Memo to GOP: Forget Limbaugh, Find a Moderate
By Richard L. Connor, CQ Guest Columnist
Newly appointed Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele got it right when he described talk show host Rush Limbaugh as an entertainer who can veer into the ugly.
I am having a difficult time understanding what is inaccurate about that and why he had to come back in short order to declare “enormous respect” for Limbaugh.
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There is little question that his proposals increase the size and influence of government. What we do not know is the answer to this question: “Can government become big and invasive for awhile, help fix problems, and then shrink?”
That’s where the party out of power ought to be focused.
Instead, GOP leaders seem to be either speaking out in praise of Limbaugh issuing warnings about the nation going over the brink to socialism.
Socialism? Are you telling me that a president in his first term, in his first 90 days, is going to undo hundreds of years of free enterprise?
Republicans who complain that Obama is taking the country in the wrong direction are missing or ignoring what he already has done.
He is giving Americans hope.
We sure can use that these days.
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