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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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.
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