If liberal philosophy can't stand on its own two feet in the face of a buffoonish radio entertainer's jibes, then it is a sorry message indeed.

lolol Buffoonish?

He is one of the few people who makes talking anythings worth listing to, he is popular because he tells the truth and has a good time doing it.

Liberal philosophy can not stand on it's own two feet without the indoctrinated supporting it as an outright crutch by way of their brainwashed stupidity and is not the reason for anything but why they hate him.

As for the Rush and Rev Wright comparison, another example of twisting the truth. They took the one number to make Rush look bad. They didn’t mention that only 2% of the total “unknown makeup” polled have a warm feeling toward Wright while 21 % has a warm felling toward Rush. Also that 47% didn’t know or have any opinion on Wright compare to 21% on Rush. So those having an opinion on the two would result in 73% cold toward Rush and 96% cold toward Wright. Not to mention the scale was from 0 to 100 which means one of them could have many of those unspecified poled rating them at a 1 while rating the other one at 87 on the cold scale.

What a bogus poll. Probably was done in Chicago.

So William, 58% of likely voters are liberals? Oh, Noes.

Non sequitur -- it is more likely that 58% of likely voters don't listen to the Rush Limbaugh show and thus haven't the ability to form an intelligent opinion.

I listen to an hour or so of the Limbaugh show maybe five or six times a year. I do it strictly to be able to have informed thoughts on the subject.

What people don't seem to grasp is the reason for Limbaugh's success. His show is a hit because he's an entertainer. He has his shtick, and his delivery is masterful. It's as simple as that. The subject content of his show is largely irrelevant to his success, and his critics generally display abysmal ignorance of what he does for a living.

Still everyone knows his name and the budding new President of the United States called him out directly in the first two weeks of his administration. Cold feelings or not, Rush Limbaugh was brought in from the cold by Obama and is now back in the front lines. Perhaps calling Rush out was an amateur mistake or maybe it is part of some diabolical Alinsky plan, but it seems like an unnecessary distraction for a foundering administration.

If he is powerful within, while enjoying 58% "cold" feelings without, that's a confirmation that the value network serving the established base.

nobody’s seriously suggesting making Limbaugh the head of the GOP or its chief tactician

How about eminence gross?

No, that would be Joe the Plumber.