In Fairness, Rush Limbaugh is Also a Big, Fat Liar. And an Idiot

Olbermann too. But mostly Rush.

Not surprisingly, he's attacking centrism.

Rush’s core concern seems to be that there is no such thing as the center or independent voters. He believes that America is divided between the far-right and the far-left, and he likes to offer only that false choice because he believes it’s a fight he can win. But an emphasis on swing voters or independents—the largest and fastest-growing segment of the electorate—makes the math more complicated. It screws an inflexible ideologue up.

Frankly, I think he realizes that his market is neither centrist nor independent. He sells a very distinct product, namely opposition for the sake of opposition. He has to live in a black and white world. Allowing that some ideas coming from the left might not be bad ones, is tantamount to him accepting that some ideas coming from the right might not be good ones. For him, that kind of awareness is a deflation of his political brand. 

But then he takes it just a bit too far...

“If we do this right, we can discredit this whole mind-set of the ‘moderate center’ being the defining group in American politics,” said Rush. “Because this No Labels group is going to end up illustrating what a fraudulent idea that whole concept of, ‘There are people who decide issue by issue. On the left they like certain things, on the right they like certain things.’”

That's a simply remarkable goal to work towards. Not even necessarily discrediting moderate political positions. But to actually defame thinking about individual issues as individual issues as "fraudulent"? That's positively ridiculous. I can't grasp where he could possibly be coming from on that. He's advocating lockstep (non)thought. If it weren't such a bizarre position, it'd be positively terrifying.