Wait. You're saying one of our left-wing conspiracies actually worked?

I'm so thrilled! I've been on the double-secret lefty e-mail marking-orders list for decades and we've never managed to pull off one. (Anyone else remember the scheme to get folks not to vote for George Bush because he was an idiot? Yeah...that one worked out so well....)

My heavens. I'm giddy.

wejash: Wait. You're saying one of our the left-wing conspiracies actually worked?

I'm Some people are so thrilled! I've been on the double-secret lefty RNC e-mail marking-orders donor list for decades and we've never managed to pull off convince anyone. (Anyone else remember the scheme to get folks not to vote for George Bush because he was an idiot? Yeah...that one worked out so well libtards....)

My heavens. I'm giddydisappointed.

_{Dude, don't give us away.}

I haven't gotten my liberal conspiracy manifesto and monthly newsletters yet... what gives? Could someone please inform the top liberal and make sure they're notified of problem, I wouldn't want to miss out on all the great conspiracies.

JohnnyC: I haven't gotten my liberal conspiracy manifesto and monthly newsletters yet... what gives? Could someone please inform the top liberal and make sure they're notified of problem, I wouldn't want to miss out on all the great conspiracies.

don't forget - there's also Tell Dick Cheney to Shut the Hell Up, Fox News is full of Crap, Bill O'Reilly is full of Crap, and some other ones.

Our devious and maniacal Facebook plan is working.

JohnnyC: I haven't gotten my liberal conspiracy manifesto and monthly newsletters yet... what gives? Could someone please inform the top liberal and make sure they're notified of problem, I wouldn't want to miss out on all the great conspiracies.

Please send all inquiries regarding subscriptions or incident X35 to Kim Jong-il via normal channels.

And this is why the GOP will die. You don't get thrown into the water with an albatross that big chained around your neck and successfully swim to shore.

Occam's Chainsaw: And this is why the GOP will die. You don't get thrown into the water with an albatross that big chained around your neck and successfully swim to shore.

Oh man, that's perfect.

Gee, I don't know, Limbaugh was kind of helping out in that regard also.

I don't know if it's fair to say the "Limbaugh leads the GOP" meme started with the Democrats. Limbaugh himself has certainly been pushing the idea for a while. "Rush Runs America!" was one of his slogans for a while, if I recall correctly. Still, there's no doubt that the Obama/Democratic PR machine has been much more enthusiastic about the idea than any of the Republicans Rush is is supposedly leading.

I'm really confused here. It seems like the people who still support the GOP are stupid, based on there responses. And somehow it's our fault?

darkhorse23: don't forget - there's also Tell Dick Cheney to Shut the Hell Up, Fox News is full of Crap, Bill O'Reilly is full of Crap, and some other ones.

I think you are confused. That was Von Brunn's agenda -- attacking neocons and Fox News.

The party has a power problem.

I hate to use the word 'cabal' but it works as well as anything else, a small group of individuals who are leading the bloody thing, and as of now, they don't have that. They've got a wide disparate group that are all trying to grab the reins, and/or acting as a spoiler to anyone who 'might' have a shot at taking charge who's minutiae of conservatism doesn't quite meet some arbitrary standard.

Uchiha_Cycliste: I'm really confused here. It seems like the people who still support the GOP are stupid, based on there responses. And somehow it's our fault?

Everything is our fault. Because they're perfect creatures, carved out of the shiat that God himself excreted, and nothing will ever change that. And we hate America. Oh, and America is perfect except when it comes to taxes, then it's okay to kill gay people.

I would explain it, but it would take a lobotomized retard to do so, and even then he's working with a bigger intelligence quotient then Republicans have.

Occam's Chainsaw: And this is why the GOP will die. You don't get thrown into the water with an albatross that big chained around your neck and successfully swim to shore.

I think you are forgetting that shiat floats.

darkhorse23: don't forget - there's also Tell Dick Cheney to Shut the Hell Up, Fox News is full of Crap, Bill O'Reilly is full of Crap, and some other ones.

Our devious and maniacal Facebook plan is working.

Also there's Ann Coulter has a penis! OMG!!!

wejash: Wait. You're saying one of our left-wing conspiracies actually worked?

I'm so thrilled! I've been on the double-secret lefty e-mail marking-orders list for decades and we've never managed to pull off one. (Anyone else remember the scheme to get folks not to vote for George Bush because he was an idiot? Yeah...that one worked out so well....)

My heavens. I'm giddy.

