Re: Rush Limbaugh and Kurt Warner

"Now about my, still to me, mysteriously controversial comment that I hope President Obama fails. I was watching the Super Bowl and, as you know, I love the Pittsburgh Steelers... Kurt Warner on the field for the Arizona Cardinals and I sure as heck want you to know I hope he failed. I did not want the Cardinals to win. I wanted Warner to make the biggest fool of himself possible."

-Rush Limbaugh at the 2009 CPAC



That was pretty much the most repulsive analogy I've ever heard. There are people out there busting their asses to support their families, crying themselves to sleep because of the financial harshities of the world and in general not thriving so that CEOs can get a bigger piece of the pie and Limbaugh is too busy with his head up his ass rooting for the failure of Obama's economic policies, because he sees the Republican party as his football team, to realize that economic and political policy is life or death for some people and not a fucking game. There are consequences when the leaders of our country fail and they have serious implications for the well-being of our populace. Probably Rush is living too comfortably to remember that.

"Did the Democrats want the war in Iraq to fail? Well, they certainly did."

Did I want the war in Iraq to fail? No. Hell no. I wanted the Republican arguments that got us into the war in Iraq to fail at getting us there in the first place, sure, but that's a whole hell of a lot different. I, like millions of other Americans, had the foresight to see that it was a bad situation we'd be getting ourselves into. After we were there I absolutely wanted the war to end as successfully and quickly as possible with minimum suffering and loss of life on both sides and as optimal a situation as possible for the Iraqi citizenry coming out of it. I wish Shock and Awe would have succeeded in ending the war in a day. I wish we would have been greeted as liberators. That doesn't mean it's actually what I thought would happen, and it turns out I was right to be skeptical, but I really wish that it did work out. Honestly. I value life and happiness, I think we all do. I'm pretty sure that's all anyone wanted. The debate was over how to get it and I'd like to think that there are many conservatives out there that aren't so flat-out stupid as Limbaugh to think that everyone who didn't support the war wanted anything approaching failure for us during that war.

Now that the obligatory explanation of my stance is done with, I'd like to say this to Rush and Rushites:



You're destroying your party. Since I realize that discourse is important in this country and I don't want to see any party in an unmitigated position of power I'm not really looking forward to the vacuum left when the Republicans implode and the Libertarian party steps up (and slowly loses its emphasis on social liberty so as to become The Republican Party Lite). I think such a position would be damaging for our country because I believe that power corrupts and a capital-D Democratically controlled government with no tangible opposition would be as dangerous as any government with no tangible opposition. Please, keep voting, keep voicing your opinions, keep opposing Democrats but stop seeing this as a football game. This mindset isn't winning you any votes, it's only getting Rush better ratings, and if you see this as a game I'd like to hear about how often you've convinced anyone rooting for the other team (e.g. 52% of the country) to start rooting for your team by talking about how much you want the other team to fail.