Can I write an OPUS for you? And what happened to all of your raging friends who were going to quit and write OPUS's?
You must have me confused with someone else.
I honestly can't believe someone was paging Jim because you are going against his stated purposes for FR, by not going along with the 'culture of death' mentality. There is no CULTURE OF DEATH in this country OR at Free Republic. It's okay to say so.
Rush has done just about as much damage as anyone could for our side, by helping push the "culture of death" attitude, which is self-servingly wrong.
We certainly don't raise our kids to fly planes into buildings or to behead innocent people, we care for our children and old folks well, we are caring and compassionate and respectful of life right down to our dumb animals, and we are always quickest to donate money and labor to the needy of the world. That's hardly a culture of death. Jeeze.
The majority of GOP members and representatives went dead-silent, because most do not want the government meddling in people's private affairs, and do not want to be associated with what is perceived as the fringe elements of the party. (In fact, the fringe elements are the types who often claim not to support the GOP anyway--they haven't been with us in years, already. They show up every so often trying to hijack the party back to the days when they had some real influence. Gack.)
You're right about Rush being consistently antideath---but I'm still very surprised at his disregard for the law and especially his praise for known wingnuts, or liberals like Jessus Jackson. Rush and Linda Bloodworth, both Ozarkians, both dramatic-both expert preachers.
CTDs.