David Frum Get One Thing Right

It really pained me to write that title, but Timothy Egan used a quote in his op-ed that pretty much sums up my thoughts on the whole Limbaugh bit currently playing out.

“If you’re a talk radio host and you have five million who listen and there are 50 million who hate you, you make a nice living. If you’re a Republican party, you’re marginalized.”

This whole tiff might be the greatest thing that has happened to Limbaugh since Clinton got a blowjob. I've seen discussion on if Limbaugh is a Republican first or a conservative first. The answer is neither, Rush is a businessman first and this is pure gold for him. It is even better for the Obama administration. Rush is only popular to a small segment of the overall population. To most people he is a large part of what people hate about government, people more concerned with the politics of things rather than the governing of. That isn't a leader that any party wants.