Matthew Yglesias » McConnell: Hanging Out With Rush Limbaugh is Awesome

Feb 27th, 2009 at 10:00 am

McConnell: Hanging Out With Rush Limbaugh is Awesome

In his CPAC speech, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insisted that conservatives are more “interesting” and “fun” than liberals. Here’s his proof: “who wants to hang out with guys like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich when you can be with Rush Limbaugh?”

The extent to which the formal political leaders of the Republican Party are eager to go this far out of their way to embrace Rush Limbaugh is interesting. But there are more Rush fans than Mitch fans:

Just yesterday, Rush once again reiterated his hope that the economy continues to tank because that would be bad for Barack Obama’s reelection prospects.

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31 Responses to “McConnell: Hanging Out With Rush Limbaugh is Awesome”

anonymous Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Tattoo Rush quotes to GOP foreheads, and remind ‘em what they said about tattoo removal in 2010.
tom veil Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I look forward to you using that chart every time it’s even plausibly related to the post. I gotta admit, as someone who’s never used marijuana in his life, I’d much rather hang out with some pot than with Rush or Mitch.
Susan Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 10:06 am
Until Mitch can get a connection for some oxies, Rush will always be the darlin’ of the conservacrites.
max Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 10:07 am
In his CPAC speech, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insisted that conservatives are more “interesting” and “fun” than liberals.

Break out the banjos, friends! There’s cityfolk comin’ down the river!

Here’s his proof: “who wants to hang out with guys like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich when you can be with Rush Limbaugh?”

So I’m supposed to be enarmoured of quasi-Nazi nutbar and the sweat rolling off his flab? ReallY?

max
['Hey! Robert Reich CAN READ! LOSER! LOOOOSSSSEEEERRRRRR!']
Tyro Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 10:21 am
“who wants to hang out with guys like Paul Krugman and Robert Reich when you can be with Rush Limbaugh?”

Krugman and Reich are your eccentric but fun uncles who seem stuffy on the outside but turn out to know all the cool places to go in town and tell you funny stories about what your parents were like when they were young. Rush is your cigar-chomping loudmouthed uncle who sends you racist chain mail forwards between golf outings.
Jeremy Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 10:37 am
From now on, MY should always include the “Legalize Marijuana” bar on any graph he does.
Led Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 10:38 am
Krugman is a Nobel prize winning, well-respect academic economist. Limbaugh is basically a right wing Jon Stewart (no offense to Stewart). The fact that McConnell views the two men as comparable spokesmen says a lot about Republican’s approach to politics and public policy.
cleek Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Limbaugh is basically a right wing Jon Stewart

i’d say Limbaugh is basically a right wing Keith Olbermann.
Matt B Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Is it too much to ask that the vertical axis be labeled so that we know what the fsck the graph is trying to tell us?
Flo Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 11:08 am
And I’ve always wanted to be able to hang out with Mitch McConnell……. zzzzzzzzzzzzz
El Cid Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 11:13 am
How dare any public figure wish for America to fail when we are at a time of war???
mort Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Limbaugh thinks he runs the republican party; nobody on the left is comparable to that.
steve duncan Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 11:31 am
I have to second, third and fourth some previous comments. A junket to an exotic Caribbean isle, a satchel full of Viagra and the toned, bronze bodies of several young, tittering senoritas lounging about a luxury beach condiminium sounds better than anything even Obama has to offer.
Shiva Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 11:41 am
I met a neighbor yesterday whom I would describe as a hard-core Limbaugh Republican. As he talked about politics, I was struck by how “the enemy” was the Democrats, and especially Obama. He honestly believes Obama wants to harm the United States. I didn’t get into much of an argument with him, but if I had, the issue would have been: is Obama an enemy of the United States, or not? This guy had no interest in Al Queda, homeless American children, health care, etc. His only interest was: who is with me, and who is against me?
mike Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 11:58 am
To be fair, I rank legalizing marijuana above any individual of any party currently engaged in federal, state, or municipal political activities.
Will Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
I second the motion for legalize marijuana bars at all time.

Don’t Republicans think that saying “bling bling” and “da man” makes them cool? So really this wasn’t all that surprising.
cmholm Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Hang with Rush Limbaugh? Well sure. Down there in FL, his dope stash is probably killer.
Jim T Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Wait, Bush is more popular than Rush Limbaugh? Really? Wow, it looks like the GOP just jumped from the frying pan into the fire as leaders go.
johnnyk Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
Admit it Mitch, you’re a chinless white dork hoping to scavenge Mt. Rush’s leftover skanks.
Dennis Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I’ve never smoked dope,(70 years) but if McConnel, Rush Hanitty, Beck and that crowd will disappear I’ll take it up for the rest of my natural life
Dennis Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
Jon Stewart is very bright comedian who is spoofing all the swells in gov’t and elsewhere. He is the first to admit that. Conversely Rush is a pompous and ignorant fool who takes himself seriously, erroneously thinking he is adding something important to the mix. WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
Reality Man Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
To add what was said above, Stewart is a bright, funny and insightful guy who doesn’t take himself that seriously, which is how you end up him smearing Light Baconaise on a Jimmy Dean pancake-wrapped sausage on a stick and eating it on air. Limbaugh is a self-obsessed moron who somehow believes he has enough medical training to diagnose a Parkinson’s patient he’s never examined and judge that he’s exaggerating his symptoms.

Also, since when are old guys who are afraid of black people, Latinos, gay people and women fun?
Paul Camp Says:
February 27th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
Well, McConnell has a point. Nothing would please me more than to suit up in full plate armor, walk up to Rush, and give him a dope slap with a rubber chicken.

I would never, ever do that to Krugman.

Just saying.
Myles Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Rush has a gigantic uber-rich house with full staff and all the goodies money can buy in Florida. He probably picks up the tab at 3-star meals too. (I understand that he is a gigantic tipper.)

Krugman has a upper-middle-class place in NJ.

Reich has a pad in Boston.

Where do you think you wanna hang out? Nice big superrich guy’s place in Florida or grumpy academic’s place in NJ?

I’ll take Florida any day of the week.
kali Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Just yesterday, Rush once again reiterated his hope that the economy continues to tank because that would be bad for Barack Obama’s reelection prospects.

of course this idiot doesn’t care or not whether the economy recovers.. he “earns” about $30 million a year spewing hate and BS every day on the radio…..
Duncan Says:
March 22nd, 2009 at 1:27 pm
A SUPPORTED BY THE DEVELOPER TOOLS? It was interesting. You seem very knowledgeable in ypour field.

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