President Obama’s mob normally shouldn’t be able to do this. But they can, and are, because when you’re in the “business of winning elections” (and can’t even manage that) as opposed to being in the business of leadership, it means the enemy can, and will, define you. Here’s how Peter Nicholas puts it in today’s Los Angeles Times:
“The White House is pushing the message that the provocative radio host is pulling the party’s strings.
The Obama White House has begun advancing an aggressive political strategy: persuading the country that real power behind the Republican party is not the GOP leaders in Congress or at the Republican National Committee, but rather the provocative radio talk show king Rush Limbaugh.
Obama himself, along with top presidential aides and outside Democratic allies have been pushing the message in unison.”
Part of that push is the orchestrating of the “fight” between Steele and Limbaugh which simply highlights the rank absurdity of the entire situation. The Obambi Mob, while wrecking the economy, has realized they can define the Dead Old Party (DOP) and distract average Republicans at the same time by pitting Steele and Limbaugh against each other. And both took the bait. They’re now talking about each other instead of the leftist in the White House running roughshod over this country. This because of the continued lack of coordinated leadership within the GOP.
This current public fight between Limbaugh and Steele, two important and influential conservative men, reveals just how deeply in trouble the DOP really is. What happened to the Grand Old Party? Its so-called leadership has been inside the Beltway too long, going to the same cocktail and dinner parties for decades.
Ironically, one of the many important and attractive elements of the conservative ideal is that it is principally resistant to the very notion of “leadership.” The always astute Ann Coulter has noted that conservatives have no leaders, per se. The individualistic nature of the Authentic Conservative eschews the idea of being organized or led. It is, as they say, our greatest strength and greatest weakness. Yet, as a former leftist organizer I know the power and importance of a clear and directed message.
Reagan understood this, too. Reagan was a man, however, who did not “lead” us — he reminded us who are as a people and then cheered us on.
This current public fight between Limbaugh and Steele, two important and influential conservative men, reveals just how deeply in trouble the DOP really is. What happened to the Grand Old Party? Its so-called leadership has been inside the Beltway too long, going to the same cocktail and dinner parties for decades.
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