GOP Leaders Can’t See a Good Thing When They’ve Got It

I noted the other day an article in the Wall Street Journal by Naftali  BenDavid, with the headline: Tea-Party Activists Complicate Republican Comeback Strategy. As you might expect from the title, the piece comes out in the first para

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• THE FIRST THING NEEDED IS AN ENEMY: … a scapegoat. The left has long held Limbaugh in that position.  Mark Steyn this morning comments:
  

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Does being of  the left mean near endless suffering from pseudo-medical political aliments?   After over eight years of BDS, Bush Derangement Syndrome,  is the left fated to suffer from over three years of OFS  (Obama Fatigue Syndrome)?   Howard Fineman, writes

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• Obama: Last of the Kennedy Brothers? Well, let’s hope so. On the other hand, maybe not Consider the words of Limbaugh on

If Sonia Sotomayor were a horse, thny would shoot her.    Ok, Sotomayor was never going to convince Rush Limbaugh to support her, but her weak and unconvincing testimony hoa lost support from Eva Rodriquez,  Washington Post:

I’m surprised and

A great piece from Mary Grabar at Pajamas Media today. Here’s a bit of it:

But those streets, once havens for displaced persons, soon were destroyed by the utopian plans of collectivists and their agitators who urged the

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This is the First Dept Edition

• From our Dept of Intemperate Thoughts: So, now that Whalen has (wrongly, I think) apologized for

Rush Limbaugh on feminism:

“The feminist movement was created to allow ugly women access to the mainstream of society”

The Poca Pundit, b/k/a Don Surber:

Too many American liberals cannot handle a strong, good-looking, intelligent, independent woman

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• Disgusted: I see Ed Whalen has apologized. It’s my considered opinion he was not in the wrong and had nothing to apologize for, and

Matthew Yglesias  is just a tad bit confused.

This seems very confused. Being a “reverse racist” can’t be similar to being a “racist,” it needs to be the reverse of being a racist. Limbaugh clearly just thinks Sotomayor is a

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This is the “smart Guy” Edition

• Burris and Blago: Apparently, we have Burris on tape offering Blago money.  Bruce at Q&O

Sonia Sotomayor, is a racist and bigot, via Stuart Taylor, Jr, National Journal:

“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion [as a judge]

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This is the “Still in the truck stop” edition

•  Minority Broadcasters, again: Limbaugh touched on this yesterday:  I lived through the

This is rich.    Colin Powell endorses a democrat, Barack Obama, for president and upset because he had been shown the, or told where, the door is, David Beard, Boston:

“Rush Limbaugh says, ‘Get out of the Republican Party.’ Dick

Rush Limbaugh

He is called the Great One for good reason.    Where some were expecting a full throated frontal attack on Wanda Syles, or, like me, an attack on the one, Limbaugh caught both his fans and critics flat footed.