There was an excellent cover article published in Newsweek a couple weeks ago by David Frum.  You can find it online, here. 

Read it, if you have a chance.  It's great. 

Basically...Frum doesn't necessarily disagree with Rush on all things.  In fact, he even says they probably agree on most things.  What he does say, however, is that Rush (and, I'll add, Rush's peers in the industry: Sean Hannity, Marc Levin, Laura Engrim, et al) are not in this business to get votes.  They are not public servants.  They say what they say because it gets them ratings.  The more people that are pissed off at Rush, the more people listen to hear all the ca-razy things he's saying.

Am I going to start shouting that Rush should shut his mouth?  No.  Again...this is his business and he makes good money doing what he's doing.  What I want are 2 things.

1)      Stop assuming he's the leader of the party, because he is not.  The Republicans really don't have a leader, right now...much like the Democrats didn't really have one 4 years ago.

2)      Stupid moron conservatives...stop listening to Rush.  Or, if you want to keep listening, quit pretending that he's anything short of a good public speaker. 

And, for those of you who think this is the end of the Republican Party...what's wrong with you?  It takes a lot more than one crappy President to kill a party.  The Dems survived Carter.  Plus, why would you want the party to disolve?  Do we really want a one party country?  Do we want to kill debate and diversity?  Two parties are good.  Idiots are bad.  And, both parties have them...I point to Pelosi and Reid as well as McConnell and Boehner.  The Congress is pretty much made up of morons.  And, to be frank...I think the Dems have more morons in the Congress than the Republicans.  The Republicans still have McCain, Graham, and Snowe.  The Dems have Kerry, Boxer, Feinstein, Dodd and others. 

Forget about Rush.  The more he is brought up, the worse it is for everyone.  Republicans need to pick themselves up again and figure out what their message is.  Cut taxes won't cut it, right now.  Not when the country is in the crapper.  Go back to cutting spending.  Jump on the Obama budget and keep reiterating how much more debt it will put us in.  They key to getting the public back on our side is to stress fiscal responsibility.  Not cut taxes, cut taxes, cut taxes.  Not Obama sucks and we hope he fails.  Not, oh, I hurt Rush's feelings, I should apologize. 

Cut spending (including your inflated salaries, considering the crappy job you've been doing), maintain defense (but don't increase and cut where it's excessive), and less government (this includes ending the constant interference in personal things like gay marriage).  And, turn the radio station to something else from 9-noon every day.