A Bad Week for Michael Steele: GOP Group Defends Rush Limbaugh

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1. Rush is Against Labor Unions.
2. Rush is Against Increasing The Minimum Wage.
3. Rush is Against Laws that would Enable Workers to Receive a Greater Share of the Profits They Help Produce.
4. Rush is Against Expanding Medical Insurance to Cover Millions of Uncovered Americans.
5. Rush ridicules Homeless People who own Cellphones.
6. Rush ridicules Homeless People who say they and their families would rather live in a Home than in a Car.
7. Rush believes that AIG executives should keep the $165 million in bonuses they received from taxpayer bailout money, and
he is outraged that the government might try to take these bonuses back.
8. All of Rush's sympathies are with America's wealthiest 2%, and he scorns and ridicules the poor and the homeless, whom he derides as America's "Losers".
9. Rush deceives his Dittohead followers into supporting tax policies favoring America's Top 2% and against the financial interests of the Dittoheads. Few Dittoheads earn over $250,000 a year, or have estates exceeding $10,000,000. Yet, Rush persuades his Dittoheads to vote for income and estate tax policies that favor the Super Rich -- helping the Rich Grow Richer -- while harming people who earn less than $250,000 a year, which includes most Dittoheads. Rush convinces them to vote against their own interests by using sly propaganda phrases like the "Death Tax" instead of the "Estate Tax". It's not a tax on Dying -- it's a tax on large Estates. Rush is the Dittoheads' own special Fifth Columnist and Trojan Horse.
10. Rush is a White Racist. Virtually every time he tells a "joke", it is a racial putdown of blacks, Hispanics or some other minority. Deliberately confusing the names of "Barack Obama" and Rush's fictional African leader, "Barack Ogabe", is the latest example. Or, opining that the media gave football Quarterback, Donovan McNab, "a lot of credit he doesn't deserve" simply because he is black (although McNab led his team to two championships in his first three seasons with the NFC).
11. Rush firmly believes in the Golden Rule: "Them that's Got the Gold Makes the Rules."
12. Rush wants America to Fail. Rush would rather see America fail than have Obama save the USA by applying Liberal programs, such as massive government deficit spending, increased regulation of the financial markets, broader health care coverage, tax breaks for the middle class and tax increases for the wealthy, etc. We have seen Conservative policies of massive tax cuts for the rich and de-regulation of the markets bring America to the brink of Depression. Yet, Rush only prescribes more of the same. Rush is a narrow-minded ideologue who would rather see America fail through continued application of failed Conservative policies than to see the country revived through the institution of Liberal ideas.
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CJPR of FL 11:01AM March 26, 2009

You make us Democrats very happy!!
And keep the National Republican Trust PAC on board for all of your campaign marketing. Wheeler closed a 12 point gap between dem candidate Murphy and repub candidate Tedisco in just 2 short weeks with their advertising. Murphy is now in a statistical tie. A few more ads from the PAC and Murphy has the election sewn up!
I LOVE your work!
Democratic Voter

Greg of CT 1:44PM March 20, 2009

Listen to what an eloquent voice the National Republican Trust PAC has in Michael Wheeler:
http://wonkette.com/407128/wingnut-provides-comical-audio-regarding-tedisco-murphy-house-race

Greg of CT 1:30PM March 20, 2009

Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Steve of IL 8:48PM March 16, 2009

Forget about Sarah, Mitt, and anyone else. Rush stands by his principles, is the smartest man in America, and commands respect from all smart people. Dear Mr. Limbaugh, please announce your candidacy for President of the United States of America today. God is with you and it is your destiny to become president.
Douglas Gamble

Douglas Gamble of WA 10:05PM March 13, 2009

I seem to remember them doing just fine bowing to an actor. What does it matter what his job is, he is a citizen of the United States of America. That is where our ideas, our politics, is supposed to stem from. Who is Obama really? What has he ever created, or done to really build up our society? Why is he so qualified to be in the political arena but Rush Limbaugh is not?
By the way, more than 60% of people in the poll above state Rush is the voice of the Republican party. Isn't that alone enough to allow his opinions to be heard in full, not just in short blurbs taken out of context? Maybe read the transcripts of his recent CPAC speech for starters, there's a thought.
This type of censorship is incredibly dangerous. If a group of people en masse can attack so viciously another private citizen based on such obviously false information, how civilized are we really? I know it is hard for most to comprehend, but this is similar to the tactics employed in, say, the Salem Witch Hunts. Only a few accusations of a certain type need be thrown out against a man or woman, and then no amount of logical defense is allowed. It is done, you are a witch and there is no preventing your fate. How sad is it that we look back upon such things as something to be derided, whilst many of us engage in such ignorant behaviors to this day.
If his opinions are so ridiculous, then let him have his public venue. Wouldn't it only serve to increase the liberal Democrats influence on the country as a whole?

Jim of NJ 12:41PM March 10, 2009

How can anyone put any creedance into what this drug addict spews out of his orifice. He is absolutely repulsive in everyway,especially his rotund body and the way he bounces around(his inability to sit still while on the air), an indication of the effects of his drug addiction. He has crossed the line by his disrespectful comment on one our most respected Senator's , Senator Ted Kennedy, especially at this time. How sick is that!!!!! You know that no one of SOUND MIND AND BODY would EVER EVER make such a comment. This blob is self loathing so it matters non to him what he says. Any clear thinking highly intelligent individual has no respectf for this blob and it will be just a matter of time until he implodes. It will be interesting to watch.

Mariasanta Ferretti of PA 1:23PM March 07, 2009

Debating Limbaugh would be like a mom debating baby that just soiled his diaper.
She can't win; but she still has to do the right thing, wipe his ass, change his diaper and wait till he does it again...
The only difference being which end the crap comes from.

Earnest Valerius of CA 1:22PM March 06, 2009

What does Condoleeza Rice, Clarence Thomas, J.C. Watts, and other hand-picked black conservatives have in common? They all represent an attempt by Republicans to co-opt the current black leadership establishment. Steele was, supposedly, the answer to President Obama, but he has failed miserably. America does not need synthetic leadership. We need statesmen and women with intellectual, spiritual, and personal integrity. All Americans should reject any leader who does not possess these qualities regardless of race or party affiliation.

Joseph Wheeler of GA 4:54PM March 05, 2009

I keep having to pinch myself in order to believe that anyone of moderate intelligence would give creedence to anything this man has to say. Did you all forget that this man is a recovering drug addict?Pitiful.World already gone to hell in a handbasket.

elizabeth bowden of NC 3:23PM March 05, 2009