Rush: If Obama succeeds, Ninjas will kill your children.

[Shardik]

Sorry, on a trip to the bank yesterday I spent a little time listening to him and then Hannity.

These guys are spreading so many lies and trying to generate so much fear that it would be laughable if there weren't so many stupid americans out there that listen to them and believe what they say.

Puh-leeze, people, keep up the barrage on his sponsors. His days as a RW icon are numbered if we can keep it up.

[Wetzelbill]

1. in political science classes

at least several that I've been in, we were specifically told that we couldn't use Rush Limbaugh and his other crazy RW counterparts as a source for a paper etc. Of course the far right will allege liberal bias at universities, but anybody else with half a brain would just realize that these guys are full of shit.

[YOY]

2. There is a reason why they don't debate.

and when the few who do (Ann Coulter) they get their ass handed to them on a semi-regular basis.

I used to be a "conservative Rushbot" when I was in my late teens until I figured it out. They don't debate because they're full of shit.

I just want one roundtable with Ann to start and end with people completely ignoring her save the comment to "go hock your poorly written books elsewhere."

[Triana]

3. This is the same lunatic that the WSJ saw fit to publish his stimulus plan?

That's right, the WSJ published RUSH LIMBAUGH'S stimulus plan.

Tells ya a lot about WSJ I guess.

[KharmaTrain]

4. The Need To Be Relevant...

Until last week, the real implications of the election hadn't hit home on these shitstains. To them, THEY didn't lose last year, McCain did. The GOOP is a splintered and rudderless party right now...with those that remain representing the extreme factions. There are few moderates left and as we saw with Gingrey's pathetic groveling the other day, this party is desperate not to lose the remaining dead-enders. They can't afford it cause these are the people who write the checks.

Hate radio and Rushbo's days are past. Radio is in steep decline...a victim of its own hubris and "deregulation". Hell, Rushbo and his ilk couldn't prevent McCain from winning the nomination last year...and if anything, they've become a liability. I can't remember a favorite candidate of theirs whose won since 2004. Rudeee? Thompson? Palin?

Fortunately this isn't 1992...their act is old and stale and their novelty has worn off. Their lies are quickly debunked as more and more people turn to blogs and the internet for their information; rejecting both hate radio and the corporate media. What's left now are a small and shrinking group that remains vocal within the GOOP but whose have little influence outside of it anymore. Hate radio has turned into a pity party...no longer with access or credibility. Rushbo's forcing his corrupt party to either embrace him or denounce him...and it will be interesting to see how cozy they stay with him as President Obama's approval ratings remain high and theirs continues to crater.

Stay tuned...we're watching the ongoing implosion of the repugnican party. They've gone from denial to rejection...resignation is sure to follow.

Cheers...

[Shardik]

5. Great post. I wish there was a rec system for individual posts in a thread. n/t

[nxylas]

6. Nail, meet hammer

The RW forums at the moment read like a laundry list of excuses. If Palin had been at the top of the ticket, they'd have won. ACORN threatened voters. The Supreme Court won't subpoena the vault copy of Obama's birth certificate because they're more concerned with stopping the black folk rioting than with defending the constitution. Waaah waaah waaah!

[Best_man23]

7. The GOP won't leave hate radio unless they lose big in 2010

If the Republic Party comes up on the short end in the 2010 midterm elections (which is looking increasingly likely) then I think you will see them begin to get rid of the on-air blowhards like OxyRush, Klannity, and Bilbo the Clown.

[KharmaTrain]

9. It's Cheap Programming...

I saw this from the radio end...many good radio talents who lost jobs due to "consolidation" and the rise of hate radio. It was cheaper for a station to plug into a satellite and play Rushbo than it was to hire a local talent...many stations now only do a local morning show and even those are on the way out. AM radio has become one big repeater system of right wing bile...targeted at one of the few remaining radio audiences...white middle-aged males.

