David Frum not happy about the new "voice and the intellectual force...behind the Republican party"

[babylonsister]

:rofl: I think it's working!


http://www.newmajority.com/ShowScroll.aspx?ID=d22fe4c9-6f8c-4c0d-93af-aed79ad3b467

LIMBAUGH AT CPAC
David Frum
Monday, March 02, 2009 7:07 AM



President Obama and Rush Limbaugh do not agree on much, but they share at least one thing: Both wish to see Rush anointed as the leader of the Republican party. Here’s Rahm Emanuel on Face the Nation yesterday: “the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican party.”

What a great endorsement for Rush! (And we know Rush is fond of compliments – listen to his loving account in his CPAC speech of the birthday lunch given him by President Bush just before Inauguration Day.)

But what about the rest of the party? Here’s the duel that Obama and Limbaugh are jointly arranging:

On the one side, the president of the United States: soft-spoken and conciliatory, never angry, always invoking the recession and its victims. This president invokes the language of “responsibility,” and in his own life seems to epitomize that ideal: He is physically honed and disciplined, his worst vice an occasional cigarette. He is at the same time an apparently devoted husband and father. Unsurprisingly, women voters trust and admire him.

And for the leader of the Republicans? A man who is aggressive and bombastic, cutting and sarcastic, who dismisses the concerned citizens in network news focus groups as “losers.” With his private plane and his cigars, his history of drug dependency and his personal bulk, not to mention his tangled marital history, Rush is a walking stereotype of self-indulgence – exactly the image that Barack Obama most wants to affix to our philosophy and our party. And we’re cooperating! Those images of crowds of CPACers cheering Rush’s every rancorous word – we’ll be seeing them rebroadcast for a long time.

Rush knows what he is doing. The worse conservatives do, the more important Rush becomes as leader of the ardent remnant. The better conservatives succeed, the more we become a broad national governing coalition, the more Rush will be sidelined.

But do the rest of us understand what we are doing to ourselves by accepting this leadership? Rush is to the Republicanism of the 2000s what Jesse Jackson was to the Democratic party in the 1980s. He plays an important role in our coalition, and of course he and his supporters have to be treated with respect. But he cannot be allowed to be the public face of the enterprise – and we have to find ways of assuring the public that he is just one Republican voice among many, and very far from the most important.

[seemslikeadream]

1. intellectual force?

I think not

[babylonsister]

3. You missed this...

that's what Emanuel called him yesterday on Face The Nation. Sort of a dig, but lots of Dems have taken up the cause.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5161817&mesg_id=5161817

[jpgray]

2. I welcome the ongoing antipathy between Rush and Brooks/Frum types

[librechik]

4. If the Shmoe fits, run it for president

poor David--it's tough looking in the mirror sometimes, isn't it?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

5. I would just like to go on record

as fully supporting Rush Limbaugh as the head, heart, mind, and voice of the Republican Party.

Long may he reign.

<snort>

[BOSSHOG]

7. No one could better serve as the leader of the republican party than

a drug addicted pedophile, thrice divorced social misfit with no friends. Talk about representing.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

21. Obese

You forgot to mention that he's morbidly obese................

[tblue37]

9. He is the king, and Ann Coulter is the party's Queen. nt

[glitch]

16. Could their idols get any more grotesque?

Unless they get so shrill only dogs can hear them, is that possible?

[get the red out]

6. Talk Radio

The "intellectual" Republicans said nothing when Clear Channel took over station after station and the air waves became dominated by hate. They welcomed whatever would give them votes. Now that the dowry is spent, they want out of this awful marriage, but it just isn't that easy.

[Ganja Ninja]

18. They've created a monster and now they're stuck with it.

Their mighty media machine is dragging their rabid base into the dark depths of insanity where thinking people refuse to follow. Hate radio butt heads are only worried about their own ratings. The fate of Republican candidates of 2010 & 2012 matter little to them.

The best thing that could happen to the Republicans right now is for the fairness doctrine to be reinstated.

[walkaway]

8. Linbaugh/Palin 2012!

The last gasp of a dying monster.

Democrats and Progressives will be the new "two parties"

[Captain Hilts]

10. I've actually run into this idiot a few times in my 'hood and at Nat'l Airport on a plane to Toronto

What a creep.

His theory about how Limbaugh is interested only in what's good for Limbaugh is an interesting one as he writes it.

[Winterblues]

11. Republican Dream Team ...... Limbaugh/Coulter

What the Republican Party should run in 2012...Who wouldn't vote for such a delightful couple?

[JuniperLea]

12. Rush: The Final Death Throes of the GOP

Amen! Rush deserves to go down with the ship!

I can't think of a more fitting epilogue.

[ellacott]

13. Jessie Jackson was a big factor into the creation of the DLC

I wonder if the Repubs will attempt to create their own organization to make them a little more centrist.

[HughBeaumont]

14. Right. Because if ANYONE would know what "intelligence" is . . .

. . . it would be the brain surgeon who dumbfoundingly insinuated that two mortal enemies and one of the most diplomatically isolated countries in the world are somehow in an "Axis". :rofl: :rofl:

[glitch]

15. You broke it you bought it.

The Republican Party of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter are all yours, chump. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of aholes.

[NJmaverick]

17. damn it! I was hoping all republicans were too stupid to see what Obama is doing to them

[Warren DeMontague]

19. When he says "intellectual force" I envision him doing the quotes thingy.

Remember, Rush gave us Sarah Palin- the gift that keeps on giving.

[Neecy]

20. the comments there are fascinating

Most sane Republicans see a move to the center as the only way to salvage the Party - and the insane Republicans won't allow them to. The next couple of years are going to be fun to watch.

[PM Martin]

22. The Family Man vs. Porky Pig!

The fate of conservatives in general is in the air right now. They deserve to be blown away and never be heard from again.

Enough said!
:kick: