Steele Does The Limbaugh Shuffle

10:33 am EST March 4th, 2009 | Republicans | 12 Comments

As Bill O’Reilly would say: yer dancing, yer dancing!

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12 Responses to “Steele Does The Limbaugh Shuffle”

  1. Repack Rider says:
    March 4, 2009 at 11:06 am

    When Whores Collide.

    Obama set this all in motion weeks ago with what seemed like a passing slam on Limbaugh, from a man who never calls out his opponents. It was calculated, and Limbaugh took the bait.

    Obama/Emmanuel let it percolate for a few weeks, then Emmanuel dropped a carefully phrased paragraph on a Sunday talk show, knowing that someone would have to ask Steele about it, and what the predictable response would be.

    It’s like playing checkers with a chicken. You don’t have to think ten moves ahead, because your opponent only knows one move.

  2. Enlightened Liberal says:
    March 4, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Of course Limbaugh took the bait. This only benefits him by making him more famous. However the Republican party is the one that hurts from this, and that was the goal. I am frankly surprised that Republicans won’t repudiate the Coulter/Limbaugh wing. In their failure to do so, I have to surmise that they agree with Coulter and Limbaugh and their ilk.

  3. Duros62 says:
    March 4, 2009 at 11:15 am

    I did like the popcorn remark. At least he acknowledges that we are greatly entertained by it all.

  4. Jack J. says:
    March 4, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    Limbaugh will always take the bait because his ego is too fragile not to. Think about it, he’s not very bright, very undisciplined, insecure and compulsive and ugly in body and spirit. In heart he knows this but the hillbilly heroin eases his pain.

    He gets played easily by brighter people (Obama and his Dems). He’s too stupid to figure it out and too arrogant to believe that there’s anyone smarter than him. Why? Because for years he’s gone unchallenged and not held accountable for his bullshit.

    And now that we’ve figured that out, he is now OUR tool.

    I think the pressure will blow that fatty mutton he calls a head explode.

  5. Parthenon says:
    March 4, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    In their failure to do so, I have to surmise that they agree with Coulter and Limbaugh and their ilk.

    The base certainly does, and I think that may be what they’re most afraid of. How many politically cognizant/interested conservatives are there that DON’T listen to Rush?

  6. Dennis says:
    March 4, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    Rasmussen Poll: Just 11% of Republicans Say Limbaugh Is Their Party’s Leader

    …Despite efforts by the Obama political team and its surrogates to link Rush Limbaugh to the Republican Party, just 11% of GOP voters say the conservative radio commentator is the party’s leader.

    Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republican voters disagree and 8% are undecided in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

    Democrats, however, are closely divided– 44% say Limbaugh is the Republican leader and 41% don’t believe it. Among voters not affiliated with either of the major national parties, 27% say Limbaugh is the Republicans’ leader, while 58% say he is not and 15% are undecided.

    90% of Democrats who read the blog ‘Oliver Willis Like Kryptonite to Stupid’ say Limbaugh is the Republican leader, with a margin of error of 0%, per Rasmussen Report survey results, while 10% did not know who Rush Limbaugh was and were counted as undecided. Several respondents in this subgroup thought Limbaugh was the Democratic leader; those results were not counted in the survey.

  7. Oliver Willis says:
    March 4, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    The fact that 11% say that is pretty pathetic, what’s even worse is that Dems and Indies know the truth.

  8. Duros62 says:
    March 4, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    Just 11% of Republicans Say Limbaugh Is Their Party’s Leader

    The other 89% have no fucking idea.

  9. Parthenon says:
    March 4, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    I wonder who they’d say it was. Still Bush? Nobody with half a chance at winning a national election, I know that much.

  10. PBen says:
    March 4, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    Oh, come on, be real….
    Here’s what the Rasmussen Poll asked as its leading question:

    “Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party. He says jump, and they say how high.”

  11. Jack J. says:
    March 4, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    Limbaugh doesn’t jump but he sure knows how to bounce just like a K-Mart beach ball!

  12. Repack Rider says:
    March 4, 2009 at 9:09 pm

    just 11% of GOP voters say the conservative radio commentator is the party’s leader.

    Apparently Michael Steele is part of that group, along with every other power broker in the GOP.

    Do you think the Republican leadership should be forced to apologize to Limbaugh for criticizing him?

    I’ll take a one word answer. Yes or no?