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Meanwhile, he is going along with a lot of nauseating stuff because he really has no choice.

He is the President. Why doesn't he have a choice?

I have a choice and it won't be GWB.

Question: "He is the President. Why doesn't he have a choice?"

Answer: Political reality.

A reality that is lost on the Right.

This reasoning is an example of how Rush is doing more to harm conservatives than to help them---because he is educating them incorrectly to believe that the President is all-powerful, that he does not have to work with political realities, that he can get more done by being ideologically pure than by being ideologically realistic.

Rush will soon see the loonies he's bringing out of the woodwork by demanding ideological purity on his particular issues.

When he comes back around to reality, oh, about 2004, those of us who knew all along that ideological purity in politics is an oxymoron, by definition a suicide course, will be long gone and he will then p.o. the people who are demanding even more stringent ideological purity than he is.

Ideological purity is the antithesis of politics. One can never be "pure" enough ideologically to represent what constitutes "pute" to each and every voter.