The double-secret one? Huh, I left that about six months ago. I'm on quadruple-secret right now. I guess I shouldn't be telling you this, but since I'm a fellow double-secreter, you should know you're supposed to embrace Islam, hate Christianity, and give rights and citizenship to terrorists.

I haven't found out which six liberal Jews control the banks and the media yet, because that's quintuple-secret. Let me know if you find out.

[secret handshake here]

SwordBuddha: darkhorse23: don't forget - there's also Tell Dick Cheney to Shut the Hell Up, Fox News is full of Crap, Bill O'Reilly is full of Crap, and some other ones.

Our devious and maniacal Facebook plan is working.

Also there's Ann Coulter has a penis! OMG!!!

That's not a Facebook plan, that's a little trick I call 'looking at a picture.' Polaroid does have a reality/liberal bias.

It was largely successful in part because:

1. Rush Limbaugh is really farking loud and obnoxious, and amazingly racist and sexist
2. Obama is cock-slapping the Dems into learning some form of subtlety
3. Every GOP higher-up kissed Limbaugh's ass
4. The GOP base themselves for the most part prefers Rush and his approach

All Obama and his mouthpieces really had to do was toss out a few left-handed comments and watch the media descend on that juicy time filler/poss. source of drama like buzzards on roadkill. He really didn't even DO anything all that drastic.

soy_bomb: darkhorse23: don't forget - there's also Tell Dick Cheney to Shut the Hell Up, Fox News is full of Crap, Bill O'Reilly is full of Crap, and some other ones.

I think you are confused. That was Von Brunn's agenda -- attacking neocons and Fox News.

You know, upon reading your comment I realized this is why you guys all farking suck.

"HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR the guy who shot up the Holocaust museum 'cause he thought Obama was coming to take his guns due to the huge farking scads of right-wing WHARRGARBL on the subject has so much in common with you!"

You don't even bother to try to say anything of merit, you simply immediately go off into "Well, we might be bad, but you guys are WORSE" mode and roll over onto your backs, pissing.

Enjoy young people not voting for you while your base dies off of old age and shiatty health care, jackass.

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: It was largely successful in part because:

1. Rush Limbaugh is really farking loud and obnoxious, and amazingly racist and sexist
2. Obama is cock-slapping the Dems into learning some form of subtlety
3. Every GOP higher-up kissed Limbaugh's ass
4. The GOP base themselves for the most part prefers Rush and his approach

All Obama and his mouthpieces really had to do was toss out a few left-handed comments and watch the media descend on that juicy time filler/poss. source of drama like buzzards on roadkill. He really didn't even DO anything all that drastic.

5. Rush has an ego the size of a continent.

Cinaed: 5. Rush has an ego the size of a continenthis ass.

FTFY, but same difference.

Cinaed: 5. Rush has an ego the size of a continent.

And he super likes money. I probably should have rolled all that into #1...

To be honest I hope he makes piles of money off of this, because neutralizing the power of the GOP is cheap at the price of enriching one fat blowhard with no kids.

Or does he have kids? Who would fark that?

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: Or does he have kids? Who would fark that?

As far as I know, he doesn't, but he's gone through at least 3 wives. A serial monogamist.. well, if he hasn't cheated on them.

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: Or does he have kids? Who would fark that?

Dominican boys, and Dominican boys.

/Low hanging fruit.

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: Cinaed: 5. Rush has an ego the size of a continent.

And he super likes money. I probably should have rolled all that into #1...

To be honest I hope he makes piles of money off of this, because neutralizing the power of the GOP is cheap at the price of enriching one fat blowhard with no kids.

Or does he have kids? Who would fark that?

Bangkok Ladyboys *rimshot*

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: soy_bomb: darkhorse23: don't forget - there's also Tell Dick Cheney to Shut the Hell Up, Fox News is full of Crap, Bill O'Reilly is full of Crap, and some other ones.

I think you are confused. That was Von Brunn's agenda -- attacking neocons and Fox News.

You know, upon reading your comment I realized this is why you guys all farking suck.

"HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR the guy who shot up the Holocaust museum 'cause he thought Obama was coming to take his guns due to the huge farking scads of right-wing WHARRGARBL on the subject has so much in common with you!"

You don't even bother to try to say anything of merit, you simply immediately go off into "Well, we might be bad, but you guys are WORSE" mode and roll over onto your backs, pissing.

Enjoy young people not voting for you while your base dies off of old age and shiatty health care, jackass.

I love the idea that Von Brunn was a "leftist" because he hated neo-cons.

I guess Communists are rightists cause they hate socialists and social democrats.

