Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Party

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Tuesday May 05, 2009 · 8:04 PM PDT

2009/05/05 · 20:04

What Rush Limbaugh truly means to the Republican party is a question that is becoming more and more impossible to answer.

Former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently joked in a CNN interview that his Republican colleagues, and in specific — Sarah Palin ”aren’t that cute.” This was a quote Mr. Limbaugh didn’t seem to take in as much of a playful stride as Romney, instead attacking the week old GOP council. ”They despise Sarah Palin. They fear Sarah Palin. They don’t like her either. According to them, she’s embarrassing.”

Without playing into the overall political message of Mitt Romney’s quote at all, the main significance of this situation is what should be last straw of the GOP’s political patience. Why? As the GOP continues their monumental grassroots conservative movement, Mr. Limbaugh simply isn’t a positive addition.

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Monday May 04, 2009 · 7:54 PM PDT

2009/05/04 · 19:54

The main stream media has never acquired a story with more fuel and endurance than to criticize its own colleagues. Countless papers and analysis have been written, achieving a complete political dissection of the topic — but does it actually accomplish anything?

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly recently delivered his “talking points memo” detailing that starting in the rise of the internet as a press source, “true reporting” has been replaced with stories containing too little substance and too much flap. Citing the early days of the news, Mr. O’Reilly accused media giants NBC and CNN of left-wing bias.

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Wednesday April 29, 2009 · 7:11 AM PDT

2009/04/29 · 07:11

Political contribution reform and all of its due glory has its ups and downs, but like other things, when manipulated it will become exactly what it is seemlingly posed against — partisan warfare. Enter the Democratic Congressional and Senatorial Campaign Commities.

In what has exploded throughout the political world, a June fundraiser for these committees turned into a give and take offer for the president — to speak at the event in exchange for a ban on PAC and Lobbyist donations — for one day. Pundits, the partisan media, politicians and their constituents — Progressive, Democratic and Republican — have become ignited in anger. But what this essentially signals is a long future of fake reform, lobbyist domination and in the broader sense, a tightened congressional and presidential partisanship.

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Saturday April 25, 2009 · 10:21 AM PDT

2009/04/25 · 10:21

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Washington is a very confusing place.

In the past week, the public has seen the story of waterboarding explode into literately hundreds of pieces. President Barack Obama and his cabinet have almost fatally contradicted themselves and the main stream media’s supposed unbiased analysis of the waterboardings have flown hand in hand — and in some cases have assumed the form of — their own talking heads. And of course, this all comes in great time of President Obama’s 100 day celebration.

So how can this all be politically interpreted? In some ways, it can’t.

As John Dickerson writes. we will never know exactly what Obama’s true position on torture is — what information he has given has been spun by the press — and what hasn’t will be surly kept inside the White House doors or spun again in his inevitable clean up speech.

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Tuesday April 21, 2009 · 4:57 PM PDT

2009/04/21 · 16:57

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June 5, 2008. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich publishes a piece on the upcoming presidential election in Human Events – the self described headquarter of the conservative underground. It is titled: “My Plea to Republicans,” and ties the recent loss in a Louisiana Congressional election to what he warns could end in disaster in the coming November election. His strategic piece highlights painful figures for the GOP – an 18 point Congressional polling deficit “reminiscent of the depths of the Watergate disaster.” He warns the GOP’s current attack ads and political talking points are without depth, failing and close to disaster. And finally, he cautions that the Republican frontrunner – John McCain, seriously misrepresents the GOP’s message and is straying away from the party’s intended and proven talking points.

Gingrich was correct.

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Monday October 27, 2008 · 8:24 PM PDT

2008/10/27 · 20:24

With less than a week until the voting booths draw themselves open, both candidates find themselves in the vital battlegrounds, but also engaged in arguably the most tactically important stretch in the election.

And because of this, we are now starting to see different strategy in the press and in both campaign’s speeches.

Dubbed ”the closing argument,” Obama has, perhaps surprisingly, fully reworked his recent string of stump speeches reminiscent to his early primary victories, in a sense summing up his campaign.

The speeches consist less of attacks to the other party, rather a more “dreamy” and crowd pleasing stump made up of policy proposals.

But what is the most interesting is that the Obama campaign has essentially changed its entire framework from the present economic situation and policy attacks to a more or less futuristic tone.

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Sunday October 26, 2008 · 6:25 PM PDT

2008/10/26 · 18:25

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n the final stretches of the now slightly Obama leaning presidential campaign, the trailing McCain/Palin camp has truly let loose their steam, and people have noticed it. CNN just recently released information from a McCain aide among other things, quoting that ”Palin is going rouge.”

And some of the loudest voices on the internet as well as the media have questioned: Is the McCain Campaign Imploding?

And this in fact raises a very good question.

It is not disputed from either party that regardless of the current attacks, since both parties entered the political spotlight and are now close to ending the election, we have seen two very different strategic McCain campaigns.

