New GOP Standard Bearer Rush Limbaugh Is Less Popular Than Jeremiah Wright

[RiverStone]

This article is 3 weeks old, but a worthwhile read if your afraid anybody really gives a shit about Rush.

Cross-posted from AlterNet 2/7/09

Congressional Republicans have turned to Rush Limbaugh to lead the battle against Obama. One problem: A poll says he's less popular than Jeremiah Wright.

Republicans who have turned to Rush Limbaugh to lead the fight against President Obama may have backed the wrong horse. According to one recent poll, Limbaugh turns out to be one of the most unpopular political figures in the country.

An October 24, 2008, poll conducted by the Democratic research firm Greenberg-Quinlan-Rosner has Rush Limbaugh enjoying a public-approval rating of just 21 percent among likely voters, while 58 percent have "cold" feelings toward the right-wing radio-talk-show host. Limbaugh's cold rating was higher than that of all the political figures the firm polled. It was seven points higher than Rev. Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright and eight points higher than former Weather Underground domestic terrorist William Ayers. (As the firm points out in an email, it's true that Wright and Ayers both had lower "warm" ratings than Limbaugh--as you'd expect for men who have virtually no constituencies.)

Limbaugh is so unpopular that only 44 percent of Republican voters reported "warm" feelings toward him, ten points less than those who felt the same way about Limbaugh's top competitor, Fox News' Sean Hannity, and a full 20 points lower than Fox News itself. Yet in spite of rock-bottom favorable numbers, Limbaugh confidently declared one week after Obama's inauguration that his power far exceeded that of the Republican Party's top two leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives. Obama, Limbaugh roared, is "obviously more frightened of me than he is Mitch McConnell. He's more frightened of me, than he is of, say, John Boehner, which doesn't say much about our party."

Obama seems unfazed by El Rushbo. The president recently implored Republican leaders, "You can't listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."

more:

http://www.alternet.org/story/125793/new_gop_standard_bearer_rush_limbaugh_is_less_popular_than_jer

In reality, having this blow hard racist idiot as the de facto leader of the lock steppers only bodes well for President Obama breezing into a second term.

He really is that insignificant... :think:

[ixion]

1. Palin, Limbaugh, Jindal...

this is the face of the GOP.

I feel pretty comfortable with that, actually. These people are idiots of the highest order. I don't see any of them competing on a national basis.

[kestrel91316]

2. It worries me because lots of insane haters with guns take Rush seriously.

We underestimate them and him at our own peril.

[PhilosopherKing]

3. Agreed

The only fear I have of the wingnuts right now is their "clinging to their guns".