re: #558 SanFranciscoZionist

I would say that the difference with Limbaugh is that he gets a weird level of deference. Michael Steele actually backed away from his comments about him. Although Newt did tell him off a while ago—did he stand by that?

I don’t recall the Newt thing. Ann Althouse, conservative blogger with some following, called Limbaugh out on some over the top rhetoric today. Not a leader of the party by any means, but just goes to show Limbaugh is not invincible on the right.

Steele had to back off because he was a weak party chair. Steele was constantly ticking parts of the party, and ticking off Limbaugh was just another in a series of moves he had to backtrack on.