{"id":7240,"date":"2012-06-04T19:52:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T02:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2012-06-04T19:52:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T02:52:22","slug":"gop-chairman-rush-limbaugh-chides-democrats-for-straying-from-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7240","title":{"rendered":"GOP Chairman Rush Limbaugh Chides Democrats For Straying From Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an exercise of Olympian hypocrisy, Rush Limbaugh, the de facto chairman of the Republican Party, spent much of his radio program today lambasting Democrats who he alleges have gotten off message or, even worse, “endorsed”<\/em> Mitt Romney. Chairman Rush’s unique and dishonest means of expressing this observation is to say that the offending Democrat was “taken to the woodshed.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“So it looks like Bill Clinton, ladies and gentlemen, was taken to the woodshed. Bill Clinton was taken to the Cory Booker Memorial Woodshed for endorsing Romney last week. You’ve got to wonder, what is in this woodshed to get so many people to change their tunes so quickly? It’s gotta be a pretty big woodshed. All these Democrats have been taken to the woodshed. In Clinton’s case, it could almost be anything in that woodshed: pictures, stained dresses. The mind boggles.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh boy, is that Rush fella a barrel of laughs, or what? Although, I haven’t figured out exactly what he’s talking about when he says “All these Democrats…”<\/em> The only ones that Chairman Rush identifies are Clinton and Booker, and neither of them were taken to a woodshed, or anywhere else. They have always been, and continue to be strong supporters of President Obama. Clinton even said that if Romney were elected it would be “a calamity for the country and the world.”<\/em> I suppose that’s what Chairman Rush considers an endorsement because, on the GOP side, so many of Romney’s supporters have been achingly public about how much they hate him. It was Newt Gingrich who called Romney a “Massachusetts Moderate.”<\/em> And Rick Perry called him a “Vulture Capitalist.”<\/em><\/p>\n

But the really striking departure from reality for Chairman Rush is that no one exemplifies the persona of a strongman dictator better than Rush himself. Last year there were several high-ranking GOP leaders who were called to come before their master and grovel for forgiveness<\/a>. They included Michael Steele, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Darrel Issa, Mark Sanford, Phil Gingrey, and even Sarah Palin<\/a>, who excused Rush’s use of the word “retard,”<\/em> so long as it was used against liberals.<\/p>\n

Even if what Limbaugh is saying were true, it would not be particularly surprising for the President to express his desire that his surrogates be aligned with his agenda. He is the candidate and the leader of the party. However, it is appallingly inappropriate for a radio loudmouth to make actual politicians cower before him and seek his blessing. Limbaugh may think he’s cute with his “Cory Booker Memorial Woodshed”<\/em> business, but it’s Limbaugh who invented the concept and still demands that Republicans subject themselves to his dominance or face the “Rush Limbaugh Memorial Waterboard Shed.”<\/em> And the sad part is that the Republicans so willingly acquiesce to Limbaugh’s authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an exercise of Olympian hypocrisy, Rush Limbaugh, the de facto chairman of the Republican Party, spent much of his radio program today lambasting Democrats who he alleges have gotten off message or, even worse, “endorsed” Mitt Romney. 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