[Peach]

For those Freepers who have been very hard on Rush, I thought the Wall Street Journal said it best:

"...although conservatives think that character matters in public life, we have never bought into the idea that moral credibility is predicated on moral perfection.

If moral credibility were predicated on moral perfection, even our church pulpits would be silent. I'm sure liberals would not agree, but in my view, character has as much to do with how we handle our failings as the failings themselves."

[Austin Willard Wright]

No conservative has ever held Rush to a standard of moral perfection. That is a straw man argument.

[Mears]

Thanks,Peach,for the wonderful quote from the WSJ. It's right on.

[ventana]

I have been a little hard on Rush in that I believe there is more explaining to do, and I feel I saw him change, well, about five years ago. But I still love Rush, owe him a great deal and am pulling for him. Rome neither was built nor fell in a day. V's wife.

[TruthConquers]

. . the idea that moral credibility is predicated on moral perfection.

WOW! When I read that , I immediately wondered how the left could excoriate the right for not being perfect, yet they, in their ideology, reject Christ. The only one who has been morally perfect!

[joesbucks]

If moral credibility were predicated on moral perfection, even our church pulpits would be silent.

Many churches have removed those whose moral inperfections have become beyond obvious. More should have done so or we wouldn't be in the mess that one large demonination is currently suffering.

[pyx]

...although conservatives think that character matters in public life, we have never bought into the idea that moral credibility is predicated on moral perfection.

I'll take "WHY and to WHAT we should ASPIRE", for $500.00, Alex. :)

[Wondervixen]

>>If moral credibility were predicated on moral perfection, even our church pulpits would be silent. I'm sure liberals would not agree, but in my view, character has as much to do with how we handle our failings as the failings themselves."

God created man to be imperfect. Everyone who has ever walked the Earth, is walking the Earth, or is yet to be born to walk the Earth, walks it in sin. Jesus Christ wasn't even created to be morally perfect. He faced the same temptations as the rest of us and stayed above them on inner strength.

It's the most natural thing in the world to sin because all it requires is that you do nothing about your failings...You just roll with it as long as your conscience will allow it. The will power to rise above sin is what sets the moral apart from the sinful.

Just remember: No matter how sinful or how moral you are, every morning that you're fortunate enough to roll out of bed alive until the day you die, your immortal soul is in REHAB!

[carton253]

Excellent!

[gitmo]

If moral credibility were predicated on moral perfection, even our church pulpits would be silent.

I've always had that problem with the common definition of "hypocrite". I think we should all be espousing and striving for a higher standard than we currently live.

[InterceptPoint]

If moral credibility were predicated on moral perfection, even our church pulpits would be silent.

True enough but I am very curious as to how Rush will handle the general subject of the War on Some Drugs when he comes back on the air.

It seems to me that it will be a little hard for Rush to argue in favor of long jail sentences for drug users and even drug sellers after this episode. I think he has to take a postion that is consistent with his own behaviour and I think that is not the position he has taken in the past.

In any case I expect to see some sort of Talk Radio All Time Record set on the day Rush comes back. Even the libs will be listening.

[lodwick]

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