Rush Job: Dems Have Worked On Making Limbaugh GOP Face For Months

Politico:

Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House.

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[WeBelieveInObama]

For those that say “Obama Should worry about running the Country and not Rush”
Remember When the Stimulus Bill first came up It was because of Rush all the republicans in the House voted against the Bill. he have all these Grown men and Women afraid of him!
What the white house is doing is the Right thing .Show the American people that they are trying to reach out to the republicans, to get things done. and they refuse to cooperate With the president because they are afraid of Rush. Everyday Steele is on TV saying if the Republicans side with the Democrats on Any Bill he will Find someone to run against them in the primaries. We Should POINT THAT OUT!!!! THE REPUBLICANS ARE HOLDING AMERICANS HOSTAGE!!! AND RUSH IS TO BE BLAMED!!!!!

[WeBelieveInObama]

For you those that say “Obama Should worry about running the Country and not Rush”
Remember When the Stimulus Bill first came up It was because of Rush all the republicans in the House voted against the Bill. he have all these Grown men and Women afraid of him!
What the white house is doing is the Right thing .Show the American people that they are trying to reach out to the republicans, to get things done. and they refuse to cooperate With the president because they are afraid of Rush. Everyday Steele is on TV saying if the Republicans side with the Democrats on Any Bill he will Find someone to run against them in the primaries. We Should POINT THAT OUT!!!! THE REPUBLICANS ARE HOLDING AMERICANS HOSTAGE!!! AND RUSH IS TO BE BLAMED!!!!!

[joeinvt]

Whether getting into pissing matches with Rush Limbaugh is good politics or not, say it ain't so that the Obama/Emanuel administration is taking advice from James Carville.

[americanalien]

This is a genius strategy. The emergence of Rush as Republican Minority Leader is the best thing to happen to the Dems since Sarah "Lipstick" Palin.

[nellie]

Rush Has Been Working On Making Limbaugh GOP Face For Years.

So now he's got his wish.

[CubFanHere]

I think James Carville, who is from Louisiana, should run to take David Vitter's Senate seat. Vitter is up for re-election in 2010 and the only 2 candidates running against him so far are some born-again right wing Christian nut and a porn star. Between those 2 choices Vitter is sure to win. Carville would make an interesting candidate. He'd be able to go toe to toe with Vitter any day of the week.

[stell]

Carville is a loser, and promoting himself. He made up this whole thing to keep his name in people's mouths now that he doesn't really have a job since his horse is out of the race for good. He isn't the breadwinner in his family. He's trying to get rich off by supposedly marginalizing Limbaugh, but what he does instead is make legitimize Limbaugh, and make him more visible. Say what you want about Limbaugh, but he's a successful businessman, and he doesn't lose. Carville on the other hand is a cable talking head, one-note Johnny who's best days are behind him, and has to keep up the charade of being the left to his wife's right, so that he has something to do. Nobody ever answers this fundamental question; if Limbaugh is such a fringe figure, why pay any attention to him?

[CubFanHere]

"Carville on the other hand is a cable talking head, one-note Johnny who's best days are behind him, and has to keep up the charade of being the left to his wife's right, so that he has something to do."

Mary Matlin? Is that you writing on Huffpost again? Um, have you ever seen the documentary "The War Room"? Carville is the mastermind who is responsible in large part for Clinton getting elected. He's written several best selling books as well.

His strategy is genius. He's not making the face of the Republican party "appear" to be the fringe of ditto heads and sheep who follow Rush. Instead, he's exposing the fact that what is left of the Republican party is nothing BUT the fringe ditto heads and sheep who follow Rush. Check the numbers. The number of self-declared Republicans in the past year has steadily declined and the number of self-declared Democrats has steadily increased. The gap is the largest in over 40 years. Rush drives away women and independents who make up the largest voting blocks in the country - groups that Republicans are trying to win back from Obama. If they associate the Republican party as synonymous with Rush who do you think they're going to vote for if they don't vote for Republicans? They're either going to vote for 3rd party candidates or Democrats, or not at all - all of which are beneficial to Democrats.

Who's the loser now?

[stell]

I'm glad that you consider James "Ragin' Cajun" Carville your hero. You should be paying more attention to Trojan Horses like the Blue Dog Dems. If someone is irrelevant, you ignore them. You're free to idolize him, but Bill Clinton was just in the right place at the right time. Ask any true liberal, he wasn't a Democrat, he was Republican Lite. He never won more than 50% of the vote, even when it was splintered. Never truly balanced the budget, because Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid aren't included in those calculations, and haven't been sine LBJ. Shipped jobs overseas with his corporate giveaway to NAFTA, was a de-regulator; helping to lead us where we are today, lied to the American people's face, was impeached, disbarred, lost both houses of Congress during his first term. Ended his second term in a recession, disgraced, and had both himself and his wife repudiated by half of the Democratic electorate during last year's primaries. I could keep going, but you get the point.

[johnnyjust]

Not likely.

Rush is their biggest fear.

[CubFanHere]

No one is afraid of the fat kid who dresses like a Russian mobster. Rush is a joke and so are the dolts who listen to him.

Let's see, there are roughly 305,941,727 or so people in the United States. According to the CIA World Fact book 242,677,893 people are over the age of 18. Let's say 80% of those people are eligible to vote. That would mean 194,142,314 of those people are eligible to vote. Rush Limbaugh's audience is reported to be as large as 20 million people. That means the people who listen to Rush, at best, make up a little over 10% of the eligible voters.

Rush is the leader of the 10 percent club.

[swift goat pet for truth]

so why are GOPers apologizing to him?

