Who is Right, Rush Limbaugh or Michael Steele? Update 1 – Rush Responds to Steele Update 2-Steele Apologizes

GOP Chair Michael Steele said Rush Limbaugh’s remarks to CPAC were “incendiary” and “ugly”. I’ve been supportive of Michael Steele, but this is disappointing. When will Republicans learn their lesson? I watched Rush Limbaugh’s speech at CPAC and found nothing at all ugly or incendiary about his words. There was nothing in his speech that was untrue.

The problem with Republicans is fear. They fear President Obama. They understand Obama’s political brilliance. They see a man with high approval ratings and don’t want to do or say anything that may be unpopular. But they aren’t seeing the forest for the trees here. President George W. Bush had high approval ratings, espcially after 9/11. How long did it take for the Left to end its respite from attacks against him?

For eight years the Left’s attacks on President Bush never let up. Whether he was right or wrong, whether he reached out to them or not, no matter what he did he was criticized and ridiculed incessantly. It got to the point where no Republican wanted to be seen in public with him, despite the fact that he continued to be a major fundraiser for the Republican party.

If Michael Steele and the rest of the Republicans don’t wake up to what they’re up against they’re toast, and so are the rest of us. Ayn Rand said that ”the alleged victories of evil are made possible only by the flaws and the errors of those who are essentially good. Evil, left to its own devices, is impotent and self defeating.” Our side’s errors have allowed radical leftists to take control of our nation. We have to stop aiding and abetting them. They have the media for that.

Rush is right and Republicans should have the guts to say he’s right. We don’t want Obama to succeed at turning us into a socialist country. We don’t want him to succeed at wrecking the economy to the point where the majority of Americans are dependent on the government. If he succeeds our nation as we know it will fail and it won’t be pretty.

What good did it do John McCain to run a clean campaign against Barack Obama? What good did it do to throw people under the bus for telling the truth? None at all! He was still accused of running a dirty campaign.

Michael Steele and the rest of the Republicans need to remember who they’re dealing with. They need to study Saul Alinsky, find out how and why they were defeated and start fighting fire with fire.

Update: Rush Limbaugh responded to Michael Steele today.

RUSH: Okay, so I am an entertainer, and I have 20 million listeners, 22 million listeners because of my great song-and-dance routines here. Yes, said Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, I’m incendiary, and yes, it’s ugly. Michael Steele, you are head of the RNC. You are not head of the Republican Party. Tens of millions of conservatives and Republicans have nothing to do with the RNC and right now they want nothing to do with it, and when you call them asking them for money, they hang up on you. I hope that changes. I hope the RNC will get its act together. I hope the RNC chairman will realize he’s not a talking head pundit, that he is supposed to be working on the grassroots and rebuilding it, and maybe doing something about our open primary system and fixing it so that Democrats do not nominate our candidates. It’s time, Mr. Steele, for you to go behind the scenes and start doing the work that you were elected to do instead of trying to be some talking head media star, which you’re having a tough time pulling off. I hope you figure out how to run a primary system. But it seems to me that it’s Michael Steele who is off to a shaky start.

My parents taught me when I was growing up that you always stood behind people who defended you, you never abandoned people who stood up for you and who defended you against assault. Michael Steele was a candidate for the Senate in Maryland. Michael Steele was on this program, he got airtime on this program to attempt to refute the lies being told about him by Michael J. Fox in those famous ads way back when that were also run against Jim Talent in Missouri. I personally took time to defend Michael Steele and to rip the substance of those ads, had him on the show. I went after Chuck Schumer when Chuck Schumer’s former employee stole Michael Steele’s private credit record information and released it. When I went to Washington a couple years ago for a personal appearance from my station there, WMAL, WMAL arranged for a number of dignitaries to meet me backstage. One of them was Michael Steele, who thanked me very much for coming to his defense. Something’s happened. Now I’m just an entertainer and now I am ugly and my program is incendiary.

 Michael Steele has been around long enough to know that the liberal media will use him by twisting what I say or what others say. He took the bait, he bit down hard on the bait, he launched an attack on me even though the premise of what was said to him was false. He took the bait and he went for it. Now, Mr. Steele, if it is your position as the chairman of the Republican National Committee that you want a left wing Democrat president and a left wing Democrat Congress to succeed in advancing their agenda, if it’s your position that you want President Obama and Speaker Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid to succeed with their massive spending and taxing and nationalization plans, I think you have some explaining to do. Why are you running the Republican Party? Why do you claim you lead the Republican Party when you seem obsessed with seeing to it that President Obama succeeds? I frankly am stunned that the chairman of the Republican National Committee endorses such an agenda. I have to conclude that he does because he attacks me for wanting it to fail.

This isn’t complicated stuff here, folks. It’s difficult to organize the defeat of Obama and the Democrat Congress in 2012, if we want to. It’s going to be difficult enough, but on one hand it shouldn’t be difficult at all. But it’s going to be really hard, Mr. Steele, if you, as the chairman of the RNC, want Obama to succeed. Where does the Republican Party go if you, who are supposed to be redesigning our primary system and helping reestablish our grassroots movement, how are we going to retake elective office if you want this agenda of Obama’s and Pelosi’s and Reid’s to succeed. My colleagues in talk radio can attest to this next point. We get press release after press release after press release from the Republican National Committee attacking the Democrat agenda. They send us points of refutation. I never use them ’cause I don’t need them. But they send out all these points of refutation about how this part of what Dingy Harry wants or Pelosi wants is wrong, is wrong, is wrong. Why are you sending out these things, Mr. Steele? Why is your office sending out all these talking points to defeat the Democrat agenda in Congress if your position is you want it to succeed? And I don’t understand why you’re asking Republicans to donate to the Republican National Committee if their money is going to be spent furthering the agenda of Barack Obama. Read full transcript.

I’ll say it again – Rush is right! It’s been quite a while since I’ve sent any money to the RNC. I’m waiting because I work hard for my money and I don’t know if sending it to the RNC is a complete waste. I’m waiting to see what Michael Steele does with the RNC. If the RNC is going to let Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Rahm Emanuel walk all over them why would I send them any of my hard earned money. If they refuse to stand up for what I believe in, which Rush did such a fine job of articulating, why on earth would I send them a dime?

Update 2: Michael Steele apologized. Probably a wise move on his part.

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