I'm not sure that Rush Limbaugh has taken control of the Republican Party, but he has way too much influence
over it. I would like to see the Republican Party return to a Dwight D. Eisenhower mode, you know, intelligent, thoughtful, knowledgeable, experienced and deeply caring about America and all Americans (not just the wealthy and powerful). One of the problems with having a fellow like Rush Limbaugh acting as a spokesman for your party is that he uses the Hitler Brown Shirt style of broadcasting. His harangues are riddled with half-truths, nasty innuedo and outright, bald-faced lies. Now when a member of the Republican Party has to (or thinks he has to) apologize to Rush Limbaugh for honest criticism of "RUSH WHO IS WITHOUT SIN" then the party has really gone over the falls without a barrel.
The G.O.P. needs to re-claim it's grandness by disassociating itself from Rush Limbaugh who, in my view, is no more than a media "suitcase pimp" who panders to the worst in mankind's character.
Rush Limbaugh is not a debater, he is a "Yeller".
He yells his opinion and would talk loudly over any intelligent response which would demonstrate what a fool actually dwells in his hulking frame. Therefore, the President or no one else should debate him, because Limbaugh would turn intelligent debate into a fiasco of accusatory yelling.
Perhaps someone offers a course in "holistic yelling" somewhere in this great land of ours, where Rush could go and learn to tone it down a bit? From there, he might take up a diet and exercise program and work off some of that "Type-A Personality" tendency to be a bombastic blowhard bellowing
bullbleep?
Meanwhile, let's all keep Rush Limbaugh in our prayers and hope for him that he embarks on a more meaningful path in life. Perhaps he could volunteer at a homeless shelter somewhere or something of that nature or go visit kids in a cancer ward. Anything to improve his attitude and outlook on life.
Peace and prosperity to all.

Thank you for this article. If we at war, as the last administration constantly reminded us of very often, this man could be considered as a traitor.. I wish the news people would just quit giving him the headlines he is getting. This would hurt him more than anything we could do..

It never ceases to amaze how difficult it is for some wise men - like yourself - are unable to listen to a point of view that is different than your own.

I listen to Rush's gibberish probably 2 or 3 times a week while in the car between appointments.

I also listen to the CNN, FOX, MSN gibberish once or twice a week.

I also listen every time the quick-change artist (OBAMA) speaks his piece via radio or television.

And today -- I read your gibberish.

How is your crap any sweeter smelling than any of the others.

I guess you have a MYBAYCITY soapbox so you can stand higher than the rest of us.

I enjoy your point of view, Dave, as much as any other.

In other countries . . . we'd both be dead (shot by firing squad) by now.

GreenDog has spoken.

Maybe Rush is on those perscription drugs; you know those perscriptions that he was over perscribed not the ones he took himself willingly.

Usually when a person is on such large doses of pain killers; and what was it ZOLOFT; they tend to ramble on aimlesly and their thought patterns are scrambled.

What the real problem is is so many people believe his ramblings as truths.

T REX

Obama couldn't debate his way out of a paper bag let alone Rush Limbaugh. It would require major surgery to remove his teleprompter.

Dave,
As a student of history I find it hard to believe that you would actually suggest that anyone in America should be censored. Your opinion is no better than mine or Rush Limbaugh's or President Obama. Every US citizen is guaranteed the freedom of speech by our Constitution.

Furthermore, I think your comparison of Limbaugh to Couglin is obsurd. You could have found someone less extreme from history to show your comparisons.

When we are dealing with Radio, TV or Newspapers for that matter each of these is successful or not because of the people that listen, watch or read. Advertising dollars are what pays for this media and if market share drops then the program or newspaper cannot justify keeping the status quo. Therefore no one is listening, watching or reading so then naturally through the free market system these types of programs or media is dropped. Obviously Rush Limbaugh has lots of listeners.

One could take the stance that Oprah Winfrey is in charge of the Democratic Party because she backed Obama so rigoriously. All she has to do is recommend a book and bingo it becomes a best seller. So maybe by your standards Oprah has too much control over the democratic process and should be prevented from doing that.

Do you understand that this mentality by itself is unAmerican? Are we going back to the days of witch hunts and Mcarthyism?

Some media has an agenda. I have found very few that don't slant things toward what that is. It would be nice to just hear the news reported without a political slant. MSNBC seems to be pro Democrat. Fox is pro Republican. So what? Either listen or don't.

Steele was off base with his comment and should have said he was sorry to Rush.

Why don't you pitch a democratic perspective to the national radio media and see if they put you on the air?

Obama promised change. Yet more lies seem to be flowing. Campaign promises broken. What happened to those promises...no more pork or earmarks? What about putting a bill on line for all of us to read for five days before he would sign it? How about not putting lobbiest in the administration? These are just a few. As a regular citizen I think that all the politicians in Washington have gone insane. How could they vote for a bill that they didn't even have time read?

Maybe I am just being unamerican or a traitor for trying to hold our representatives feet to the fire but I don't agree with lots of what is going on in Washington and I have that right to not agree and to tell hanyone that will listen that I think that we are headed toward Socialism. I think that many aspects of what Roosevelt Presidency was Socialist in nature. Why is this acceptable to the American public? Socialism isn't acceptable to me and I will do what I can to prevent us from going down that road.

One of the first aspects of gaining control over the people that Socialists use is to silence the decentors. This so-called fairness doctrine is an attempt to do just that.

I have lots more to say on why our nation is in the state we are in now but my soapbox time is done and I do hope you allow this to be published on the website.

Thank you for your opinions. We all have them and being able to voice them is being a true American.

Scott Cummings