Well-said. He's more Father Coughlin than Newt Gingrich.
In the 30's, FDR was able to contain the fascist right through both his sheer deftness and the inability of the right to settle on one figure to rally behind. (Huey Long was their best potential leader but he was a lefty populist type so he didn't count).
But the right now does have one figure and its Limbaugh.
So what's our good fortune? That he is such an incredibly unattractive bloviator. I doubt he can transcend his base.

As an Israeli once said to me, "thank God Arafat doesn't look like Che."

I hope he does come out as the leader of the republican party. I don't think Limbaugh can stand too much close scrutiny. These egomanics always think no one can smell the poo but they reek of it. Anyone remember Larry Craig or Ted Haggard? More importantly does Limbaugh? If the republicans want to fall in behind Limbaugh they are going to surprised at the number of people they are going to lose. By the way, what is it about the Republican party - the party of family values - picking these leaders that have none?

It is diverting to see that Republicans cannot do anything about The Leader.

Elected Republicans hate His guts, of course, whereas He Himself could not run for dog catcher and win.

The loud scornful irreverent delivery style has taken Him further than He or anyone could have imagined.

But now He is a big fat target for the conventional media to tear apart whenever they get the notion to do so.

The public is in the mood for a Roman Holiday.

Disembowelment of The Leader would suit perfectly.

I think Limp-baugh is just flexing his muscles in a party whose members are all running scared.

I think my father-in-law is a pretty good barometer in this case. He's relatively conservative, pretty "old-school". Voted for Bush twice. Would never vote for Hillary, but actually voted for Obama this time (I'm pretty sure). McCain lost him with the Palin pick.

Anyway, with respect to Limp-baugh, he says, "That guy's dangerous." He thinks it's un-American of Rush to be rooting for Obama to fail, and he genuinely worries about people who would listen to such a person.

So I believe the Republicans bow to the Large One at their peril. Unless their goal is to become a marginalized and semi-regional party with support in the mid-30s, then they need to break away from him. On the other hand, without all those dittoheads, they basically have no chance at all. So it's a conundrum.

I think the Republicans' prospects mirror the financial markets in this respect -- we may be finding a "bottom" now, but it's just as likely that we'll have another leg down.

-- ARG

Rush the Entertainer, or GENOCIDAL PERPETRATOR?

Rush, Limbaugh is following a model that led to Rwandan GENOCIDE.

Using the airwaves, hateful rhetoric was placed alongside the sophisticated use of humor and popular Zairean music.

Widely listened to by the general population, it projected propaganda. It is widely regarded as having played a crucial role in creating the atmosphere that allowed the genocide to occur.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Libre_des_Mille_Collines

Do you people ever actually listen to yourselves? From the thread....

All now say: Ja, mein Fuhrer! rush: "opposition" ist Verboten!

Rush, Limbaugh is following a model that led to Rwandan GENOCIDE.

Limbaugh is an obese, drug and viagara addicted hater, who can't seem to make a relationship work (3 times divorced)

The public is in the mood for a Roman Holiday. Disembowelment of The Leader would suit perfectly.

These egomanics always think no one can smell the poo but they reek of it.

So what's our good fortune? That he is such an incredibly unattractive bloviator.

So let's recap, we have depictions of Limbaugh as a Nazi, genocidal, debauch, animal for slaughter, hypocrite, and last but not least a blowhard. And you narcissistic scolds declare yourselves judge, jury and executioners? Please, you merely expose yourselves as inarticulate louts with nothing to offer but reflexive and aggressive abuse. Tsk. Tsk.

The idea of Rush Limbaugh being some kind of frightening political leader is laughable. His demagogic lies and hate speech are not aimed at gaining actual political power, they are aimed at getting rich. The last thing in the world that Rush Limbaugh wants is to actually get elected to political office, because then he would have to actually work for a living.

Rush Limbaugh is paid by big corporations to sit on his big fat ass and collect an even bigger and fatter paycheck for reading the corporate-sponsored, focus-group-tested scripts that are handed to him. Whatever those corporations want him to say in the interest of protecting their wealth and power becomes Limbaugh's fake, phony, so-called "conservative" talking point of the day.

Rush Limbaugh couldn't care less whether or not Republicans win elections. In fact he probably stands to make more money when Democrats are in power, since it makes the inane "powerful liberal elites" shtick that he preaches to his brain-dead ditto-heads slightly more plausible than when the "powerful elites" running the government are all right-wing Republicans. And frenzied hatred of Clinton or Obama is much more satisfying to his followers than hero-worship of George W. Bush.

The problem for Republicans is that they need Rush Limbaugh, because they need the votes of his ditto-heads, but Rush Limbaugh doesn't need them. Sure, that gives Limbaugh some power over the Republicans. But the only thing Limbaugh is interested in doing with his power is lining his pockets.

Republicans may need Limbaugh SA, but I wonder if they are overestimating that 'need'.

Moderates and Independents created the swing in the last two election cycles. Republicans need someone that finds some common ground with the middle. Working with two divisive groups as their 'base' (far right Ditto Heads, and far right Evangelicals) has only driven the middle to the port side of the boat. Just too far out there.

Rush needs to take credit for this great nautical 'listing'. His rants that conservatives in Congress aren't conservative enough only appear to widen the gap.

For many of us in everyday life, it has become easier to cop the new catch phrase...."we'll see how that works out for ya", than to debate anymore.

Yawn.

When someone figures out how to put Rick Santelli together with Ron Paul and spins it real good, then you'll have a real enemy.

Limbaugh is an idiot. I cannot believe that anyone with a single ounce of common sense would care what he says or thinks.

RT
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You have to be an idiot to agree with Rush or support 90% of Republican pols. It's just that you have to be more of an idiot to agree with Rush. As a previous poster Brian Skuse pointed out His advertisers like that group of suckers just fine.