What Rush SHOULD have said

I know the term “Orwellian” has probably been overused lately, but it is truly applicable. When someone says what he actually means like Rush Limbaugh did a few weeks ago, people are somewhat confused. I have some advice for us all.

“I am personally against abortion, but I don’t want to impose my beliefs on others.”

See how comfortably the top rail of that fence fits in your crotch? Now do you know why Arlen Specter walks funny? You recognize the evils of abortion - I mean, who doesn’t - but if killing kids is someone else’s bag, who are you to step in their way?

Very nice. This says, “I really like the general idea of people guarding the gates, just not this particular time in this particular way. I much prefer droppping a few bombs or sending over a missile or two - you know, the Clinton doctrine.” That way one is relieved of the responsiblity of spitting on returning soldiers, while giving themselves cover to do all they can do to make sure they are killed on the battlefield or kidnapped and sent to the Hague after the “Truth Commission” gets through with them.

This brings me to the fatal flaw in Rush’s intellectual honesty. In keeping with the times, he should have said:

See? We wish happy and strong children and a wonderful marriage, just the inability to do one single thing he campaigned on. We want him to succeed! Yes he can! With, of course, the exception of any policy he attempts to implement as President of the United States.

We need to get away from talking of things being "Orwellian".

We also need to get away from talking about things Limbaughian 24-7.

Why are conservatives still gullibly engaging in this cynically contrived controversy about Rush Limbaugh?

This is playing right into the hands of the Democrats who deliberately stirred up this phony hornet's nest to deflect from their Maximum Leader's gross ineptitude managing the economy & sabotaging the financial markets.

Extending this bogus discussion ad nauseum is exactly what this WH wants us to do: let's talk about a syndicated radio talk show host instead of the fact that Barack Obama is deliberately torpedoing the foundations of capitalism right under our noses.

And, like clockwork, there's always an army of naive conservatives who take the bait & fall right into their trap. Repeatedly.

Unbelievable.

If they can change the subject, we are free to change it right back again. We don't have to keep letting democrats setting the agenda of the national debate, and we sure as hell are not obligated to contnue to AID & ABET them to do just that!

Honestly, sometimes we conservatives have all the political street smarts of rubes on a turnip truck.

I was listening...perhaps you'd like to re-read what you wrote:

"We need to get away from talking of things being "Orwellian". George Orwell was writing about Stalinists in the West...When things are "Orwellian", they are Stalinist...Don't couch it under "fictionalized" realities."

My point is, while the modern left certainly employs the tactics and techniques of Stalin, the technology they have to do so is above and beyond that of anything Stalin had, and that contemporary reality more closely mirrors (or soon will) Orwell's fiction than it does Stalin's USSR....ergo the term "Orwellian" is perfectly apt in reference to the designs of the modern left.

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