Media Matters notes that yesterday, right wing radio talker Rush Limbaugh claimed that “liberalism is the greatest threat this country faces, not Islamofascism.” Limbaugh added that the “Islamofascists” are “campaigning” for Democrats this cycle: "If the liberals dominate and win, and are in power for four, eight years or more, they don’t take Islamofascism as a threat. And we know this because the Islamofascists are actually campaigning for the election of Democrats. Islamofascists from Ahmadinejad to al-Zawahiri, Oba — Osama bin Laden, whoever, are constantly issuing Democrat talking points." Limbaugh’s rhetoric mirrors the conservative strategy around the 2006 elections. At the time, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Dick Cheney, and the White House all suggested al Qaeda was hoping for a Democratic Congress.
As obnoxious and disruptive as this constant flow of venom from Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, the WSJ, the Weekly Standard, the Bush Administration, etc. is these days, the issue is not trying to answer it, or stop it. The question is, "Will it work this time?" It is certainly flowing like the Colorado River when the opened the dam. This version [above] is particularly silly, but they’ve hit a few homers – Reverend Wright, the Bitter comment, Hillary’s sniper story. But, for the most part, it is like this Islamofascism line or Karl Rove’s "Marxist" pile on – just carpet bombing. I’m thinking that Ms. Clinton and Mr. Obama are harder targets that John Kerry was – in spite of the gender/race factor. They’re both pretty smart, pretty right thinking, reasonable choices.
The way they’ve gotten away with this kind of tactic before is to keep throwing this stuff against the wall until something sticks. What I want to happen is for the regular Americans to get it that all of it is part of a playground tactic that denigrates America and her citizens. There’s a line that one shouldn’t cross in political banter, and they’re way over it. They’ve been way over it for a long time, without reaching a saturation point. They’re playing with fire right now because it has worked before. I hope they reach the "kindling point" and it all goes up in smoke. It’s just depressing to think that rational people even listen to it.
I’m a partisan person at this point. I’m opposed to the Republican Party controlling anything because of their 8+ years of abysmal stewardship. Not that there aren’t rational and even very respectable Republican politicians. But their appointments to the "middle ranks" have been horrible – Federalist Society plants like John Yoo, American Enterprise Institute Idealogues, up and coming Young Republicans like Monica Goodling and Sarah Taylor, people put in office to participate in the government takeover. The Media Machine has been a big part of their success largely through "soft" dirty tricks [which is what I call "spin"]. And it’s all apparent in, "If the liberals dominate and win, and are in power for four, eight years or more, they don’t take Islamofascism as a threat. And we know this because the Islamofascists are actually campaigning for the election of Democrats. Islamofascists from Ahmadinejad to al-Zawahiri, Oba — Osama bin Laden, whoever, are constantly issuing Democrat talking points". By any criteria imaginable, George W. Bush has been the best thing that ever happened to the "Islamofascists from Ahmadinejad to al-Zawahiri, … Osama bin Laden"…
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