Rush Limbaugh less loved than Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers.

[kpete]

Rush Limbaugh Loses a Popularity Contest
by Max Blumenthal

Republicans who have turned to Rush Limbaugh to lead the fight against President Obama may have backed the wrong horse. According to one recent poll, Limbaugh turns out to be one of the most unpopular political figures in the country.

An October 24, 2008, poll conducted by the Democratic research firm Greenberg-Quinlan-Rosner has Rush Limbaugh enjoying a public-approval rating of just 21 percent among likely voters, while 58 percent have “cold” feelings toward the right-wing radio-talk-show host. Limbaugh’s cold rating was higher than that of all the political figures the firm polled. It was seven points higher than Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright and eight points higher than former Weather Underground domestic terrorist William Ayers. (As the firm points out in an email, it’s true that Wright and Ayers both had lower “warm” ratings than Limbaugh—as you’d expect for men who have virtually no constituencies.)

Rush polls seven points lower than Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright and eight points below former Weather Underground domestic terrorist William Ayers.

Limbaugh is so unpopular that only 44 percent of Republican voters reported “warm” feelings toward him, ten points less than those who felt the same way about Limbaugh’s top competitor, Fox News’ Sean Hannity, and a full 20 points lower than Fox News itself. Yet in spite of rock-bottom favorable numbers, Limbaugh confidently declared one week after Obama’s inauguration that his power far exceeded that of the Republican Party’s top two leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives. Obama, Limbaugh roared, is “obviously more frightened of me than he is Mitch McConnell. He's more frightened of me, than he is of, say, John Boehner, which doesn't say much about our party.”

Obama seems unfazed by El Rushbo. The president recently implored Republican leaders, “You can’t listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done.”

more at:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-02-04/america-to-rush-drop-dead/

[YOY]

1. It's not the amount of love he gets overall but the ability to instill opinions in the few.

REALLY STRONG OPINIONS. Opinions that are so smarmily delivered and in their little victimhood's favor that they must be right!

So strong they will accept those opinions as if they thought of it themselves and actively follow through his requests to harangue politicians as a squeaky (and potentially dangerous) wheel.

They literally have nothing else to do with their lives and he speaks to them. The lost and the damned.

50+, white males, never married or divorced, no kids (or never see them because "the bitch is evil") = NOTHING ELSE TO DO WITH THEIR LIVES BUT BE SELF RIGHTEOUS PARROTING DIP SHITS.

I actually used to listen to him when I was 18/19 and smart enough to realize someone who was totally telling idiots their opinion and never actually debated ANYTHING. One sided arguement meant to empower the worthless non-producers of anything except macho pathetic bullshit.

[Wapsie B]

2. Besides the obvious reasons another may be due to

the high unemployment in this country. We've got families struggling with everything they've got to keep things together, pay bills, keep a roof over their heads. Then we have a gassbag sitting on the radio making over 30mil a year spreading anger and fear. That's got to breed some resentment. Sooner or later his bubble's gotta burst too.

[Warpy]

3. Not surprising. Nobody ever loves a bully boy

although they do pay enough attention to avoid becoming his victim.

Or, like me, they get disgusted enough to find an equalizer and put him in the hospital.

[baldguy]

4. Lets see: two honorable, upstanding citizens who contribute to their communities

vs a fascist drug-addled pederast.

Such a difficult choice...