# To the GOP: why are some still licking the boots of Rush Limbaugh? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 30, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688 "2009-01-30T05:21:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/41 "2009-01-30T19:02:29Z")
> [@Sinaijon](#): > > Are you seriously stating that a _degree in Political Science_ is a relevant qualification for the Senate? > > Seriously? Yeah, goddamnit! I would expect all of our senators to hold degrees in Hotel/Motel Managment, or maybe Small Engine Repair. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/42 "2009-01-30T19:03:25Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > Seriously. Competition is good, people. Any sensible person should realize that while your side is right most of the time, it won’t be right _all_ of the time, and needs to be kept in check. As awesome as Obama may end up being, I wouldn’t want to give free reign to him, nor anyone else. Who says the opposition must come from Republicans, though? Democrats are notoriously not-lockstepped. This is one of the main reasons why Rove thought he could forge a permenant Republican majority. The moderate Republican voter didn’t just disappear. S/He’s still out there disagreeing with people like me who think that civil liberties include being able to fuck for money if you want and inject bleach if that pleases you. And they’re just disgusted with what the Republican party has become: anti-intellectual, divisive, greedy, party-before-country nay-sayers. The following is all my worthless opinion but the Republicans have a few choices now: Continue on the Rush Route and hope that there are enough True Americans as defined by Sarah Palin to keep them relevant; moderate themselves and welcome back the Wills and Buckleys of conservative thought or just fade away. If the Democrats get so full of themselves that they think they can have a permenant majority, stomp on the constitution and secretly break the law left and right, then they will get theirs too. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/43 "2009-01-30T19:04:11Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Yeah, goddamnit! > > I would expect all of our senators to hold degrees in Hotel/Motel Managment, or maybe Small Engine Repair. A higher degree in Large Economy Repair might be more relevant at present. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/44 "2009-01-30T19:05:59Z")
> [@Sinaijon](#): > > Are you seriously stating that a _degree in Political Science_ is a relevant qualification for the Senate? > > Seriously? > No wait, Seriously?.. > Ok, Ok, Ok. But what? Your joking. I see that now. Why the hell wouldn’t it be? ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/45 "2009-01-30T19:27:21Z")
To me Rush Limbaugh and Michael Moore are both the same person. Both full of themselves, both claim they do what they do as love for America, both full of crap, both undereducated, both willing to bend the truth, both have their “la-la-la I can’t hear you” followers. Difference is Dems are smart enough to say “um, yeah, he’s not with us.” ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/46 "2009-01-30T19:31:18Z")
> [@Sinaijon](#): > > Are you seriously stating that a _degree in Political Science_ is a relevant qualification for the Senate? > > Seriously? > No wait, Seriously?.. > Ok, Ok, Ok. But what? Your joking. I see that now. I know, right?! It’s science-- SCIENCE! Why don’t they teach the controversy? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/47 "2009-01-30T19:36:37Z")
> [@Sinaijon](#): > > Are you seriously stating that a _degree in Political Science_ is a relevant qualification for the Senate? > > Seriously? The actual qualificatins are: 30 years old, US Citizen, resident of the state. Technically, you don’t even have to have a pulse or brain activity to get elected. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/48 "2009-01-30T19:41:47Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > Every post you make just proves more and more what a fucking stupid idiot you are, who cannot read for comprehension. Well. one of us is. > [@](#): > > This thread isn’t about whether or not flunking out of school makes one qualified or not to run for the senate. So, when you brought up Rush flunking out, and compared it to Franken not flunking out, you were trolling? Actually, that is a rhetorical question. I know perfectly well you weren’t trolling - you really are as stupid as you act. Flunking out of school is relevant, until it’s your ox that is being Gore-d. I realize that, just like it will be won’t be relevant that Franken is a known and proven liar and fraud. But your denials will be difficult to understand, with Obama’s cock in your mouth. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/49 "2009-01-30T19:54:18Z")
