, sincerity, consistency, insight, and courage.
Rush is usually nuts on when it comes to analysis of U.S. politics. Rush should not pipe down. Republicans of all stripes need to speak up against the faker in the Whitehouse. To not see through the attack on Rush’s commentary is a sign of idiocy and/or an pathological need to be liked even if it hurts your cause.