A Message To Conservatives: "Your Silence About Rush Limbaugh Is Deafening."

MichaelGraham.com ^ | 12/24/03 | Michael Graham

[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.

[pageonetoo]

My last post to you was without my comments, for a reason. I believe the Scriptures say it better, than I. I hope you take the time to read it, and the rest of the Book, Old and New Testaments!

But, your caustic spouting, without even bothering to correct your grammar, or thought, shows that you indeed lack a certain amount of integrity, and a decidedly, bigoted viewpoint. To put it nicely, your mouth (fingers) is way ahead of your thoughts!

Life, on earth, is short. God is going nowhere. What right do you claim, which gives you (the group of WOD supporterws, which you claim to be a part of) any 'right' to govern another's personal behavior? 'Society' can't be responsible for personal actions, by anyone.

Your continual reference to 'real conservatives' is an ignomanous attempt at declaring that your thoughts are the only ones that count. I diifer with that concept, and can give legions of conservatives, who agree with me. I am a 'real conservative, just as much as any other person believing in the Rights granted, by god, to man. The founders of our country dedicated these principles, to us, as well.

There is no reason that any 'conversation' about personal rights, and responsiblity, should be solely within the 'Religion' thread, simply because God is introduced. He is welcome, wherever two or three gather!

[Bluntpoint]

Mencken understood pain! He knew the heartbreak of having to take a handful of pills just to finsh 36 holes! Lets see your backswing when you have extreme pain in your body!

Until you walk a mile, or 36 holes, in Rush's golf shoes... until then... just shut up!

[pageonetoo]

LOL! I love liberty, it's your idea of liberty that I find amusing.

I especially enjoyed 'liberty' in Brisbane. It is your idea of liberty that I find amusing... I refer to your constant willingness to support the g'umt, and it's willingness to try to control the behavior of the people...

Be sure and 'buckle up', its the law (click it or ticket!)... .08, traffic cameras, and lots of other necessary 'laws', "for the chil'run"!

[Bluntpoint]

Two pickles on a hamburger. Nobody needs more than two pickles.

All you libertarians crying about you want more pickles!

Geesh! You are weak!

Two pickles is the conservative ideal.

[headsonpikes]

And you're posting that to me because.....?

[Libertarian Billy Graham]

Two pickles is the conservative ideal.

Pickle up for safety. And its more than just a good ideal. It's the law.

[auggy]

Gimme a break!
Hell, man! He was, or is addicted to pain killers and now you compare him to the lying, murderous, blackmailing, immoral Clintons.

Pain killers, like oxycontin are very easy, and almost impossible ,not to get addicted to. I take that as all Rush has done. Until, Rush says different, I am sure not going to condemn the man for that.

[Bluntpoint]

I'm saying that Menchen understood that it is a fool's game to compare the street addict who is self-medicating his physical and maybe emotional and/or mental disorder with Rush self-medicating his physical and maybe emotional and/or mental disorder.

The street addict is not Rush!

Geesh! How much more clear do I have to make this?

[onyx]

A new laptop! Oh my, ETOM. Now you needn't leave your bed. :)

[pageonetoo]

Two pickles on a hamburger. Nobody needs more than two pickles.

All you libertarians crying about you want more pickles!

That's why I go to BK, a whopper has four!

and a MickyD's double cheeseburger (for a buck!) has a pile of them! I go to ChicFilet 'cause they put three on a broiled chicken'wich! I love pickles!

[Bluntpoint]

Oh cry on!

People should not be allowed to ingest non-governmental approved substances.

I don't even want to get into any "non-missionary" nonsense with you!

Now, I 'm going to have my weekend High ball and I'm going to ask my wife to look at the ceiling for my standard 5 to 7 minutes of marital interaction.

[Bluntpoint]

Piles of pickles!

What do you tell your children when they ask about all those pickles? What do you tell them?

[pageonetoo]

What do you tell your children when they ask about all those pickles? What do you tell them?

"Eat your pickles, they're good for you! Daddy knows best!"

They don't have a choice! I send them to their room, if they disobey me! Sometimes, I don't even let them have pickles!

[Cultural Jihad]

Using the time-untested 'principles' as espoused by libertarian materialist ideologues, one would say that the only reason Mr. Graham is being critical of Rush is because he envies his ratings, and has some selfish self-interest in tearing down Rush, such as trying to replace him in the ratings and thereby command a higher advertising sales revenue.

[Bluntpoint]

Ya know, you are starting to piss me off!

I could care less how you brine yourself in your pickle juices. But you guys aren't ever happy with getting your own freedoms, you always feel the need to foist your freedoms on your children, neighbors and co-workers.

Keep your freedoms to yourself, budddy-boy!

[Doc On The Bay]

"DITTO!!"---if You will Pardon the Delicious Pun!

Doc

[MEG33]

Mega Dittos?LOL!... Merry Christmas Eve.

[Doc On The Bay]

'Same to You, FRiend!!

Doc

[pageonetoo]

I could care less how you brine yourself in your pickle juices. But you guys aren't ever happy with getting your own freedoms, you always feel the need to foist your freedoms on your children, neighbors and co-workers.

Keep your freedoms to yourself, buddy-boy! (edited to make you look better...)

Isn't that what 'conservatives' are supposed to do? I thought it is supposed to demand blind obedience to g'umt, and complete abdication of individual thoughts? (oh yeah, that's the libs...and WOD supporters) Indoctrination starts early, doesn't it?

The 'Village' knows best! How else can we become good drones?

[MEG33]

Hey,there,no pardons have a wonderful Christmas!(Are we having fun yet?)LOL!