Posted on 03/07/2009 1:22:55 PM PST by Ogie Oglethorpe
In case you missed the cartoon that appeared in Newsweek magazine and other places a month ago, it showed a person near the edge of a cliff talking to an elephant that represented the Republican Party.
The person asks, “If Rush Limbaugh told you to jump off this cliff would you do it?”
Next frame there’s the person standing alone, looking down and yelling over the cliff’s edge: “That was a rhetorical question!”
However, that cartoon really says a lot about the state of the Republican Party today. When you have a talk-show host who speaks for the conservatives in this country, you’re in a lot of trouble.
Here’s another rhetorical question: Has there ever been a bigger buffoon than Rush Limbaugh?
OK, if you’re a Limbaugh fan, you’re probably thinking “Lynn Saternow.” But besides the fact that I’m a lot better looking and much more humble, I would never have the audacity to challenge the President of the United States to a debate.
However, that’s what the loudmouth did recently. Maybe Limbaugh was back on drugs again when he said it, but why would a president want to even acknowledge someone who bills himself as a “harmless, lovable little fuzz ball.”
Lovable?
The best thing about Limbaugh is that he makes the conservatives of this country look very bad. After all, a short time ago he remarked about Obama: “I hope he fails.”
If Obama fails, this country fails. As much as I disliked George W. Bush, I never hoped he failed. Unfortunately, he did anyhow which is why we’re in a huge economic mess at this time.
Recently, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanual called Limbaugh the leader of the GOP. That was a great comment.
That really stirred Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who considers himself the leader. In fact, he said some unflattering things about Limbaugh, who then reacted by slamming Steele.
So now Limbaugh not only has Democrats bashing him, he even has some of the Republicans split. Man, politics are great.
We are facing the worst problems we’ve had since the Great Depression. If ever there was a time for bipartisanship to help bring this country back, it’s now. I’m talking about Nancy Pelosi and her Democratic minions as well. This is no time for Democrats to be bragging that they won the election.
It doesn’t matter who wins if the country loses.
It’s even time for people like Rush Limbaugh to decide whether they want to put the best interests of their country first or if they just want to improve ratings with conservatives.
The whole nation is on the edge of the cliff and needs a lifeline. If everyone pulls together, we can climb back up and return to being the greatest country on Earth.
Or we can keep listening to buffoons and keep throwing up roadblocks to keep that from happening.
The Herald’s Lynn Saternow writes this column each Saturday for the Opinion page.
God forbid! We would not want any young conservatives around here. We might actually win an election.
Democrats nearly double Limbaugh’s audience
I was five star flaming 'Rat when I started listening to Limbaugh and surfing the net. Needless to say since I hang out here, I've had an epiphany. Undoubtedly that's what the left is afraid of. More folks taking their brains out of neutral :)
Oh, you don’t get jokes. What a surprise!
EEEE Gads, Lynn is a man, here I thought the column was written by some over wrought woman having a PMS moment.
Bless her heart.
I read as far as the sentence containing, “...if you’re a Limbaugh fan, you’re probably thinking” after which she referenced her own name. Since I had not read the name of the author, I had never heard of this person. The “who the heck is that” reaction stopped me cold in my tracks and I lost interest in her Rush bash. lol.
Oops! I blessed her heart and called her a she. lol.
Bless his heart. ; )
Ms Saternow, approximately 240 million Americans did NOT vote for your boy. What makes you think he is uniting anyone?
This sounds like the type of guy who would tell others boarding trains for the camps to “Cooperate and we will all get there together.”
I'm reminded of a football game where a referee doesn't see the first punch thrown and the penalty flag is thrown when the second player reacts.
Is the instigator just as responsible in not helping to unite nation and shouldn't they get a penalty flag too?
I guess the Ref needs glasses.
Amen (not to mention the efforts to silence him by leftists on the Hill).
This moron doesn’t get it. Limbaugh is saying the same thing he said in 1994.
Young conservatives can write English.
I know! I wish he would come up with something new.
Don’t even have to read the article to reply:
F.CK YOU
His speech at CPAC was absolutely perfect and articulated AMERICAN principles. Get on board or GET THE HELL OUT OF THE U.S. (I will pay for your one-way ticket to France, Iraq, Saudi Arabia etc) Just GET OUT. Make THOSE countries in your image.....oh wait...they already are.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Make more jokes about our Dufus-in-Chief.”
Absolutely. In his CPAC speech, when he referred to the lack of jokes about democrats I think he said, “All of that’s about to change!” I sure hope so.
Sure you did you lying sack of pond scum! What did you do to bring the Nation together when Bush was President beside insult him every chance you got. Most of us are sick of fools like yourself and if you would sign the waiver I would personally slap you like the little bit@h that you are. You probably go home at night and curl up in the fetal position and wonder why your industry is going broke!
What’s so funny about this is that when Obama’s boys put the word out that Limbaugh is the head of the Republican party every Dem in the world flew off that cliff. Oh, the irony....
And ignorant and uninformed people like this writer are one of the reasons we are in such a mess.
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