Rush’s Party
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Hey, conservatives, how does it feel to have a clown like Rush Limbaugh as the head of your movement? Nevermind, you guys love him.
MORE: CNBC’s Mark Haines is one of the few media figures who pushed back at the absurd Limbaugh a little bit. He certainly shows more backbone than RNC members of congress.
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Why does Jay Tea hate Mexicans?
Mexico has given us many wonderful things, including chimichangas and Salma Hayek’s jubblies.
What’s not to like?
The GOP owns this fat fuck. Now more than ever. Meanwhile, the rest of America moves on into the future.
Rush is their leader, and they’ll never abandon him. That’s why they’re doomed as a political party.
Rush gives hope to the base, but scares away the rest of the Moderates.
Either the Republican leadership reject him (fat chance), or the party dies off leaving the Democrats in power without opposition for at least a generation, or the party splits into two.
I’m hoping for the last one. That was the United States would have a Left of Center party, a Right of Center party, and a crazy wack-job party, which will slowly die off.
“Rush gives hope to the base, but scares away the rest of the Moderates.”
The very definition of “Palin-esque.” Cutting off your nose to spite your face, then wondering why nobody votes for you.
all the repubs are afraid of a d00d who goes on Dominican sex tours
I nailed it in a DKos diary I posted a few minutes after midnight, but had written earlier. (I had to wait until midnight to post it because I had already posted a diary for Wednesday.)
Yesss. Triangulate the right! Make them own or deny Rush. Turning their own weapon back on them!
“Cutting off your nose to spite your face, then wondering why nobody votes for you.”
Cause there is blood all over your face and you look like a noseless freak. I wouldn’t vote for you if you looked like that.
>Hey, conservatives, how does it feel to have a clown like Rush Limbaugh as the head of your movement? Nevermind, you guys love him.
Uh, feels great, I guess? Not listening to him, I wouldn’t know. Does this mean I can decide that Randi Rhodes is the “head” of your “movement” and pat myself on the back for saying something so profound?
Does this mean I can decide that Randi Rhodes is the “head” of your “movement” and pat myself on the back for saying something so profound?
Um, no. Democrats don’t feel the need to kowtow to Randi Rhodes.
Rush isn’t a clown. Clowns are funny.
OFF-TOPIC…
Oliver, how do I get to have a little picture by my name. It ain’t fair I can’t have one an I want one NOW! So there.
ML – Go here and it will walk you through it. As long as you put in the same email, the picture will follow you to just about anywhere you post.
Rush is exactly the problem with the right. Instead of listening to voters and figuring out that we are indeed moving to a center left nation they continue to beat the same tired drum they have beating for 20 years now.
We really need to stop paying this bloviator any mind. He is like the kid in class that thinks negative attention is better than none at all so he keeps acting out. I say let him hang himself with his own stupid words.
Haplo9: “Uh, feels great, I guess? Not listening to him, I wouldn’t know. Does this mean I can decide that Randi Rhodes is the ‘head’ of your ‘movement’”
When was the last time Randi Rhodes has leaders of the party on her show?
“and pat myself on the back for saying something so profound?”
You would have to say something profound first. Given your track record, that seems unlikely.
I nailed it in a DKos diary I posted a few minutes after midnight, but had written earlier.–Repack Rider
“I nailed it…” Great way to start a post, RR. Don’t mean to burst your delusional bubble, but there was not one point made in your diary that either you or someone here hasn’t made several times already in just the last two days.
“I heard him when he made the “hope Obama fails” statement, or maybe he said it a bunch. I don’t know, because I don’t pay that close attention.”
You don’t know because you don’t pay that close attention. That summarizes your diary. You take one sentence ‘I hope he fails’ and formulate a thesis around those four words and then brag that you ‘nailed it’.
Words fail.
RIIIIING!!!!!!
This is your wake-up call!
Maybe if the Republican Party had listened to Rush for the last 6 years, it wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in.
Ok, y’all can now hit the snoooooze button.
Shorter Dennis: “Leave Rush allloooonnnneeee!!!!”
Maybe if the Republican Party had listened to Rush for the last 6 years, it wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in.
Interesting theory.
