Limbaugh Doesn't Want Single Women to Vote

Big, fat, drug-abusing, sexist Rush has decided to attack Women's Voices. Women Vote. the group that produced the PSAs you've been seeing here and on other blogs, featuring actresses talking about the empowerment of voting. Make that the non-partisan group, putting up non-partisan ads encouraging 20 million single women who didn't vote in 2004 to vote in 2006.

Apparently, Limbaugh and the right feel threatened by that.

Limbaugh: More Drive-By Media in action, ladies and gentlemen. I want to tell you about a group out there. You may have heard of them; you may have not. The name of the group is "Women's Voices. Women Vote." They were profiled sort of today on Good Morning America by Claire Shipman. Claire Shipman referred to the group "Women's Voices. Women's Vote," as a "nonpartisan group." Mark Finkelstein at NewsBusters.org, which is this Media Research Center's watchdog group on the liberal media, went to their website to look at biographies of their key members. . . .  Some further digging reveals that WVWV is directly promoting leftist politics. On its FAQ page, WVWV suggests that people who want to get involved 'download the National Council of Women's Organizations voter's guide.'

"[Finkelstein] did, and found a predictable compendium of leftist position-mongering on everything from affirmative action to abortion. Query whether promoting a partisan voter's guide bring's WVWV's non-partisan tax-exempt status into question," but Claire Shipman presented this group as "nonpartisan."

Now, gawd forbid that anyone try to reach out to one of the most unrepresented voting blocs in the country. And who'd have thunk that the issues single women would be concerned about "leftist" issues (pdf) like pay equity, access to reproductive health services, medical insurance, minimum wage, social security, women in the military.... You can just hear the teeny, tiny gears in Rush's addled brain: "Why don't they talk about the death tax? Don't they care about prayer in school? Flag burning? Gay marriage? Now where'd I put that oxycontin?"

But what's really disturbing is Rush's veiled threat, implying that WVWV's tax status will be challenged. He is trying to undermine this nonpartisan effort and suppress women's votes.  He also focuses heavily on the fact that GMA featured the organization and it's PSAs, in what is a transparent attempt to intimidate the media as being left-wing if they run the PSA. This is likely to signal the beginning of a concerted effort by the right-wing to shut down WVWV's efforts to get more women to the polls.

The best way to fight back is to join WVWV in registering single women to vote, in talking to them about the critical issues, and in getting them out to the polls on November 7.

•  I'll bet he and Daryn Kagan

  did some position-mongering themselves.

  by Mr Met on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 06:59:38 PM PDT

  •  I mean

    they would have had to, right?

    Never mind, bad imagery.

    by Mr Met on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:05:10 PM PDT

    •  The Scene

      Daryn Kagan is in the EIB studios, the lights are dimmed, Rush Limbaugh has a cigar in his mouth, the top three buttons of his shirt undone, his manboobs spilling out.

      Ok, I am grossing myself out now.

      That misogynist pig really should get a special Rush Limbaugh only tax increase. We should also set up a special prosecutor for international viagra smuggling to investigate him.

      by trifecta on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:07:38 PM PDT

      •  Decisions, decisions...

        To troll-rate or not to troll-rate, that is the question.

        -dms

        by dmsilev on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:10:09 PM PDT

        •  Oh come on, that was funny.

          And no fair to McJoan for editing out the reference to "postition-mongering" in her diary, thus leaving my well-placed retort hanging out to dry.

          by Mr Met on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:11:38 PM PDT

          •  You'll notice that I gave trifecta a Rec

            but I'm going to have nightmares tonight about Limbaugh's man-boobs, I just know it.

            -dms

            by dmsilev on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:15:44 PM PDT

            •  How Daryn Kagan's eyes must be burning

              by shpilk on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:23:25 PM PDT

            •  His man boobs

              and her man body. Somethings up there but the images now in my mind are too disturbing to get to the bottom of it.

              by eastvan on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:32:30 PM PDT

            •  Family Guy episode a couple of weeks ago

              Peter Griffin is running a TV network.  He's trying to bring the smut back to TV.  Late night program is a special segment entirely about the side boob.

              Here's a good side boob.  And here's another side boob.  And if this side-boob is turning you on (camera pulls back to reveal it's Peter shirtless) you're a sick individual, because that's my side boob.

              That quote had me laughing at unexplained moments for days afterward.

