Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) defends the GOP leadership against criticism from talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

From the Politico

Rush Limbaugh may command a large following, but his caustic comments Monday about the GOP’s congressional leadership has at least one Republican House member defending his colleagues and offering an unusually candid critique of the talk radio powerhouse and his fellow commentators.

Responding to President Barack Obama’s recommendation to Republican congressional leaders last week that they not follow Limbaugh’s lead, the conservative talkmeister said on his show that Obama is “obviously more frightened of me than he is Mitch McConnell. He’s more frightened of me than he is of, say, John Boehner, which doesn’t say much about our party.”

Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), who heads the conservative Republican Study Committee, did not take kindly to this assessment in an interview with Politico Tuesday.

“I think that our leadership, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, are taking the right approach,” Gingrey said.

I met with a member of the Republican Study Committee yesterday who told me that John Boehner’s media strategy was to use new media to get around the mainstream media. In other words he has no idea on how to deal with the liberal mainstream press.  For too long the GOP has sat back and taken the hits from the liberal press while their Democratic counterparts complain loudly and get action.  By not taking on the media the GOP has become nothing more than a bunch of patsies and allowed their image to be shaped by the very people who loathe them. 

Now that’s a winning strategy if I ever heard one.

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