[postman606]

Is he running for anything? If not he's just a fat, loud-mouthed cheerleader, feeding red meat to a dwindling base while chasing more and more Independents and moderate Republicans into the Democratic camp.

[freedomitchy]

Doesn't the president and his staff have important work to do for the USA?

[viewfromuphere]

yeh I see the mortgage plan was spelled out for everyone today....a­nd i see a new head of FEMA
last couple of days a new individual tapped for Health and Human services..­...and the Prime Minister of England came to call.....


so ...what's your point...ex­actly..

[nellie]

Good answer.

[Pupadup4oBama]

you know, I think the dems have been in cahoots from the very beginning of the campaign. I seriously believe they planned most of it. The whole thing with Hillary - i believe that was political theater, with each of them playing a part to get us "fired up and ready to go".
James Carville has gone WAY up in my book.

[Cimms]

Brilliant strategy. Absolutely brilliant.

The funny thing is, Rush is aware of the ploy and doesn't give a crap. It is all about him and the attention he gets. LOL. What difference does it make if the Repubs go down in flames. He just wants more listeners thus more money.

It will be hard to think of Republicans without an image of ol Rusho popping in the brain now. Bye bye Republicans. Good riddance to, I might add.

[E NUFF]

"The funny thing is, Rush is aware of the ploy and doesn't give a crap. It is all about him and the attention he gets."

Yep, he laughing all the way to the bank . . . you betcha!

[americanalien]

He is laughing all the way to the bank while the Dems laugh their way to the ballot box. Works out just fine. The Republicans are the big losers.

[CaptainStormfield]

Its pretty weird that a guy who said the following would be considered the de-facto leader of the Republic party.
"Too many whites are getting away with drug use...Too many whites are getting away with drug sales...Th­e answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river, too." --in 1995
"Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society."
"I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane..­.I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderst­anding." --after he was detained by custom officials for possessing Viagra with a prescription made out in someone else's name
"The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.­"
"He is exaggerating the effects of the disease. He's moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act. ... This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn't take his medication or he's acting." --on an ad by Michael J. Fox endorsing Claire McCaskill for Senate for supporting embryonic stem cell research

[ADR]

Amazing!!

Here we have a terrible economy and other very important issues -- and what does the Obama Administration spend its time on? Targeting and marginalizing a radio talk show host, a private citizen who isn't even elected to public office!

Wow. Great set of priorities there. Very childish and immature behavior for the President of the Unitied States to take part in. Very sad.

[montecarlo408]

Perhaps you need to remind that "private citizen" Limbaugh that he is a private citizen, since he has interjected himself into politics so much that he got millions of people to illegally intefere in the Democratic primaries by voting in them, even though they weren't Democrats. Remember Operation Chaos? If he's bold enough to do that, then the Democrats should consider him fair game.

[ADR]

Private citizens can organize and be involved in polictics however they please, including Operation Chaos. It's called: FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

If Operation Chaos was illegal, then somebody should've charged him by now.

[CaptainStormfield]

The only thing sadder would be letting a bloated windbag like Rush spout unchallenged.

[ADR]

I don't have a problem with other private citizens going after Rush like James Carville or even the DNC. In fact, I encourage it. But when the government and White House actively participates in the targeting of a private citizen at this level, that doesn't seem right or very productive. It's childish and embarassing. It's also kind of scary because they have the power to do something personally to him. Carville can't. Even his press secretary says it is probably counter-productive to engage in this. This is going to back-fire on Obama if he doesn't stop soon.

[Tom Payned]

Poor ADR:

With the Ditto head leader, (I expect your leader) standing in the way of building the bi-partisanship necessary to work on the economy and other very important issues, it would appear that a simple means of ending the fear of the common sense Rep from signing on and doing what is best for their country, rather than being cowering to this blowhard drug addict, is to destroy the addict.

When your party's leaders bow and scrape rather than offend this very offensive rabblerouser, it is a very wise tactic to pull the curtain away and show the wizard of No's has nothing to offer other than the joy of hearing the sound of his own voice, and over inflated sense of importance.

If you beleive that he's not an impudence to solving the problems, you'd best go back and read all of the stories of Rep who rush back and apologize for insulting his blowhardness. Even the man of "Steele" bent to his will.

If you want to be taken seriously, pull your head out of your tukus and take a look around at what's really happening. Fear among the ruderless R's.

[ADR]

"...standi­ng in the way of building the bi-partisa­nship..."

Definition of bi-partisanship (according to Obama and Democrats): Agree with all my points and ideas -- or we will destroy you!

[viewfromuphere]

yeh...I first heard Pat Buchanan mouthing this particular talking point so it's already old....

let's tally shall we....stim­ulus package, mortgage bill, decisions on Iraq and Guantanamo, federal budget, nominations to various govenment and cabinet positions. And that's hardly a complete tally is it???

The fact of the matter here is this....if there was effective leadership in the Republican movement right now none of this would be happening would it.

[brownforall]

I would love for the poeple in james carvilles home state drafts him to run against the republican who was cought buying hookers. james would most likely beat david vitter and give us one more seat in the senate. pass it around folks run james run

[jkpcguru]

He'd be an interesting guy to listen to on the floor of the senate.

[swift goat pet for truth]

I'd rather see the porn star win.

[EyeDoc007]

"The McCain campaign would much rather have the story about phony and foolish diversions than about the future. We have real problems in this country right now and the American people are looking to us for answers, not distractions, not diversions, not manipulati­ons." -- Barack Obama, Norfolk, Va., September 10, 2008

[montecarlo408]

The President has attack dogs. It's no one's fault Rush has neutralized all of yours.