Crush Rush’s Mush
March 2, 2009
The Republic Party’s slide into irrelevance is going into overdrive. The totem of the acceleration of that slide is the full emergence of Rush Limbaugh as the de facto spokesperson of the slogan-blindered extreme right that has become the core of what was once a “grand old party,” but what is now a group of petty and puerile partisans.
Rush Limbaugh’s speech this past weekend at the CPAC had the whiff of the crushed limburger that his name evokes. His invocation of the U. S. Constitution could gain credence only among those whose ignorance of that document is as profound as his is.
When he claims that the Obama administration’s current policies, especially the economic ones, are crafted by individuals who have no proof that it works, he is saying no more than anyone could say about any attempt to navigate waters that previously had been uncharted. Of course, what he fails to say is that the solutions that he and his minions are offering have been revealed as solutions that do not work. So, given a choice between a daring policy whose success remains to be demonstrated and a timid policy whose failure has been demonstrated, only a fool or a demagogic panderer would extol the latter. Limbaugh qualifies as both.
Until a new generation of Eisenhower-inspired Republicans emerges, the current Republic Party, under the leadership of charlatans like Limbaugh, will remain moribund. If it persists in this current path, it will take a well-deserved step into extinction.
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As I life long Republican I must agree whole heartidly with docz’s comments