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Why Limbaugh is the new Bush
I've been hunting around for polling data to explain why Democrats are so eager to make Rush Limbaugh the face of the Republican Party, and lo, Mark Blumenthal finds some . The numbers are pretty clear. When this poll was taken last fall, Rush Limbaugh was the second-most toxic figure among ...
New Anti-Limbaugh Radio Attack Ad To Air Beginning Tomorrow
New Anti-Limbaugh Radio Attack Ad To Air Beginning Tomorrow
radioequalizer.blogspot.com — STEPPING IT UP Dems Plan New Anti-Limbaugh Attack Ads *** UPDATED WITH EXCLUSIVE LIMBAUGH REACTION CLIP FROM... MARK LEVIN SHOW *** Apparently furious with the success of a newly-reunited conservative-GOP coalition against the reckless spending ... (more) New Anti-Limbaugh Radio Attack Ad To Air Beginning Tomorrow
"I Hope He Fails" -- The Ad Sequel
hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com — Americans United For Change is featuring Rush Limbaugh in new radio ads running on WTAM in Cleveland,... KXNT in Las Vegas, KKOH in Reno and KYW in Philly. Swing state nation! The goal, according to a spokesman for the progressive group, is to ... (more) "I Hope He Fails" -- The Ad Sequel
 McCain: Obama Shouldn't Criticize Limbaugh (video)
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Limbaugh to Levin: “I’m being Alinsky-ed”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... “They are trying to marginalize me,” he insists, which is only half the story. See Ben Smith for the other half, or just eyeball the table he’s posted. The data suggests that Limbaugh’s already been marginalized, which is a hard fact for conservative partisans to swallow but neatly explains why The One and his ...

Rush and them
Balloon Juice — Via Mark Blumental (via Ben Smith), Democracy Corps has a favorability poll on Rush Limbaugh and other conservative luminaries: What that means is that even among the troglodytes who like Fox News, only about half like Rush Limabugh. Ouch. Blumenthal speculates about the new “Rush or Obama” ads: My guess is that some Democratic sponsored focus group conducted this week confirmed that voters in the middle perceive Rush Limbaugh as the antithesis to the Obama “bipartisanship ...

Don't Buy This Nonsense On Limbaugh
Riehl World View — ... via Politico which purportedly suggests why Obama is targeting Limbaugh. It has Rush with unfavorable ratings right up there with Bush's. ...

Polling Data and Other Lies
Ace of Spades HQ — ... . Here's the source material from The Politico . Essentially, a poll taken by Democracy Corps shows that Rush Limbaugh has unfavorable ratings among the infamous "likely voters" of 51% (favorable is 23%), second only to the 59% unfavorable rating held by President George W. Bush (who has a favorable rating of 31%). Others in the same survey include Newt Gingrich (25% favorable: 48% unfavorable), and Sarah Palin ( 41% favorable: 47% unfavorable). To paraphrase the guys from "The 40-Year Old Virgin": You know how I know this polling data is bullshit? Senator John McCain. 48% ...

So Long Bush, Rush Limbaugh Is the New Face of the Republican Party
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... Here we have toxic Bush and toxic Limbaugh. By comparison, everyone else looks warm and lovely. I'm not sure what happened to all that post-partisan lovey-dovey stuff, but the Dems are attacking Rush like he's Bush and it feels like we're back in that two-year election campaign we thought would never end. Ah yes, politics in the U.S. , by any other name we'd call it doing the same stupid thing year after year after year after . . . ...

Mike's Blog Roundup
Crooks and Liars — digby: Supahstahs! pandagon: Looks like Michael Steele has been chosen as Limbaugh's assistant Facing South: More revelations about KBR Whiskey Fire: A silly waste of money?  Only if you're a peabrained wingnut Lawyers, Guns and Money: EPIC FAIL, Utter Inevitability Edition Agitprop: Wanker of the Week ...

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Over at Salon, Joan Walsh writes about “ The leaderless GOP,” and commiserates with Michael Steele about it: Sorry, Michael Steele, but it’s going to be a while before you’re anything more than the figurehead frontman of a shipwrecked Republican National Committee. ...
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The main stream media has done it again. I was blogging at the Republican National Committee elections on Friday, and I asked newly elected Chairman Michael Steele if the RNC would stand behind Limbaugh in the midst of the attacks the radio host was getting from Democrats. The Washington ...
Begala: Leader of GOP Is 'Corpulent Drug Addict' Rush LimbaughNewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias
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If the GOP truly seeks to reach out to a constituency beyond Rush Limbaugh’s listenership demographic, they could have picked no better candidate for Republican National Committee Chairman than Michael Steele, the first African American to get that slot. When Steele promises to bring ...
Limbaugh and Steele: the Spokesman and the LeaderRedState: Conservative News and Community
Over at the Arena , Democratic strategist Lanny Davis had some interesting comments about the RNC Chairman’s race. He said : Michael Steele was positively my last preference for RNC Chair – since he was, and is, by far, the most effective, articulate center - right voice of the ...
African-American Michael Steele Takes Over Fractured GOP: Will He Join In As A Limbaugh Foot Soldier?Think Progress
Today, Republican National Committee (RNC) delegates chose former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele as their new chairman. Steele is the first African-American to lead the party, which continues to struggle with diversity problems . The choice of Steele represents a considerable failure for ...