No.
I won't stop.
Let me edit this, in order to leave no doubt as to what my statement says.
No. I won't wish him well.
If it's okay for Rush to hope Obama fails, it's okay for me to hope he fails.
Anything else is a double standard.
I don't directly wish for people to die as a normal part of my day, and it's not high on my list of priorities because I know my wish carries no weight.
But Obama is the president, and while I may be extremely disappointed in him at this time, I want him to succeed as the leader of this country. I want him to be good at his job and to make a difference, and I want him to finish his term whole, healthy and vital.
Rush's only job is to run his mouth. That's all he does.
He doesn't sign legislation, he doesn't craft foreign policy, he doesn't command the military, he doesn't do anything other than flap his gums. That is the Rush Limbaugh equipment inventory, that is the software and hardware that goes into the Limbaugh operating system, that is the Limbauh apparatus and I want it to fail.
If it is possible for it to fail without him losing his life, say perhaps his vocal chords refusing to function then fine, that's good enough for me. He can live out the rest of his life as a brass pole in Bangkok for all I care, or on the golf course in mute contemplation at the 19th hole tavern with his cigars.
If his mental faculties take a hit sufficient to render him unable to formulate commercially viable thought then fine, he can gum his oatmeal at the rest home.
If his psychological outlook takes a turn that diminishes his mental capacity to the point where he makes no sense then fine, he can be the whacky old man who once held sway over millions but who now can't distinguish shite from Shinola without lapsing into paranoid schizo meltdowns.
But I want him to fail. I want him to be the bookend on the closing of The Decade That Sucked. I want him and his brand of revisionism to be left at the doorstep of all the other failures that have haunted this country for the last ten years.
Rush Limbaugh has made enough money that he can comfortably retire now, he has left his mark on American politics and American society. Without a doubt people will be carrying his torch for many years, but now it is time for that torch to be passed and for an era to end.
Rush Limbaugh is not too big to fail.
Let him go the way of Lehman Brothers.
Let him be a casualty of his own beliefs, let the advertisers decide that someone else can garner better ratings speaking truth to power instead of molding and omitting whatever doesn't suit his agenda.
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