I see a strategy here.
On Face the Nation, Rahm Emanuel said that Rush Limbaugh is the intellectual voice of the republican party. Sure he is. He's the voice of the hard right wingers, but I have to think that the moderate republicans can't stand the guy. Rush's line of thinking is why many republicans voted for Obama.
They want their party based on republican principles, not right wing ideology, which has become the strongest voice in the party.
But the mask is off. Americans got a good look at the Rush party during the campaign and rejected it. Thanks to Sarah Palin.
For the democrats to keep calling out Rush, who in reality is a weak man (all people who appear as big blowhards are always sensitive to criticism and highly insecure, needy of constant attention), they're setting up the republicans to either embrace Rush or denounce him. They're also forcing Rush to up his game and he's sort of been like the fly in the spider's web in that regard.
The more criticism Rush faces, the windier he will become. The windier he gets, the worse off the republican party will be, unless they outright reject him.
Here Emanuel talks about automakers and Iraq:
