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Mary Matalin on Rush today - and is she off base? (Stunned)
4-23-2012 | Self

Posted on 04/23/2012 9:30:05 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright

FREEPER COMMENTS REQUESTED: Is it just me, or is Mary Matalin way off base today with her entire theme for the show (guest hosting for Rush). Now I normally like her work tremendously, but her idea that we should search for "virtue" in government and for "virtuous people" to be in government seems extremely naive.

The only virtue in government is its limit. We will never get a government full of virtuous people. By definition, government is power and virtuous people are not drawn to that. Our Founders knew that. This is why they insisted on LIMITED government. Wake up Mary!


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To: Lazlo in PA

I bet that’d do it. But damn, I quit drinking 15mos ago. Almost makes me want to go back to it. Nah; I just switched to another program.


201 posted on 04/23/2012 11:50:21 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (I'd vote for a "orange juice can", before 0bummer&HisRegimeFromHell, gets another 4yrs. Can-> later.)
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To: sand88

If there is public virtue, there are no parasites. People have enough moral values to not abuse the system. People have to have a certain level of honesty and dignity with constrained government. No public virtue means no good judges, no good public officials to put common sense practices into place.


202 posted on 04/23/2012 11:50:26 AM PDT by Suz in AZ
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To: upsdriver

We have been sold out on all sides. The Rush show a Carville Matalin show now. I don’t turn on his show to hear two of the biggest frauds in the political business yuck it up.


203 posted on 04/23/2012 11:52:02 AM PDT by commonguymd (Freedom is a myth anymore it seems)
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To: sickoflibs

If you were elected, the unemployment rate would increase
for a time, because you would..

1) Close the Department of Energy

2) Close the Dept. of Education

3) Close the EPA

4) Give illegals 60 days to leave.

5) No I.D. no vote.

6) Drill like no tomorrow

But in a year or 2, business would boom, and the debt shrink

And America would get real witty one liners !

SOL 2012 !!


204 posted on 04/23/2012 11:53:57 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: MtBaldy

” Carville is always mean, nasty, vicious, and dishonest.”

And those are his GOOD virtues...


205 posted on 04/23/2012 11:54:06 AM PDT by hummingbird (Just askin' or just sayin' depending on the subject. Oh yeah...OBAMA SUCKS!)
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To: onyx

” ROTFL.

I hope comeone sends her this thread.”

imarriedaserpent.com ?


206 posted on 04/23/2012 11:55:56 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: Mountain Mary

Given who Matalin’s husband is, I’d say having one child who is conservative and one liberal is expected in that household.


207 posted on 04/23/2012 11:56:48 AM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud dad of an Army Soldier who has survived 24 months of Combat deployment.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Was she desperate? I am thinking, “yes”.


208 posted on 04/23/2012 11:59:23 AM PDT by onyx (SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC, DONATE MONTHLY. If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know.)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Well, I’d add Dr. Walter E. Williams to my “approved” guest host list. He usually has Thomas Sowell on, and it doesn’t get much better than that.


209 posted on 04/23/2012 12:00:12 PM PDT by B Knotts (Just another Tenther)
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To: sickoflibs; C. Edmund Wright

>> Whose next to host? <<

Newt may be in the market for a new gig soon. I’d love to listen to him on a daily basis. But I’ll bet Rush wouldn’t let him be a guest host, because Newt probably would outshine Mah Rushie too much!


210 posted on 04/23/2012 12:00:12 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Yes, we should hope to find virtue in government and we should encourage the virtuous to seek office. However, we should assume that anyone seeking political office has the morals of an alley cat. We should assume that they’re all scoundrels looking for a bribe or a piece of tail or both. We should never stop digging for dirt.


211 posted on 04/23/2012 12:02:29 PM PDT by Redcloak (Mitt Romney: Puttin' the "Country club" back in "Republican".)
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To: sickoflibs

I’ll bet the RINOS did Cain in (not kidding)


212 posted on 04/23/2012 12:04:47 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: stockpirate

Ann dated Bill Maher?

Please tell me it is another Ann you are referring to!


213 posted on 04/23/2012 12:07:00 PM PDT by hummingbird (Just askin' or just sayin' depending on the subject. Oh yeah...OBAMA SUCKS!)
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To: onyx

Desperate is a mild term......kinda like me marrying Rosie O’Donnell......uh oh......gulp......barf....bathroom please.


214 posted on 04/23/2012 12:08:27 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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To: circlecity; holdonnow
“We have concentrated so much power in Washington that no matter how virtuous a pol is when he arrives, they are soon corrupted. Political power corrupts everything and everyone it touches.”

“We, the people” get duped over and over again by having our government and special interests in one concentrated are for most of their “reign”.

This is 21st century. Send ALL politicians back to their states and districts. Every last one of them. The give them “Skype,” “Go to my PC”, “Go to Meetings”, ability to teleconference.

Anything less than this is putting the government at peril and really shafting “we, the people...”

215 posted on 04/23/2012 12:15:27 PM PDT by hummingbird (Just askin' or just sayin' depending on the subject. Oh yeah...OBAMA SUCKS!)
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To: aruanan

“Poor dear. In a book of just-missed-the-mark quotations. A limit on government is something that is antecedent to government. It is something the founders said lay in the people, that was expressed in the Declaration and the Constitution, and that the people should re-impose on government by whichever means are most appropriate when government, whether large or small, starts to trample their liberties.”

The horses done left the barn already, Clem!

Us stupid, simple engineering folk saw us some right wisdom without the $0.50 words and was sayin’ ‘Good on ya’!’

You lawyerin’ types keep settin’ the rest us of simple folk straight.


216 posted on 04/23/2012 12:18:04 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: juan_galt
I am so far out of line - what is E-GOP?

I feel so out of the loop - well, think I'll go run those young whippersnappers off my lawn and think about adopting lots of cats!

217 posted on 04/23/2012 12:21:14 PM PDT by hummingbird (Just askin' or just sayin' depending on the subject. Oh yeah...OBAMA SUCKS!)
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To: what's up

Your response proves you didn’t listen to the program, have no idea the point I was making, but you damned sure think of your self as righteous - but really its just naivete and self righteousness.


218 posted on 04/23/2012 12:26:10 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: hummingbird

I’ve written in American Thinker several times about a virtual congress, keeping them in their districts. It is the future of our nation, if we are to have one.

Keep spreading the word.


219 posted on 04/23/2012 12:27:51 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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To: loveliberty2

You are a brick wall: I am tired of beating my head against it. You have yet to show any grasp, even the faintest grasp, of what is being discussed here today.

But you have no doubt made yourself feel superior. Congrats.


220 posted on 04/23/2012 12:31:01 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
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