Rush Limbaugh has set the tone for GOP attacks on President Obama's credentials as an American, reported this Tuesday's PoliticsNation. On Monday, Limbaugh had said that Obama "hates this country."
The next day, former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, a prominent Romney surrogate, said that he wishes the president would "learn how to be an American." On the same day, Romney himself argued that Obama's approach is "extraordinarily foreign." Limbaugh later took credit for Sununu's remarks, saying that Romney surrogates had been instructed to "perform the duties that I am suggesting need to happen."
"Romney is beholden to the Republican Party base," Steve Kornacki, co-host of MSNBC's The Cycle, told PoliticsNation host Al Sharpton. "His credentials as a conservative have been suspect since the time he got into this race." Kornacki suggested Romney's problems with the right-wing prevent him from moving to the center or doing anything that would alienate the conservative base.
"There isn't a lot of enthusiasm for Mitt Romney—there is a lot of resentment towards President Obama," said Kornacki. "If you want to get those people out to the polls you aren't going to say, 'vote for Mitt Romney.' You're going to say, 'vote against this socialist president.'"
It isn't the first time Limbaugh has been recognized as a major influence within the Republican Party. In March, conservative icon George Will said that GOP leaders are actually afraid of Limbaugh. "They want to bomb Iran, but they’re afraid of Rush Limbaugh,” he said.
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Thank you for posting this segment topic from PoliticsNation. This outrage needs to be fore-front on people's minds, as we get closer to November.
If you are even thinking of voting republican, see your psychologist and have him correct your brain.
Ed, I truly believe the republican party is now the party of the millionaires. They no longer want average citizens to make a decent wage with benefits....much less be able to send their kids to college or retire with comfort.
Also McConnell and others make me sick. I think they are racist....they do not want OUR ELECTED president to succeed at anything. So from day one, they have worked diligently to prevent any success. They should be ashamed of their actions which prevent a more rapid recovery from the worse economic situation since the great depression. They have removed by law all the protections we had to prevent another depression to benefit wall street and BIG BANKS. They now can be banks, investment banks, and stock brokers at the same time. State regulations have been done away which protected the local people. They have repeatedly said they were for an action only to refuse it when the president proposed it. They just don't want him to success and all of us will pay the price!! I think we should be able to decrease their pay, their benefits, and install term limits on them. IT is the best PARTTIME job....and they vote their own salaries.
I understand your racism argument, but, I think that it goes farther on a different level. I suspect that, underneath it all, many, in the GOP, believe that the future belongs to the global corporations. They and their supporters want to be on the winning side and in the top 5-10% that will have growing wealth and permanence. Race is only an undertone to a more economic belief.
How all of this unfolds is highly dependent on the degree that the differing portions of the population are willing to survive together. We will either see a civil war with devistating butchery, or, people will say enough is enough and start to openly work together on solutions. The bad part of all of this is that any healing process, towards demanding civility, hasn't even started. Until then, the far right, and the far left, are doing no favors toward moving us forward, to a positive result.