Ethics

Ruffini Chooses Partisanship Over Credibility

By Ed Brayton

Patrick Ruffini has an interesting blog post at The Next Right openly declaring that Republicans must support Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal because to do otherwise would be good for the other side, and never mind whether the accusations made against those people are valid or reasonable. This is pretty standard partisan reasoning, of course, but it's rare to hear it admitted to publicly. He starts with this rather silly statement:

These haven't been the best couple of weeks for Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele, or Bobby Jindal. (OK, let's carve out a possible exception for Limbaugh.)

What these three people have in common is that they're all significant figures who have taken fire from different elements of the conservative movement at the behest of the Obama White House and the Kos/TPM/Olbermann triangle.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).