Rush Limbaugh as GOP Kingmaker?

[FrankRep]

Zev Chafets, writing an op-ed for the New York Times, concluded that radio show host Rush Limbaugh “is the brains and the spirit behind [the conservative] resurgence.” by Bob Adelmann


Rush Limbaugh as GOP Kingmaker? (http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/politics/3592-rush-limbaugh-as-gop-kingmaker)


Bob Adelmann | The New American (http://www.thenewamerican.com/)
Friday, 21 May 2010

[Stary Hickory]

Rush is more irrelevant now than he has ever been. He is still a heavyweight, but GOP politics these days transcends Rush.

Don't get me wrong I wish he would stop being so neoconish and get behind liberty and liberty candidates. He can be devastating when he is in the right...however when he gets it wrong it really discredits himself. The thing about Limbaugh is that he is invested in the Bush years and the GOP. He cannot just back out...he is always right all of the time...therefore it follows that he has never been wrong EVER(even when he was and is).

So a potential strong ally is hamstrung. Even if he wanted to follow liberty candidates and change his ways, I doubt he could. He would lose too much face. This is why I like Beck in some ways. People here bash him, but he changed...and admitted it. That's great for us.

[Matt Collins]

Right now Rand Paul is the GOP kingmaker, especially in Kentucky.