{"id":8347,"date":"2009-03-02T14:18:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T19:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8347"},"modified":"2009-03-02T16:48:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T21:48:37","slug":"limbaugh-leader-of-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8347","title":{"rendered":"Limbaugh leader of the Republican Party?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the Washington Times<\/a> this morning, Sean Lengell quotes Rahm Emanuel on “Face the Nation” yesterday in regards to Rush Limbaugh;<\/p>\n

“He is the voice and the intellectual force and energy behind the Republican Party,” said Rahm Emanuel on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”<\/p>\n

Mr. Emanuel blasted Mr. Limbaugh’s recent comments that Mr. Limbaugh hopes the new president and his policies fail, adding that Republicans are wary of crossing the powerful radio personality, whose daily show is listened to by millions of Americans.<\/p>\n

Mr. Limbaugh has “called for President Obama to fail. That’s his view,” Mr. Emanuel said. “And whenever a Republican criticizes him, they have to run back and apologize to him and say they were misunderstood.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, Limbaugh isn’t the leader of the Republican party – he may be the voice of the party, but he’s not the leader. D.L. Hughley had that discussion with Michael Steele this weekend on CNN;
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Here’s the thing – and I had this discussion last night with one of our loveliest readers – if Michael Steele wants to be the “de facto” leader of the party, he’d better start acting like it. I supported his chairmanship because I had faith in his conservatism and his judgment. <\/p>\n

The first weekend in his new position, Steele did a YouTube video rebuttal of the president’s radio address and emailed it to hundreds of bloggers who all dutifully posted it to their respective blogs – then nothing. Every weekend I scour the internet looking for his repeat of the excellent strategy and I come up empty. Is it any wonder that the Left considers Limbaugh the leader of our party? Limbaugh is talking every day for three hours and has a web presence to which people subscribe to BUY his OPINIONS – why isn’t Michael Steele doing the same exact thing? Steele is powerful speaker, his politics mirror much of Limbaugh’s – are you telling me that Steele couldn’t do the same thing on every Conservative blog and not reach as many people? <\/p>\n

Just like the Republicans’ “Contract With America” was an excellent strategy that won them the 1994 elections…and they never repeated it. <\/p>\n

It seems to me that Republicans are relying on Limbaugh to carry their water. That’s why the entire party is considered the Limbaugh Party – because our party leaders won’t drag themselves out of the cloak rooms and do exactly what Limbaugh is doing. Yeah, they send me cutsey bumperstickers, lapel pins, autographed pictures and scare letters about Nancy Pelosi coming for my guns – but I’ll probably already vote for them. How about becoming a presence in the national discussion instead of sticking pins in an Obama voo-doo doll in the closet at the Heritage Foundation?<\/p>\n

They’re not going to attract people back to the party by hoping we’ll all vote against Obama – they have to give us something to vote for. And they have to do it themselves…yourself, Mr. Steele. Criticize Limbaugh all you want – but the reason Republicans have to go crawling back to him with an apology is because YOU people at the Republican National Committee don’t have your own voice that SHOULD be more powerful than that of a mere entertainer.<\/p>\n

Everyone was talking about Limbaugh’s speech at CPAC this weekend – why doesn’t Michael Steele want everyone talking about him like that every weekend?<\/p>\n

Added:<\/strong> I just noticed that Michelle Malkin<\/a> wrote about Steele’s criticism of Limbaugh, too. (And HotAir has Limbaugh’s response<\/a>) I found the link to Michelle’s post on my Facebook page while I was searching for the RNC’s and Michael Steele’s presence on Facebook. Steele’s page still says he’s the chair at GOPAC and the RNC’s latest entry announces Huckabee’s withdrawal from the primary. <\/p>\n

Is it any wonder that the Democrats are kicking our ass on the internet when our party can’t update their social media? They don’t have one intern that spend five minutes a day on it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Washington Times this morning, Sean Lengell quotes Rahm Emanuel on “Face the Nation” yesterday … Limbaugh leader of the Republican Party?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}