Limbaugh

I have been interested in talk radio for years, I remember a forerunner to Rush Limbaugh who had a local show in Fayetteville called Wrestle with Kwessel, a very edgy conservative host who didn't really get a lot of disagreement on his show. I remember Limbaugh's television show and the embarrassingly monochromatic (white) audience he had back in the mid '90s, he spent hours relentlessly blasting president Clinton.
I think the whole Republican establishment is going through a crisis of purpose and the firestorm of controversy that started a month ago over The Pill is a reflection of this crisis. Limbaugh calling this appealing and wholesome seeming woman a slut, prostitute and all the other vitriol he's been hurling at her reflects on him more than her. I think the crisis started a decade ago and it's growing. Bush started it or was a reflection of it. He left his party in shambles and the wreckage isn't being put back together again. The only real purpose and passion we see from them is about keeping taxes low on rich people and the kind of divisive culture war brush fires we're seeing playing out in the new controversy over the Pill.
Limbaugh particularly seems lost at sea this week. The audience he's playing to is getting older and the good old days he's trying to bring back are more and more remote. He has long played the game of ginning up outrage over his antics and now that his sponsors are bailing out on him, I think it's going to begin to look like an unmistakable trend. Limbaugh's Republican Party is a regional party that's increasingly irrelevant to modern political discourse in our nation. They might raise fair objections sometimes to a government policy but they have nothing positive to offer our country now.