The New Road

Conservatives Next Generation

Now that this version of the conservative movement is all but dead it's interesting to see how the big conservative players are aligning themselves for ten years down the road when they can whip it up again. The FRC sent around an email a couple of days ago that was very interesting. Their top two priorities were safeguarding right wing talk radio, and ensuring that preachers could talk politics from the pulpit. Thus ensuring six days a week coverage for the white middle class heartland.

Ten years Hannity, Limbaugh, Coulter and those will be laughed at and considered fringe, just as we laugh at what people in the McCarthy era said. I wonder who the next big talk radio right wing pundit will be. My guess is that he (or she) will start as a moderate to appeal to a wide audience then just chip away at the edges of the democratic side until they can just pound on the democrats at will like Limbaugh does today.

Interesting question for you to mull over today. Spin back the clock to six years ago. Bush is running high on "mission accomplished". Conservative pundits are out of their minds with power talking about fusing church and state, nuking Iran, North Korea, banning the French and on and on. My question is, at that time, who is more powerful Rush Limbaugh or George Bush? On it's face it would be George Bush because he has his hand on the button. But Limbaugh has a lot going for him; he has a huge captive audience who listens to him daily and repeats everything he says as gospel, he can say whatever he wants, he isn't term limited, and he isn't held accountable for anything he says (not that Bush is either.)