Posted on 10/11/2014 8:49:06 AM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
Book it...it will be on the lefts agenda...because they are parasites that only survive be destroying traditional...everything.
This PoS thinks conservatives should bow before the alter of follywood/academia.
...FUDB.
I think Rush’s devolution on social issues has much to do with his choice of wives.
The same thing happened to Barry Goldwater and Ohio Gov. Kasich.
In other words, the GOP was actually winning this issue before they decided to surrender.
The US has moved away from a society built on constitutional principles of law. This didn’t start under Obama, but has accelerated during his presidency.
In some ways, Americans are already less free than Europeans or even citizens of Russia or China, e.g. in financial privacy and investment choice.
Freedom of association has collapsed. For example, a baker cannot refuse service if he is offended by the customer’s request. It is just a matter of time before churches (at least institutions declaring themselves as such to enjoy tax exemptions) are required to marry two or more parties who comply with the prevailing legal definition.
“Everything not forbidden is compulsory”- this is the totalitarian principle. We aren’t quite there, but should not be surprised as such a society is erected around us.
To return to a republican form of government would require a counterrevolution. I don’t see many institutions worth conserving.
The markets? Corrupted by bailouts, SarbOx, Dodd-Frank, and unfettered Fed intervention.
Private enterprise? The largest simply suck on the teat of the state, with few exceptions (e.g. Koch Industries). Business has become an extension of state power by other means.
Churches? Mostly tools of the progressive orthodoxy.
Schools? They succumbed to the progressive “long march” many years ago. Some of the gravest damage was done by GWB’s NCLB.
National Sovereignty? Heh heh...
The Protestant Ethic? Dead, except among the upper middle class and Asian/South Asian immigrant strivers. But ironically these groups are among the most hostile to conservative ideas.
Family? Perhaps the last bulwark against state power. The pink police state is strong and growing, however...
Whether people believe same sex marriage is a cool PC thing does not deter the Bible stated it’s wrong. Have at it earth people, your days are limited.
I can understand young Republicans under 30 being in favor of queer marriage.
Those under 30 are the first batch that have been exposed to Marxism and Communism for their whole educational lives.
PLEASE home school your kids or enroll them in a quality, conservative, religion-oriented school.
It's hard to believe that such a small percentage of the population has such a large affect.
Look at US business leadership, the administrative state, and the clergy. Their representation is far in excess of 2.3% in such positions of authority.
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Thanks for the thoughtful input on Rush Limbaugh, my hero with clay feet.
Rush is a great conservative, but terribly weak on social issues. His heart and soul are not into the worship of God, pro-traditional marriage or pro-life. He could risk a mere 3 or 4 percent of his giant audience to be a little more socially conservative. He got his start, as you may recall, by doing “caller abortions,” with a handheld vacuum cleaner to dispose of obnoxious liberals.
But instead his real passion on social is for attacking femi-nazis, on which he is brilliant. But can’t he put some of his passion to defending babies and male-female marriage?
You’re exactly right, he does not seem to care much about the threat of the radical gay agenda and the threat toward the rights of conservative Christians. He is compromised by the fact that he is on his fourth marriage and tends to marry bimbos who do not seem to be conservative, God-fearing Christian women.
In other words, the type of woman who wheedles her rich fiancé for permission to hire the most famous homosexual singer in the world at their wedding reception.
Brooks is getting divorced right now — wife and three kids, huge expensive mansion. Typical liberal intellectual, with no principles on marriage.
Well said in one sentence. Rush is brilliant, a great conservative on economic and free market issues, but he repeatedly marries bimbos.
Delilah betrayed Samson, and Rush’s latest airhead brings in the philistine Elton.
I read that about Barry Goldwater but I did not know that about Governor Kasich. Too bad.
Screw David Brooks, in fact a curse upon him. I am a Republican and I’ll never let this issue go, it is not settled!!
Brooks is a reprobate. See Romans 1.
Homosexuals will champion pedophilia as children’s rights. Worked so well for mentally confused transgender children.
That’s actually a very shrewd tactic.
I’ve been saying for quite a while that there is no longer a political solution to our problems, because politics has become so utterly corrupt in favor of the barbarians. Those who pretend that there IS a political solution (winning elections, petitioning our officials, etc.) are either pathetically naive or are moles causing the problem to fester.
In a catastrophic famine, the first “luxuries” to go will be convenience technologies and elective medical. This will affect the web-addicted millennials and newer generations and sexual deviants the most. Disruption of the AIDS meds market will likely do the trick for us.
I’m kind of glad Rush doesn’t really get into the social issues much. Those of us still on our first marriages don’t appreciate being lectured on social morality by a man on his 4th marriage and who has struggled with opioid addiction.
My impression of Rush is that he is in it solely for the $$$. If there were a market for cranky old white male liberal commentators he’d switch sides in a heartbeat. Just my 0.02.
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