House GOP Leader Boehner calls CPAC a political sideshow
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House GOP Leader Boehner calls CPAC a political sideshow
In an opinion piece in today’s Washington Post House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) calls the CPAC conference and related Rush Limbaugh controversy a political sideshow. He accuses Democrats of creating a straw man by focusing on the dispute between Limbaugh and GOP Chair Michael Steele. It seems that the Republican Party has set up a circular firing squad with Limbaugh as the ringmaster.
During the CPAC conference the notion of bombing Chicago received raucous applause, a draft dodger’s mention of a senator’s service in Vietnam caused with derisive laughter and a claim that the commander in chief is a usurper who is not a natural born American citizen was cheered. A straw man is simply defining your opponent’s position in a false way then knocking down the false position. It serves as a kind of push poll as you create a canard, repeat it as truth then refute it. Rush Limbaugh’s career is built on his ability to knock down straw men.
via DC Special Interests Examiner: House GOP Leader Boehner calls CPAC a political sideshow.
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