So a question like this can in fact be raised. The answer? Not entirely.

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Thursday October 23, 2008 · 6:25 PM PDT

2008/10/23 · 18:25

Repetition can and has proved a deadly political strategy in recent months, but has it necessarily won out voters? I’d like to cite a quote by former USSR leader Vladimir Lenin, reading:

“A lie told often enough becomes truth.”

The strategic beauty of this quote is simply because it has essentially lasted into the present and proved itself when associated with the past. But what is arguable is that campaigns have put this quote into practice — with political ads.

With a seventh grade education (and counting), I am not ready to make a statement about a past world war nor am I about to call anything or everything thrown around the political spectrum a “lie,” but it is unimaginable not to disregard that the concept of Lenin’s quote has surrounded our daily lives. Living in California, media outlets and advertising are close to impossible to escape, only escalating as the voting season has transitioned itself into full swing. But what it also noticeable is the volume in which these ads are coming.

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Monday October 20, 2008 · 7:54 PM PDT

2008/10/20 · 19:54

CNN analyst Gloria Borger recently raised an interesting question: in the increasingly close reality of a McCain loss, who will be to blame?

As I detailed in another post, I used a quote stating a common fact: the Republican party is not currently popular. This can be brought out in many different ways, but recently the common scapegoat for McCain eventually falling short of the presidency would be because of the party he is running in.

Many people would also point out that Sarah Palin ultimately will hand the McCain campaign a loss, mostly because of the clear cut political line she placed between McCain and Barack Obama, and the fact that her social conservative standing has moved the McCain too far right than they want to be strategically.

And then there are many people who say that the reason McCain choose Palin wasn’t exactly strategic — she was rather chosen from the commands of the far right base, which is contradicting to another recent post and what I will bring up here.

My opinion here is that the nomination of Palin for running mate may have been a factor the far right wanting Palin’s politics, but in the end I believe that the main reason for McCain to go with Palin was nothing more than strategy.

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 8:04 PM PDT

2008/10/17 · 20:04

There is no disputing that the decision to nominate Sarah Palin as the Republican’s vice presidential pick was certainly a surprise, causing the press to have one of the biggest political field days in history. But in the end was she strategically a gain or loss for the McCain campaign?

I think that this essentially is the problem: what is a gain, what is a loss, and what was Palin meant to do — things certainly debatable but not entirely clear.

But nevertheless, the centrist point here is that John McCain is (in his own words) “Running to win, and winning to govern.” What this is perceived to mean is that McCain is essentially running for the oval office and frankly doesn’t mind whoever contributes in getting him there.

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 8:21 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 20:21

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In a debate preceded with questions about its importance from different strategic and political views across the aisle, tonight’s debate was with no question the best and most interesting. And in the end, I think the debate ended close, which ultimately McCain lost from a strategic standpoint.

But in what may have ended that way it has didn’t come off the bat as a victory or tie in any means for Obama, who came off, in my opinion, too conservative and defensive as far as his personality. However, as soon as the most vital question strategically came forward, McCain figuratively drove off the track.

The topic of Bill Ayers and negative campaigning permanently turned the debate personal, which let Obama immediately capitalize and climb back in the debate, ultimately ending in a draw.

But what I found most interesting from this debate was that John McCain was seemingly derailed from asi single soundbite and rather attacked in a much more frequent and less crowd pleasing manner.

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Tuesday October 14, 2008 · 7:52 PM PDT

2008/10/14 · 19:52

In the extremely complicated game of politics, few things are for certain in the subject of strategy, especially the outcome of an already press-plagued presidential race for history — from every standpoint. And when the fact that the race has had arguably the most strings and skeletons attached then ever before is thrown in to the equation, the expression: “Its politics — anything can happen” truly goes literal.

But in the same sense, the presidential debates have been what many would call the most uneventful part of the campaign, when many bloggers (including me), strategists and the press alike stressed that the debates would do the opposite: setting off major gaffes and swinging the polls.

And as contradicting as this may sound, I am staying with my prior claim with one event in mind — the final presidential debate. This is because (in a nutshell) McCain must successfully make debate waves or he will lose.

Why? The final debate is essentially McCain’s last public stand against his opponent before the election, and both campaigns know that McCain does not want to enter an election with the poll deficit that he has today.

And because of this, McCain will have to look for holes to punch at more now than ever.

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Rush Limbaugh and the Republican Party

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Fake Reform and Its Negative Effect on Washington

Torture and Its Effect on the Media and Us

Rebuilding the GOP

Tactics On the Stump: Obama’s Closing Argument

Analysis: Is The McCain Campaign Imploding?

The Arms Race For an Audience: Can Campaigns Use Frequency To Sway Voters?

Would McCain’s Loss Be The Fault of His Party?

Overview: Was Sarah Palin Worth It?

Analysis: The Third and Final Presidential Debate

The Importance Of The Final Presidential Debate