              And no, I don't want to see Rush's side boob.  I'd rather see him being chased down the street by ten million angry Americans pelting rotten fruit at him and screaming insults to his shriveled manhood at him through megaphones.

              by slippytoad on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:34:45 PM PDT

      •  Ahhhhhh!

        Thanks for stopping before that story got really ugly.

        You were almost to the "sweat was glistening oh his angry nipples" part.

        Some things are best left unimagined.

        by Rex Manning on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:23:18 PM PDT

  •  They have wireless access at Shea Stadium? (n/t)

    by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:24:56 PM PDT

•  maybe someone should tell him

  that the very first woman in that ad is Angie Harmon...a republican who spoke at the Republican National Convention in 2004.

  Obviously he's still a wanker.

  by kredwyn on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:00:24 PM PDT

  •  Rush fits every defintion of "wanker"

    So, in his case, it should be a proper nBoun:

    Wanker

    But, of course, he is improper as a human.

    by rhp on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:09:33 PM PDT

    •  Wanker : Is that physically possible?

      Given the size of his stomach verses the length of his GOP "peanut", unlikely.

      by koNko on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 08:13:33 AM PDT

  •  aoeu

    She's a Republican?  Oh man...the L&O ADA?

    by TealVeal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:28:58 PM PDT

    •  yup...

      given the commercial, I'm thinking she's not in the fundamentalist wing of the party...

      by kredwyn on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:07:25 PM PDT

  •  old doonesbury joke

    what's the difference between rush limbaugh and the hindenburg?

    one's a flaming nazi gasbag and the other's just a blimp.

    by emptypockets on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:02:32 PM PDT

  •  Is Angie a man boob?

    What is that useless, hairy thing on top of her neck?

    Just wondering ...

    by koNko on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 07:58:32 AM PDT

•  Listen and learn

  We need to do the same to their theocratic fascist groups.

  by IhateBush on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:01:34 PM PDT

•  Democracy is great...

  as long as you vote for Republicans.  If not, do not pass go, do not collect $200...just go straight to hell.  Right, Rush?

  "I thought you were gonna ask about the pig." - George W. Bush

  by fxdudeinmia on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:03:02 PM PDT

•  I did a diary on their study way back

  Planet of the Savage DKos Feminist Supervixens: Episode 3

  20 million single women do not go to the polls, they point out.  For a number of reasons.

  But I can imagine why they are a threat to the GOP this year.  

  by mem from somerville on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:04:08 PM PDT

  •  They would be in 2008

    If Hillary runs.

    Thanks,

    Mike

    by LordMike on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:12:36 PM PDT

  •  We owe Rush kudos for helping to motivate them

    by shpilk on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:25:59 PM PDT

•  I frighten Rush!

  Me: Boo!

  Rush: EEEeeee!

  It's fun being an empowered single female voter.

  by meowmissy on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:04:11 PM PDT

  •  Aren't you 'shamed?

    You made poor Rush piss himself.

    by rhp on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:11:25 PM PDT

    •  And it wouldn't

      surprise me if Rush would enjoy that.

      by eastvan on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:34:19 PM PDT

•  rush needs to take a trip..

  down to the dominican repbulic with a box of oxy and get his ya-ya fixed...he is in for a long haul.

  by singe on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:04:38 PM PDT

  •  Yeah, whatever became of that issue?

    by Yosef 52 on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:42:39 PM PDT

•  Rush doesn't understand "nonpartisan"

  And, what Rush doesn't understand, he tries to demonize. Rush is an idiot.

  by LynneK on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:04:41 PM PDT

  •  Good old 'with us or against us'

    You're either a good old-fasioned war-mongering, gay-bashing, torture-supporting, aristocratic conservative, or you should be destroyed.  For people like Rush, there is no middle ground.

    by Drocket on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:07:34 PM PDT

•  He is the natural enemy of women.

  I've been kind of shocked that broadcasters don't understand how odious many women must find him and Michael Savage in particular.

  I've also thought before that the Democrats must be doing something very wrong if women of ordinary means vote Republican. The overwhelming majority of women should be permanent Democrats.

  by lecsmith on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:05:06 PM PDT

•  What a jerkoff...

  Angie Harmon is married to Jason Sehorn, a former NFL safety who is as conservative Rethug as they come. She's on the banner for that site.

