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Libs were very touchy about Mrs. Dukakis and her substance abuse issues. Geeting addicated to pain killers or tranquilizers is very common especially among celebs.
Making light of JFK's or Rush's health problems or medication regimen
or anyone else's real health problems lowers civility for everyone. As a hard-hitting pundit, Rush makes an easy target. That doesn't make it right. The mental health history of John Kerry's family is something perhaps he should think about when joking about someone' else's health.
Liberals cannot hold themselves up as models of tolerance and compassion when they make sport of a sick, aging man in pain (whoever he is).

Making light of JFK's or Rush's health problems or medication regimen or anyone else's real health problems lowers civility for everyone.

Exactly. The media would like to make this be a; "Rush is a doper, nah nah, nah nah nah", story. But it's is not. It's about a failed medical procedure performed on a celebrity that the medical community did not want to take responsibility for its failure.

Were I a journalist, I would investigate the number of back surgeries in the US and their outcomes. I'll bet, truth be known, that what happened to Rush is more common than the FDA would care to admit. After all, they also approve medical procedures such as the "Lamenectomy", that was performed on Rush.

Wasn't even Tipper Gore addicted to medications for depression? Did Rush savage her on the radio?

Does the left somehow recall Rush giving Jeb Bush's daughter a pass on her addiction to Xanex and forged prescriptions because she was a Republican?

I certainly do recall the media attacking President Bush for having a niece who is addicted to prescription medication.

The difference between health problems (chemical or medical) of the President of the United States and Rush is that the president has his finger on the nuclear button while Rush Limbaugh is broadcasting on the radio and can be turned off by anyone in the audience pressing a button.

He doesn't operate heavy machinery either. Spouses of political leaders don't have much responsibility either (they can insert themselves into political situations but at the end of the day, they are not accountable to the voters since they were never elected).

Those in an appointed/elected area of responsibility need to be capable of doing their job while in that position. Rush is just a commentator/entertainer. He holds no elected office and carries no authority. His listeners listen because they find him informative some of the time but his audience does not come to their facts simply through him. They have other sources. They call in/listen to his show to hear his views on news in and outside of the mainstream media.

If candidates and even Clear Channel decide to stay away from Rush Limbaugh, that is their decision to make. Rush's radio show does not seem to have suffered in its' production or performance as a result of his addiction (even his hearing loss which some attribute to drug abuse did not significantly lessen his radio show).

JFK getting injections of pain killers so that he could sit at a table and negotiate with the head of the Soviet Union put American safety at risk. This is not drug abuse but then again the President will not be at the top of his "game".