Why Rush is Wrong

Mr. Frum, please tell me how your high minded and self righteous viewpoints are any more or less representative of the Republican Party than Rush Limbaugh???s. In doing so, you fail to recognize that you too are part of an old and obsolete view of today???s America. You act as if any form of federal spending other than Defense is just ???wrong??? because you say it is. You do not offer any new ideas on Health Care, your call for a new core principle, other than to say it should be privatized and deregulated. This refrain sounds familiar. Just do not ask anyone other than those who do not have access, or who have had the entire burden of the increased costs shifted to them, to suffer the consequences of your new programs.
For me it is your comments about being the ???party of property owners??? that is especially offensive. I may not be a rich conservative, but I have worked hard enough to buy my own house and the five acres upon which it sits. To suggest that I cannot be a concerned environmentalist because I do not respect the rights of other property owners is another pompous assumption on your part. I too am capable of respecting my neighbors??? rights to use their property as they see fit. But not to the point where they can harm the environment around me and other neighbors just to their enjoyment and benefit.
And I recognize many around this nation cannot afford their own homes. Does this make them any less capable of being good neighbors, or good environmentalists or even good Americans? Seems to me their used to be a provision in the Constitution that defined voters as white men over 21 who owned property. And blacks represented only 3/5th???s of a person.
Like any good conservative, it???s not that you cannot roll time back from 2009. You just cannot roll time back all the way to 1809. You and other Republicans that are so married to your core values of high mindedness deserve Rush Limbaugh. After all, you made him and you used him. Time for a little more inconvenience I think.
Oh, and Run, Sarah. Run.

David Frum is a douche bag. He's no better than these self-righteous know-it-all Leftists. . . that's why hes thrown in WITH the leftists by writing this propaganda piece to try to prop up his bruised ego. I say, LEVIN/LIMBAUGH 2012, EH?

David Frum is a douche bag. He's no better than these self-righteous know-it-all Leftists. . . that's why hes thrown in WITH the leftists by writing this propaganda piece to try to prop up his bruised ego. I say, LEVIN/LIMBAUGH 2012, EH?

I am a moderate Democrat who despises fundamentalist thinking of any nature, religious or political. Pure black and white logic applied to any form of socio-political challenges is frought with danger---danger of nationalism, danger of fascism, danger of ignorance in the face of cold, cruel facts. I applaud Frum's enlightened stance against the misguided and overhyped views of Mr. Limbaugh. He is absolutely corrent that the challenge defines the leader and solution and not the other way around. Although it may be comforting to keep applying the same Reagenesque logic to our current fate--comforting in that it is easy and defines the challenge in a traditional context--it is far from what is required and what will work. At this moment in our nation's history, we need more enlightened conservatives like Frum to start a healthy dialogue with the Obama administration to hold overaggressive government spending in check, and to assure that the Federal investments we do make will be targeted wisely. I voted for Obama, but would feel more comfortable knowing the debt will we create for the next generation will have been worth it, and not frittered away in misguided pork or doomed business models. In the end, the voice of conservatives like Frum need to be amplified and brought front and center in the mantle of Republican idealogy so that a productive counterpoint can temper Obama's zeal. In the long run, Rush is irrelevant---and the deep thinkers of the party know that the microphone needs to be taken away so that the Republican party can find a new center and forge a new path to future leadership. If not, the Democratic thinkers wil have pulled the ultimate form of juditsu, turning Rush's sophmoric rants into the Rublican parties greatest weakness. The real question is, will the Republican party have the guts to make him irrelevant, or will they pander to adopt his shrinking soapbox?

This challenge is not dissimilar from the world polemics surrounding Islam. The vast majority of Muslims believe in a peaceful interpretation of their religion, yet they are typecast by the vitriol and violence of the extreme minority. Will the silent majority of Islam rise up to police their own religion? Likewise, will the level-headed and forward thinking factions of the Republican party rise uo to police their own pulpit? Or will they let the narrow-minded, outdated, vitriol of Rush give the Obama adminstration a slum dunk second term?

Rush Limbaugh is the "Randall Flagg" of the Republican Party

You make plenty of arguments in the beginning for why you are a Republican. That's not the same as saying you are conservative.

The funny thing is, as a Progressive, you constantly hear from the Conservative base that the Dems spend, spend, spend... and that we'll be "paying for generations" for the Dems' spending. But truth is, is that spending and budget deficits are NOT a party issue - they are a MODERN issue. If ANY party is to blame, look to thr Repugs... Know you history! Look for yourself...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_by_U.S._presidential_terms

Reagan put us in a HUGE hole, Clinton was starting to dig us out, but Bush put us right back in it! Now Repugs are constantly complaining about Obama's spending!?

Rush IS wrong... and the Conservative movement DOES need to change. In a world of 6.7 billion people you can't stand still without gathering moss.

Observation: On his March 9 program, Limbaugh called Charles Barkley "milk dud head" in a way that suggested he was waiting to spring that line on any African-American male who has a hairless head and who happened to say something negative about Limbaugh. Limbaugh also responded to recent comments by Newt Gingrich by describing him as a typical poll-watching politician of limited durability.

