Commentary: Rush Limbaugh GOP debate is idiotic

And the hits just keep on coming. This is what happens when you elect someone who knows how to put up a street fight.

From CNN:

By Ed Rollins
CNN Contributor

Editor's note: Ed Rollins, who was political director for President Reagan, is a Republican strategist who was national chairman of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's 2008 presidential campaign.


Ed Rollins says the Republican Party has lost its relevance amid very low favorable ratings from voters.

(CNN) -- The cold winds of March have obviously affected the intelligence and thought processes of people who need to get their thinking straight.

The idiotic debate raging in Washington this week around Michael Steele, the newly elected chairman of the nearly defunct Republican Party, and Rush Limbaugh, a conservative icon for the past 35 years, is beyond foolish.

The battle to be the "de facto leader" of this party is akin to the question of who wants to steer the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. Who represents the party or its values is not relevant when only 26 percent of voters have a positive impression of the party at all and only 7 percent very positive, according to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey.

The Democratic Party is the reverse, with 49 percent positive. When 60 percent of the country approves of the job President Obama is doing, every Republican leader is going backward.

Republicans are not relevant. We just lost two back-to-back elections (2006 and 2008), and obviously, what we are selling, the voters aren't buying. In the midst of the most severe economic crisis in my lifetime, we have a president who is taking the country on a dramatic sea change. This is what he said he would do and he is doing it. And where are Republicans? Right now we don't have the alternative ideas, a message or, more important, the messenger.

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went to the point quickly and I hope your words are heard by some since it appears that the Republican evangelicals have all but held their convention and Limbaugh is pre-determined to take it.

If there is one sensible Republican, there might be more.

In the meantime, their craze of hate and their fight against recovery is a big fat circus.

I would think some among them might be embarassed by the circus.

Thanks for posting this article.

Even high profile ones, who have come out against Bushco and what the Republican Party has become. They need to have a fight within their party: the grown-ups versus the Dittoheads, fundies and nutjobs.

they are right. It is obvious he hasn't been happy for several years.

As for the 26% and 7% that still follow the Republican leader, I'd bet they are still Republican because they would die before they became a Democrat. Many of the good Republicans -- or, those who are FOR America, not AGAINST America -- have either left, didn't vote or voted Democratic. My parents were always Republican, but they would be shocked at what their party has become.

NOTE: Meant to add that I don't know who Ed thinks he's talking to, as if his intention is to nudge Rush and shame him back to reality, he's wasting precious oxygen. Rush is on a roll and he "ain't" about to let go of the reins.

So this is just what you would expect.

Rush could help the Corporate Dems stay right and pro-war.

As they still dont challenge the banks-- except rhetorically-- and vote to keep wars going, in Afghanistan_pak and lots staying in Iraq... the danger is that many will see how similar to the Republicans they are even now that we are in 1933.

So a good puppet show in the media involving Rush, could be just the Media Pinata bashing ticket, to distract from just how Corporate their policies still are. Note that I am not disputing that there have been some changes since Bush.. What I am calling into question is how much fundamental shift in philosophy there has been given that we know there would have some change no matter who won given how horrible things are. It is still remarkable how far right we are of even Keynes.

So I can see why they are going after him and causing people to question his ideals.

You see a puppet show- but I see a legit strategy with a goal to remove or hamstring certain obstacles.

Rush Limbaugh has become the Jeremiah Wright, William Ayres and Willie Horton of the Republican Party. A pompous, bombastic Far Right extremist, Rush has emerged as a national embarrassment to the GOP. The difference is that the other three were very peripheral figures to the Democratic Party. Limbaugh, by contrast, has now replaced good old Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio for the title of "Mr. Republican."

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It was not until President Obama that anyone in the Democratic party had the backbone to point out what Rush was and go after him with a street fight attitude. Until President Obama came along all any of the Democratic leadership would do, at absolute best, was complain about Rush, and then rather meekly.

I just knew that President Obama, (Gee I really like typing that)was the right choice at this time in our history.