This is the problem with Conservative idiocy in general. To any sane, thinking person, it's obvious that left and right is relative. Moderates are left of rightists but right of leftists, etc. This reasoning escapes -- or is deliberately ignored by -- Rightists who always attempt to lump left-wingers into the same group.

It's an incredibly piss-poor lie and a stretch of the imagination to the largest extent; like saying social democrat & social libertarian George Orwell was a "rightist" because he despised Stalinist excess.

This inability to reason successfully is the cause behind the DHS report outrage (and it's now embarassing fallout). The inability to separate their usually gardening-variety queer-hating crankery from out and out terror attacks, the narcissistic and self-centred conservative can only assume the report is about him.

There is no such outrage from leftists over reports of left-wing extremism, and it's telling. We can accept that there are bad people in our midst willing to go to violent extremes to achieve their goals, but the constant need of right-wingers to paint themselves as holier-than-thou martyrs (while decrying so-called liberal elitism) removes them from this ability to introspect, with hilarious results.

Instead of concentrating on reality, they dig themselves deeper and deeper into the land of irrelevance.

Occam's Chainsaw: Dominican boys, and Dominican boys.

SwordBuddha:Bangkok Ladyboys *rimshot*

OK, guys, in all honesty. Is that really true? I keep hearing it thrown around.

/hi Alphax

The libs made elected Republican representatives apologize for disagreeing with a radio host?

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: OK, guys, in all honesty. Is that really true? I keep hearing it thrown around.

They way I heard it, Rush got caught in customs returning from the Dominican Republic with Viagra. The name on the prescription was not his. He was travelling alone, and tried to hide the Viagra. That suggests he was using it there, at the least.

Mr. Coffee Nerves: The libs made elected Republican representatives apologize for disagreeing with a radio host?

I know, it's crazy right?
Then again, the conservatives in this country were already a touch butthurt over the election, collapse of the economy, etc. The GOP was doing some soul searching and, like clockwork, the various pundits started mouthing off and... gave the Dems a golden, if diabolical, opportunity.

Enter the Crazy Right.

Bigger Leftist Intarweb Schlong: OK, guys, in all honesty. Is that really true? I keep hearing it thrown around.

I guarantee you'll never find a single signed statement from anyone that states that they either witnessed or experienced a homosexual sex act that involved Rush Limbaugh. That said, it's odd that the man would bring a bottle of Viagra with him to the DR when traveling with his buddies but not his proclaimed significant other at the time. If Rushbo takes offense at my aspersions, he can mention me by name on his radio broadcast and I'll willingly apologize.

Alphax: They way I heard it, Rush got caught in customs returning from the Dominican Republic with Viagra. The name on the prescription was not his. He was travelling alone, and tried to hide the Viagra. That suggests he was using it there, at the least.

....Methinks I should google the history of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic. Thank you, Alphax, I will go research before indulging in hilarity at his expense.

To be fair, has he ever gone on record as being against prostitution? Because if he has, and this is like the 'drug addicts should all go to jail' shenanigans in the past, the schadenfreude is going to be epic.

anyone else click on the second chart in the article? i think what's funnier than Rush ranking so high is the fact that even among republicans, michael steele (you know, the guy whose supposed to be the ACTUAL GOP leader) has only 2% who think he's their main spokesman.

and john boehner has 0%. now that's hilarious.

Just because someone dangles bait in front of you doesn't mean you have to take it. Taunting someone in no way obliges them to reveal the truth (that you hinted at all along) that they are hate-filled, mouth-foaming, hardcore right-winger. Obama's team didn't make them that way. They merely tricked them into revealing it to everyone. Note that this wouldn't have worked if it wasn't largely true. Republicans said it wasn't true and derided the idea. Rush demanded that they give him his due respect and because it was true, they knelt in reverence.

So repubs?

Who runs the GOP?

Occam's Chainsaw: That said, it's odd that the man would bring a bottle of Viagra with him to the DR when traveling with his buddies but not his proclaimed significant other at the time.

No no no, you're doing it all wrong.
You have to find it 'interesting'.

DayeOfJustice: Just because someone dangles bait in front of you doesn't mean you have to take it. Taunting someone in no way obliges them to reveal the truth (that you hinted at all along) that they are hate-filled, mouth-foaming, hardcore right-winger. Obama's team didn't make them that way. They merely tricked them into revealing it to everyone. Note that this wouldn't have worked if it wasn't largely true. Republicans said it wasn't true and derided the idea. Rush demanded that they give him his due respect and because it was true, they knelt in reverence.