  But then, Rush doesn't think of women as human beings, just things to screw down in the Dominican Republic....

  by The Lighthouse Keeper on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:05:07 PM PDT

  •  Caution - adults only

    If he wants to rape women of their right to vote, then I'd like to see him castrated, and the private part shoved down his throat.

    by FoundingFatherDAR on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:34:40 PM PDT

    •  And that would be

      a snack. Hardly a meal for him.

      by eastvan on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:36:40 PM PDT

      •  Vienna sausage, anyone?

        OK, now, let's keep it clean, people....

        by The Lighthouse Keeper on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:36:08 PM PDT

        •  Ewwwwwweeeeee ...

          Careful, you may get sued for slandr by Hormel. Unfair to Vienna sausages.

          by koNko on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 08:23:40 AM PDT

          •  :)~

            by The Lighthouse Keeper on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 11:37:07 AM PDT

    •  Impossible, he has no balls.

      And no brains.

      by koNko on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 08:17:13 AM PDT

  •  Actually,

    I think women scare him. The man has issues.

    by eastvan on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:35:34 PM PDT

•  what you hear lately from Rush is ...

  like a big fat juicy pig squealing.  He has revealed himself as a prescription drug addict and abuser.  Even his most loyal listeners are not so stupid as to not see who he is as a person.  Corrupt and lovin it!

  by Keone Michaels on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:05:28 PM PDT

  •  A big fat joke

    Drug addled, too cowardly to get a Viagra prescription in his own name so he gets busted at a private Customs entry point.

    Brags about his parties down in the Caribbean, as if he's made a conquest when he is merely a moneyed joke for young women to ridicule.

    Rush pays for sex with young women and obliquely brags about it on his national radio show.

    My prudish right wing mother of 85 years just loves Rush. Soon she will be dead and there will be one less voter for people like Bush.

    by carolinacal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:14:32 PM PDT

    •  he is a disgusting human ...

      I'm sure he, just like Anne Coulter, has a mother too somewhere although I've heard it said that she was hatched from a snake egg in the Republican Swamp.  

      Life, I've often observed is so much like fiction.  Poor fat Rush, hidden behind the microphone so folks can't really see who he is.  Remember he tried TV, but folks could see him and when you see him talk it is easy to spot the corruptness and evil manifest in his persona.  Rush failed on TV because people could see who he was.  Since high school, a big fat loser. WYSIWYG.  Rush Limpbough unlike Dorian Grey doesn't have a portrait in the closet, aging decadently for him.  With Rush,what you see is what you get is not pretty.  And it never has been and that is why he is an ego deprived piece of doo.

      by Keone Michaels on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:33:49 PM PDT

  •  Who Did He Do in the Dominican Republic?

    What about the Viagra for the Dominican Republic junket (pun intended)? I was in the DR, and it's a nonstop sex party for most single (while on their vacation) men. There are plenty of nonadult girls (and boys) for sale all over the island, in the streets, bars, beaches, everywhere, for dirt cheap. Who knows what's available for big, powerful, rich stars like Limbo. There's little other reason for him to go to the DR with a bottle of covert Viagra except to have more sex than he can handle. Where's the investigation to find just who was on the receiving end of those little blue pills? And how many of those Dominicans would be acceptable "dates" to Limbo's repressed audience?

    by DocGonzo on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:31:53 PM PDT

    •  young, primarily black sex workers predominate ..

      That is what he was there for.  

      by Keone Michaels on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:36:13 PM PDT

•  Just went to their site...

  made a donation and signed up to make calls.  So there, Mr. Viagra.

  by Caldonia on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:05:29 PM PDT

  •  Music to my ears

    That's exactly what we need to do. You're my hero for today.

    by mcjoan on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:08:30 PM PDT

    •  Aw shucks...thanks.

      Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

      by Caldonia on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:11:38 PM PDT

•  Women and negative adds

  Are women more prone to negative adds? I ask because the Dem candidate for GOV in Mass is being assailed with negative adds. These ads are about rapist/murders etc (remember willie horton?. Are these types of ads turning of women against Deval?
  Rush may actually get his wish this way

  by wuod kwatch on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:05:45 PM PDT

  •  IIRC Women backlash against negative ads.

    I believe there are studies to back that up.

    by shpilk on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:22:12 PM PDT

•  Wow. Found through a link on the FAQ page:

  positions on issues.

