Politics | 03/04/2009 12:45 pm
Poll: Republicans Reject Rush as Party Leader
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President Obama’s former campaign manager, David Plouffe, penned a Washington Post op-ed today in which he described Rush Limbaugh as the Republican Party’s "minority leader." White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs followed a similar line this week, when he referred to Rush as, "for lack of a better word," "a national spokesperson for conservative views and many in the Republican Party." Democratic organizations, meanwhile, have aired ads attacking Limbaugh’s politics as those of the Republican party.
For its part, the GOP seems to be bending over backward to assuage Rush. Party Chairman Michael Steele apologized for calling the radio shock jock’s remarks "incendiary" and "ugly." That said, one would think that Republicans revere Rush as their spiritual leader, but that could be misleading. According to a Rasmussen Reports telephone poll, a scant 11% of self-identified Republicans view Limbaugh as their bellwether:
Just 11% of GOP voters say the conservative radio commentator is the party’s leader.
Eighty-one percent (81%) of Republican voters disagree and 8% are undecided in a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Democrats, on the other hand, clearly view Limbaugh in a very different light: forty-four percent see him as the GOP leader, while 41 say otherwise. Where do you stand, reader?
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According to a Rasmussen Reports telephone poll, a scant 11% of self-identified Republicans view Limbaugh as their bellwether:
This is terrible…. how can they post something like about the Messiah?
The Republican party has become the Rush Limbaugh party…. I have already processed it and I have dealt with it….. The liberal media has also accepted it….. It is alright for you right wingers you can say it out loud.
Rush Limbaugh is your leader… your Messiah
and Ann Coulter is his "Queen"
Let me help you out here eleanor….. "the liberal site you obtained this citing from" is actually THIS SITE. This story used the word "bellwhether"
If you actually read the stories that you are posting about, you might not have to make these embarrassing accusatory posts
good for you SJ….
defend your Messiah and his right to free speech…. anything less would be blasphemy.
Dems admit they are using him..
Top Democrats believe they have struck political gold by depicting Rush Limbaugh as the new face of the Republican Party, a full-scale effort first hatched by some of the most familiar names in politics and now being guided in part from inside the White House.
The strategy took shape after Democratic strategists Stanley Greenberg and James Carville included Limbaugh’s name in an October poll and learned their longtime tormentor was deeply unpopular with many Americans, especially younger voters. Then the conservative talk-radio host emerged as an unapologetic critic of Barack Obama shortly before his inauguration, when even many Republicans were showering him with praise.
Soon it clicked: Democrats realized they could roll out a new GOP bogeyman for the post-Bush era by turning to an old one in Limbaugh, a polarizing figure since he rose to prominence in the 1990s.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/19596.html
Wait until this ploy, like most, turns around and bites them in the a$$. And it will, their need to define the Republicans by Limbaugh in his current incarnation is stupid at best and dumb as hell at worst. Most of the "republicans" genuflecting before Mr. Limbaugh couldn’t discuss conservative ideas with a dictionary.
When you look at the root of "Conservative" it is to conserve, that has to do with resources, time, space, whatever you use. No one as conspicuously consumptive as Rush Limbaugh can possibly be regarded as Conservative by those who practice its tenets. He wastes too much… money, jet fuel, energy, alcohol, food, air and time.
Please understand gleeful liberals, you can tell yourselves that he is a leader but truly conservative leaning independents and republicans, while we enjoy watching you squirm and shout, and carry on; wouldn’t let him lead us to the bathroom, if we had to go.
" He wastes too much… money, jet fuel, energy, alcohol, food, air and time."… you mean Obama? Having parties every week at the White House with bands and entertainers…jetting to baskeball games, dinner in Chicago for his Valentine when he lives in the most lavish home in the country with his own private chef???
It’s a diversion tactic to take focus away form their ridiculous pocket picking of the American Taxpayers and our children.
If Rahm has time on his hands to do this kind of childish behavior…it makes Obam look more a fool than he already is!
Also heard today that the omibus bill that are blaming Bush on as left over business from his administration is money that Bush refused to sign because it was laden with pork! It is to fund the government for the next 6 months so how is that Bushes deal??
Bush said he would veto if it landed on his desk..so they postoned it and are now trying to ram it though using Bush as the culprit for it’s existance.
What kind of fool are running this show????
To those of you who are writers….and are familiar with ‘writers’ style’…has anyone yet picked up the obvious spamming, yet? We have a few aliases here, who happen to be ‘doubling up’…ie I have noticed 2 female aliases whose posts seem to be written by the same person….I see that a lot on other boards and blogs, and I see it here, as well. Especially on the political boards. It’s easy enough to do—-more than one computer, for example….gives the ‘appearance’ there is more support for their ‘position’…..hahhaaha….but just like someone said earlier—maybe Belinda—-action is what counts—not whining. And schizophrenia IS a mental illness!
Now, it ‘seems’ there