Rush Limbaugh helped elect Claire McCaskill once. Will he do it again?

[proud2BlibKansan]

@stevekraske Steve Glorioso wishes it was October right now.

Late October, to be exact. Close to the election. Because that’s how confident the Democratic consultant is that “El Rushbo’s” depiction of a college student as a “slut” would improve his party’s chances. The student, Sandra Fluke, had told lawmakers about the need for contraceptive coverage under the new health care law.

The backlash against talk show host Rush Limbaugh is so strong, so overpowering from members of both parties, that President Barack Obama is destined to get a boost in the polls, Glorioso said. So might Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill.

But man ‘o man, if only it was late October.

“It’d be like a gift from heaven,” Glorioso said.

This isn’t the first time the conservative Limbaugh has pitched in to help Democrats. You can make a case that McCaskill has the word “senator” in front of her name precisely because of Limbaugh’s fateful 2006 denunciation of Michael J. Fox that year in late October.

Remember that one?

Limbaugh ripped Fox, the one-time TV star who suffers from Parkinson’s and had made a TV ad for McCaskill.

Read more here: http://midwestdemocracy.com/articles/kraske-el-rushbos-slut-comment-has-democrats-dancing-dreaming-another-october-rush-bomb/#storylink=cpy

[Vogon_Glory]

1. I Would Think So, BUT

I would think that Limblot's remarks would be a BIG help in motivating Democrats and turning independents away from voting for the Senile Elephant Party, but it's still a LONG way to November. There will be all too many opportunities for the Republicans and the right-wing noise machine to distract and confuse the careless, inattentive, easily-distracted portion of the electorate that determines who gets elected to office and who doesn't.

I pay at least some attention to what's going on, and I can't imagine why anyone voting for his or her interests and grossing under $250K a year would vote Republican in these times. That's why I became a partisan Democrat.

But then again, I pay attention.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I hate to see Rush go down 8 months before the election

Not that I wouldn't love watching him go down.

But the timing isn't quite right yet.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. This Is But One Incident Nine Months Before The Election

This is but one incident nine months before the November elections. I want the gifts that keep on giving--Republicans and right-wing pundits, talk-show hosts, and bloggers to keep shooting off their mouths--and infuriating decent people between now and November.

I fear that the 2008 election was mainly about voters being fed up with Dubya. What I'd like to see are voters fed up with so-called "conservatism" and the Republican Party.

[banned from Kos]

4. Fuck Rush Limbaugh! Re-Elect Claire McCaskill!

that is the gist here.