  Don't get more partisan than that.

  by muledriver on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:06:09 PM PDT

  •  Are you referencing the "NCWO Voter's Guide"

    from this WVWV page?

    mcjoan mentioned that link was present, and the NCWO guide lays out current status for each issue, then clearly notes their position on the subject.  

    No political parties are mentioned, except for their respective National Convention dates.  Notably, all positions taken from what I read happen to err on the side of enabling more rights and/or legal avenues for women, based on a grounding of factual analysis in what is not fully available to women.

    So, unless you were being sarcastic about the "partisan" positions, I'm not sure of your point.  Sorry if I misunderstood.

    by wader on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:44:48 PM PDT

    •  I was definately being sarcastic!

      But you can't be too careful.

      by muledriver on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:12:02 PM PDT

      •  Thanks for clarifying

        and sorry again for my lack of pickup.

        by wader on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:18:50 PM PDT

•  Like Angie Harmon

  That pot smoking commie.

  by Zackpunk on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:06:44 PM PDT

•  To Limbaugh

  The 13th (abolishing slavery), 14th (guaranteeing equal protection and due process by the States), 19th (women's sufferage) and 26th Amendments (voting age set at 18) are "Leftist".

  BenGoshi
  _________________________________________________

  by BenGoshi on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:06:55 PM PDT

•  More Evidence of Republican Sick Sex Deviation

  CNN just posted a story about a website depicting pornography of children as young as infants.

  Among the suspects was a former counselor at a Bible camp and a longtime Boy Scout leader and middle-school sports coach, the officials said.

  More evidence that when republicans and the religious right accuse normal people of something truly sick ... it's because it's what they always were all along.

  by Detroit Mark on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:06:58 PM PDT

  •  may they burn in eternal damnation for

    destroying the lives of the innocent. I don't care what their political beliefs are.

    (shudder)

    by shpilk on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:20:57 PM PDT

    •  Well I Just Can't Help But

      think back on all of the accusations against gays, not being permitted to become boy scout leaders, church pastors accusing them of being deviant, righties spreading that swill about gay teachers.

      It all just kind of comes home to roost.  I never woulda figured it would be this obvious.

      by Detroit Mark on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:26:46 PM PDT

•  Big, fat?

  Not stately, plump?

  by Elwood Dowd on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:07:27 PM PDT

•  Single Women and Grandmas want Limbaugh shut up

  and get off the air. What a fat, sleazy, addicted ass. Pheww...

  by mimi on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:08:20 PM PDT

•  this is pretty

  by signalcamp on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:09:25 PM PDT

  •  stupid doesnt want

    the leveller and digger platform of 1649 had votes for single women.  gerrard winstanley there.

    by signalcamp on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:07:27 PM PDT

•  Worst than Oliver North

  back in the early 90s I saw DrugRush debate Oliver North over the proposed Motor-Voter law.

  North was in favor of it, saying more people should participate in the process.

  Druggie was against, saying it was targeted towards the lower middle class and working poor and they weren't capable of making independent decisions.

  I'm not joking.

  by Al Rodgers on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:11:37 PM PDT

  •  I've indepdently decided

    That Rush Limbaugh is an asshole.

    by slippytoad on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:39:50 PM PDT

•  limpbrain

  You learned good, girl. Makes a mom proud.

  by mcmom on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:11:39 PM PDT

  •  It's all about the role models!

    xoxoxo

    by mcjoan on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:13:31 PM PDT

    •  awwwwwww :)

      by shpilk on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:24:28 PM PDT

      •  The family that blogs together....

        by mcjoan on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:27:06 PM PDT

        •  mcmom is really your mom?? n/t

          by Erik the Red on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 04:58:17 AM PDT

          •  Yes, she is. (n/t)

            by mcjoan on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 08:33:04 AM PDT

            •  Oh, that's so cool:)

              My mom's a Republican who still supports Shrub. Oh well....

              by Erik the Red on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 01:19:07 PM PDT

              •  They'd disown me

                if I turned out Republican.

                Except it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference. Since they're Democrats, they don't have anything for me to inherit anyway!

                by mcjoan on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 02:32:46 PM PDT

•  Bring 'Em On!

  Leftist??

  Sure - let Limbaugh and his ilk call health care, education, and decent wages leftist issues.  Let them say that over and over and over.

  by johnnygunn on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:11:42 PM PDT

•  Maybe it's because

  Everyone knows....

