Rush Limbaugh Wishes Karl Marx Had Been Aborted

       I wrote in previous posts that I imagine that the idea that idea of  a Condoleeza Rice Vice Presidency is surely a nonstarter. No way are the conservatives going to allow Mitt Romney to choose anyone not firmly prolife.

       Of course, this silly rumour was started by Matt Drudge in what would turn out to be a stillborn attempt to change the subject from Mitt Romney's Bain problem.

       In a sense it would be the best of all possible worlds-Pangloss'-if this were true. Then the Obama campaign can not only run against Bain until November but also against the Bush Administration all over again. Yeah, sure, Condi has all kinds of "gravitas" on foreign policy. She could start by bringing us up to speed on the search for the weapons of mass destruction.

       However, I heard something to day on the Rush Limbaugh show-which is now free online at WRKO-that makes me think maybe the Republican is finally moderating on the abortion litmus test.

      Rush was giving his usually poor man's history lesson about the economy. He brushed aside the fact that the Internet was a government creation by some red herring about how Obama hates the military and the pentagon.

      He answered the demands for Mitt Romney to do what every presidential candidate since 1968 and release his taxes by evoking Bill Ayers. He was mocking Obama as a "gaffe machine" when he himself mistakenly called Bill Ayers Bill Gates.

      Then he declares that the idea of "class based economics: didn't exist before Marx. 'If this guy had been aborted we wouldn't be having these discussions.'

       So maybe Michell McPhee was right and the GOP is ready to relax on abortion.

       P.S. This is a very interesting little window into Mr. Limbaugh's confused mind. As if ideas really depend on this or that person. What a fallacy to to think that history would change if only this or that person hadn't bee born. It's like the old Monetarist canard that the Depression would not have happened if Benjamin Strong had lived.