You want to know what is funny? Republican activists that love Rush Limbaugh are funny. But not in a good way.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I think it was a stroke of genius to make Limbaugh the face of the republican party.
It’s brilliant! Like a losing team’s mascot — fully costumed inside one of those giant, plush animal suits — suddenly becoming the quarterback in the fourth quarter, it’s going to be pure comedy for us winning fans in the stands.
Nah, it’s all good. They’re funny-weird and funny-ha-ha simultaneously. My favorite one was about needing to start up the “Rebel Republicans…or a Turd party.”
Isn’t language funny?
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Rush Limbaugh is a funny(2), funny(3) fellow. As a comedian, he’s as funny as a heart attack.
You want to know what is not funny? Emmanuel (and others) biting on the hook Limbaugh so carefully placed in the water. Perspective being the name of that tune, Limbaugh just made it inside the private circle of the President. Very. Dumb. Rookie. Move.
I don’t know, I think it’s very calculated. Most moderate people don’t like Rush Limbaugh and he is now without a doubt the face of the republican party. And he’s on the record as wanting the president to fail. It doesn’t matter what side you are on, hoping the president fails means hoping the country fails, and most people don’t like that.
Your right, it is calculated. They want to tie Ann Coulter and Rush around the necks of the Republicans. If they can ( and Ann and Rush will help them) it will be nothing but bad for Republicans.
Crash and burn.
nalbar
Wha, huh? How? “…private circle of the President”? Recognizing the blustering blowhard as king of the crazed conservatives in NO WAY makes him close friends with Obama. What ARE you trying to say because you can’t mean THIS?
No, I don’t mean that. I’m talking about recognition and free publicity, the drug of the nearly powerful. The Fat Man is that certain kinda fool that likes to hear the sound of his own name, especially coming out of the mouth of the President’s First Mouthpiece.
The more loudly he speaks, the worse the Republicans fare. Why not get him the biggest megaphone possible? He alienates everyone who thinks for themselves and forces the elected Republicans to distance themselves from him, alienating them from their base.
Put Rush front-and-center, and keep him there.
Yeah repubs…you’re Rush’s $#@&!
Sorry so crude…but it is what it is.
Crude works with them – I’ll use that at some point in the not-too-distant future.
Well, he already owns the men…
Think about the shrieking if the situation was reversed. That the avowed spokesman for the democrats was a three time divorced prescription drug addict that had been caught coming through an international airport from a country famous for their sex trade with sex enhancing drugs without a prescription.
It was hard to write, let alone BELIEVE!
If it was a DEMOCRAT they would tie him to a pole and stone him. But a Republican they give 10 standing ovations.
These are truly wonderous times we live in!
nalbar
Redstate Repugs showing their true colors.
You gotta love the new study showing the biggest supporters of online porn are the red states. Who would a’ thunk?
And the reddest state of all, Utah, is number 1.
Couldn’t agree more! Making Limbaugh the face of the opposition feeds his ego, and polarizes the Republican party in a way like no other!