  

  by Kayakbiker on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:14:04 PM PDT

•  I'm terribly impressed

  by what that Rush Limbaugh has to say.  

  When I want to know what women want, I go to the fatass.  That's where I go. Women love the fat ass.

  by LithiumCola on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:15:31 PM PDT

•  Yeah, Rush doesn't want women to vote.

  But he sure likes going down to the Dominican Republic with a suitcase full of Viagra to bang underaged girls.

  by Bob Johnson on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:16:37 PM PDT

•  Thank you Rush

  What a wonderful thing Rush Limbaugh is doing, by helping  to motivate a whole segment of the voting population.

  Can we get his fat ass in a can, and sell it on E-bay?

  Free shipping!

  by shpilk on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:17:58 PM PDT

  •  and hey !

    where is the tip jar :) ?

    by shpilk on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:18:37 PM PDT

•  Pehaps he hates women

  Most fascists are anti-woman.

  by SeanGA on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:18:04 PM PDT

•  Rush can't comprehend reality...

  And who'd have thunk that the issues single women would be concerned about "leftist" issues like pay equity, access to reproductive health services, medical insurance, minimum wage, social security, women in the military....

  Hasn't he figured out that "Reality has a well-known liberal bias."?  

  by blue armadillo on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:19:02 PM PDT

  •  wingnut reality

    
    in a just world

    by cognitive dissonance on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:40:12 PM PDT

•  Wasn't this issue settled in 1920?

  Maybe the fat blowhard of a Limbaugh also wants to scrap the income tax and direct election of senators and resurrect the Lochner doctrine as well.

  by Dump Terry McAuliffe on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:22:15 PM PDT

•  Partisan to look out for your best interests?

  If Rush is right, and not just a drug addled, child prostitute using, dominican republican sex fiend... (and he is)

  then businessmen are partisan because they choose corporate interests over human interests? and as it happens, so do republicans?

  rush is not a smart man.

  by Exquisite Corpse on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:23:14 PM PDT

•  gee

  I know lots of nice fat people, I think I won't assume that's related.

  mcjoan!

  by pyrrho on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:23:19 PM PDT

  •  The worse part of my nature

    came out. I couldn't help myself.

    Ok. It was wrong.

    Any earthquake damage where you are?

    by mcjoan on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:26:13 PM PDT

    •  yeah

      but not bad...

      by pyrrho on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 09:02:36 PM PDT

  •  But Rush's fat

    Is mostly in his HEAD, by choice.

    by slippytoad on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:36:43 PM PDT

  •  There's fat, and there's fat.

    Meaning there's "greedy proselytizing corporate whore hypocrite fuck," and there's "overweight".

    by Loquatrix on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:54:01 PM PDT

•  Ok, I obviously don't agree with Limbaugh...

  And I certainly don't think their tax-exempt status should be revoked, but why is it that surprising or even wrong for him to hope that single women won't vote in this election?  Empirically speaking, they've overwhelmingly voted Democratic.

  I certainly don't want to prevent anyone from voting, but I'm personally hoping that Evangelical Christians don't vote in this election... as I'm sure many of you are as well.  Is that wrong?

  by leshrac55 on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:23:58 PM PDT

  •  What's wrong is

    • and I'm judging from the excerpt, since I don't know what else he said - is pretending this group is leftwing instead of simply saying he wishes they wouldn't vote. It's called transparent dishonesty and as far as I'm concerned it's pretty pathetic.

    by highlyunlikely on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:41:49 PM PDT

  •  I hope every eligible voter goes to the polls

    in November and that includes Evangelical Christians. I just hope that everyone gives some serious thought to which party will best represent their interests.

    For the Evangelical Christians, I would hope that they would brush up on what Jesus had to say about how they should treat their fellow men and then ask themselves which party does a better job of looking out for the common good.

    For the single women, I would hope that they would do a little research on which party supports living wages, affordable healthcare, affordable education, equal opportunity, and all of the other issues of real importance to them.

    I would hope that everyone would ask themselves what is really important to them and look at what each party has to offer. I have no doubt in my mind that this would favor the Dems by an enormous margin.

    by Busted Flat in Baton Rouge on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:51:53 PM PDT

    •  Of course...

      Yes, I wish we had 100% of eligible voters voting as well, and that voters actually thought seriously about issues more than who they'd rather have a beer with or which God the candidate's support.  

