Hardball: Is Rush Limbaugh the Leader of the Republican Party?

[padude64]

Hannity is a dickhead! Rush Limbaugh is a useless twit and Glenn Beck is a racist pig! and Sharron Angle wants women that are raped or suffer from incest to have their child? Where is this country headed!

[groges7999]

well they had sarah palin...who knows what theyl do

[arealconservative]

Heidi Harris is a man, baby. The drag queen from Vegas. No beauty and certainly no brains. Give this dip her own TV show. Please! Please! I've crapped smarter things in the toilet.

[LogansHill]

These guys are idiots, Rush is extreme. By Obama calling him the de facto leader of the republican party therefore the entire republican party looks this extreme and crazy and therefore turns off swing voters thus dems gaining more support. The reps who stand up to him will have to beg for forgiveness (steele) and so look weak. The Obama team are geniuses for calling out Limbaugh.

[conservativeco]

The question itself is an oxy-moron. Liberals are idiots when it comes to ideology, so they go and attack the enemy with illegitimate stupid attacks. Rush Limbaugh said last month "I am not a party person." So, therefore, he's the leader and voice of the republicans. The republicans are the new democrats and dems are new commies. And Rush bashes the GOP for abandoning Reagen. He is clearly not speaking for republicans, he his speaking for conservatives.

[HNK222]

"Are the Republicans so desperate to find a leader they would have a talk show host who does not know Washington head their party? "

The GOP are the party of fear. The party of cowards. A party so terrified, impotent and weak they refused to do ANYTHING to get the guy who killed 3,000 people on THEIR watch! They just spent 8 YEARS trying to get the rest of America to be as scared as they were. Are they so scared they would let a drug-addicted shock-jock take control and "leadership"? YES!!!

[ChrisArlingtonVA]

Yes, Rush Limbaugh is the face of the modern-day Republican Party = fat, college drop-out, drug-addict. A very fitting choice to be the GOP standard-bearer, after the village idiot manchild George Dumbya Bush.

[McGriff99]

Why is Rush so fat?

[thhhegame33]

because he is old and doesnt excercise. he probably eats a "bit" also. i mean, why a person is fat is not rocket science.

[burbonboy]

God Rush is so simple minded. I don't see how anyone, whether conservative or Liberal takes this guy seriously!!

[mawriz]

I would celebrate the day when Rush Limbaugh dies.

[once2die]

as will I when you and ur messiah the obamanation rots away.

[starVol]

Matthews is the biggest weinerwussy on television.Years ago, Don Imus even called Matthews a weenie. Remember that comment by Mathews calling Southern voters "The pre air conditioned set" What an elitist weinerwussy!

[starVol]

I thought Matthews lusted after Obama with the tingle up Matthews leg and all?

[FLL999]

Limbaugh is, conservatively speaakig, an all-time loser.

[Sinistertino]

Rush is a douche

[AshillaBeige]

Ugh... I've just realized that listening to Rush Limbaugh is like eating haggis. There's no wit behind that, it just is what it is.

Hmm... has anyone else noticed that if you take a sip of coffee and then a sip of iced tea, it tastes like Corn Nuts? Woah..

[valgehiir]

RT129, precisly

[SpanishForkOutcast]

It doesn't put Rush on the level with the Pres. We WANT Rush to be the leader of the GOP--ugly, racist, sexist, homophobic, anti-disabled, mean spirited--that's what the GOP is.

[il128]

The repubs will do anything for power. Even if it means the destruction of America.

[LordMalice6d9]

"The repubs will do anything for power. Even if it means the destruction of America."

As if the Democrats are much better, the Democrats pretty much just want Gov't to be involved in every facet of American life.

Either the Government is your parent, or its not.

[reddog223]

No that is the dems.

[billthebutcher2]

Because the more the GOP gets associated with Limbaugh the more they lose everybody else but the far right. This country is growing in demographics that hurt the Republican Party, Limbaugh and his associated acts, don't bring in any of those much needed demographics, they alienate them.

