Rush Hits Home; The Left Reacts

Rush Hits Home; The Left Reacts

by Armand Vaquer

One can always tell when a political speech hits home (by giving the opposition a hard punch to the gut) is by their reaction to it.

The liberal media and bloggers have been going non-stop in their vitriol against Rush Limbaugh's CPAC speech yesterday. Naturally, since they couldn't come up with effective counter-arguments to Limbaugh's statements, they have to resort to name-calling and attacks.

Some examples:

Salon.com wrote,

But strip away the platitudes and cheap applause lines about freedom, self-reliance and the virtues of capitalism, and you're left with the subject that really interests Rush Limbaugh: himself. The conservative talker with the self-professed "talent on loan from God" spoke incessantly in the first person: there were more "I's" in his CPAC address than in an Idaho potato field. One clear message emerged from the speech:

"Le mouvement conservative, c'est moi."

And it's a message that makes some of the nominal leaders of the Republican Party uncomfortable.

The reliably self-aggrandizing Limbaugh referred about nine times during his speech to it being his first ever live televised national address.

When you can't attack a person's message, go ahead and attack the messenger.

At Synthesis.net:

If you watched Rush Limbaugh’s speech today at CPAC and identified with the principles and ideology outlined therein, congratulations, you’re a complete moron.

If one believes in freedon, liberty and free market capitalism, by this person's standards that makes one a "moron."

One woman posted a comment on a MSNBC blog:

There are people on this planet that are so heinous, so evil, and so insidious, that a word is needed to describe them. CPAC is a dangerous and irresponsible group of people, truly evil!!

People like Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have one common goal, which is to enrage their base, creating hate. It's a very dangerous thing; I find it, and its members, revolting.

Now is calling someone "evil" because you disagree with their political views raising the level of discourse? Doubtful. She used a lot of adjectives to describe CPAC attendees, yet she says "a word is needed to describe them." Okay, if you say so.

You get the point. It appears that Limbaugh did score points in his speech as those in opposition are beside themselves in rage that points were scored.

Do you wonder why this country is so polarized?

To view videos of Rush's CPAC speech and read the full transcript, Rush Limbaugh.com has it.