"Jim Chandler" wrote in message
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On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 21:09:54 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
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"Jim Chandler" wrote in message
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"The television cameras just can't stay away from him," Carville said
Tuesday, a day when cable news played images of Limbaugh seemingly on
a loop. "Our strategy depends on him keeping talking, and I think
we're going to succeed."

It amazes me that so many liberals hate and despise Rush Limbaugh, yet
they hang on his every word as if it were the gospel. They try to
imply that Limbaugh is a nothing, an entertainer, yet they continue to
argue with his comments. Strange, isn't it?

Jim

Well, let's see if we can de-mystify it for you. Pay attention to what
Carville is saying. Rushbaugh has the ear of the Republican base; 60%
favor
him, and probably a quarter or so of those are rabid dittoheads. Everyone
else pretty much hates his guts:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/114163/Li...publicans.aspx

Assume the Democrats are successful at firming up the identification
between
Limbaugh and the Republican right. Assume further that Limbaugh keeps
raising the ante and sharpening the polarization (a solid bet, based on
his
past performances). So he supports a candidate and that candidate gets
100%
of the Repubs, 25% of the Independents, and 6% of Democrats, as per that
Gallup poll with all of the other Republicans tossed in.

That candidate just crashed and burned. He got about 27% of the electorate
(Repubs) plus 9% (Independents) plus 2% (Dems) -- 38% of the vote. (based
on
Pew's poll last March, which is uninfluenced by the result of the
presidential election)

Now does it appear less strange?


No, your incoherent babble about Democrat just made it even stranger.

Here's a suggestion, then. Stop standing on your head, and try reading it
right-side up. d8-)

If the supposed candidate that Limbaugh supports is only going to get
38% of the vote, what have the Dummycraps to worry about?

The biggest worry is that Limbaugh will shut his big mouth. So they'll keep
it up as long as they can. Limbaugh can't resist being the center of
attention, so that's the trick -- keep tweaking him. He loves it.

Doesn't
seem to me that they should be at all concerned with what an
"entertainer" says, much less engage in any sort of battle with him.

Then you just don't get it. The Dems are hoping that a lot of Republicans
don't get it.

After all, he only has about 20 million listeners on a daily basis.

Actually, you've been reading their time-sales literature too literally. g
He has a weekly cume of somewhere between 13 and 20 million. That's not
listeners on a "daily basis."

Nonetheless, that's enough to make it worth roping them off in the Limbaugh
corral.

Hell, that's only about 6% of the total population. Hardly seem worth
bothering with.

Au contraire. That's enough to lose an election for the Republicans.

The idea is to keep them polarized by firming up the right. Karl Rove
collected a coalition by appealing to the independents with the
"compassionate conservative" pitch. That's the only way a Republican is
likely to win an election for president now. Rove knows this, Gingrich knows
this, Steele knows this...but Limbaugh doesn't care. The talking heads in
general don't care. Their job depends on keeping resentment going at a fever
pitch. Winning elections doesn't help them at all.

So if the Dems can help Limbaugh keep the right-wing rabble roused, more
independents will pull away from the Republicans. That's already been
happening; that's how Obama won. Carville's game, even though he isn't in
charge, is to keep that going.

I guess the Dummycraps are just afrid of the truth
and his willingness to expose them for what they are.

Jim

They hope that more Republicans remain politically clueless. The ones who
get it are bailing out. Check any "party identification" poll over the past
two or three years.

--
Ed Huntress