Is Right Wing media helping to steer the Republican ship onto the rocks of irrelevancy? Yep!

Rush Limbaugh, helping to destroy the Republican party since 1984.

Courtesy of Reuters:

Conservative talk show hosts and Fox News blame the “lamestream” national media’s “liberal bias” for the GOP’s poor showing since 1992. Yet the rise of the conservative-dominated media defines the era when the fortunes of GOP presidential hopefuls dropped to the worst levels since the party’s founding in 1856. 

It was when most Americans got most of their information from network news programs, which took their lead from what conservatives labeled “liberal” newspapers, that the GOP held the White House. Yet the right regularly accused the mainstream news media of colluding to turn the public against conservative nominees. 

Is it all a coincidence that Democrats’ fortunes reversed as Limbaugh and his imitators gained influence? 

Despite Limbaugh’s ridicule, in 1992, Bill Clinton won more electoral votes than any Democratic challenger in 60 years. In the previous six presidential elections (1968-1988), the Republicans had won five times – all but one by an electoral landslide. Since conservative media began to flourish, only once (2004) has the GOP candidate captured more than 50 percent of the popular vote. And that candidate, President George W. Bush, had the lowest re-election results of any conservative chief executive in U.S. history. 

On the other hand, between 1996 and 2008, with conservative media ascendant, four different Democratic standard-bearers in successive elections – Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama – combined for a majority of the popular vote. Democratic nominees had never enjoyed this level of serial success. In 2012, Obama won re-election in a second majority-vote victory – the first Democrat to do so since Franklin D. Roosevelt. 

Coincidence again? 

“Some things are just too coincidental to be a coincidence,” as Yogi Berra once said. The famed Yankee catcher offers insight into why the new media pitch contributes to the GOP striking out. 

I have long recognized the truth of the above statements.

In fact in 2012, I and many others, counted on the Right Wing media affect to help choose a candidate that our President could beat without breaking a sweat. In reality they actually chose the candidate who SHOULD have been perfect for them, but because they were so agitated by propaganda they could not accept him.

It is almost like the Right Wing is a bunch of feral dogs feeding on raw meat thrown to them by talk radio, Right Wing websites, and Fox News.

Day in and day out they fight for these scraps and punish those not feral enough. And then every couple of years they are supposed to straighten up, put on a suit and tie, and dine in civilized manner on a more refined meal. A candidate who is more palatable to a larger constituency.

But they can't do it, because their palates have been dumbed down in such a way that they simply are unwilling to accept anything not oozing blood and served cold.

Personally this is one of the reasons that I like Right Wing talk radio, and hope that it continues to "support" the Republican party for many years to come.