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To: Pelham
I’ve no need for posturing.

Then why don't you just knock it off?

You put yourself in the elitist camp by casting an elitist dig at a man who is well-liked and respected by the vast majority of conservatives - on a forum full of conservative, patriotic Americans, then you take offense when someone calls you on it?

If you're so educated in conservative thought and principles, then why not begin by sharing your advanced wisdom here, instead of firing off an ad hominem attack on Rush?

That's a faux pas of the first order, my friend. Not a good way to win friends and influence people.

27 posted on 02/24/2010 8:53:13 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier

“If you’re so educated in conservative thought and principles, then why not begin by sharing your advanced wisdom here,”

I did. I gave you the names of three authors whose writing will educate you. The wisdom is theirs, not mine. I simply take advantage of it by cracking open some of their books. There’s many others since there isn’t one strain of conservative thought. These just happen to be three who have stood the test of time. For a start you could read most anything from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. There’s a very long list of brilliant conservative intellects. Limbaugh just doesn’t happen to be among them. He’s a radio talent, not a scholar.

“instead of firing off an ad hominem attack on Rush?”

A fair description of his interests isn’t ad hominem. He’s certainly well versed in the NFL and golf. Those are his passions. There’s nothing wrong with that. But he routinely demonstrates a vague knowledge of history, including years and events that he’s lived through. He often manages to incorporate left wing critiques that he has absorbed without reflection. He has a botched version of Reaganomics that he has been repeating for nearly twenty years. For you, a critique is an unfair attack. But then he’s a hero to you, not radio talent.


30 posted on 02/24/2010 10:05:14 PM PST by Pelham
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