Greater Wingnuttia is a positioning of queer locale and unusual clime, an imperceptible perplexity. Apparently there anything whosoever can be said and articulated and it will be true and insoluble and will have to be believed, on pain of bemusement inexorable.
What I mean is, they give a shit about Rush Limbaugh's dumbass drug-addled opinions. For some reason.
So everybody and their brother is listening to Rush today, wondering if he'll take a shot at Huckabee after an unnamed Huckabee aide in DC criticized Limbaugh...
The first comment, moments into the show: "You want to whine like Mike Huckabee's whining... I hoped it wouldn't come to this, but it happened."
Now he's going after Rollins, for claiming Rush (and Rich) don't like Huckabee simply because they didn't foresee his rise.
Rush is now playing audio of him talking about "what if Mike Huckabee wins Iowa" from November 8...
"I saw it coming... and I now may be seeing it going."
UPDATE: Rush is on fire.
"These people are coming after me personally, something I have not done. They're coming after me personally the way the libs do."
Rush, discussing how he differs from the NY-DC media axis, lists off Harriet Miers, Dubai Ports World, Republican spending abuses, illegal immigration...
On the argument that he secretly wants Hillary to win, to make him a bigger star: "I became a megastar long before the Clintons got into the White House."
"I really am uncomfortable with this, I was hoping it wasn't going to come to this."
"I've never called him a Huckster, I've called his fans Hucksters."
Rush points out Rollins ran the Christie Todd Whitman campaign, calling him the "DC-Manhattan Axis campaign manager."
"I'm part of the Cape Girardeau-Middle America Axis."
"Stop with this Clintonian spin."
"McCain's starting to look better to than this guy, and that's saying something."
"The Huckabee campaign is trying to dumb down conservatism in order to get it to conform with his record."
Limbaugh is now comparing Huckabee to H. Ross Perot.
"Who is this campaign to decide who is and who is not conservative? I hadn't heard of Huckabee in any serious manner before this campaign began. Believe me, I know who the conservatives are and aren't."
"It's elites who want to talk to Iran, not Middle America. It's the elites who are soft on crime, not Middle America."
Hmm. I can buy that. Yes, Middle America just threw up in its mouth a bit. I sure did.
But DAMN. On the whole this stuff is even more puerile & embarrassing than the slap-fight I witnessed over the lead for "Damn Yankees" when I was 16 -- and I went to a weenie all-boys Catholic high school, motherfucker.
UPDATE: Would Molly I classify the following as "Power Pop"? I wonder.