      But, that's not going to happen... We can't make everyone think the way we want them to think, and we can't make everyone vote.  I am absolutely 100% against any kind of voter suppression, even if that means people who disagree with me will vote, but, of course, I'd much prefer if a voting bloc that was highly more likely to support the candidates I like voted more, and voting bloc's that were far less likely to support the "bad" candidates didn't vote.

      And yes, I agree that it's crap that he's calling it a leftwing group... but to him it may as well be since it's trying to get one of the most reliably liberal groups to vote.  I could probably say that Evangelicals are a mostly "right-wing" group, and most people here wouldn't bat an eye.  I could probably find some other examples of "non-partisan" groups that are basically "right-wing" as well.

      I really am not trying to defend Limbaugh here. I pretty much despise him, but I'm just trying to point out the simple fact that his people don't want our people to vote, and our people don't want his people to vote.

      by leshrac55 on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 12:14:19 AM PDT

    •  New Rule ...

      ... any woman that listens to Rush is not elligable to vote.

      by koNko on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 08:34:26 AM PDT

•  On the WVWV website

  found on the "Frequently Asked Questions" page:

  Women's Voices. Women Vote. is a nonpartisan organization that seeks to mobilize all unmarried women to register to vote and to go to the polls on Election Day. We do not endorse any particular candidates. We'd rather have you make those choices instead - at the ballot box.

  by goodasgold on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:26:22 PM PDT

•  Choosing Sides

  "reality has a well-known liberal bias" - Stephen Colbert

  by DocGonzo on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:27:12 PM PDT

•  Is he still relevant?

  He must be sh*tting, they all are - have you watched or listened to any of them lately?  Their time is passing, and it's because their listeners don't believe hype and the hysteria the way they used to, and have become part of the great silent anti-war majority...going going... unless the Rove October Surprise is really a November surprise and it's called Diebold...

  Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity, the Glen, Red Square, and the Caf...Horace Mann rules!

  by Uncle Moji on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:28:44 PM PDT

•  I find it difficult to express

  The depth to which I despise this man.

  by slippytoad on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:30:43 PM PDT

  •  Don't know if I despise him

    since I never met him, but I certainly despise what he says and stands for.

    by FoundingFatherDAR on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:38:41 PM PDT

    •  I don't need to meet him

      I just need to see the effects of his poisonous, lying garbage on the political dialogue of this nation.  He's made it impossible for me to speak to my mother and father about certain issues without extremely hateful phrases being used.  And Rush really doesn't want to meet me.  He in fact is terrified of meeting anyone who disagrees with him.

      by slippytoad on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:42:17 PM PDT

    •  You're a nicer person than me

      apparently!

      by Loquatrix on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:55:07 PM PDT

      •  No, just trying desperately to sound polite.

        Don't get near me when I'm screaming and ranting about something he's said.

        by FoundingFatherDAR on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:53:47 PM PDT

•   Single women don't want Rush to vote either

  At lost not where I'm sitting. We can do without the pervy blowhard addict vote, thanks very much.

  (sorry. I'm feeling snarky.)

  by aphra behn on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:31:20 PM PDT

•  I checked their site out

  Partisan? I don't get it. Could Rush be lying???

  by Batfish on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:31:21 PM PDT

  •  Could Rush be breathing?

    Do bears shit in the woods?  Better yet, could we get some bears to pin Rush down and shit in his mouth?

    by slippytoad on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:37:39 PM PDT

•  I don't want

  stupid, viagra abusing, dick brains to vote.

  Rush will stop my votes when the tears my liberty from my cold dead hands.  

  I am a mother.  I have a wonderful, intelligent, daughter.

  We vote every time the poll is open.  We read and study.  We vote carefully and well.  We vote against everything Rush stands for.

  Rush can always come and watch because we will always vote.

  by enough on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:33:20 PM PDT

  •  how do you mention the viagra

    without mentioning he used it on a sex tourism binge to the dominican republic?

    just sayin'... talking points are important to get right... complete, and factual.

    but anyhoozle... not a big thing.

    by Exquisite Corpse on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:37:24 PM PDT

•  What a gasbag

  Gotta tell a funny story. About ten or fifteen years ago, I went home for a visit and my dad and I left to go fishing at a nearby lake. Got in his car and Rush is on the radio. My dad, a lifelong Dem who just voted the ticket, wasn't a Rush fan. He was just amused by talk radio of all kinds and that, to him, was entertainment. He was bemused by Rush and all the nuts who called in. He was also amused at my righteous anger over Rush. It wasn't that way for him, a WWII vet and working man who raised a family. He got "tickled" purely as entertainment. He just thought it was funny to listen to all the people who called in, "all het up," and he'd switch around the dial between Rush and country stations. He was pretty apolitical but always voted Dem. I mailed his absentee in November ballot voting for Kerry. A sweet memory. He died on April 1.

  by Kestrel on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:33:35 PM PDT

•  These woman-haters...

  aren't they just repressed gay men?