Limbaugh's summation of Gingrich proves a point about today's talk radio: The one-way monologists were quite prepared to pursue power over the elected and the free press just as soon as Fairness was out of their way. Without benefit of election, they've driven themselves as wedge between Americans and their representatives on issues like the 2007 borders issue.

Because they are commercially driven without requirement to serve any public interest, they are free of the normal pendulum swing of conservative and liberal elections, which are the expression of the will of the people. The monologists have the opportunity and apparently the will to lie, misrepresent, project, misinform, divide, instill fear, hatred, chaos, and mistrust, and steer public opinion in any direction they wish without answer because it is legal to do so. They are laughing all the way to the bank.

I've also noticed that some of the more hateful of the monologists don't reveal where they emanate from and they typically broadcast alone with no other persons at the location. This level of autonomy and command over hours of daily broadcasting time should alarm anyone with an eye towards best practices.

As we have seen with a great number of industries, a little regulation is not the enemy of our economy or our democratic way of life.

The problem is the likes of Limbaugh and so many other Republicans, Do want Obama to fail.
That is the only way they can claim any truth to the strange and weird dogma they preach, regardless of how destructive that dogma has proven to be to this country already.
Limbaugh is now claiming he is an entertainer, when the reality is he is the leader of the Republican Party by default since Bush is gone.
Limbaugh is the propagandist who keeps the uneducated and misinformed Republican base supplied with talking points, however demeaning the term ditto head might be; it is a badge of pride to these people who make up the Republican base.

I would like for someon to tell me why minorities are so against Rush and through him... the Republican party. African Americans, Latinos, Asian, Women, Young Adults and people with incomes of less than $100,000 all overwhelming hate this guy. Why is that? There must be a reason...

Republicans like David Frum give me hope for the Republican party. I used to be a Republican but would be embaressed to identify myself that way today.

Limbaugh is leading the GOP into the abyss. Why in God's name would a major political party want a thrice-divorced, ex-drug addict with racist tendencies to be the de facto party leader? Women absolutely detest this guy. He may have a ton of money, but what Limbaugh wants now is power and recognition as a major political force beyond his base. He will not succeed.

You can't compromise core principles to try to attract "today's voters". A centrist candidate (McCain) just lost to a leftist who thinks the country should be run like a social experiment in a liberal think tank. Conservatives must stay true to what they believe, with faith in the American people to eventually right the ship at the polls. If the country sinks into a liberal hole, so be it, just don't be willing accomplices.

Newsweek is all wrong on Rush Limbaugh. Rush is right; Newsweek is wrong. Rush knows whats going on and logically explains it. Thankyou for elevating him to such importance. Now he has more listeners than ever; like me. I am a new listener to Rush and find him refreshing and entertaining and he has awakened me on many issues especially the failing path of Obama and his rag tag party of wierdos and special interests.

Rush has supposedly [[20 Million Listeners]]

America Consist of 300 Million and Counting....

The Majority, Can't Stand or Could care less about what he Says.

Limbaugh and his Operation Chaos was a [[Joke]] and it Failed !!

Obama Won... BIG !!!

Limbaugh has 20 Million Listeners and Supposed Voters ?

Keep in Mind, not all of the [[Fat Boys]] Listeners Agree with him.

I've listened to him, from time to time and he had no Effect on my Decision to Vote on voting for McCain-Palin..

As a Matter of Fact, just Listening to His Fat A!! it made me Vote Obama-Biden, even.... MORE !!

His Rhetoric of Fear & Hate Mongering, was a Desperate Call, to Keep the White House White and it was a Sad and Pitiful Display...

Just Look at the Outcome...

McCain-Palin could not Garner 200 Electoral Votes in a Majority White Society...

Limbaugh's Audience are the Lowest Leveled in their Thinking.

Limbaugh Demographics: The South, The Midwest, Rural South, Mountainous Regions of the Country, The Ozarks and Appalachian Regions of the Nation and that is why the [[Electoral Math Revealed]] !!

Limbaugh can Gin that Base for All Times....

Limbaugh's Influence cannot Go Beyond these Regions or Groups....

Let him have those [[Demographics]]

The Fat Boy... Deserves them and They Deserve..... His Fat A!!

Note: Even though McCain Won Texas, Obama Garnered OVER 3 Million Votes...

McCain Garnered a Million and Half More Votes, still, I was Surprised Obama Won OVER 3 Million Votes in Texas

Limbaugh and his Listeners are Juiced on Fear, Hate, Dread, Doom and Gloom, Lost in the Reagan Era.

Where was this Fear and hate During the Bush Years, You have to ask Yourselves ?

Where were your "conservative" views when Bush & Cheney were running flat out to spend more dollars than the Fed could print?
Where were you when Bush & Cheney thought that cutting taxes for the wealthiest AND fighting two wars were the most brilliant choices?
Hypocrite.
The Republicans SHOULD never rise up again. Ever.
Until Republicans lose every single seat on Senate and Congress and beg the people for mercy and put Bush on trial, people will never vote for you neocon idiots once more.