Do You Think The Smear Campaign on Rush Limbaugh has Hurt the Democrats?

Question

I mean even Senator John Edwards wife has joined the fray, and went on record to say that she was appalled at what Rush said. She did not hear him say anything. She was just speculating from what she heard from Rep. Harry Reid and Tom Harkin. Do we really want leaders who verbally assassinate citizens without the substance to back up their rhetoric?

Answer 1

47 ANSWERS ABOVE ME !!! Moody, I have not read any of the 47, I simply feel this way ::
Never should ANY Elected official be allowed to use their position of trust to attack ANY AMERICAN, simply because the politician does not like what a / any citizen Say's !!!
MY G*D PEOPLE Think about what is going on, here!!!! Irregardless of who, where, when, what, TO YES or No support the troupes, IS A FREEDOM / CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF EVERY AMERICAN !!!!!!!!
DAMN IT, Put the shoe on your foot, What if you said that you do not like the acts of a politician, SHOULD SOME POLITICIAN GET UP IN FRONT OF A PORTION OF THE U.S. CAPITOL AND NAME YOU, PERSONALLY, AND ATTACK YOUR RIGHT TO SPEAK OR ACT, (PROVIDING THE ACT / WORDS DID NOT CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE ESTABLISHED LAW)!!!
THIS is about the most flagrant violation of the Constitutional Protected Freedoms we have in the HISTORY OF THE U.S.A., SINCE 1776, AND THERE HAS NOW BEEN ESTABLISHED A PRECEDENCE OF USURPING / NEGATING THAT RIGHT!!!!!
PLEASE PEOPLE, WHETHER OR NOT YOU AGREE WITH THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN ACCUSED, YOU, YOUR CHILDREN, GRAND CHILDREN, ANDS ON, HAS now had the RIGHTS PROSTITUTED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON ??????????????????

Answer 2

Please explain, if you can, how calling out Rush Limbaugh affects the Democrats at all. They don't listen to him. When he says something stupid, it's easy enough to pull up the conservation on the Internet and check it out - gee, do you think Elizabeth Edwards might have been smart enough to work a computer and do that? I heard both versions. The first and original one, which made it clear that Rush did indeed insult all soldiers who oppose the war; and the second edited edition, which puts Rush in a better light. Funny how he had to edit what he really said in order to defend himself isn't it?

The point is that no one but right wing cons take Rush Limbaugh seriously anyway. As though he could damage the Democrats by running his mouth. Anyone who is undecided at this point doesn't subscribe to right wing smear pundit opinions as their basis for making their decision, so who exactly is he convincing? He's preaching to his own choir, and they are the only ones who are ever swayed by his poisonous tripe.

Lately, Republicans have become so desperate they keep attributing some imagined change in the voting base simply because they feel they've scored some points. The last couple of weeks it was the MoveOn.Org ad. You all seemed convinced it had hurt the Democrats, and especially Sen. Clinton. Then this week her support numbers went through the roof. Get a clue. Just because Republicans feel like they scored some points doesn't mean the rest of the country agrees.

Answer 3

"Do we really want leaders who verbally assassinate citizens without the substance to back up their rhetoric?"

Hmm, ask the voters in Georgia after Saxby Chambliss smeared Max Cleland.

Ask John Kerry after the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush spewed their venom.

Ask any conservative who conflates antiwar activism with "helping the terrorists."

Ask the Republican congressman who are all atwitter over MoveOn's ad about David Petraeus, but are remarkably silent when a conservative magazine suggests that Petraeus is a lapdog for Bush.

I'm sure Elizabeth Edwards had access to the audiotape and/or the transcript of what Rush Limbaugh said. It's not a smear campaign because he actually said "phony soldiers." And he compared men who appeared in commericals to VoteVets.org to suicide bombers! And you think he's the victim of a smear campaign? Any decent human being would be appalled by Rush's remarks.

Answer 4

Nope, not at all. Actually, I congradulate the Democrats for finally having a spine and answering back Rush's vitrolic character assassination, untruths and slanderous insinuations. Some of the Dems are finally starting to learn that you don't let any crap from the opposition go unanswered - something that Kerry didn't do with the Swift Boaters, unfortunately.

Hah. Smear Campaign. What rotgut! I think the rightwingers are shocked, surprised that the Democrats and liberals are finally giving it back to them! And what hypocrisy of Rush and his apologists to call it a smear campaign, when the denizens of Karl Rove and his like have been doing this in political campaigns for some time.

Note to Rush, Bush, and the GOP: We're not gonna take it anymore!

Quote from Jimmy Johnson, former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys: "Nothing is more mournful than the cry of a bully who had the s*** stomped out of him."

Answer 5

The soldier in question and a very few others are indeed phony soldiers.
The "soldier" in question didn't get through basic boot camp. He was discharged. He was found un fit. He was in the military for 42 days.
He THEN went on to claim he was a decorated war hero. He also made up charges that were IMPOSSIBLE for him to have seen.
Who are you going to believe?
I often disagree with Rush Limbaugh, but those who rant against him are less than American. - You go figure out what they are. They don't make enough sense to be worth my time spent writing this.

Answer 6

Yes it will hurt them. First everyone who has bothered to listen to the Rush comments knows he was referring to those people who have either pretended to be soldiers or those who try to pad their service record(Sen Harkin while running in the '92 pres primary claimed to have flown combat missions in Viet-Nam, he was stationed in Japan And Gitmo=phony soldier). Second it shows the absolute stupidity of the dems who have jumped on this band wagon. Couldn't they done a little checking, don't they know that the American people are smart enough to know who does and who does not support our military. This has been a benefit in that it exposes the idiots among us, the petty opportunists, those who would lie to advance themselves, and gives the rest of us more reason to make sure they never come to power

Answer 7

Rush or MoveOn?
Rush or Hillary?
Rush or John Edwards?

Rush can only say it on the radio but the Democrats can really change our future. If Rush has any truth in his statements, we are falling victims of a bigger smear.

Answer 8

The Scandal that was not. The Libs are running against limbaugh. Funny that the limp wrist running Media Matters David Brock gets to talk to the networks without showing his face to the public and working in tandem with Hillary Clinton and George Soros to smear anyone standing between Hillary and the Oval office. yoo hoo David Brock why don't you show your face and get in the water with the rest of us instead of hiding behind Hillarys pantsuit. You make the claim you should be a........whatever and defend your girlie man statement.

Answer 9

I never really listened to Rush all that much until the liberal media mobocracy's attempt to skewer him was picked up on by Harry Reid.

Of course libs are swearing the attack on Rush is no different than the conservative outcry over moron.org's assault on Petraeus, but this argument lacks merit when one considers Rush is a private citizen.

A citizen that elected officials of the government are trying to censure.

Long have I known the larger Dem party is infested with leftist rabble, but due to their latest foray into Stalinist-era political maneuverings, they have created a new Limbaugh fan.

Answer 10

Nope this is the standard play from the Dumbocrats playbook they are smarting from the backlash from the movon.org slander so they make up and twist something into a lie and whine loudly using the Liberal media to assist them keep it going for a little while till it is proven a lie then it will be forgotten like it never happened and their one goal is to keep it going long enough to make people forget about the movon.org debacle but it won't work never does but that doesn't stop them from trying