Since everyone bandied about the mere 11 percent of Republicans that consider Rush leader of the party, shall we marvel at the ways and means of Rasmussen while the moment’s upon us?
“Rasmussen Reports is testing public reaction to a series of quotes made by newsmakers recently. For this topic, respondents were asked if they agreed or disagreed with the statement, ‘Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party. He says jump, and they say how high.’”
Well, hell, nobody’s going to agree with that. I don’t, but if you asked me the right way, I could probably pony up an affirmative to the question. If those are the rules, the question should read more like:
Rush Limbaugh is the leader of the Republican Party. He says jump, and the media and various politicians debate how politically correct “jumping” is, whether it’s a realistic solution in a post-Reagan world, and how jumping discriminates against women; eventually, a moderate Republican announces he has never jumped and loves gravity and other assorted laws of physics, which Politico and Huffington Post then pick up until the New York Times is running a story, Laura Ingraham’s bitching about it and James Carville’s smirking into Washington Post pieces. At this point, the aforementioned Republican then hops, glumly, and apologizes to Rush in public, while other more conservative Republicans remind us that they jump every day of the week and twice on Sunday while listening to Rush Limbaugh’s show.
There aren’t many people within the party, I don’t think anyway, that would argue Rush is the party’s leader. Having said that, hot damn, Rasmussen, I might not draw my conclusion from that question.