[Zakdayak]

I gotta tell you, I agree with Pat.... why is she on the show??

[kargenlewis]

blah blah blah. if your fooled by old bush politics then f you!

why dont republicans take responsibility for helping bush murder millions and destroying america? fuk you republicans pigs!

[uyd]

A strong DemocratIC ,thats Democratic Party Rush you fat bag of gas,Party what's wrong with that? We've spent the last twenty plus years deregulating the markets, cutting taxes for  the top .5% and allowing the country to go to hell. This recesion is what Republican policies have wrought. How about trying something new.? All the Republicans stand for is cutting taxes for their campaign contributors and NOTHING ELSE!

[smartcop143]

The Liberals have a problem of naming anyone who opposes their views as crazy's!! Do you think the 20 millions listeners of Rush are loons?? Of course there is substance in what he says and thats precisely the reason Obama is pissed.

[uyd]

No to the first part. Yes to the second part.

[diginando]

20 million loons?

No, sheeple.

[grenluvv]

conservatives slander people who oppose them as anti American.

[kcp12304]

lets stop talking about the crazy people...talking about them only gives them more attention

[charlie44444]

Even when the country is on the verge of going down the toilet, Americans can't help trying to make it worse every chance they get. Even the Sunnis and the Shiites got along under Sadam...

[GBTRU]

Is that Golden dildo in front of his mouth? I bet he fantizes that it's Bushes dick whe he shoves that up his ass. Drug addict piece of shit. How can people on the right listen to a man that has been proven to be a drug addict. Example: would you listen to a bum on the street that is hooked on crank? No, because you know he(she) would be spewing nonsense. I just don't get it?

[zndprophet]

and can someone remind me again why we don't just look at pill-addicts like Rush the same way we look at crackheads or meth addicts? I mean, why is he still even on the air?

[GBTRU]

Here here! I don't know why the right listen to this DRUG ADDICT.

[Plutonwolf]

Funny, isn't it, how the far right claims that the Dems idolize Obama, yet most of them would perform unnatural acts with a wildebeest just to be able to lick Limbaugh's feet.

[gamoonbat]

Barack just calls it like he sees it. The Republican leadership are dittoheads, particularly in the House.

[plzIneedhelp]

MSNBC MAKES ME SICK I SWEAR

[jpbalkenende]

Obama isn't out to destroy Rush (though he sure would love it like most of us) he's out to drive a wedge between Rush and the republicans in congress. He's a cautious guy he wants bipartisanship. For us dems however the more strategic things is probably let the GOP turn into total dittoheads so they can lose at least another 2 elections.

[swaggajee]

Rush is back on the oxycotin!!

Did anyone pick up on how he ruined his entire arguement?

"If it works it'll crush the Republican Party...but it's gonna work by strengthening the Democratic Party"

Oookay. So in Rush's stoned out mind the Democrats are win-win with the economy. They either ruin the Republicans or get stronger. WTF???

[SaveOurSovereignty2]

left right left right left right left right blah blah blah blah blah

Can't it be possible to think for yourself?

[zhuqi315]

apparently not, americans are too stupid to think for themselves...

[GBTRU]

Yes it is, but the States has a two party system, and that's how it's been for a long time. Until a idealogy that is more sound than what is presented on bothsides and people can realate than we will continue on this path.

[zxslipperz007]

Think for yourselves, question authority!

[grenluvv]

this is brilliant by Obama... What a way to marginalize these guys...when a party's leader is seen as a  polarizing figure. You can't win national elections.

[burntonion05]

That is exactly what I was thinking. As long as they have morons like Rush leading their party they will continue to lose votes. Bring on Rush, Hannity, and Coulter because they are good for the Democratic party.

[zndprophet]

Yeah good point....

We can just make them into the P.R. party with Rush, Palin Hannity and Coulter....they will be more of a joke than they already are.

I seriously root for the complete, permanent dissolution of the republican party and it actually looks like it could happen.

Some people say "well traditional republicans werent that bad" eh.....maybe, but I just don't think our country will really miss them at all....bring out a new party