There's a difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Cinaed: No no no, you're doing it all wrong.
You have to find it 'interesting'.

I'm "concerned" that he might not be maintaining the appearance expected of a representative of Premiere Radio Networks and their various sponsors.

/Better?

ghare: There's a difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Strain on the hammy?
Lower back pain?

Occam's Chainsaw: Cinaed: No no no, you're doing it all wrong.
You have to find it 'interesting'.

I'm "concerned" that he might not be maintaining the appearance expected of a representative of Premiere Radio Networks and their various sponsors.

/Better?

Much better.
Thank you.

I'm 'concerned' his own ego, apparently limited mental faculties, and a what is likely a jump in revenue, has led to his inability to bring any significant level of deference to the actual GOP leadership.

Rahm had daily briefings with liberal strategists to disseminate their rush talking points which where shouted all over the airwaves...by the President no less....and it's only 13% nationally?

Welcome to liberal logic where failure equals WIN!

skipjack: Rahm had daily briefings with liberal strategists to disseminate their rush talking points which where shouted all over the airwaves...by the President no less....and it's only 13% nationally?

Given the nature of the question, and the specific wording of the question, those results actually indicate that the Dems were wildly successful.

skipjack: Rahm had daily briefings with liberal strategists to disseminate their rush talking points which where shouted all over the airwaves...by the President no less....and it's only 13% nationally?

Welcome to liberal logic where failure equals WIN!

People were asked for the name of the LEADER of the Republican party and 13% volunteered the name of a radio host who has never held any official or elected position within the party.

So, yeah, I'd say it's pretty successful. After a major loss like this, it's not uncommon for a party to lack direction*. A poll was done among Democrats after the '00 election of who was the leader of the party and the numbers were actually lower than these, the "no one" vote was quite higher... but none were radio hosts or other form of media personality, all recently held official/elected positions in the Democratic party.

Context, it helps.

*What is uncommon is for a party to spin out of control and devour themselves from within and plow full speed harder to the right in what seems like a concerted effort to drive people away.

Dan the Schman: A poll was done among Democrats after the '00 election of who was the leader of the party and the numbers were actually lower than these, the "no one" vote was quite higher... but none were radio hosts or other form of media personality, all recently held official/elected positions in the Democratic party.

That's the big difference. The Democrats were in disarray after 2000, and it took a long time for the leadership to be more visible to the average party member/supporter (Dean comes to mind) and even more time consuming, putting forward a solid range of candidates and party line that could move past the failures not only of 2000, but going back to the GOP take over of Congress back in... 94?

The GOP is like Charlie Gordon from Flowers for Algernon, apparently...

there was a brief period where they seemed like geniuses, but it didn't take long for them to revert to their usual retarded ways.

Cinaed: Dan the Schman: A poll was done among Democrats after the '00 election of who was the leader of the party and the numbers were actually lower than these, the "no one" vote was quite higher... but none were radio hosts or other form of media personality, all recently held official/elected positions in the Democratic party.

That's the big difference. The Democrats were in disarray after 2000, and it took a long time for the leadership to be more visible to the average party member/supporter (Dean comes to mind) and even more time consuming, putting forward a solid range of candidates and party line that could move past the failures not only of 2000, but going back to the GOP take over of Congress back in... 94?

I remember the Dems back then and a few years after.
They were useless.
Had no real leader, no ideas, no direction.

And the only reason they came back was because the GOP and its members screwed up BADLY.
(corruption, facist leanings, ongoing wars, no-bid contracts, spending galore, scandals, etc, etc, etc...)

This is not what I think, this is what I saw.
So since the majority of people thought this was wrong, they had no other real option.
(What? the Libertarians? the Greens? get real, they are small beans)

Either the GOP needs to get itself together, become valuable and clean again.
Or another party needs to develop with some true influence.

Otherwise the Dems are going to be on top for awhile,
at least until they screw up and people forget the Fark-ups of the GOP.

"Don't you think she looks they look tired?"

darkhorse23: JohnnyC: I haven't gotten my liberal conspiracy manifesto and monthly newsletters yet... what gives? Could someone please inform the top liberal and make sure they're notified of problem, I wouldn't want to miss out on all the great conspiracies.

don't forget - there's also Tell Dick Cheney to Shut the Hell Up, Fox News is full of Crap, Bill O'Reilly is full of Crap, and some other ones.

Our devious and maniacal Facebook plan is working.

Facebook.com/Limbaugh (new window)