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Cafferty: Is Rush Limbaugh running the GOP?

 
Join the conversation on Jack's blog. Rush Limbaugh is the face of the Republican Party — at least that’s how some Democrats want it. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel calls Limbaugh the “voice and intellectual force and energy” behind the GOP and Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says he’s “a national spokesperson for conservative [...] (link)

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