Radio is in economic free-fall right now. Their license values...that were over-inflated for years to prevent competition...have crumbled and so have advertising revenues. While President Obama was being sworn in, nearly 10% of Cheap Channel's staff was being terminated...and more cuts are on the way. I'm predicting that we'll see stations go dark in small and medium markets throughout the year as even hate radio won't pay any bills and several failing stations will be caniablized in a vain attempt to keep one strong operation going.

The GOOP is a very divided and bitter party. It's failed to digest last fall's election. Unlike Democrats who took their anger after the '04 elections and began to rebuild and re-orient the party, the GOOP is heading in the opposite direction. And ya know...at this critical time, they could be doing all of us a favor.

Cheers...

[Wetzelbill]

8. what I find interesting

Is they are completely clueless about the changing demographics! Oh they know about them, but they have no clue how to reach out anymore. They think throwing Palin out as a party leader is a good idea to get women voters? lol Micheal Steele? Ken Blackwell? Those guys won't bring in black voters. And you can forget Latinos, they blew that with all the xenophobic immigration stuff. Bush at one time made inroads with Latinos, McCain lost big support with them. Now the party of New Deal and Great Society and Civil Rights resentment needs to find a way to appeal to groups of people they most have nothing in common with and fought against for all of these decades. It takes more than good PR to do it, they've proven that they can't govern and if anything the elections have weeded out GOP moderates to the point the elected GOP officials are even crazier and out of touch than ever. They have a tough road back, but they've built up a strong enough PR core that they can still hang in there a little bit, even as discredited as they are.

[KharmaTrain]

10. They're Victims Of Their Own Stereotypes...

I was thinking along similar lines recently. Demographics have changed indeed...and the GOOP, if they see it at all, fear it...trying to ignore it and hope it goes away.

Last year, not only did they lose the moderates and independents that made the "gushy" 10% that determines elections, but also an entire generation. I saw them turn off my son's generation with Iraq and their criminality just like Nixon and Vietnam did to my generation. They turned gains they had made in the Hispanic community and turned it around with their illegal alien bullshit that cost them the New Mexico, Nevada and Colorado. The hole they've dug is far deeper than any I saw the Democrats in over the past 40 years...and their free-fall hasn't come close to hitting bottom.

The fun is going to be the battle for the "soul" of the GOOP...who will be the next RNC head and who ends up as a "leader". The splintering of the fundies vs. the neo-cons vs. the "fiscal conservatives" vs. the moderates vs. the libertarians...we saw how messed up they were in last year's primary. A tough road back, indeed...and that's not such a bad thing.

:hi:

Cheers...

[Wetzelbill]

11. After the election

I saw Pat Buchanan on some show, Hardball I think, with a few other commentators. The Dem commentators were mentioning demographics and how the GOP lost women, minorities etc, and Pat and the other GOP one agreed. But the other GOP commentator started talking about how to reach out to them and Pat was having none of it. He wanted to get their votes, sure, but he kept saying that Republicans just can't change and stop being Republicans and be for, and he started using racial and sexist code words like amnesty and welfare etc.

That, to me, is a big problem the GOP faces, and, if I'm not wrong, along the lines of the fear that you mentioned. They have to adapt, but they can't really adapt because ideologically they are so rigid, and, personally, they fear it. I don't see how you can build a party on resentment and expect to keep winning elections in a changing country, and a changing world. It's interesting to see the Republicans dig themselves in deeper. As if being more stubborn and ideological and divisive and anti-good policy is going to help them. The two examples that stand out to me are with the House Republicans. Look at how stupid their ideas for the financial crisis are. During the election, they almost sabotaged all negotiations because they wanted to use the Bush-Obama-McCain meeting to push eliminated capital dividends etc. Just insane stuff. Now you still see them screwing up the whole stimulus package, offering nothing viable in return and still, not one of them voted for it. In the end, that seriously hurts their party. No new ideas, no grasp of how to govern and no idea how to appeal to the emerging demographic groups.