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We're no better than the leftists we oppose if we get so caught up in the cult of personality that we can't even admit when one of our heroes makes a mistake. Spinning it just makes us look as ridiculous as the leftists. I wish Rush the best and hope he comes back with as strong a message as ever, but I'll be damned if I'm going to start mincing words and arguing over the definition of "drugs" vs. "prescription drugs". Rush messed up and made some hypocritical comments - the end.

Hero? Hardly. I do not hold any of the conservative leaders up as "heroes". That's mistake number one. On the same token, continuously, as this board and many members have, beating a dead horse shows we are no better than the liberals. Which proves my point.

If members of this board continue to hold Rush up as a conservative "leader" that's fine. Politically speaking that's his desire as well as being an entertainer more than anything. Anyone who has held him up as a "moral" leader is a fool and deserves the rude awakening. In fact, of the political leadership in the Republican or Conservative movement, if you hold anyone but yourself up as a "moral leader" then you might as well dismiss this movement completely. The conservative movement is made up of individuals. It's this groupthink mentality that has created the RINOs and the "moderates". And the only moral leader in your life had best be yourself. Because only you can talk to your God, using others to do so for you is lazy and well, quite liberal.

"We're no better than the leftists we oppose if we get so caught up in the cult of personality that we can't even admit when one of our heroes makes a mistake. Spinning it just makes us look as ridiculous as the leftists. I wish Rush the best and hope he comes back with as strong a message as ever, but I'll be damned if I'm going to start mincing words and arguing over the definition of "drugs" vs. "prescription drugs". Rush messed up and made some hypocritical comments - the end."

Really well stated. To those who want to defend Rush by hailing his accusers as RINOs and traitors, think of how frustrated you felt when Clinton wasn't held to a moral standard by his fellow dems during his time of moral failure. It scares me to think how similarly vacuous we may be when it is our ox getting gored.