  Millions of em... go their whole lives, living a lie.
  
  I mean... if you look at the percentage of homosexuals that come out in healthy communities and societies... what does that say about rural American society?

  It says that all these diseased nutbags (or a pretty large number of them) are just repressed homosexuals.

  How pathetic... and sad.

  Hmmm... so now I wonder why Limbaugh had to go all the way to the Dominican Republic to get his rocks off the way he really wanted to.

  by Exquisite Corpse on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:34:47 PM PDT

•  Lush Rimbaugh is an extreme out of the mainstream

  nut. When I used to work with the non-profit Zero Population Growth (now called Population Connection), there were just as many Republicans supporting family health planning as Democrats. And anyway Rush, ROE V WADE IS THE LAW OF THE LAND YOU PIECE OF FAT CRAP!!!

  by Dibbs on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:36:23 PM PDT

•  Rush is advertising his inadequacy

  as a man. He must be a total sexual loser. Why else would he want women stupid, unknowing, closeted away from life. A dumb babe doesn't have an opinion - political or sexual.

  Ladies, can you imagine having to deal with him in bed... yuck.

  by AnneElizabeth on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:37:18 PM PDT

  •  or maybe he's just mega-closeted.

    i really do wonder about rural american society...

    look at how many homosexuals come out in healthy societies...

    so what are all those sick repressed homosexuals doing in rural america?

    they're listening to rush, that's what they're doing. that's my partial theory on why one part of america is so whacked out and diseased in their minds.

    by Exquisite Corpse on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:40:09 PM PDT

    •  You make a good point

      Many of these right wing authoritarian types want nothing to do with women except for making babies. I would call them socially homosexual except a real homosexual man would no doubt embrace a woman's company more than any of the brownshirts that populate our political landscape at present.

      by AnneElizabeth on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:07:22 PM PDT

      •  not at all.

        homosexuals are mean too. you know why?... they're normal people.

        homos can be bastards too. and it takes a special person to admit to being gay... to even face up to it.

        non-special people end up haters... hating and hating and listening to rush.

        but they're still homos.

        but i appreciate your sentiment.

        i think they do protest a bit too much.

        and it's just statistics. are we suppose to believe that rural people are genetically less gay than urban people?

        nonsense.

        they're just closeted, and they're sick in their minds.

        really, it is a mental disease they have given themselves... and i'm not even sure they should be out amongst the general populace.

        if these sick christian/rural/traditional values people are that repressed and sick in their minds... and again, it's just statistics...

        they need treatment.

        they need counselling to start.
        
        i'm guessing a good solid 10-15% of bush's base are just sick closeted people... that just need counselling.

        by Exquisite Corpse on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:15:09 PM PDT

•  The First Time!

  That's a great ad ... it'll definitely get people's attention. Is it running on TV? (I am sure someone else already answered that.)

  by Red State Rebel on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:41:54 PM PDT

•  For some reason Rush has always

  reminded me of Richard Cory (sp.). Rich man who had everything but was privately miserable. Does he still laugh all the time like he's got everything figured out? That's a sure sign that he knows he's full of shit.

  by highlyunlikely on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:44:18 PM PDT

•  position-mongering?

  That's just stupid.  How low does your IQ have to be to listen to Rush Limbaugh?  Gorilla?  Chimpanzee?

  by yet another liberal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:44:41 PM PDT

  •  Lower

    You see, gorillas and chimps know that people evolved from them.

    Evangelicals, however, have lower IQs, and therefore are more susceptible to brainwashing techniques.  ;)

    by MikeTheLiberal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:07:04 PM PDT

•  Question...

  Now, gawd forbid that anyone try to reach out to one of the most unrepresented voting blocs in the country.

