Ross Doucet on Rush Limbaugh- Don't let Him Define who is Conservative

I listen to Rush some but I have never been a huge fan. He is a tad better than Hannity I will say that. Rush Limbaugh of course that just signed a huge new contract. Good for him. I am not a huge Rush basher at all. However I think Ross Doucet from the Atlantic hits it on the head as to RUSH, the GOP, and Conservatism in this post Rush and the American Right.

In ends by saying:

What does this mean for Rush's relationship to Republican politics? Just this: In the same way that every ambitious Democratic politician ought to be attuned to how Jon Stewart covers the news, so every right-of-center politico should keep an ear to the portion of the dial where Rush holds forth - because the Limbavian worldview, and the people he speaks for, represents an important (and valuable) slice of American conservatism, and indeed of America itself. But those same politicians should remember, as too many conservatives seem wont to forget, that Limbaugh is first and foremost an entertainer, and to mistake him for a strategist or policy wonk or political philosopher is to make a category error of epic proportions.

Letting Rush define who is and is not a conservative, or what the national GOP can and cannot stand for, is the equivalent of the Democratic Party inviting the writers of the Daily Show to hammer out their party's platform - or the Roman Catholic Church turning the next edition of the Catechism over to Oprah.

Amen to that!!!!