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Rod Dreher: Rush Limbaugh, inflexible and unhelpful
The Dallas Morning News ^ | March 6, 2009 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 03/07/2009 8:44:39 PM PST by HoosierHawk

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1 posted on 03/07/2009 8:44:39 PM PST by HoosierHawk
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I wonder if these twits even actually heard Rush's speech. I doubt it.
2 posted on 03/07/2009 8:48:01 PM PST by frankiep (Ron Paul was right)
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Limbaugh's ideology makes an idol of nationalism and optimism

It's a good start. Call it, oh, idk, "American exceptionalism." I see Rush now has 25 million listeners, so he is doing something right. Btw, Who is "Rod Dreher" and how big is his audience?

3 posted on 03/07/2009 8:49:09 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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All these stories are basically the same, just different “author”. No wonder the WH and 0 can’t handle day-to-day business.

On that thought, wasn’t 0 supposed to be able to multi-task. I recall when Bush submitted the first socialist bill, and McCain suspended his campaign, everyone in the media and their cousin on Daily Kos et al. was all about how 0 can do two things at the same time.

Anyway, sorry for the tangent, this article is more of the same and will only increase the number of Americans that listen to Rush every day. Which means more people will be exposed to conservatism.


4 posted on 03/07/2009 8:50:21 PM PST by ABQHispConservative (A Blue Dog Democrat is an oxyMoron!)
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I LOVE, LOVE , LOVE how the LEFT (the lazy socialists especially) are trying so hard to discredit the master Rush. The more they talk about him, the more I JUST SMILE. He just keeps growing his audience and their heads are actually exploding over his popularity! GO RUSH. WE ARE PROUD OF YOUR ACHIEIVEMENT. The hate-filled loonie left forums are trying to get him off the air, yet again, L O L ! Lovein’ it! The socialists parasites are in for a BIG awakening in 2012.


5 posted on 03/07/2009 8:50:55 PM PST by heatherlund (Obama is a socialist . No thanks! MCCain/Palin 2008)
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Code word “inflexible”: means we need to abandon Conservatism and join the socialist march over the cliff and into the abyss of serfdom.


6 posted on 03/07/2009 8:51:00 PM PST by CanaGuy (Go Harper!)
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It didn't take long last week to determine who's really running the Republican Party. Hours after mildly criticizing Rush Limbaugh, Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele apologized.

He's been "chipped".

The media members have all been "chipped". A small RF tag, smaller than a grain of rice, is inserted via needle in the center of their brains.

This allows the Democrats through the front group "Media Splatters" to provide Direct Satellite Broadcast transmission of liberal talking points directly to their brains, such as they are.

This keeps the media zombies with a timely, lockstep message.

7 posted on 03/07/2009 8:52:07 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (New Obama Mantra, "Screw World Peace, I'll Buy You A Pony.")
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If they had really listened to Rush; we wouldn’t be sitting in this situation today.


8 posted on 03/07/2009 8:52:11 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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"Who is "Rod Dreher" and how big is his audience?"

Exactly. Every Tom, Dick and Harry is writing about the Rush thing in the hope that more than 6 cousins will read their column for once, and everyone says almost exactly the same thing. Must be DNC issued boilerplate.

9 posted on 03/07/2009 8:52:29 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (America: Home of the Free Because of the Brave)
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I don't agree with Rush on all issues, but he's certainly no more ‘inflexible’ than the majority on the left. It is in fact their inflexibility and blind ideological fervor that is the most scary dangerous thing about them. Some of them may be ‘anti-religion’, but their inflexible devotion to their ideology is absolutely a ‘religion’.
10 posted on 03/07/2009 8:52:43 PM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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The first thing we learn from the Master's orotund remarks is that there is nothing conservatives need to rethink in light of dramatically changed circumstances.

On principle, no there is not!!!!

11 posted on 03/07/2009 8:54:37 PM PST by Lexinom
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12 posted on 03/07/2009 8:56:03 PM PST by Lexinom
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He is a conservative?

Thank goodness he is counting himself out. We are better off without him.

Wow.


13 posted on 03/07/2009 8:58:16 PM PST by KarenMarie
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Dreher was too busy on his knees swallowing the Dems talking points.


14 posted on 03/07/2009 8:59:02 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat
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To: frankiep
I wonder if these twits even actually heard Rush's speech. I doubt it.

As do I.

And, IIRC, wasn't Rush responding to Chris "Gotta Thrill Up My Leg" Matthews' comment saying that he (Matthews) hopes that Obama "succeeds"? What kind of racist drivel is that? You hope that a President "succeeds"? Why would you think that he wouldn't be successful simply because he is black?

And, another thing, Steele's response to all this was another embarrassment.
/rant

15 posted on 03/07/2009 9:06:41 PM PST by MaggieCarta (We're all Detroiters now.)
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Yet to Limbaugh, conservatism is a fixed set of doctrines...

Yeah, Rod, too bad the Constitution isn't a "living" document, like a Wiki, so you could edit it and win over some liberals...

16 posted on 03/07/2009 9:10:57 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but he will give us the shaft.)
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Whenever I want to know what Republicans should think, I always turn to the Dallas Morning News. (/sarcasm)


17 posted on 03/07/2009 9:11:08 PM PST by Rocky
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Some time back, Rod Dreher decided the National Review was too right wing for him. I happen to agree. NR is too right wing for him.


18 posted on 03/07/2009 9:12:34 PM PST by Zhang Fei
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“there is nothing conservatives need to rethink in light of dramatically changed circumstances”

That is correct because Rush and *we* are based in philosophy and a set of principles, that indeed are unchanging.

The Dems are based in policy, which does change over time and with circumstances.

Therein lies the difference. Conservatives have positions on issues and polity flows from our core philosophy. We are anchored to our principles, and liberals have none. For example, we believe in Respect for Life. What is the liberal counterpart to that? If forced to state them, their core principles would be ludicrous - “chose death”, “government can spend your money better than you can”, “it depends on the meaning of the word ‘is’”...

That’s why they always want to play the “we have better policies” game. It’s all they have to talk about.


19 posted on 03/07/2009 9:14:07 PM PST by bigbob (-)
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Who is "Rod Dreher" and how big is his audience?

Ron Dreher is a former contributor to NRO. His "Crunchy Con" book, from what I understand attempts to reach "the Granola Conservatives."

He may still write for NRO; they'll let anyone post an idiot article as long as they call themselves "conservative."

But I don't know.

20 posted on 03/07/2009 9:14:39 PM PST by HoosierHawk (Democrats - Looting American citizens for generations to come.)
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