It was convenient at the time to tag Slick as having no charactr. And he made the point character mattered. To Rush, character mattered. Rush could never figure out how liberals could cozy up and defend a person like Clinton. Again, like character matters, I knew the day wasn’t far off that people without character would be defended by conservatives because they voted s certain way or said the “right” things My conservative friends back then said I didn’t know what’s talking about. But once the character issues started becoming more common in the conservative wing, landing a character punch to a democrats jaw became more difficult and conservatives without character became embraced. And Rush said the movement would die if the ends justifying the means became the norm. Guess he was wrong.
The nation proved it didn't care about "character." I had a catharsis in 1992. I realized that we should care about character, even if the rest of the nation didn't, but not to the exclusion of more important things, like survival.
I suppose I became a realist, and I still resent the nation for teaching me the lesson that "character doesn't really matter to winning power."
Rush could never figure out how liberals could cozy up and defend a person like Clinton.
I couldn't either, but I realized what they care about is winning and imposing *THEIR* preferences (I won't say "morality", because they are *NOT* moral.) on the rest of us.
What we have done with the "character" issue is let the perfect become the enemy of the good.
I see the need for a nasty street fighter, not a knight in shining armor. While I would prefer a knight, you fight with whatever weapon you can lay to hand.
But once the character issues started becoming more common in the conservative wing, landing a character punch to a democrats jaw became more difficult and conservatives without character became embraced.
The media-lie-machine was never going to allow you to land a "character" punch on any of their perverts. It wasn't going to happen until mass communications was taken over and it's power turned back against them.