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

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





I don't really think it has hurt them. The reason being that they immediately manufactured the SCHIP controversy to change the subject. Since then most easily distracted people (aka Democrats) have been screeching about it nonstop.
It sure hasn't helped them and it hasn't caused anyone to forget the dems who wouldn't condemn the stupid betrayus ad.
No. Rush is a bad entertainer. It will be forgotten completely in a week or two.





That's like asking if the Republicans attacked Rosie, would it hurt them.
It's not a smear campaign becaus the dems were telling the truth. The unedited audio proves that.
Why do you defend such a loud mouth lying slouch as Rush Limbaugh? The fact that you back Rush and his lies and hatred up with thinking that he is intelligent proves that the GOP dumbing down of America is working. The man gets what he deserves for acting like a baffoon and opening his big fat mouth. He does it all by himself. You act like he's a victim or something. Let me ask you a question, what substance has ever come out of Rush's mouth? None, he's a lying coward. It would be miraculous to say the least, if any truth ever came out of Rush's mouth at all. It's obvious that he's a pathological liar. If the Dems did finally stand up to him and the GOP fascist machine that would not only be a miracle but it would lead me to have hope that the Dems were finally starting to grow something that resembles a spine.





BTW, the fact that you can't see that the GOP has been engaged in nothing but smear campaigns for the last 30 years makes me think that you are a hypocrite (something else the GOP is really good at) just like the rest of your GOP party.
No. ';Do we really want leaders who verbally assassinate citizens without the substance to back up their rhetoric?'; LOL!


Apparently you do because that is the number one campaign tactic used be the republican party.
No it hasn't hurt a bit....





A. How do you know what Mrs. Edwards heard or didn't hear or where she gets her sources? I bet they are better than yours!!!!





B. She would not be a leader, her husband would be.





Rush Limbaugh is a celebrity......he puts his fat @ss out there so it gets nailed!
';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.
Why would it? The only people that support Rush are extreme right-wingers...they would not be voting Democrat anyways.
THESE ARE THE SAME LEFTISTS THAT WOULDN'T CONDEMN THE MOVE ON.ORG. AD. WHAT A BUNCH OF PHONIES THEY ARE.
Uh, no...because no one who takes Limbaugh seriously would ever vote Democrat anyway.
Everybody knows Rush is nuts, and anyone who takes him seriously is just as crazy. I think he says things for the shock and sensationalism for his program. I seriously think even he doesn't believe the crap he says.
Personally, I think they are just trying to get even over the Republican response to the moveon.org ad against General Petraeus.





Unfortunately, in my opinion, all this garbage only further disenfranchises the American populace from politics.





It should hurt the Democrats, but it ends up hurting us all.
Smear???Is that what you Republicans call the truth these days?


Why is it that I have Republican friends that are sick of Rush, but,yet here you guys worship him?
Nothing can help a political liberal unless they learn to shut up.
I yhink all its done has gotten more people to listen to Limbaugh.
LOL um no....All it does is energize the base. Independents don't care one way or another.....most of them don't listen to rush just like they don't care about moveon.org
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.
Nope
rush is a fat nazi gasbag. an entertainer of the lowest order. how can we have people like this influencing public opinion?
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.
it helps them...no matter what they do it helps them because BECAUSE...the media are the 5th column in this country. They make the dems look good no matter what...look a t TK





Killed a woman and didnt report it and is still braying
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.';
Smearing the smear king? nahhh
I don't see it makes a difference--it's red meat for the Dems, whoop te doo, but did anybody's mind get changed about anything? Are Rush listeners becoming Dems? Are Dems fed up with people deriding Rush? Same stuff, different day.
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.
Whether you like Rush or not, does it make you wonder what they're up to in Congress when they take the time and effort to go after a talk show host, instead of doing their jobs?
It is hard to not see the tape of Limburger! The Democrats have nothing to do with what he said! He is a bigot and someone caught him on tape! Rather than him saying he made a mistake or that is not what he meant he lied about what he said! each time he lied more and more. So he dug his own grave. He needs to be fired just like IMUS was. Otherwise we can assume that FOX agrees with his bigotry and hatred of minorities!





Perhaps rather than blaming the Democrats as you have been programmed to do by the Right-Wing hate mongers, you should look at what he said and did? I suppose you call yourself a good Christian? So does that mean Good Christians are allowed to spread hatred and bigotry.





Time to wake up and look at who you idolize and what they have programmed you to think!
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
It is the Democratic way and means nothing, dont worry about it Rush is laughing all the way to the Bank!~!