Now Frum has a problem with them because Frum is an elitist, urban, moderate “conservative” (along with his partners in crime Brooks, Parker, and others), and he now thinks folks like Limbaugh hurt the brand among his fellow elitist urban moderates. Because per Frum Limbaugh and his followers are a bunch of yahoos who embarrass the oh so thoughtful types like Frum.

Now there is probably some truth to the idea that Frum thinks Limbaugh and company are now hurting the neocons ability to curry favor with the current regime, but the neocons in general appreciated their services when they were drum beating us to war.

This post will fool, what? Maybe 5 or 10% of those nasty Limbaugh listeners? See, we are not sheep like you are, and the fallacy that Rush gets to the ideas before we do, is the basis of your reasoning. As you try to rend the different arms of the neocon party, you send out these terminators.

LOL. When you call the Rush-show, you have the “good old boy” accent, and you state that you’ve been a Republican for about 150 years, and voted a single-party ticket in all that time. But lately you have realized that all Obama wants is what is good for us, and we should all just give him a chance.

We laugh, and guess among ourselves, how many words into your speech did we get before we realized that you don’t pass the smell-test? We label you seminar callers.

The person who made this post either does not understand the rudiments of what Rush espouses, or is making a calculated effort to be “non-inclusive”, either for his own elitist needs, or as part of a wider effort to get us to argue amongst ourselves.

The caricature of the “Rush listener” that you presented certainly would offend Rush, and I would guess represents a tiny portion of his demographic, perhaps a single-digit percentage.

We waited for Rush to understand that Bush was stabbing us in the back over veto-pen issues, the border, TARP 1, etc. We waited for him to understand the financial mess, and the enormity of the congressional crookedness by both parties. We are out in front of him, waiting for him to see Bobby Jindal for the “Why can’t we get back to business as usual, next time we get a chance to grab our share of pork, I want to be the leader” kind of person he is.

The successful talking heads understand that the intellectual center of gravity is out in the center of their audience. This is why the elitists from the opposition have such a tough time “smelling right”. When they caricature what they don’t understand, then secondarily caricature the audience of that person, they make fun of something that we also would make fun of.

We see the dry-rot that infects all FIVE branches of government. Acorn and the Democrats have pushed the lowest common denominator of voters to below the “sound bite thinker” level. Government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” becomes a tyranny of the majority who wants to vote themselves a raise.

The 4th estate has abdicated, by currying favor to protect it’s access to power and news, and by failing to police itself. Entertainment, public media, teaching, goverment service, and authorship ALL tend to be natural breeding grounds for liberal-think. “I gain power, I venture opinions, we will correct any unintended consequences later, I will wield my power to force my will upon others, either for personal gain, or an idealistic desire to bring about my vision for utopia”.

A phenomenon that runs counter to this trend is “talk radio”. Why are so many of these right-wing outlets owned and run by big-liberal money? Because this medium provides the immediate but measured feedback that the 4th estate lacks. When you understand this model, you understand that talk radio does not lead it’s audience. Quite the contrary.

The other 3 branches of government (Judicial, Congressional, Executive), wither into corruption of course, when these first two fail.

The liberal opposition will attempt to destroy us with a form of “local-content doctrine”, and we will ride this tool into cleaning up our party, and then push the self-correcting national pendulum back to a saner government.

In spite of the type of people who made this post.

Also, Limbaugh, with his blunt all-encompassing partisanship, make it difficult for the Neo’s to make their approaches to the new power masters. To the Neocons, Limbaugh must seem like the boisterous McCain supporters who called out crude anti-Obama epithets at rallies. Unguided enthusiasm gets in the way of deal making.

Criticisms of Rush and the conservative movement from the right are warranted and necessary, but need to be approached carefully.