Limbaugh Joins Long List of Infamous Missourians
William Quantrill, Jesse James, Rush Limbaugh. Sounds about right. That’s the list on which Rush Limbaugh should be placed. However, unbelievably, he’s apparently set to join a much more distinguished list.
Right-wing radio personality Rush Limbaugh, who is currently embroiled in controversy after he called a female law student advocating for contraception coverage a “slut,” will soon be joining [the Hall of Famous Missourians in the Missouri State Capitol].
It literally pains me to write the next sentence, but there are several amazing people from Missouri in that hall: Harry Truman (of course, he did drop the atomic bomb), Walt Disney (who may or may not have been a Nazi sympathizer), and Mark Twain (whom we all know hated Germans).
So now the great state of Missouri wants to induct Limbaugh. Where does his bust go in the great hall? Right after Sacajawea? Limbaugh would like that since she clearly didn’t use birth control as she was pregnant at the time she joined the Lewis and Clark expedition. Or maybe he’d like to be next to Susan Elizabeth Blow, she who established the first public kindergarten in the United States. I bet he could get a whole five minutes of air time out of making jokes about fascist public school teachers with the last name of Blow.
Seriously, though, Missouri. You might want to put this one on hold. While I realize it doesn’t take much to sully the name of Missouri, could you just this once do the right thing? I won’t hold my breath.
**Update**
Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley says Limbaugh’s bust is going up as planned:
“I’m sure there are people who are not fans of Rush Limbaugh, but I’m not one of them and I get to make the decision. I think he certainly is deserving of being inducted the Hall of Famous Missourians, and I am excited and honored to be the one who does it. ”
Added Tilley, “So phthhhhhhhhhh!”
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Santorum. Yuck. Or How to make the GOP love Romney without really trying.
Rick Santorum. Huh. Don’t like it. I knew we could count on the Iowa caucuses to give us a result that will have little to no real value when it comes to nominating the Republican Presidential candidate. What it does emphasize is that while no one likes Romney, they’re still going to give him the nomination anyway. He did after all manage to win in Iowa. Sure, Santorum will play the role of Mike Huckabee to Romney’s John McCain, but in the end, we’ll be watching Romney debate Obama, not the frothy Santorum.
Despite all this, the Rupert Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal is highlighting the fact that Santorum is blowing up in the polls of New Hampshire. Santorum has jumped from 3% to 11% in the latest polling while Romney has slipped down from 43% to 40%. 15% are undecided, so even if they all jump on the Santorum bandwagon, he still won’t have enough votes to beat Romney.
Let’s just face facts here, Republicans. You’re stuck with Romney. You can flirt with the other candidates, you can listen to Santorum’s promises of outlawing birth control, gay marriage, and forcing women to stay home (doesn’t that sound like a fun society), and you can dream away about having a perfect conservative in your White House. The reality is, you’re married to Romney. Yes, he’s only recently made the changes you needed him to make in order to make it work with you, but he’s trying really hard. He’s stuck to those changes for the last five years. You haven’t heard nary a word from him about all those past flings with universal health care and abortion rights. So suck it up. Accept him into your life. Embrace the marriage that you have because courting someone like Santorum will just end in a yucky mess that no one wants to see.
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Why Iowa Doesn’t Matter
With Ron Paul holding the current lead in the latest polling out of Iowa, it has once again become very clear why Iowa doesn’t matter. The GOP candidates have covered every corner of the state preparing for next week’s caucuses and all that effort will result in one thing: a winner who will not get the Republican nomination. Just ask Mike Huckabee. Or Bob Dole. Or George H.W. Bush. With the exception of a George W. Bush win in 2000, every other Republican to win the Iowa caucuses has either been the sitting President running for re-election or a candidate who failed to get his party’s nomination. In fact, in 1988 H.W. lost in Iowa to Bob Dole, coming in third behind Dole and Pat Robertson.
Whats more, with the exception of 2004 when the state voted for George W. Bush over John Kerry, the Democratic nominee has come away a winner in five of the last six Presidential elections. And yet, the Republicans have bled themselves to death in a state that most likely won’t even go Republican in the general election.
So why do they pour all their money into a state that doesn’t matter, that won’t produce the nominee as a winner? In 2008, Rudy Giuliani tried to end run Iowa and pour all his resources into Florida and got trounced out of the race. Of course, the winner of the Iowa caucuses in 2008, Mike Huckabee, never even had a fighting chance against McCain.
If I were the GOP I would put Kansas first. In the last 40 years Kansas has correctly chosen the Republican nominee every time, with two exceptions: (1) Bob Dole in 1988 (a long time popular, powerful senator from Kansas) and (2) Mike Huckabee in 2008 (an anomaly that can only be explained by the fact that the state seems to be temporarily insane). Despite Kansas’ current state of psychosis, or maybe because of it, I think they could still do a better job of sorting this crazy group of GOP candidates than Iowa. Let’s move up Kansas’ primary in 2016 to New Year’s Eve. I’m sure Kris Kobach can jerry rig some sort of election law to make it happen. Then, we can stop wasting everyone’s time. Instead, come next Tuesday, we’ll be celebrating a meaningless victory for someone who will never be the GOP nominee.
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