re: #346 Lee Coller

You don’t give the other side sound bites, in or out of context. If Rush didn’t know better before, he sure should know now. Either he hasn’t learned or just doesn’t care.

What Rush is doing with the fail comment, and what makes it so brilliant, is that he is bringing the criticism of the right onto him, just a private citizen with a radio show. He’s not minority leader nor a candidate nor a politician. And, with Gibbs, etc. criticizing him, they are elevating him above his place in the debate, which shows how weak this administration is on message. As long as O is on the teleprompter, as long as the media regurgitates his message on command, then he has no opposition. And Rush’s larger point is to put a strong word to those who should be opposing his policies. He pointed out after the election that the GOP wanted to give O a chance, let him get his feet wet in other words. Rush is saying Bullshit - not only do you not give someone the opportunity to wreck the country, just because he’s new on the job, but you also must strongly oppose what you think is wrong so that you are presenting a clear message and a clear alternative. The GOP in DC do neither. So he’s saying to them “Here’s how you oppose him, and what I’ll do is take all the arrows while you get your heads out of your ass and learn how to lead and deliver the conservative message.” It’s pretty simple.

And, what people don’t like is the bluntness of the word fail. He gave a sports analogy - he’s a Steelers fan, so he wanted Warner to fail in that last drive in the SB so his team would win - it’s not like he wished him cancer or a career ending injury. If you like racing, you want everyone in the race to fail except your pick, because logically they all want to win, so if they don’t, they fail. But people are too PC and sensitive about words, even though the fail term is exactly what you want your opponent to do. And, Rush has said on hundreds of occasions that when O does something that he agrees with, he will praise him. If he gets a conservative teleprompter, he will be O’s biggest fan. But until then, he wants every single socialist/marxist policy to fail, and miserably…knowing that those policies succeeding is against all he believes in.