Cheney: rather have Limbaugh than Powell
May. 11th, 2009 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerFormer Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday took a shot at former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell by accusing him of turning his back on Republicans, adding that conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh is a more loyal party member than the retired Army general.
"If I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I'd go with Rush Limbaugh," said Mr. Cheney on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Mr. Powell recently said that Republicans need to move to the center politically and said that Mr. Limbaugh's conservative rhetoric is polarizing and hurts the party's image. The radio talk-show host fired back by accusing Mr. Powell of being "just another liberal" and said he should become a Democrat.
Because who wouldn't rather follow a blowhard drug-addict, college drop-out, and failed comedian then a serious, honourable, and thoughtful military hero and statesman? And that's the version of the story from the ultraconservative Washington Times, not from some "liberal" news outlet...
I was just saying to my friend Justin today that I keep expecting someone in the GOP to say, "Look, being the party of war and hate speech has proven to be a disastrously bad idea; let's try moving back to the center" but that I got the impression that they had managed to chase everyone out who might say that. Seems like I'm right.
I don't know whether to hope the Cheneyists actually manage to drive out all the non-ultraconservatives. If they do, it will seal the GOP into irrelevance for a generation at least. OTOH, it's not terribly good for the country to have no credible opposition party.
"If I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I'd go with Rush Limbaugh," said Mr. Cheney on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Mr. Powell recently said that Republicans need to move to the center politically and said that Mr. Limbaugh's conservative rhetoric is polarizing and hurts the party's image. The radio talk-show host fired back by accusing Mr. Powell of being "just another liberal" and said he should become a Democrat.
Because who wouldn't rather follow a blowhard drug-addict, college drop-out, and failed comedian then a serious, honourable, and thoughtful military hero and statesman? And that's the version of the story from the ultraconservative Washington Times, not from some "liberal" news outlet...
I was just saying to my friend Justin today that I keep expecting someone in the GOP to say, "Look, being the party of war and hate speech has proven to be a disastrously bad idea; let's try moving back to the center" but that I got the impression that they had managed to chase everyone out who might say that. Seems like I'm right.
I don't know whether to hope the Cheneyists actually manage to drive out all the non-ultraconservatives. If they do, it will seal the GOP into irrelevance for a generation at least. OTOH, it's not terribly good for the country to have no credible opposition party.
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Date: 2009-05-11 05:34 pm (UTC)I think you're right. I think they're just going to talk themselves into irrelevance for a decade or so, the way they did in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In fact, given that during that period the GOP was the party of (a) rich men and (b) populist hate-mongers (they even had their own Rush Limbaugh) the parallel may be considerable.