Apparently this whole fervor surrounding Rush Limbaugh is more than just a childish game played by the White House. Its good politics according to James Carville, who hatched the whole idea from his evil Crypt Keeper brain.
Carville and Company conducted a survey this October that found only 11 percent of respondents under 40 had a positive opinion of Rush. From then on, James Carville, Paul Begalla and the liberal puppet masters have been throwing Rush’s name around and inciting his critics. The White House is even involved, causing the President himself to attack El Rushbo directly. Carville thinks this made-up controversy is good for the Dems. He said, “The only people he’s not good for are the actual Republicans in Congress.”
And that’s where Carville went wrong.
Carville’s numbers are phony, and so is hypothesis. Linking Rush to Republicans and dissent will not hurt the Republican Party. It might help us weed out the weak and the RINOs, but eventually it will make us stronger. The only people this won’t be good for is the Obama White House, and eventually the very liberal Democrats Carville is trying to help.
Over recent years, Rush was akin to porn. The numbers are there, you know millions of people tune in, but its hard finding anyone to admit it. It wasn’t cool to like President Bush. It wasn’t cool to be Conservative. It certainly wasn’t cool to listen to Rush. If you didn’t inherently know that, the liberal media, leftist academics and the ObamaMesiah would tell you so. But just like those people looking at porn or indulging in an extra bowl of ice cream late at night, just because someone does it doesn’t mean they are going to admit it to some stranger on the telephone.
And even with the smaller number that truly dislikes Rush, how many listen to him at least occasionally and admit that sometimes he’s right?
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard someone quote Rush only to start the conversation saying “I don’t listen to Rush often, but the other day….” or “I was flipping stations and I heard Rush say…” My own father-in-law started a conversation just like that this past weekend. I’ve likely done it myself. Rush is sometimes brash and he’s certainly arrogant. He often goes over the top and some of his skits make me kringe. But so do my father-in-law’s jokes (not because of their topic… we just have a different sense of humor). It doesn’t mean I like him any less, and it certainly doesn’t mean I don’t value his insight.
Rush has more fans than Carville’s survey concluded. And as Obama proves his incompetence the closet Conservatives and converts will start to come out in force. The big government left’s war on Rush will be the war on all of us, and most of us will fight before seeing our country lost.
Carville, Begalla and the Obama Machine are wrong with their attacks on Rush. These are the same people who told you dissent was American as they jeered our soldiers and hoped for failure in Iraq. But Rush Limbaugh publicly hopes that Obama’s socialist agenda will fail and he is demonized? I want Obama’s agenda to fail too. I want socialized medicine to die before coming to a vote. I want the bank bailouts to stop. I want his pro-abortion policies to be rescinded. I want his administration to collapse among its own incompetence. I want the Democrats in Congress to continue proving their idiocy and be voted out of office in 2010 and 2012. I want the American people to wake up and realize the strength of our nation is in them and not in Washington, DC. Yes Obama needs to fail, its the only way our nation can succeed.
In time, Americans will see through this scheme hatched by the liberal elite. Michael Steele and some old hat Republicans might have missed the boat on this, but the people are smarter than them anyway. There’s a long time between now and 2012. The plot might help increase Democrat coffers from the rabid left, but its also going to shine additional light on the voice of dissent. And in this case, the voice of dissent is also the voice of freedom and the voice of the right.
And we could be no better than to have the most popular person on radio standing with us on the sidelines, trying to get into the game. America needs more Conservative voices now more than ever. We could do much worse than to have Rush on our side.
I agree!! Excellent evaluation of this situation.
I will admit, proudly… I am conservative and not only listen to Rush but I subscribe to his web site and pay money to do so.
Thanks for the blog,
Michele