And testable. Via Pollingreport.com (Rush’s stated opinions in bold):
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“Do you think the federal government should do more than it’s doing now to try to deal with global warming, should do less than it’s doing now, or is it doing about the right amount?”
More – 61%
Less – 10%
About right – 27%
“How big a problem is racism in our society today? Is it a big problem, somewhat of a problem, a small problem or not a problem at all?”
A big problem – 26%
Somewhat of a problem – 48%
A small problem – 22%
Not a problem – 4%
“As you may know, Congress is considering a new economic stimulus package of at least 800 billion dollars. Do you favor or oppose Congress passing this legislation?”
Favor: 52%
Oppose: 37%
“Which of these do you think is more important: providing health care coverage for all Americans, even if it means raising taxes, OR, holding down taxes, even if it means some Americans do not have health care coverage?”
Coverage for all: 66%
Holding down taxes: 31%
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Hmm… Curious.
Maybe if the Republican Party had listened to Rush for the last 6 years, it wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in.
Such as…? Seems to me the land and the king are one in this case. And in this case, the king is a racist chickenhawk asshole.
Shorter Dennis: “Leave Rush allloooonnnneeee!!!!”- – Mister Ed
Shorter ed (in his mind): “I love you everything about you, Dennis. You rock my world.”
joaquin says: “RIIIIING!!!!!!
This is your wake-up call!
Maybe if the Republican Party had listened to Rush for the last 6 years, it wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in.
Ok, y’all can now hit the snoooooze button.”
On the one hand, I hope you are joking, because the thought of someone as stupid as you are who votes is scary.
On the other hand, I hope you are serious, because if there are enough like you out there, the Republican party is dead.
The GOP owns this fat fuck.
I believe you have that backwards.
“I nailed it…” Great way to start a post, RR. Don’t mean to burst your delusional bubble, but there was not one point made in your diary that either you or someone here hasn’t made several times already in just the last two days.
So after I composed my post for DKos, which had to wait until midnight to post because I had already posted a diary, others reached the same conclusion. Sounds like I nailed it. Thanks for pointing that out.
RR: “I heard him when he made the “hope Obama fails” statement, or maybe he said it a bunch. I don’t know, because I don’t pay that close attention.”
You don’t know because you don’t pay that close attention.
Correct, I don’t know whether he said it just a couple of times while I was listening, or whether he said it a bunch of times when I was not. Bottom line, he said it, and others heard it also. What are you disputing?
That summarizes your diary. You take one sentence ‘I hope he fails’ and formulate a thesis around those four words and then brag that you ‘nailed it’.
I used the fact that Rush repeated his statement and emphasized it to reach my conclusion. I don’t think you need to bother applying for a job with my company. You have already flunked reading comprehension.
Words fail.
True, but that is the only medium I have here to attempt to communicate with you. If you need pictures, you will have to visit my website.
I hear him tell Hannity that he hopes Liberalism fails, inasmuch as he hopes Obama fails.
Liberalism would have to do something really epic to match the spectacular failure of Conservatism. Like free abortions and human sacrifice at the Jefferson memorial or something.
Face it. Rush is now a “blame America first” guy.
>Um, no. Democrats don’t feel the need to kowtow to Randi Rhodes.
Oh I see. So if a Democratic congressman has ever apologized to some non office holding democrat, that person becomes the head of your movement. Right. Any chance you guys can stop the hyperbolic dumb?
>You would have to say something profound first. Given your track record, that seems unlikely.
Coming from A+ internet commenter CS, I take that as a compliment. Thanks.
True, but that is the only medium I have here to attempt to communicate with you. If you need pictures, you will have to visit my website. -Repack
Well, you remind me a bit of Creed from The Office, which is not a knock. Your service to our country is cool, and your mountain biking at your age (any age, actually) is cool too, but your adamancy for calling people who haven’t served ‘chickenhawks’ for expressing an opinion on the Iraq War decision different from yours, is not.
That one you didn’t nail.
thx for the gravitar advice parthenon
Duros62:
“The GOP owns this fat fuck.”
I believe you have that backwards.
The GOP fucks this fat owner?
The owner fucks this fat GOP?
The GOP and the fat owner fucks America?
I believe #3 is closest to the truth.
Keep in mind: Limpballs’ weekly listenership is, what, 15-20 million?
The number of people who voted for Obama: 70 million.