  Didn't women cast the majority of ballots in 2004? I read women made up something like 52% of the vote.

  by Zaphod Beeblebrox on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:48:06 PM PDT

  •  so it was the security mom phenomena

    Maybe they figured out soccer was a bit safer than driving around in Iraq.

    by yet another liberal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:49:55 PM PDT

    •  I'm all for everyone voting.

      Men, women, soccer moms... whatever. But I really don't think there is a massive deficit of female voters. At least not relative to men.

      by Zaphod Beeblebrox on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:09:14 PM PDT

      •  however

        There is a deficit of female representatives (using the same math).

        by yet another liberal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:14:21 PM PDT

        •  Make you a deal.

          We'll get more guys (and girls) to vote, we'll get more chicks in Congress, and give Federal subsidies to topless bars.

          Fair enough?

          by Zaphod Beeblebrox on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:50:52 PM PDT

          •  well

            That makes it pretty obvious why women need to encourage more women to vote.

            They really shouldn't have to show off their tits to strangers just to feed the kids they got stuck with.

            No, it isn't fair, not at all.

            by yet another liberal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 09:15:30 PM PDT

            •  That's the problem with politics in this country.

              Too many special interest groups. Like moms. And kids.

              No one cares about what's good for society anymore.

              by Zaphod Beeblebrox on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 11:05:29 PM PDT

•  A drive to get women to vote 3 weeks before ...

  Election Day?  Seems they should have started 2 months ago.  The voter registration processing time varies state to state.  Some states require more time than 3 weeks....

  by nora on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:49:14 PM PDT

  •  I think

    ... they're more trying just to encourage people to show up at the polls rather than new registrations.

    by yet another liberal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:51:27 PM PDT

    •  Can't vote if not registered...

      If single women are not voting, I would suspect that they aren't registering!

      They may need to be taught the ENTIRE process around voting!  So how does one get someone to show up at the polls if they would not be voting?  

      Getting people to vote is a TEACHING PROCESS.  Voting the first time is a LEARNING PROCESS.  Many people don't like to do certain things simply because they've never done them before and don't have anyone to show them how!  Many, many people need to be walked through the first time!

      This group should try having girl parties where all the gals go together to register, to vote, etc.  That would make it social and fun as well, I bet, for those single women who hate to do things alone.  

      Alot of women live in areas that aren't safe and going out to vote after work in the dark is just one more risk to take; joining with other people would add a safety factor!  They may even lack transportation if the voting place is not closet to their homes.

      Finally, what is the main reason young women do not consider voting a priority in their adult life?  Is it because girls are treated differently, not included in political discussions when they are growing up, are not told how these things are done so that they look forward to participating when they turn voting age?   Is it the fault of parents?
      Someone needs to start a group where parents take their kids to the voting places too.  Or voting booth displays should be brought to schools to show children what happens at a voting place!  Children should know all about voting before they graduate from high school.

      by nora on Thu Oct 19, 2006 at 04:01:41 PM PDT

•  The tax code discriminates against single women.

  and Republicans want to keep it that way.  All single women should vote Democratic.

  by trinite on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:50:37 PM PDT

  •  I'm just curious

    And obviously not well informed, but how are single women discriminated against in regards to the tax code anymore than single men? Not trying to start any argument on this, just never heard that before.

    by Hannibal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:02:40 PM PDT

•  Borrowing from Keg over at Newshounds...

  ... I officially invite Rush to go kill himself.

  What a twit!

  by MikeTheLiberal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:51:40 PM PDT

•  Rush is an idiot

  And so are his fans. He's obviously too stupid to understand the difference between partisan, and positions. The group doesn't endorse a political party, so how the fuck can it be partisan? I've unclogged toilets that weren't as full of shit as Limbaugh.

  by Hannibal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:53:44 PM PDT

•  fat?

  come on.  As much as I loathe Limbaugh, we lower the discourse by throwing out words like "fat".

  Just my 2 cents.

  • Chris.

  by Northern Lad on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:54:41 PM PDT

  •  sometimes you have to make exceptions

    Here ... Rush Limbaugh == fat assed drug addict.

    by yet another liberal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 07:56:52 PM PDT

  •  Oh Come On

    It's impossible to not lower the discourse when the subject is Rush Limbaugh, the man has no redeemable qualities whatsoever. I defy you to say one genuinely kind thing about him!

    by Hannibal on Wed Oct 18, 2006 at 08:00:41 PM PDT

    •  Rush is a delusional jerk.

      He is walking pond-scum, but lots of goo