Memo to Rush: The Election Is Never Over
By Rick Pearcey • November 30, 2012, 12:33 PM
Talkmeister Rush Limbaugh opened his radio show today with the observation that Obama is in Pennsylvania today, campaigning as if the election were not over, arguing for his plan to raise taxes to save America from going over the "fiscal cliff."
But there is a sense in which continuing to behave as though the election is not over is not strange at all.
In modern politics, the election is never over. "Governing" is not the point. Power is. Relentless campaigning is war by other means.
Or to say again: Obama and the "Democrats know what they believe and market it very well. Republicans do not do what they believe and market it very well."