Looks like the fat fuck and his wholly-owned party are SOL.
“Maybe if the Republican Party had listened to Rush for the last 6 years, it wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in”
Some did listen, that’s why Palin happened and why the campaign faltered the way it did. It’s also why McCain became such an asshole during the election. They will get nowhere with the dumbbaugh. But that OK.
Maybe if the Republican Party had listened to Rush for the last 6 years, it wouldn’t be in the shape it’s in
They’ve done nothing but listen to Rush. Which is why the party increasingly looks like the meeting of a gentlemen’s club in Georgia and is almost as small.
Dennis: “Oh I see. So if a Democratic congressman has ever apologized to some non office holding democrat, that person becomes the head of your movement.”
The GOP have been sucking up to Rush for as long as I can remember.
Rush Limbaugh interviewed Dick Cheney. The sitting V.P. was interviewed by Rush Limbaugh. Until you can find a equivalent for the Democrats, you can take your fucking false equivalency and ram it up your ass.
“Right. Any chance you guys can stop the hyperbolic dumb?”
Look in the mirror. Repeat that last line as often as it takes till it sinks it.
No left-leaning radio pundit ever said, “I hope George Bush Junior fails”? There is no liberal equivalent to Rush Limbaugh (or Hannity or Coulter…etc.). Leave it to the “tenets of the Laffer Curve” chickenhawk to imply that any exist.
Please feel free to cite a prominent Dem radio hose saying that he or she hopes Bush II fails.
(Hint: There aren’t any. Talk radio is a pretty much Republican-dominated medium. It’s computers and the intra-tubes that they don’t do so good.)
But please, continue to defend Rush. The longer he’s around, the better for the future of the Democratic party. (Kinda like Sarah Palin.)
“Please feel free to cite a prominent Dem radio hose saying that he or she hopes Bush II fails.”
Or one that said it was okay for terrorists to attack a major American city, like Bill O’Reilly said.
This false equivalency is bullshit and needs to stop.
“Please feel free to cite a prominent Dem radio hose saying that he or she hopes Bush II fails.” C.S.Lewis Strowbridge
Seriously, CS, did you ever tune in to Air America radio any time over the last eight years and get the impression from any one of the many deranged loons there howling at the moon that they wanted to see George W. Bush succeed at any of his initiatives? Just to go back over the Surge from start to finish and what radio hosts were saying. Do you really think they wanted it to succeed. Because none of the came outright and said “I want Bush to fail.” even though it was obvious they did, that somehow is less offensive to you than Limbaugh saying it, even though no liberal ever honestly discusses his qualifying remarks before and after?
This false equivalency is bullshit and needs to stop.
To read a liberal printing that statement on a liberal blog is true quite laughable, and I’d like to thank for that. We should all have at least one good laugh every day.
even though it was obvious they did
We provided a clear link to racist shithead Rush Limbaugh clearly saying and meaning “I hope he fails.” You provide not a single link or source of any left-leaning person saying the equivalent about George Bush, Jr., just assert it as so (kind of like you did with the “several tenets of the Laffer Curve,” now that I think about it). If it’s so prevalent, I guess you won’t have any trouble coming up with a dozen examples. But a single one will do for a start. It’s pretty fucking serious for a radio personality with a large audience to say that he hopes the president will fail. We’ve got the goods (again). You don’t (again). Put up or shut up, chickenhawk. Thanks in advance. You and Rush Limbaugh deserve each other.
Mister ed, the big-talker stalker.
Not much good ever seems to happen to stalkers, ed. Jail or suicide is about all you ever hear about them.
12 Step Program to quit me. You can do it.
God I’m so lonely…
Dennis says: “Mister ed, the big-talker stalker.”
He’s not a stalker, because you respond to (nearly) every post. It’s a two-man flamewar and you are both responsible for continuing it.
Pretending you’re the victim won’t fly.
Face it, Dennis, Rush hates America and hopes we don’t succeed. As does Hannity, Coulter, Savage, Beck, Lou Dobbs, O’rly, Malkin, Johnson, etc.
Need I go on?
Conservatives had the ball for 8 years.
You fumbled, badly.
Progressives and liberals are gonna try some new plays, m’kay?
Don’t like it? Get off the field.