Posted on 01/29/2009 9:48:49 PM PST by indcons
Gallup's latest polling reveals the continuing collapse of the Republican party's base vote. The news is so very bad that there will be only one possible response from GOP party leadership and our radio talkers: Ignore it.
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Instead, our congressmen talk to and about Rush Limbaugh like Old Bolsheviks praising Comrade Stalin at their show trials. Rush is right! We see eye to eye with Rush! There is no truth outside Rush!
Rush and Hannity and O’Reilly and Ann Coulter and the others have their place and their role. They spoke for an important section of public opinion, and it is a section our party needs. But it is only a section, and not the whole. The more the party allows them to become our public face, the more embattled and endangered the party becomes.
The relationship between these radio talkers and the larger Republican and conservative world has become parasitic and antagonistic. They flourish and profit to the extent they can polarize and radicalize. The GOP will recover only to the extent that it moderates and reaches out. They benefit from controversies that position them as the leaders and designated speakers for conservative America. But the more visible they become, the more our party is shoved to the margins and rendered unelectable. What is good for Rush is bad for the GOP, and what is good for the GOP is bad for Rush.
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To me Rush is Charles De Gaulle without all the french stuff.
What’s good for Rush Limbaugh is best for Americans.
Sad to say, but, fruck fum.
The Barf Alert should be posted alongside the title. Now you made me read 10 lines of this crap..
So sayeth Mr. “axis-of-evil”.
Frum is just another, "Hey, a little bit of cancer won't kill you," scumbag.
Ignore him.
Oh, how I wish one wouldn’t get banned for saying what you want to say, cause I feel the exact same way.
Frum is an Obama Republican I guess
From reminds me of Hitler in his last days: he imagines entire divisions of moderates who do not exist.
Is he on crack? Has any elected official ever praised or mentioned Rush Limbaugh. (Until Obama)
his new site is aimed at one thing, destroying the conservative wing of the GOP.
Seen the comments from Frum’s site about Sarah Palin. The New Majority’s posters hate Palin as much as the Huffington Post.
Great analogy
How do figure that?
“his new site is aimed at one thing, destroying the conservative wing of the GOP.”
That’s been Frum’s style ever since the little carpetbagger oozed his way over the Canadian border.
“The Barf Alert should be posted alongside the title. Now you made me read 10 lines of this crap..”
Consider it “Interpretive Headline Reading 101” (no disclaimer needed). Besides, you’d miss the comments.
Nice pic on homepage btw
I read them... and made some pointed replies to them as well.
The attack dogs have gotten their orders.
And according to Craig Ferguson Rush is just a fat DJ, junkie.
Rush is right again!
No.
What’s good for Rush is good for the republican party, conservatives, and the rest of the country.
Fixed this liberal douchebag headline.
Frum is a queer little man.
I’m pretty sure that he, Kathleen and the rest of their merry band could never write another column and not one person would ever notice let alone care.
No, the GOP will recover only to the extent that it embraces conservative values/policy. "Moderates" (like Frum) apparently didn't learn a damn thing from McCain getting trounced. The lesson: RINO Road is the path to oblivion.
I’m confused..
How can nearly 2 million blacks get into Washington DC in sub zero temps in 1 day, when 200,000 couldn’t get out of New Orleans in 85 degree weather, with four days notice?
Curious...the media would not bring this up...but I thought it was an interesting question.
Of course to the Frums and Parkers of the world the only way the Republican Party can survive is to run far left, promise payouts to everyone, raise taxes and pay lip service to “inclusion”.
All will be right with the world then.
Yet another Washington liberal telling Americans that conservatism is bad.
The GOP would do extremely well to stop their “bipartisanship” crap and get back to core principles. The best way to do that is to listen to EXACTLY what Rush says. If they don’t, I see a grassroots revolt within the party.
Uh, we don’t care about the Republican party if they don’t advance our values.
Wowsers!! Frum is picking up on Obama’s tactic and is leading a good old fashioned smear campaign against Rush!!
Rush must have the Obamessiah quivering under the covers at night!! Along with Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Neal Boortz, Tom Sullivan, Walter Williams, etc., etc., etc.
So, our Dear Leader can talk the talk, he just can’t walk the walk.
Frum, go eat your own feces. And die.
How’s that?
Mr. Frum is confused as to which party is most likely to praise Stalin.
He is our leader in exile since we have a bunch of Vichy Republicans in congress.
Rush Limbaugh, our conservative poliitical leader, ruling outside of idiot contolled DC.
How can nearly 2 million blacks get into Washington DC in sub zero temps in 1 day, when 200,000 couldn’t get out of New Orleans in 85 degree weather, with four days notice?
Yours is a good kind of confusion.
Good comment! I must memorize that for the next argument with the relatives.
He is our leader in exile since we have a bunch of Vichy Republicans in congress.
Rush Limbaugh, our conservative poliitical leader, ruling outside of idiot contolled DC.
He is our poltical equivallent to De Gaulle in England.
Rush Limbaugh, our conservative political leader, ruling outside of idiot controlled DC.
He is our political equivalent to De Gaulle in England.
David who?
“Hey, a little bit of cancer won’t kill you,”
IT only takes one dormant cell to wake up and kill you. We need strong effective chemo to get rid of these malignant malevolent McRinos. Rush is the most effective pre-chemo treatment that I’ve seen. He wakes them up so we can knock them off.
Frum acts as if John McCain were not the nominee! We ran a moderate who reached out to the left, the media and anyone else. And how did that turn out?
I would see Frum’s point if we ran an arch conservative. But the party ran just the opposite.
In case Mr. Frum has been asleep at the wheel for awhile, we tried the moderate approach in an election in 2008 with an unprincipled and unweildy John McCain and got our lunches handed to us.
One would think we’d pursue something of a more principled stuff than the turncoat, wobbly-kneed mush offered by the center.
In their desperation to get the GOP to “reach out” they’re completely blind to the fact that when the electorate views the Donks and Elephants as indistinguishable the Donks win every single time, and that only when Republicans distinguish themselves by their adherence to conservative principles does the GOP flourish.
Not quite. De Gualle was puss.
Does this guy remember the term “Reagan Democrats?” There were millions of them.
This is truly dishonest hyperbole.
First of all, when it comes to accusations like, "Old Bolsheviks praising Comrade Stalin", Frum needs to look towards the Dems and their messianic blind trust in Obama, not to mention that the Dems are trying to hitch America to a one-way ticket to a liberal social-economic gulag. What a stupid turn of a phrase.
And where are all these constant references to Rush by GOP pols? "There is no truth outside of Rush"? The only reason Republicans mention Rush is when they are asked to admonish Rush for some line that he said on his talk show.
Apparently Frum believes that we should simply swallow the stimilus bill that doesn't stimulate anything but in fact pays off and perpetuates a myriad of Dem-friendly constituencies. Thus Frum is asking the Republicans (and Rush) to support the bill that provides the knife that would very possibly create the death of the party by a thousand cuts...so as to prove we are moderate.
Jealous much, Frum?
I especially like the quote: “Rush is right! We see eye to eye with Rush! There is no truth outside Rush!”
Ironic—all I seem to hear is Obama’s Right.....there is no Truth outside Obama”
David Frum makes a good point. Why should we follow Rush Limbaugh when we can follow illegal alien, drug dealer, terrorist sympathizer Barack Obama.
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