See, its stuff like this which is why you guys never win any elections.
The Pubbie herd has been thinned, Darwinized. The guys that are left are mostly from rock-solid Red districts, tighty-righties so tight their sphincters slam shut when they crap, their turds are clipped rather than tapered.
What surprises me is how the right-wing ecosystem can support so many punditti. Insanity Hannity, Anne of Green Goebbels, the Savage Weiner, Hewitt, Malkin, Medfly, Rush, the Orca of the Airwaves, and many more. Somebody writes these people checks. Sooner or later, these will compete for dwindling resources of stupid, they will turn on one another, and rend asunder.
Al Franken is a Harvard graduate with a degree in Political Science. Cite.Cite.
Rush Limbaugh, on the other hand, “. . . graduated from Cape Central High School, in 1969. His father and mother wanted him to attend college, so he enrolled at Southeast Missouri State University. He dropped out after two semesters and one summer; according to his mother, “he flunked everything”, even a modern ballroom dancing class. As she told a reporter in 1992, “He just didn’t seem interested in anything except radio.”” Cite.
Just because Al Franken happens to be funny, doesn’t mean he isn’t extremely knowledgeable in the field of Politics, and absolutely qualified to run for public office. He is not, and never was, just an entertainer.
And this is the problem that I have with so many people on the Limbaugh side of the aisle – they don’t do their homework and know little to nothing of what they rant about, just like the blowhards they listen to.
And the problem with this is an effective government must have a diversity of opinions. The Gingrich Republicans ultimately failed because they stamped out any opinion which differed from The Official Opinion.
The implosion of the Republican party frightens me because I don’t want the Democrats falling into the same trap.
This thread is about Rush Limbaugh, the things he says, and the things said about him by Republicans and/or conservatives. Do you have anything to contribute that’s even remotely related to that subject?
I think the reason they suck up to Rush is that his fan base is very vocal, and they flood phone lines and mail boxes of Congresscriters on the right that dare cross him. It creates an illusionary effect that a whole constituency is rising up. This scares the shit out of them, and they crawl back and spoon with Rush. Not realizing that this vocal group is a minority and doesn’t carry nearly the number of votes that they are led to believe. Keep on spoonin’ boys. Keep on spoonin’.
Every post you make just proves more and more what a fucking stupid idiot you are, who cannot read for comprehension.
This thread isn’t about whether or not flunking out of school makes one qualified or not to run for the senate. It’s about why the fuck you braindead fartsticks continue to pay the least bit of attention to AN ENTERTAINER WITH ABSOLUTELY NO EDUCATION OR BACKGROUND IN POLITICS.
One of your fellow Limbaugh-lickers tried the old “change the subject” trick by tossing out Al Franken as comparable to Limbaugh for just being a comedian. They were dead wrong and I corrected them with cites.
Now, if you’d care to actually dispute the cited references, that would be one thing. But no, you just fling in here with more of your “change the subject” diversion tactics. It’s fucking pathetic.
And while I’m here, I may as well add the following additional information and cite re Al Franken’s education.
I gotta say the last line in that cite is fucking hilarious.
“This election is not an I.Q. test; it is about which candidate has better judgment. And that is why, despite the media’s love affair with the celluloid image of Al Gore the policy-wonk, it is the affable, authentic, and sensible Bush who would make the better leader.”
Meanwhile, despite all the right-wing rhetoric about him being a socialist or worse, Barack Obama continues his steady course of aiming for somewhere near the middle. It’s disappointing to those on the left of politics, but it means that he’ll consolidate the Dem gains of 2008 during his 8 years in office, and leave rock-solid Dem majority for his successor in 2016. It’s just inevitable as long as the Pubs keep on pandering to a narrower and narrower base, without ever trying to reach out to the middle.
The Kossacks annoy me, often. When they seem determined to add to the hysterical lefty image. Mind, its tone, not substance, they are talking the real shit, I don’t fault them on truth and facts, just voltage. Still, when they hit the mark, they *hit *the mark!
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.
True, but when your two sides are “reasonable but fallible human beings” and “crazy fuckers”…
I’d really like to see the crazy fuckers marginalized and the reasonable people divide into new factions. The current Republican party is a sham, blind to reality, tripping on ideology, opposing Obama simply because he’s a Democrat and their guy got opposed first (never mind why). It’s hateful, disgusting, and completely counter to a functioning government. I want to see the sensible people, the Republicans who don’t think like Rush and Ann, who truly want what’s best for the country instead of merely scoring points off the opposition, form a new party. I could vote for that party.
As it is, while the Democrats may not be right all the time, I’ve seen enough to be pretty damn sure that the current crop of staunch anti-Democrat pro-war pro-Rush Republicans are never right.
The Republicans cater to Rush because he has a very popular radio show that is heard nationwide by thousands. This makes him influential, and as important as any given marketing campaign. Catering to Rush appears to them to be cheaper than buying advertisements. He helps rally the faithful, which is critical to winning elections.
