I'm going through some of my other offline material and here are some classics on Rush Limbaugh. If you want to know why conservatism is dying, Limbaugh is a big reason why.

Rush Limbaugh Quotes and Comments of the Past

1.  He once claimed women wish to be sexually harassed.
2.  Said everything he learned about women he learned from his cat which gets "loved, petted, fed, and doesn't have to do anything for it."
3.  He defended apartheid in South Africa.
4.  Claims the only way to get rid of nuclear weapons is to use them.
5.  Told a black caller to "take the bone out of your nose."
6.  Said all photos of criminals look like Jesse Jackson.
7.  Mocked a 12 year old child's speech impediment on air.
8.  Mocked Michael J Fox's Parkinson's disease. (But this did help give us Senator McCaskill)
9.  Limbaugh doesn't advocate killing all the liberals, He advocates killing all but two on every campus.
10.  Claims the rapists and criminals at Abu Gharib were just "blowing off steam."
11.  Once advocated bombing the entire Middle East.
12. He actually laughed at dead Americans two days after 9/11 (like Falwell and Robertson)
13.  Said that women vote with their vaginas.
14. Claims the NAACP should have riot rehearsal and rob liquor stores.

And you want to know why Obama made Limbaugh an issue?  If Limbaugh and Hannity and their ilk are the face of the GOP, the GOP is dead.