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Quote of the Day - 5.13.09

From conservative Jerry Taylor, writing at National Review Online:

The question for conservatives is this: Do you want President Obama to succeed in painting the Republican party as the party of Rush Limbaugh? Given his sub-Nixon popularity figures, I can’t believe I’m causing a firestorm by suggesting the answer here is probably “no.”

Oh, but he is causing a firestorm.  As near as I can tell, not a single person at NRO is coming to Taylor's aid.  They like being the party of Limbaugh.

In other news of the ongoing intellectual collapse of the conservative movement, Politico's Roger Simon reports that the Republican National Committee will meet in an extraordinary special session next week to approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”  Yippee!  They're like five-year-olds in a sandbox.  I can't wait to see what NRO thinks of this.

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felinecannonball

I can't believe he just

I can't believe he just dissed Nixon.

idlemind

nixon

Given Nixon's support of socialist wage and price controls, I think he's an honorary Democrat (I mean Democrat Socialist) now.

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Democrat Socialist

As to the "Democrat Socialist" stunt, what relatively sane Republicans should be worried about is the effect on editorial boards and other bastions of the MSM. Ye olde MSM desperately yearns for equivalence between the two major parties, and tends to view the world through a lens that promotes such equivalence. In an era where the facts have long had a liberal bias, this produces a de facto right-wing tilt, and therein lies much of our problems. If this nutty resolution happens, MSM reaction -- not just leftblogs and Olbermann -- will be worth watching.

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Fascist Party of the

Fascist Party of the Republic, aka Grand Old Torturers

Trippp

I need a pick-me-up today.

What are Limbaugh's popularity figures? I'd love to hear they are very low.

IIRC Nixon's figures were good, for awhile, so is Taylor talking about post-Watergate Nixon?

Tripp

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Down near Cheney's

Limbaugh manages to be well below the crazification factor.

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How 'bout the "Republican

How 'bout the "Republican Oligarchy Party" for a change?

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This, coming from the

This, coming from the Feudalist party?

Bring it.

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I think there's a decent

I think there's a decent chance the left is getting trolled here, but if they actually do it, I think it's time consider a stronger approach to negotiating with Republicans, starting with five-minute timeouts and graduating up to no XBox for a week.

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RNC renaming

Let's rename the RNC the Jackass Club.

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I'm not a conservative

... I am a libertarian.

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The people can easily

The people can easily distinguish between low end garbage politics coming from James Carville, Stephanopoulus, and Axelrod and reality. Rush as GOP leader is fodder for the Dem base like the Dailly Kos nutroots and the mainstream lib media.

Keith G

What?

Luther, could you please retype your post and this time try to make sense?

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Amen, Keith -- that Luther

Amen, Keith -- that Luther comment is like word salad generated by a right-wing talking-point program. And a program with no spell-check, to boot.

Trippp

Luther, If you intend to

Luther,

If you intend to write SAT questions you should finish the question and then give 4 possible answers.

Tripp

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re:

This, coming from the Feudalist party?

Bring it.

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