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Mulshine is actually very Conservative. People here on Free Republic are great, but too many of us are jumping to conclusions about Mulshine based on this article.

I don't really agree with Mulshine on this subject but I have read enough of his work over the years to know his slant..and it ain't left. He has pretty decent Conservative credentials and many of his columns are very good reads and thought provoking.

Have we sunk so low that now we immediately label someone a "whiney liberal" because they think Rush and Sean are a bit hypocritical ? That rigidity of thought sounds more like a liberal concept than a Conservative one to me.

Mulshine is actually very Conservative. People here on Free Republic are great, but too many of us are jumping to conclusions about Mulshine based on this article.

He blast the Free Enterprise system, Private Property rights and SUVs in this article and we are suppose to believe he is a fellow Conservative.

Also repeat

His past recent columns include
» Whitman's wasted opportunity (She couldn't make the Repubs more moderate)
» Rick's (Santorium) views on rights are best kept private
» The right should back local filters on smoking
» Hating the French is a waste of time
» Smoke-free bars? I'll drink to that

Actually recently every column he writes recently is either why he thinks NJ should ban smoking on private property like New York or he finds a way to mention smoking bans in whatever subject he is talking about.

It's Ban smoking, Ban smoking, Ban smoking over and over with this idiot.

I don't really agree with Mulshine on this subject but I have read enough of his work over the years to know his slant..and it ain't left. He has pretty decent Conservative credentials and many of his columns are very good reads and thought provoking.

Really?? I have been reading his columns for awhile and I have yet to see anything remotely conservative about him. Yes occasionly he writes ABOUT the NJ Republican party but never supporting Republican core issues. This is actually the first time I seen him ID himself as a Conservative all of his past articles when writing about Conservatives/Republicans he refers to them in the Third person.

"When I wrote recently in favor of banning smoking in bars, the president of a Republican club in one of the most solidly Republican towns on the planet told me he agreed with me. I don't even know many Republicans who smoke cigarettes anymore. "

It has nothing to do with being pro or anti tobacco. I've hated the smell of cigarettes ever since I quit smoking, and my wife is severely allergic to smoke, but it's not the government's place to tell a private business (a bar) which (otherwise legal) activities must be prohibited. If the author and his "republican club" buddy think this is the proper role for government, they may be republicans but they're not conservatives.

Mushline cannot be that intelligent if he does not understand the difference between opinion/entertainment such as Rush / Hannity and allegedly "objective journalism" (i.e. non biased) such as Dan Rather et al. If Rush were claiming to be an "objective" news reporter, then his doing ads might be a problem, but since he is not, there is no problem. How anyone can believe this is hypocrytical is a mystery.

With that said, you are right that we are too quick to label someone a whiny liberal. Instead, we should simply label the particular argument. In this case, I would lable this particular argument asinine.