The Legacy of Compassionate Conservatism [Rush Limbaugh on the Campaign Reform SCOTUS fiasco]

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_121003/content/truth_detector.guest.html ^ | December 10, 2003 | by Rush Limbaugh

[Lazamataz]

Rush nails it better than he has in years.

[Lazamataz]

I wasn't asking you to pick a side; I was adding information to your post.

Ah. Thank you. I noticed before that you were shaken by the ruling. I'm glad you are staying with your principles. I sure will be.

[onyx]

I like your personality, Laz. What's your problem? Howlin posted a different take. Big deal.

Call me a Bush-bot, but NEVER associate me with anything Clinton.

[Lazamataz]

Read this article. Then you can hate Rush Limbaugh too.

[Howlin]

You're mocking me, aren't you?

[Lazamataz]

I like your personality, Laz. What's your problem? Howlin posted a different take. Big deal.

The take -- if embraced -- is one of a scheming partisan, not a lover a liberty. I'm for the Bill of Rights, not for a very temporary, very illusory slight advantage.

[Lazamataz]

You're mocking me, aren't you?

Quite the opposite. I saw you react with horror when the ruling first came down. I didn't keep up with your posts. I do hope you haven't embraced this monsterous decision.

[Howlin]

The take -- if embraced -- is one of a scheming partisan, not a lover a liberty.

Gosh, you must feel so much better now that you've gotten that off your chest.

[Lazamataz]

An exceptional piece from Rush Limbaugh about CFR.

[Lazamataz]

No, because I am less free today.

From your sarcasm, it appears you have embraced this ruling, and will obediently line up with Mr. Bush.

Thank G-d you're as free to do exactly as they instruct you.

[Reagan Man]

"This is a sad day for the freedom of speech. Who could have imagined that the same Court which, within the past four years, has sternly disapproved of restrictions upon such inconsequential forms of expression as virtual child pornography... tobacco advertising... dissemination of illegally intercepted communications... and sexually explicit cable programming... would smile with favor upon a law that cuts to the heart of what the First Amendment is meant to protect: the right to criticize the government. For that is what the most offensive provisions of this legislation are all about. We are governed by Congress, and this legislation prohib- its the criticism of Members of Congress by those entities most capable of giving such criticism loud voice: national political parties and corporations, both of the commercial and the not-for-profit sort. It forbids pre-election criticism of incumbents by corporations, even not-for-profit corporations, by use of their general funds; and forbids national party use of soft money to fund issue ads that incumbents find so offensive." -Justice Scalia 12-10-2003

[archy]

How about we find a third party candidate that embraces sound conservative principles so we can show the Republican party how many votes they've alientated?

Rush Limbaugh's makin' sense for the first time in a few years... so..... Rush?

That's one possibility. Fielding full alternate Republican primary slates are another.

If that doesn't get the job done, a couple of other options exist.

[onyx]

You're getting a bit bent --- I have not once posted my support for this ruling. I hate it, but I will not be a party to Bush bashing.

A democrat president will send me to the Cayman's, and send this country to hell.

[Lazamataz]

An extremely well-crafted essay on CFR by Rush Limbaugh.

[Robert A Cook PE]

OK..............

So WHY is a "paid ad" from one group NOT REGULATED (since it is "not associated with a national party" (like Soros!), and a paid ad from a different group regulated and forbidden?

[Howlin]

I will reply to you on another thread; I'm not posting to this one anymore.

[Lazamataz]

Rush Limbaugh has an excellent editorial on today's fiasco.

[WackyKat]

From your sarcasm, it appears you have embraced this ruling, and will obediently line up with Mr. Bush. Thank G-d you're as free to do exactly as they instruct you.

On the >1600 post thread on this issue from earlier,Howlin was a major defender of this atrocity and Bush's role in it

[M. Thatcher]

I think you hurt Howlin's feelings.

[Romulus]

So, what do we do the next time the repub's ask for a campaign donation?

Funny you should ask. I had a call from a pubbie "pollster" last week. "Wanted to know" how the president was doing. When I told him, he was ready, with a prepared script about how "we in the GOP are holding the line against the big-spending democrats" and so forth. Insulting, and pathetic. Then he asked me for a donation (surprise!).

Now here's the punch line. The fellow Republican who was calling me had an unmistakeable African accent. The chances of him being an American citizen, much less a Republican, are virtually nil. In all probability he was a foreign student working a commission job at some GOP-licensed telemarketing phone bank. This is what my party has become: a mafia of cynical spinners, raising funds purely to maintain themselves and in the process raise even more funds. Feeding the beast is all.