Jealousy is so unbecoming, but **Shodan** can be \*such \*a little bitch, sometimes… ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/50 "2009-01-30T19:59:43Z")
A Yale degree in Poly Sci and a person who flunked out are equivalent in Shodan world. Poly Sci is the field politics is in . Seems kind of relevant . ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/51 "2009-01-30T20:09:06Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > Well. one of us is.So, when you brought up Rush flunking out, and compared it to Franken not flunking out, you were trolling? This is what I mean by your lack of reading comprehension. I already explained it to you – in bolded CAPS no less. I’m not going to bother repeating myself, because clearly you’re too fucking stupid to understand plain English. > [@Shodan](#): > > . . . with Obama’s cock in your mouth. I _wish_! ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/52 "2009-01-30T20:14:43Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > I _wish_! Shayna, I love you and all, but TM friggin’ I! ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/53 "2009-01-30T20:19:10Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > Shayna, I love you and all, but TM friggin’ I! LMAO! Well _he_ started it! 😛 **Shayna** , the Monica Lewinsky of the Obama Administration. Hmmmm, kind of has a ring to it. On second thought, Michelle is First Lady, not Hillary. I do _not_ want to fuck with Michelle Obama. No way. Let’s just strike that entire concept. [del] **Shayna** , the Monica Lewinsky of the Obama Administration. [/del] There, that’s better. Whew. That was a close one! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/54 "2009-01-30T20:30:44Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > > [@Sinaijon](#): > > > > Are you seriously stating that a degree in Political Science is a relevant qualification for the Senate? > > I know, right?! It’s science-- SCIENCE! Now I have this image of a crazed looking man in a lab coat in a Dr Frankenstein style lab with a guy strapped to a table. Political Mad Scientist : “And now we turn you into a Republican - for SCIENCE !” Victim “NOOOOO !” - pulls lever \* - ZZZAPPPP ! \* Victim : “Hurrrrrrr . . . cut taxes ! Prayer in schools ! Immigrants took my job !” Political Mad Scientist : “It worked ! MWAHHAHAHAHA !” ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/55 "2009-01-30T20:39:01Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > I _wish_! Yep, you sure looked like it in your “Obama Girl” video on YouTube. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/56 "2009-01-30T20:43:10Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > A Yale degree in Poly Sci and a person who flunked out are equivalent in Shodan world. So are Yale and Southeast Missouri State, and for that matter so are Poli Sci and modern ballroom dancing. But the funniest part is that **Shodan** thinks that having a fat druggie entertainer, who says he _wants_ his country’s government to fail, be his party’s unquestioned ideological leader is actually a good thing. What are the dreadful alternatives he must have considered? ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/57 "2009-01-30T20:45:52Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > Technically, you don’t even have to have a pulse or brain activity to get elected. This would explain a great deal. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/58 "2009-01-30T20:52:13Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > But the funniest part is that **Shodan** thinks that having a fat druggie entertainer, who says he _wants_ his country’s government to fail, be his party’s unquestioned ideological leader is actually a good thing. What are the dreadful alternatives he must have considered? No, no, Obama isn’t the government. See, the Republicans will save the country with their devotion to the taxpayers. People want tax cuts forever, and that’s the only way to help the economy. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/59 "2009-01-30T20:53:06Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > Why the hell wouldn’t it be? As a Political Science major, I can assure you that my degree in no way qualifies me to run the country. Now, my massive intellect… there’s another matter. Seriously, though- lawyers (which is what happens to most political science students- law school) are grossly overrepresented in legislatures. I ranted about it in a previous thread but I can’t find the post now. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688/60 "2009-01-30T21:22:01Z")
> [@Shayna](#): > > …On second thought, Michelle is First Lady, not Hillary. I do _not_ want to fuck with Michelle Obama. … She might not even get around to you. But I get the impression that before she was done with _him_, there wouldn’t be enough left of Barry to feed the cat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-gop-why-are-some-still-licking-the-boots-of-rush-limbaugh/483688.md?page=4)