Comments on: Poll: Rush Limbaugh And White House Are Both Wrong When It Comes To GOP

By: CStanley

CStanley — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:09:30 +0000

Stockboy- they're not afraid of Rush, they just agree with him (although they know that they shouldn't say it in the way that he does.) That's why it's a dilemma which the Democrat strategists have capitalized on (with media cooperation) by putting various GOP leaders on the spot to either denounce Limbaugh or state that they agree with him.

This may well backfire on them because I'll bet Limbaugh is getting a ton of new listeners tuning in to see what all the brouhaha is about. And that not only benefits him personally, but if he'll begin to take the focus off of himself he is actually quite good at communicating conservative philosophy to people who haven't been very politically engaged and he may gain some converts as people begin looking more critically at the overhyped Obama administration.

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:47:20 +0000

greenschemes: "It really does show how desperate the Democrats are right now..."

Hahahaha.... ROFLMAO.

We all know that in politics that one party will take advantage of any given situation. In this case it's the Republicans who are keeping this Limbaugh situation alive. They are the ones apologizing to Rush for the smallest slight and none of them has stood up and said that they repudiate Rush's hyper-partisanship and his wishing that Obama will fail, much less denied that Rush is a leader of the party.

If the Republicans were not afraid of Rush they would stand up to him (and stand up for the good of America). But as it is the Republicans feel that Rush has tremendous influence and that if they cross him then Rush won't endorse them and they will not be re-elected. Particularly when they know that if they don't endorse Rush then there will be Republican opponent running against them who will endorse Rush and get his support. The Republicans have the backbone of a dead ebola virus.

By: D. E.Rodriguez

D. E.Rodriguez — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:52:21 +0000

Rush Limbaugh February 13, 2009:

"I'll say it again. Not only do I want Obama to fail, I want this package to fail. I want this to blow up in their face.

I hope the stimulus bill fails. I hope it does exactly what we know it will do, blow everything to smithereens and not do one thing that has been promised. Apparently, experience is the greatest teacher, and when these poor people who think Barack Obama means a new house, a new car, a new job, when they find out that's not what Barack Obama means, maybe then they'll see. So I hope that happens.

I hope Obama fails. Now the bill has passed the House. I hope when they implement it, that it fails. If I hope it fails beforehand, I better hope it fails afterwards to be consistent, right?"

By: Jim_Satterfield

Jim_Satterfield — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:36:56 +0000

I would like to know what would make Rasmussen expect an honest answer to this question.

By: greenschemes

greenschemes — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:56:14 +0000

This is actually hilarious. It really does show how desperate the Democrats are right now and how even themselves are blown away with 3 trillion dollars in deficit spending after spending 8 years railing against deficit spending and how it will destroy America.

By: casualobserver

casualobserver — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:43:37 +0000

This is the biggest waste of time. Some math and some logic (neither of which have yet to appear in any TMV article or lefty comment).

Limbaugh's weekly audience 13M (this obviously overcounts daily listener duplicates)

Number of voters 11/08 125.2M

So, 90% of the voters aren't even in play to begin with

Even of that 10%, about how many does any rational person think voted for Obama?........what, maybe 6?

So, TMV and other media folks have nothing better to do than worry that Limbaugh might inappropriately influence 6 votes.

By: Leonidas

Leonidas — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:59:26 +0000

The Democrats need a new Conservative Bogeyman now that bush is fading from the scene, Limbaugh is an easy choice for them to use. Easier than running against a strawman than to run on ideas. They want to make things a referrendum on a talk radio personality rather than the merits and demerits of their own policies.

By: lurxst

lurxst — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:52:56 +0000

If the pollster had called me I would have asked if there was a category of “Are you serious?”
Its a pure feint by the White House, meant to keep 20 percenters off balance, while Obama leads from the center. Few should believe that a talk radio host is really the “leader” of a major political party, while most of us see it for what it is.

Best part is that Limbaugh will never shut up, he revels in the attention.

By: greenschemes

greenschemes — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:47:35 +0000

This has got to be creating a boon for his ratings. Hell even I turned him on today for the first time in months to hear him offering to debate Barak Obama about his policies. Not some hackey but Obama himself.

Limbaugh is eating this up as the left is trying desperately to take the heat off their man and his Boondoggle Budget Bill.