For this Limbaugh and his audience immediately launched into claims that Senator McCain was trying to determine what Republicans should or should not say. Actually, it is far easier to turn that around and see that what Rush wants is the ability and power to determine who is and who is not a conservative.
It seems tacky, tawdry or a trifle over the edge to keep playing Wright's comments over and over again. Actually, he is not running for anything. I know, I know Senator Obama was in his church for 20 years and recently gave the church 26k. So. The church's stated theology is "black liberation theology" which, is as they interpret it, a combination of Marxism and black affirmation. Off the wall in my estimation, but 8,000 parishioners disagree with my take. So. We do have freedom of religion. There is very little anyone can do or say to dissuade them from their views.
Pastor Wright is an easy shot. Doesn't take much to show him as over the top and irrationally paranoid about "rich, white people." So. When does the endless replays designed no longer to inform but to inflame political passions stop?
Rush and many on this thread love the discharge of anger and righteous scorn on real and imagined adversaries. It gives a sense of cleansing and requires little or no reason or thinking to achieve this. But this does not define conservatism, it is not Burkean, it is not Kirkean but rather it is Nietzschean will to power based on a narrow set of precepts not universally shared.
Finally, remember, the genius of America has been to compromise. The Constitution depended on it. Subsequent events have proved its usefulness and the only time we failed to compromise we got the civil war and 700,000 died.
Contrary to what Rush seems to say and what some on these threads seem to say our success as a nation and as a people is based on how we are alike rather than how we are different. If you want someone or some view to hate switch to the weather. Where I am writing from right now the temperature is 30 and there are 4 inches of recent, heavy wet snow.
Well, the 95% of blacks and the college crowd who vote for Obama may not be so avid for the candidates downticket.
Are you suggesting McCain is a conservative? Seriously, McCain is turning his back on the people that make up the conservative wing of the GOP. Please don't tell me that McCain SHOULD have any say in what the NC GOP party does. That smacks of political fascism the likes of Stalin would be proud of. McCain should be grateful that someone is taking off the gloves regarding the dems and their socialist tenets but instead he castigates the very people that are supposed to go into a voting booth and pull the lever next to his name.
At the very least McCain should have simply stayed out it. He's proving where his loyalties lie - with elections for election's sake. I no longer believe McCain has any conservative platform for us to cling to.
Really! Attacking FEMA in NO is something we would chide, on this board, if a dem were doing it.
Your moderate, rinoistic, liberal embracing view is so backwards from reality it sickens me you are even on this board. Go back and study some history. America in the face of blatant socialism around the world didn't compromise. This idea of stroking liberals is what you and McPainintheass' think "compromise" is all about. (Giving into liberal gobbledy - gook while dissing your own party.)
It's completely unacceptable and I'm going to do my part to throw you and him both out.
Just get the hell out of my party you liberal coddler!