Mar 04 2009
No thanks, Rush
Pre-Ramble: As the squabbling over at the significantly diminished and rudderless GOP continues, party leaders are left holding a flaming bag of do-do in the wake of conservative talk show host, Rush Limbaugh’s latest proclamation made in a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference where he stated that he wants “Barack Obama to fail.”
I wonder if Rush has stopped talking long enough to consider the fall-out of a Barack Obama failure? The way I see it, if he fails, we fail. Big time.
The Take-Away: It’s pretty clear that, at this point, the Republican Party has no leadership, no message, and no hope. The last thing they need is some self-serving blowhard spewing outrageous, inflammatory nonsense.
Post Note: Al Franken may not be the right about a lot of things, but he may have been right about one thing.
It is interesting that you should bring this up as I too was beseeching Rush to shut up as well. However, the DB pointed out that the quote was apparently, “If Obama’s intent is socialism then I hope he fails.” Something like that. That’s a different statement than “I hope he fails.” Anyway, I was going to investigate for myself to see what was actually said then said, “oh forget it! what a waste.” Limbaugh is just a talk show host. Since he is such a windbag, it’s easy to for the Democrats to call him the mouthpiece of the Republican party. That”s like calling Franken a Democratic leader… or whatever… I am getting a ZAX headache just thinking about this nonsense!