To his great shock, Rush Limbaugh has come to find out that days of his impunity are over. Gone are times when he would utilize his flippant rhetoric to maximum effect against his perceived foes and get away with it. The effectiveness of his trash talk masquerading as political wisdom has often accrued from the absence of any effort on the part of liberals and progressives untill now to relentlessly and ruthlessly confront him at every turn and expose the caricature he has turned himself into. Never mind that he is so revered in Republican-Conservative circles to saintly and messianic proportions.

 

Republicans are following Limbaugh blindly and unquestioningly without a scintilla of shame. Clowns and imposters like him are partly responsible for the crisis the GOP is going through. Republicans are in shambles today because their anti-intellectual orientation has inhibited their ability to place at the helm of their party a leader who understands the intellectual subtleties as well as social and political nuances underlying the complexity of the American polity. They need a leader who is endowed with clarity as to the social dynamics animating our society. Someone who has a feel of the aspiration of the American people, especially those whose overarching aims remain the achievement of the American dream even in the face of irrefutable evidenve that, for some, that dream is slipping away.