Posted on 12/24/2003 4:20:01 AM PST by suspects
A NOTE TO MY FELLOW CONSERVATIVES:
Your silence regarding Rush Limbaugh is excruciating.
I like Rush, too, and given that he and I have the same employer, I'm not exactly improving my career prospects by being consistent. It's a bad habit I picked up after years of listening to, and admiring, Rush Limbaugh.
And if we learned the lessons of Limbaugh (individual responsibility and the rule of law), how can we now agree to "Clintonize" ourselves defending him? A drug addiction is one thing, but blackmail? He's allowed himself to be blackmailed for years--the same years he was rightly pounding the stuffing out of the Clintons? And now he claims he's the victim of a politically-motivated prosecution?
What's next: "The b**** set me up?"
Of all the disappointing decisions Rush has made, these last two are the most disheartening. Consider for a moment what blackmail is: An admission that you know what you're doing is wrong.
The decision to fork over the cash is just that--a decision. It can't be any less difficult to make that decision than to decide to, say, go to your lawyer, spill your guts and spend a month in detox at Charter. So why not choose to do the RIGHT thing?
But that's not what Rush chose to do. He chose instead to continue, for years, to do the wrong thing and then--after he was caught--blame the consequences on the vast, left-wing conspiracy. As Rush himself said very wisely and correctly when Jim Carville made the same argument defending President O.J., "It doesn't matter what Ken Starr's politics are if you're innocent."
Bill Clinton wasn't an innocent victim of political vendettas. He was a perjurer and obstructer of justice who blamed others for his own lack of character and its consequences.
Which means, my fellow conservatives, that Rush Limbaugh is....?
I'm sorry, I can't seem to hear you. It must be that deafening silence again.
Nah, I think the libertarians (some of whom proudly announce they are potheads - as if they expect a medal) should be consistent and defend Rush the same way they defend upstanding gentlemen like Ozzy and Tommy Chong. With that said, I read Tommy Chong's statement regarding his situation vs. Rush's, and Chong showed more class that all the libertarians here put together.
Yes! And he's now got 2 choices:
1) While there's still time, he can confess and repent to the victims of his crimes, and immediately get to work on proving that he is one of Jesus' disciples by loving his maggot infested neighbors instead of voting for and cheerleading for politicians who snoop on and send his maggot infested neighbors up the river for mere vices.
or 2) Wait until the Final Judgement to learn an eternal conservative lesson about what taking responsibility for one's behavior is really all about.
"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself"--Thomas Paine
One would think that the truth of Paine's old statement above proving itself directly on the liberty of Rush Limbaugh would jolt some sense and humanity into a few "conservatives." But so far nearly all fall into 1 of 2 groups: 1) Its a vast left wing conspiracy. 2) send him up the river along with the maggot infested druggies too.
Amazing. Thomas Paine is spinning in his grave.
Yes! What are the chances that this little lesson in libertarian karma will jolt Rush into telling all of his ditto-heads to sneak on juries all across America and vote not guilty in every drug and income tax case they can find? So far the scandal seems not to have even dented Rush's and his ditto-heads' authoritarian character armor.
LOL! Limbaugh isn't using drugs anymore so I seriously doubt he wants to drive down his audience to libertarian levels.
Uh could you show me the video or audio clip of Rush pointing his finger at me and saying, "I did not have addictive relations with that woman, oxycontin"
Does this ding dong want to have a "your drug users are worse than my drug users" contest? He should be careful what he wishes for.
I wish I were a "conservative" so I could feel the need to respond in detail. But since I'm not I'll just ignore the 'Rat slime machine.
he doesn't have to start defending the rights of the maggot infested druggies and income tax resisters? The vast left wing conspiracy is going to take all of his audience away and still y'all are so thick that you're going to have to wait to learn your lessons in personal responsibility at the Final Judgement. But then its going to be too late.
Sure he would, because if he's not using drugs he would realize that playing to the lp crowd would reduce his audience to lp listeners quickly. I think he'd prefer to keep his current market share.
JMO, your rhetoric sounds like a "Hillary Billy Graham".
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