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Rush is an absolute disgrace. I've lost ALL respect for the junkie. He only got concerned when he got caught, and not a minute sooner. Too bad more conservatives don't feel the same way. There is absolutely no excuse for his getting involved with such unsavory people and with such disgusting behavior. What a horrible icon for the right! Now we get to say, "Yeah-but, the other guy did it worse." Or any other "Yeah-buts" that I've heard. Can't look at him or listen to him anymore with any respect.

I've turned to Hannity, Michael Medved, and Drudge for moral compassing.

laweeks;

As someone who worked in the medical field for 25 years, I can tell you that you are extremely narrow minded and lack the ability to feel compassion regarding Rush (or perhaps you've always hated him?).

I worked in an area of medicine that dealt with the kind of medical condition and pain that Mr. Limbaugh has and *is* dealing with. I was the back office nurse who warned our patients that if they ran out of their pain meds because they took more of them than prescribed, they would be out. And guess what? They often did, because the pain was that bad!

So until you walk a mile in his shoes, perhaps you should "try" to imagine wanting a *normal day, a painfree day*. It isn't like he was out there just getting HIGH for fun! (And I would wish EVERY addict GREAT success in their recovery despite how they became one. God Bless them all!! My point is, when a person becomes an addict to escape PAIN, I feel it is under a different set of circumstances, and merits a different response than those who did it because they were simply wanting to have FUN!)

He was prescribed a HIGHLY addictive drug. Oxycontin only recently was found to be EXTREMELY addictive. The phyicians prescribing it would most likely never have prescribed it knowing then what they do now!

It wasn't long after working for the Physiatrists group, that I myself broke my back. When I had my accident, the first thing I thought about was all the back patients and the horrific pain they had, and how they couldn't be helped very well.

Thankfully, I have never had their problems. PRAISE GOD!!

But I can assure you.. you do NOT want to ever experience what they go through. Be thankful.. be very thankful.

But also, say a few prayers. Because it has been my experience in life, that those who are so judgemental have a way of finding out first hand what those who they judge so harshly, have gone through. Some call it karma. Perhaps it explains the old saying "What goes around comes around". But I think there is a lot of merit to it.

Hate and bitterness, and a lack of goodwill towards others truly is unhealthy.

God Bless Rush, and any others who suffer like he does.

"...There is absolutely no excuse for his getting involved with such unsavory people..."

What unsavory people?...The doctors he got the prescriptions from?...His listeners?..come on, pal, who?

Or are you giving credence to scurrilous unfounded accusations from those who attempted to blackmail him, with no proof at all?

Who's the disgrace here, really?

I've lost ALL respect for the junkie.

You have no understanding of the addiction problems that anyone who takes Oxycodone for chronic pain on a daily basis ends up with.

I understand it well, as I use the stuff too.

I cannot walk at all without it, and I hope that Rush's problems with his back are not as debilitating as mine with my joints.

He did not get like he did for recreational reasons.

That is what makes and defines a "junkie".

Rush is an absolute disgrace. I've lost ALL respect for the junkie. He only got concerned when he got caught, and not a minute sooner. Too bad more conservatives don't feel the same way. There is absolutely no excuse for his getting involved with such unsavory people and with such disgusting behavior. What a horrible icon for the right!

Rush is an EXCELLENT icon for the right. The best of the best.

On the other hand what you've written above reinforces the ugly stereotypes Dems have of conservatives as being self-righteous, mean-spirited, unforgiving and intolerant.
And of course it is usually the Dem hypocrites who demand perfection from everybody on the right and claim that any fault disqualifies a person from EVER speaking out on issues of morality and right or wrong.

If this was the case then NOBODY could ever speak out on such things, which the left would love.
And it seems you would as well.

Seriously I don't believe your criticisms of Rush above have a thing to do with concern for who represents the right.

By the way, it must be painful for you to know that Rush's ratings have actually gone UP since the drug addiction controversy.

Ah, it appears you have tried and convicted the man haven't you?

"I've turned to Hannity, Michael Medved, and Drudge for moral compassing."

And who will you turn to when you discover that they too have feet of clay?

Chris, that was great essay and one with which I happen to agree wholeheartedly. It is stunning to me that conservatives could turn on Rush for the "unpardonable" sin of being human and having weaknesses just like everybody else. So what? It does absolutely nothing to negate or minimize the good he's done nor the value of his message, and not only that, but he has GAINED listeners as a result and he is no doubt better off for the change. He doesn't need fair weather friends any more than any of us do. In the long run, his audience will be bigger and better. It seems to me that Rush is more connected to his audience than he ever was, and I started listening to him during the first Bush presidency and if anything, I make even more of an effort to listen now than I did before. He definitely has "the passion" that some of our leaders would do well to "catch."

I agree with you. Rush's true character is proven in his actions not his words. Wake up America! This is a hypocrite of all hypocrites and he is ruining the reputation of the Conservatives.