If you were a Democrat who had been trusted by leaders in the Democratic

[JDPriestly]

Party and had appeared frequently on TV as a pundit representing Democrats, would you accept an invitation and go to Rush Limbaugh's wedding?

And if you did accept and go, would you still claim publicly to be a Democrat?

I answer "No" to both questions.

I know this is a trivial matter, but to claim to be a Democrat, you have to do more than just talk folksy.

[blm]

1. The answer is contained in the documentary, Our Brand is Crisis.

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[Sebastian Doyle]

2. I gave up on any pretense of Snake Carville being a Democrat

the first time he shit all over Howard Dean in 2003.

[blondeatlast]

3. I would not, but then, I have prnciples that I would never BE ABLE

to compromise (I can't even do that in everyday life), so I could never be a "prominent" Democrat.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. I never trusted Carville or his boss.

[derby378]

5. If Rush and I had been friends for 30-40 years...

...and maintained that friendship despite countless political debates over coffee and cigars, I'd most likely go.

Then again, if that were the case, I doubt that his talk radio program would as abrasive and nonsensical if he had me around as a sounding board. Relationships can do wonders for altering one's own point of view.

And yes, I remember that Rush has a bit of a mercenary streak, but I'm just sayin'.

[hughee99]

6. If a friend of my wife's got married, I'd go...

no matter who that person is. Now you can argue about how I could be married to someone who'd have such a person as a friend, and that's a legit point, but I don't see the issue with this specifically.

[zipplewrath]

7. It's his job

Really, for both of them, it's just their job. The degree to which they believe the ideas the advocate is relatively unknown. Think of them as doing a job similar to a speach writer. It's all a game to them.