Obama Administration Hoping To Make Limbaugh Their Straw Man
This is an interesting gambit.
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama’s chief of staff says talk show personality Rush Limbaugh is a top figure in the Republican Party.
Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel says Limbaugh is the “intellectual force” of the GOP. Emanuel says Republicans now have to live with that choice.
Limbaugh gave a major speech at the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting this weekend in Washington. Limbaugh says it’s fine for Republicans to criticize Obama’s plans and says Republicans must return to their core beliefs.
What the Obama and the liberals want to do is use Limbaugh as a wedge to keep moderate Republicans from returning to their conservative roots, which is what must happen if the GOP is ever to wander again out of the wilderness it finds itself in. By casting Limbaugh as the sole voice of conservatives the liberals (especially those in the media) can use every controversial thing he says – usually cherry picked to make it sound a lot more controversial than it really is – against elected Republicans. Every time Rush plays some parody the liberals choose to misconstrue as racist, every time he makes some commentary that can be selectively misquoted to make him sound callous or crude, elected Republicans will be tasked with defending it. And many won’t, thus dividing the conservative movement.
Liberals like Obama and Rahm Emanuel and all their various comrades and apologists in the media aren’t saying these things about Limbaugh because they want to deliver sound advice that will lead to a resurgent conservative movement. They’re saying these things about Limbaugh and people like him because they know just how inconvenient he is to their plans. They want to marginalize him, and if Republicans go along with that they’re going to be successful.
