RUSH LIMBAUGH: I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle who have caved and who say, “Well I hope he succeeds. We’ve got to give him a chance.” So I’m thinking of replying to the guy, okay I’ll send you a response but I don’t need 400 words. I need four. I hope he fails.
I hated Bush from the outset, but being an American first and a Democrat second, I never rooted for his failure. On it’s face, this Limbaugh stance is patently unAmerican.
However, this is tricky to parse. Recall that Limbaugh considers Bush a success. So is he really saying that he wants Obama to “fail” as we normally define the word fail, or does he want Obama to have a kind of limbaugh-esque failure by which he means the opposite of Bush’s success?