The rumor is true. I got a bit of face time with Rush Limbaugh yesterday in the green room. He was as warm and gracious as you’d expect. It was a high honor.
I had lunch with Vice President Cheney a few weeks before he left office and was not nearly as intimidated as I was meeting Rush — the stuttering I had as a child returned.
It was absolutely amazing.
See what I mean? How can that be topped?
CPAC attendees recognize just how excellent he is — they named him the most popular conservative out there. He is with reason.
The Drug-Addicted Thrice Divorced Sex Tourist is about as popular as anal cysts, so Erick’s right, he is the most popular conservative out there.
Rush said the other side will never like us because we are conservatives. To be liked, we must not be conservatives. He’s absolutely right. Our ideas are about freedom and liberty. They do not grow stale. And they only grow as weary as we do.
In other words, "The more people that hate us just proves how right we are!" Gotta love a political movement that interprets crushing electoral defeats and historic unpopularity as a vindication of its platform. (It appears at least one conservative sees how insane this is.)
Now I need to get working on my radio skills so maybe I can guest host one day.
Just try not to think about El Rushbo when you do, Erick. Dead air, and all that.



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about as popular as anal cysts. Hahahaha. Snark is good.
We can only hope Rush keeps his stranglehold on the Republicans for as long as possible; at this rate they’ll lose the Senate and won’t see 40% in a national election for years to come.
Of course, most of us might be more intimidated by Rush than by Cheney. Cheney is now just an old man, out-of-office, and no more power to make life miserable.
Rush is a Big Fat Liar who might sit on you and cause grievous bodily harm.
Their heads are detached from their necks. After observing these people for the last several months it is clear that they have none functioning orbs. They are disconnected from all reality. They are fools.
Why doesn’t Rush get more criticism for his yo-yo weight problem? Does oxycontin increase appetite or something? Revive the Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Liar meme, I say.
Limbaugh, more fatassery, prejudice and ignorance.
I’d agree with that. The reason, of course, is that conservatism is so magnificently unpopular, that’s there’s not a whole lot of serious competition for the title. Jindal? Palin? Romney? Brownback? wannabees Beck, O’Reilly, and Hannity? Alan Keyes?
But BT, that “quivering fanboy” headline is a bit much. I just had a nice Sunday dinner, and now it’s threatening to come back up.
And that’s the re-write. Should’ve seen the original.
Lunacy, utter lunacy.
Let Rush be their leader and their public face for years, please.
Well, he’s right about one thing-”the other side” will never like them. But it’s not becuase they’re conservatives, it’s because they’re hateful, intellectually bankrupt assholes.
Priceless. While their “ideas” might not grow weary, they have long since grown tiresome, which is why they have been universally rejected.
*shudder*
that’s the POINT of bedwetting ReichWinger-dom, isn’t it?
they’re over-awed by anybody who is bully enough to treat them like dirt?
CPAC is nothing more than a cheering section for rush, a wanna be Authoritarian Leader. What he really is is at most a self elevated Authoritarian Leader-Follower.
Meanwhile, the Authoritarian movement is slowly getting larger. All that is needed is for a charismatic demagog Authoritarian Leader type to show up because the Authoritarian Followers would go all out in promoting that leader to the “low information voter” the sheeple. Who, unfortunately, are enough of a group that if the 30% of AFs could get all the sheeple on their side-not very difficult as has been seen in other election cycles-then they might just have a majority. Seeing as how so damn few peope actually vote-except for rock stars like Obama(but still with all the dems and thugs voting in 08, only 65% of the registered voters, did.)
So it would not be very difficult to get out enough AFs and sheeple to beat whatever dem-Remember Kerry? How about Gore in 2000? Biden anyone? How would you get out enough people to vote to overcome a charismatic AL?
After all, that is what Hitler and his facist party did. First you get control of govt, then you take over. bush almost did it with his Unitary Executive policy, if he had been a much better speaker, like say an actor like reagan was, then he could very well usurped the democratic process and if the sheeple had been on board, someone could very well become, like the president of Venezuela, president for life.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. You watched for 8 years as bush almost managed to destroy the constitution. If darth cheney had been prez, could he have managed to insure rethugs in charge forever? However, even with the bungler bush, the dems in congress rolled over as did the entire MSM. Without power no one listens and with the massive apathy in this country when it comes to voting, the Authoritarian rethugs could hijack the power in the US and no one would notice until it was to late. Avg % of voters in school board elections thruout the US is 7%. An AL could easily garner enough votes to win. Same with state rep and senate elections. In off year elections, less than 25% of voters do. That is how you get people who fall into AL, and ALF catagories winning elections. In some presidential elections fewer than 40% vote. If you get someone like Carter, Gore,Kerry and Dukakis-I can go one, but if you get a weak candidate and the Authoritarians come up with a demagog, then who wins?
We are getting about 30% of all HS students dropping out every year. Sheeple each and every one.
Hubris, and Obama has been prez for only a month. Yet you believe that the rethug party is dead. All it would take is another Reagan type and the authoritarian rethugs, about 30% of the voters, plus all the sheeple, and a weak dem like Kerry,Dukakis or Carter and bang the authoritarian rethugs are baaack.
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And just who is that Reagan type that the “authoritarian rethugs” are going to find?
Romney?
Jindal?
Palin?
Pawlenty?
Sanford?
Giuliani?
Barbour?
McConnell?
Jebbie?
The Republican Party may not be dead, but it sure as hell isn’t hale and hearty.
George Will wants to blow dead baseball players. This idiot wants to go down on Rush Limbaugh. What the fucking fuck is wrong with these fucking people?
Where is all of the pundit chatter about the demise of the Republican Party because the right wing went too far from the mainstream and has alienated itself from the American people? We heard so much pundit chatter about how left wing Democrats took the party too far from the mainstream and alienated themselves from the rest of America. But, the pundits don’t feel compelled to say the same about right-wing Republican because they are their brethren.
Saw a funny comment in The New Majority link you mentioned:
jummy
7:16 PM
tucker carlson: “reality”
audience: “booooo!”
precocious child: “(empty talk radio tropes)” audience: “wisdom from the mouths of babes” limbaugh: “(boilerplate)”
audience: “alahu akbar!!!!”
Book Salon a couple of flights upstairs with Will Bunch’s Tear Down This Myth hosted by Cliff Schecter
Last year I lived in a house with 3 roommates. One of them had an anal cyst. It made his life absolute hell, but for the rest of us, the anal cyst provided endless amounts of comedy gold.
I watched Rush’s speech. (the 3 Stooges weren’t on) He actually quotes the Declaration of Independence and says it is the Constitution. What an ultr-maroon.
I like to think of it as “gas-baggerey”. But that may just be me. Yeah, it is me.
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Rush without his make-up.
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It’s not that conservatives have become unpopular, it’s just that their appeal has become more selective.
So, standoffish, arrogant, self-important and an immense dickweed? Because that’s what I’d expect.