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Friday, May 15, 2009 12:00 AM

Dark days for the right

Judging from what leading conservatives are saying, these are very bad times for the GOP.

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Friday, May 15, 2009 11:22 AM

Dark days for the right?

With Obama alienating his own party? With the House Speaker caught in a lie and worse in a war with the CIA? With the Democratic party about to split because of Obama's recent actions???

Seems to me the Republican party should be celebrating right now. 2010 looks pretty good for them right now...heck, so does 2012, IMO!!!

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:25 AM

a little bit of projection

there Rush, don't you think?

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:25 AM

In the words of Jon Stewart

It's supposed to taste like a shit taco.

GOP crying about losing isn't to fix anything. . We had to eat that taco for 20 of the last 28 years. Sorry it's your turn now but you aren't going to get any sympathy from the left with this junk.

Deal with it, pony up and be real leaders for once.

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:27 AM

To paraphrase my friend Neill at Political Animal

"God Damn Rush Limbagh's shit filled soul to hell"

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:28 AM

@2010 looks pretty good for them right now

So name the Senate seats you are going to win back and the House seats you have a shot at?

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:32 AM

"There is nothing you can do at this time about what is taking place . . ."

" . . . unless of course you pick up a gun or start building fertilizer bombs." That's the unspoken but not very subtle subtext of Dobson's statements.

As for Rush, yeah, he should know about addiction to power; whenever any Republican with actual elected authority disses him he goes into a screaming, flailing withdrawal fit until they give him his fix.

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:38 AM

@ chiefpayne

You honestly think Democrats are going to turn Republican because we don't all agree on every one of Obama's policies? We aren't going to suddenly side with the assholes we hate and disagree with on 99.9% of the issues because of a few disagreements.

Our party has had internal divisions forever. You Republicans don't allow any, which is why Boss Limbaugh's party dictatorship is going to take you all down the drain.

Enjoy your irrelevance, Whigs!

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:41 AM

The Limbloviator has spoken

Limbaugh is just as funny as he can be. How can any sentient being not look at what he is saying as applying 100-fold to the idiots who just got sent out of Washington on a rail? Addicted to power? Not Bush and company? I mean it's just so beyond crazy to try to make such a point. Here's a little secret: ALL career politicians love power...many to a point of going too far. Republicans are practically defined by this, but plenty of Democrats are far too impressed with their own power too.

Glad to see Dobson getting it. He could tell his people to keep doing real advocacy (why should they not?), but the problem is they don't hold any worthwhile positions, so he's right just to give up. Pray away, kids, and now keep the white Christian victim crap to yourselves!

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:47 AM

Rush has got my number, alright.

"They still want George Bush in jail. They want Karl Rove and Dick Cheney being frog-marched in handcuffs and shackles off to the hoosegow."

Yes, that would, in fact, make me very, very happy, Rush. You read my mind.

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:47 AM

Wow, I kinda agree with Rush!

Well, as for making "perversion standard operating procedure", go sex touring in Dominica again, ya creep.

But on the rest of the comment, hey: he admits he's been "entirely unreasonable and irrational"--no argument here! And he says that we "want George Bush in jail. [We] want Karl Rove and Dick Cheney being frog-marched in handcuffs and shackles off to the hoosegow." Damn right! How enforcing the law means we're going to "destroy our country," I don't know, but you gotta start on common ground somewhere!

But I have to beg off on marching Rush away in chains. I may hate him for a propagandist, but the 1st Amendment says that's legal.

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:51 AM

Reasonable options

If the battle truly is lost, the Whig cultural warriors appear to have three options: 1) move to some other country more to their liking, 2) commit suicide and go to that "better place" they seem so obsessed about, or 3) STFU. Any of these would be fine with me.

Friday, May 15, 2009 11:53 AM

More transference

But after they destroy our country, where's their power?

RUSH: What do addicts do? They destroy themselves.

Yeah, repubs are so upset at the merest suggestion of the shifting of policy by the power-mad dems that they are ready to instigate assassination, runs on the bank and secession, and all this after Bush tortured, instigated wars of choice, negated our basic freedoms and threw open the doors to the wholesale theft of our treasury by Wall Street. Dems can't hold a candle to the repubs when it comes to destruction of the country.

Friday, May 15, 2009 12:01 PM

Truly stunning projection

These people are addicted to power, because they think it is their birthright... The addiction to power and dominance and control is what drives them. And the thing about an addiction is, it can never be satisfied.

In case you're confused, he's NOT talking about the republicans.

Friday, May 15, 2009 12:05 PM

@chiefpayne

Seems to me the Republican party should be celebrating right now. 2010 looks pretty good for them right now...heck, so does 2012, IMO!!!

OK, I'll admit it. I'm envious of your ability to block out whatever reality you find disturbing. Seriously, if I could do what you just did in the paragraph above, I'd block out all kinds of shit! I'd start with the Iraq War, move on to torture, ease over to wiretapping, and conclude with the propagation of nuclear weapons around the world.

But, alas, I'm too tethered to reality to get away with such a thing. In my reality, no amount of "disagreement" with Obama's policies or Pelosi's shenanigans comes close to erasing the debacle of the last 8 years. Nothing. The republicans truly have no hope of ever getting a majority to support them again. Right now, their only support comes from the imbecile sector, and unfortunately for them, there just aren't as many imbeciles in this country as there used to be.

Friday, May 15, 2009 12:08 PM

Karma

You follow people like G.W.Bush your karma is in the crapper, now they (some) align with Limbaugh and I am left shaking my head, how can anyone be that far out of touch with reality?

They don't deserve to exist.

Friday, May 15, 2009 12:09 PM

Watch out, Rushbo!

"First they came for the douchebag former presidents, but I wasn't a douchebag former president, so I said nothing. Then they came for the psychopathic former VPs, but I wasn't one of them, so I remained silent. Then they came for the obese, drug-addled blowhards..."

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