The Republican Water Boy Speaks

So now we have it; the traditional in-fighting our two "great" political parties experience each time they experience a defeat. Here is what the "Republican Bob"- Rush Limbaugh - had to say about his part in supporting true conservative "ideology":

"I feel liberated, and I'm going to tell you as plainly as I can why," Rush said. "I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried. Now, you might say, 'Well, why have you been doing it?' Because the stakes are high. Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country's than the Democrat Party and liberalism does."

What a cowardly turn-coat; what a confused, delusional, disingenuous wind-bag. There is more -

Rush explained that it has not been easy for him to endorse some of the things backed by Republicans in Congress. "There have been a bunch of things going on in Congress, some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can't even make the case themselves -- and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs ...

Beyond the fact that real conservatism is not at all ideological and Rush Limbaugh is certainly not a real conservative, the statements above tell a lot about the man. He admits supporting things he says he either disagreed with then, or conveniently now - either way his words prove him to be a liar, then or now.

Larison rips apart this hypocrisy:

...we cannot assume such good-faith naivete with Limbaugh. If these people stood for nothing in 2006, they stood for pretty much the same thing in 2004 when they won (and I don’t remember Limbaugh ever mentioning how it was the political party and not his idea of conservatism–which isn’t conservatism–that was implicated in that election). Limbaugh’s “ideology” gets most of the credit when the GOP wins and none of the blame in defeat? That seems peculiarly convenient. Nothing about the GOP changed in those two years, and certainly nothing improved, yet Limbaugh’s attitude remained virtually unchanged from one cycle to the next.