Maryland’s Michael Steele was just elected chair of the RNC as many of you have heard. You may remember Steele’s “Scarlet R” imbroglio and the delightful ad he ran about puppies when he ran for Senator, but what I remember best is his campaign’s “recruitment of out-of-state homeless men to hand out misleading campaign literature …
Rush and them
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 …
The new Villager meme: don’t mess with Rush
I like Kathleen Parker’s columns in general and it’s almost not fair to call her a Villager, but her latest column about how Obama made a mistake in taking on Rush Limbaugh is a perfect example of Villager thinking: Never start a land war with Asia. Never argue with a man who buys ink by …
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Obama or Rush?
We’re not the only one who think it is dumb for Republicans to tie themselves to Rush Limbaugh so closely: Politio has learned that tomorrow Americans United for Change, a liberal group, will begin airing radio ads in three states Obama won — Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nevada — with a tough question aimed at the …
Sad times for the Strike Force
Even I didn’t think the Red State Strike Force would get disheartened this quickly: XXXX: I got an email yesterday. The correspondent wrote: “I truly appreciate and support your efforts; however I have to admit my total frustration in having failed to stop the Treasury nomination, it is an offensive move. I called everyone but …
Speaking of bending over and grabbing your ankles
From Matt Yglesias, footage of Mike Pence admitting he’s so beholden to Rush Limbaugh that he won’t criticize El Rushbo for saying that “we have to bend over, grab the angles, bend over forward, backward whichever, because his father was black, because he’s the first black president.” The mistake the Republicans are making here is …
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The sound of one hand clapping
It looks like the Republican War on Condoms was just the beginning: The NRCC is banging the good old culture wars drum today, sending out a raft of press releases asking if rookie Dems from conservative districts back the inclusion of anti-sexually transmitted disease programs (in the stimulus package). (link) and Grassley launches porn inquiry …