"It's time this stopped," writes the Next Right's Patrick Ruffini. "Conservatives need to decide who we want to see succeed and who we want to see fail. We then need to calibrate our reactions to the inevitable missteps from either camp accordingly." Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele, and Bobby Jindal, writes Ruffini, are "all important personalities that we should all want to see succeed." Each of the three putative leaders of the Republican Party have had a few rough weeks, though for distinctly different reasons. The Louisiana governor, of course, for his widely-panned response to Obama's non-SOTU. The RNC Chair and the radio host, meanwhile, have gone punch for punch over Limbaugh's use of the "fail" word in close proximity to talk of the Obama presidency. Read the Atlantic's Chris Good for all the gory details. Ruffini's call to circle the wagons has sparked a fascinating batch of comments. Several commenters object to lumping a rising GOP elected official like Jindal with a incendiary media figure like Limbaugh.

With a Democrat back in the White House, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has rekindled that fire in his belly, and his listeners are already beginning to dream about 2012. Over the past month, several possible domain names for a hypothetical Rush Limbaugh 2012 presidential bid have been snatched up by forward-looking dittoheads.