Why Rush is Wrong

Newsweek ran several cover stories overhyping stem cell research in order to try and make the republicans look bad for not giving a blank check for it. Now the week that all gets changed their cover story is a very poorly written attack piece against Rush Limbaugh with dramatically flawed logic.

Wait, I have something we call all agree on!

It's that idiot lady with 14 kids and no job!

Surely both liberals and conservatives agree on this?

I don't agree with Mr. Frum's politics but I appreciate the tone and the thoughtfulness of this article. I wish more opinion pieces admitted that maybe we (liberal and conservative) don't know the answers yet but we need to ask the questions. Talking to each other civilly would be a good start.

David Frum, you are as clueless as Rush Limbaugh himself. To start with, where in the hell were you when George W. was spending trillions of dollars on a war in Iraq which we created. Keep in mind, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. And if you believe that George W. had wrong information about Iraq's role in 9/11, then I have a beachfront property for sale in Nevada. Where were you when the conservative icons, the CEO of our financial istitution were raping and plundering our country. The fact of the matter is that THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT THE PROBLEM, IT IS THE SOLUTION. For the record, Ronald Regan was as wrong as you are. No the market and the free enterprise can not regulate itself. It is like asking the fox guarding the henhouse. You will have to agree that in the last few months wer have seen more than enough examples of corporate and market greed. Lastly, the wealth of the nation is not judged by the wealth of the wealthy. It is judged by the waelth of the poor. Keep in mind that wealthy are wealthy everywhere and live well everywhere including places like Somalia and Ethiopia.

Liberals need to stand up and UNITE Frum! Ecourage all liberals to vote LIBERTARIAN! If it's not realistic then is your reality right?

I've been reading the comments and I am amazed. The country is going down in flames and people seem to think it's a great idea to continue the vicious rhetoric. Rush Limbaugh is a terrible spokesman for anyone in this country, Republican or otherwise. His whole purpose is to enrage, point the finger and demonize any non-conservative. What's been forgotten is that we are in a mess right now. The reason Republicans lost in November is that they were out of touch with average Americans. We are broke and losing jobs and worried about how to pay our bills and put our kids through college. I think David Frum is right about the need for the Republican party to pay attention to what is going on. I am basically an Independent and I think there are important points to be made by Republicans. At this time in our history they need to stop acting as though nothing is going wrong with the country. I see no hint of concern about the average person from most of the members of the party. The concern should not be the debt. It should be how best to get the economy rolling and generate decent-paying jobs. If that happens, the debt will take care of itself. If not we are in for an even more difficult time, Republicans and Democrats would rather bicker and make accusations than work together to fix the problems we are facing. It really is time for great ideas and bi-partisanship. Whether people like him or not Obama is at least making what to me seems like a reasonable effort to resolve a crisis that he inherited.

Is a 41% unfavorability rating among independents actually very bad? It's weird how the writer of this fails to give the favorability rating for Rush among independents.

Deal with this FACT, republicans are pro=business and anti=labor. TRUE All of our jobs are going overseas, WHO did that?

Bushes senseless war is costing 10 billion a month or more, how many schools is that"

Dear Mr. Frum,
Your article here trys desperately to save the face of the GOP after they backed Mr. Stinky Lush Limberger but it fails miserably. Also, you say that 72% of Lush's audience is male however, no one else (including Lush himself) could provide details about who his typical listener is except that his high ratings are generated by up to 20 million listeners/week. Look, you are a fantastic speechwriter who can probably craft poetry out of someone's vulgar rant laced with obscenities - however, it's obvious here that you are trying to save face for the GOP by throwing Lush under the bus. Why don't you write about why the GOP (including Lush) is so negative towards a president who is a democrat but more importantly, he's a leader who deserves to be treated with respect just becuase he is our leader. Our country is in one of the worst economic crises in history, and all the GOP can do is complain, complain, complain about what President Obama is doing to get us out of this crises (which Bush seemed to overlook until his last few monhts in office - duh!!). Remember when just about the entire country stood behind Bush after 9-11? We were a united front against the horrific attack against us. Why can't the GOP encourage it's constituents to stand behind our President and be a united front to combat this economic war that seems to be bringing us all down?
America needs hope, brotherhood, kindness, wisdom, truth, and solutions to our problems. The negativity is bringing us down further. Why don't you write about the GOP's negativity?