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.
This one is about Rush, though, so they have to circle the wagons pretty tight! It would be nice if they had some consistency. I am not sure if any of them have an understanding of what it means to be conservative. I really don't consider myself libertarian, the way they seem to think. Conservatism is the essence of one who covets what the founders intended, for our homeland! These guys prefer an authoritarian state. They want to justify it by saying that 'some may stray', and commit unmentionable crimes. Their position, is that we must prevent a crime, before it happens. And, that we must make everyone think alike, and toe every line.
I don't wonder what it went wrong, and have no doubts, that we will never realize their 'ideal' again! Especially with folks so staid, in their blind support, for such 'nanny statism". After all, they (these WOD supporters) agree with Hitlery, It takes a Village. They also call on Jack-Booted-Thugs, to keep us in line!
Now, back to that Cuban Cohiba!
If he is, will you say to throw away the key on that no good junkie? Or might you consider a little mercy for El Rushbo?
Personally, I don't see that he committed any crime but then I don't see that the street junkie did either. I was taught that this was a free country way back in elementary school. That means you have the right to do as you please, however foolish, so long as you do not hurt anyone else.
My only argument with Rush is the hypocracy.
The authoritarians have divided into 2 groups on this one. The hardliners, like CJ and KC, say "send Rush up the river just like a maggot infested doper." Although they are more consistent than the "hillbilly heroin ain't as as bad as negro heroin" crowd, the hardliners are much more dangerous, as they understand that making Rush do the perp walk will consolidate the terror that they are conditioning Americans to accept.
One small and telling consolation though, is that from what I've seen, the hardliners like CJ and KC have pretty much stayed away from the Rush threads. Apparantly, even their shamelessness has limits.
get out of the way and let us rush fans enjoy the show.
I am not sure even Rush would agree. He likes his opposition to be informed, of his position. He even puts them to the front of the line, on the phones.
Some of us are 'dittoheads". That means we mostly agree, like his show, and some of us bought his ties! But, not everybody that listens to Rush, feels he is innocent, or justified, in his drug use! Some of us, though, do agree that the WOD is wrong. We feel it is an assault on personal liberty. Sure, our argument is,often, about the use of drugs, but just as much, it is about Cuban Cohibas cigars, shooting a man during a traffic stop, or wearing your seat belt!!!
Yes I AGREE,
Most Conservatives are not being vocal enough in SUPPORT of Rush, IMO.
Poor RFoberft Taft, talkikng like that in 1950 and poor YOU, attempting, by implication, to claim that old rubarb, about livikng in a " police state ". You don't knolw what living in a POLICE STATE really IS like, nor much about fascism either. And yeah ...Ike was a " FASCIST "; right.
Now, here's a thought, whacky as it might be...build a tikme machine and go back to when you imagine things were better. You wouldn't be " happy " at all then, either. :^)
Precisely. Rush's case highlights the irrationality of the drug laws. I have no problem with you or Rush taking mega doses of Oxycontin per day. Just don't behave in illegal ways while on it. I'd like Rush to tell the world that the drug laws are a political tool, and should be abolished.
And, truth be told, the likes of you, drive more people into questioning faith, than anything else. You and yourf ilk aren't much different from the Taliban and the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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