PubliusInfinitum
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Precisely what I'm talking about. Worse is the fact that if I compare your quote to the canned responses I see on forums for Hannity, Levin, etc, the response is practically a word for word repetition. Maybe Right-Think exsists after all?
Facts are facts, Doc... Add to that, that valid principle does not change; thus reason is served that where one chronically challenges those facts, the principles common to the relevant circumstances will tend to be fairly commonly represented; and when one chronically engages those who know the facts and who understand those principles... Youre certain to see a lot of those facts and those principles
How that citation is relevant to anything is known only to you... If it is some reference to Limbaugh presumably admitting that he had 'carried the political water' for people he otherwise felt didn't deserve it... SO WHAT? What was the option?
Speak your mind is always a courageous and intellectually honest option.
If your party doesn't represent you, finding another is also a courageous and intellectually honest option.
Limbaugh's quote is self-evident in its meaning and calls into question his honesty as an advocate of public policy. If he'll knuckle under to "carry water" for folks he doesn't feel deserve it, why trust him to speak honestly?
ROFL... So, I was correct then, in the presumption that you need to use Limbaugh's declaration as some measure which demonstrates an imperfection.
LOL... CLASSIC!
Well here's the thing Doc... Limbaugh isn't perfect, never claimed to be perfect and no one that I know expects such from him.
I don't agree with rush on everything. His tendency towards the belief that Leftists are capable of learning irritates me to no end... Rush constantly tries to convince Leftists that his argument, his ideology is the best way to go... hoping to sway them.
My experience shows that Leftists are leftists, due to a stark cognitive deficiency... that IF a Leftist had the intellectual means to understand sound reason; they'd be found espousing it from time to time...
Yet... they never are... If the Leftists were able to comprehend sound reason... THAY WOULD! The fact is that they do not... so to hell with 'em.
Nature has a cure for these things... and some day in the not too distant future, you and I will wake up and learn that some event has taken place which touched off the ideological powder Keg... and it will be open season on Left-think. At the end of that catastrophe, the Left will be extinct and sound moral principle will once again prevail; and the survivors can get to the job of rebuilding a sustainable culture upon the immutable principle of nature; sans those who disagree..
.Lets talk a minute about '08. Part of the reason that Limbaugh had no impact on the final candidate is that like Hannity and others, he was scared to death to back a losing horse. The Right Wing Radio folks refused to back ANY candidate until it was far far too late to stop McCain.
Once McCain had won the primary, they all cried their tears and lined up behind him. Limbaugh himself talked about the need to "pull McCain across the finish line" If they'd had any principles or intellectual honesty they'd have recruited a candidate, backed an existing one, or left for the third party.
LOL... Third parties are cultural suicide... the fight is within the GOP to take it back from the Centrists... OKA: Leftists...
The SECOND the GOP is successfully fractured... the culture is doomed to generations of Leftist rule... and at this point, one more generation of such and "AMERICA" is history.
By fracturing the GOP, you splinter the electorate and what you'll end up with is what happened in 92... with Clinton coming to power in a stark minority of the vote.
No thanks...
As to the Talk Radio Hosts not backing a primary candidate, that in and of ITSELF is a PRINCIPLED POSITION. They're there to state the principles of their position and to allow the various candidates to come on their programs and state their's... If they overtly backed a candidate in the primary, such would tend towards the above noted fracturing of the Conservative electorate... and that sir is not an option.
The Candidates are all individuals; they're free to state their positions; and the Radio Hosts have advanced NO SMALL AMOUNT OF DISAGREEMENT WITH EVERY ONE OF THE CANDIDATES, with Limbaugh being no exception, since his syndication in 89... By not backing a specific candidate they remain free to argue the principles objectively, against the stated positions of ALL of the candidates; and at the end of the day, when a Candidate is selected... It serves the interests of the system to back THAT CANDIDATE!
And this due to the reality that WHERE THAT CANDIDATE FAILS... the opposition WINS... and the last time I checked, it is better for the US when something resembling an American is sitting at the helm of American governance.
Although, I must say, it is just HYSTERICAL that we in the GOP get SO much advice from our opposition on how we should run our party...
Particularly given that SO MUCH of the hierarchy of the GOP has, over the last 12 or so years, taken that advice; leading our party towards moderation; quieting down of the "family values' component and opening our tent to include the 'independent, moderate, centrist, progressives... and that has really just worked GREAT FOR US.
So, you'll forgive me if I climb up eyeball to eyeball and laugh in your face, at the notion that you represent anything approaching principled Conservativism.
Instead, they advocated for a McCain victory.
Yep... and they did it because there was no alternative... as to not do so was to surrender to the Muslim Marxist which opposed Mccain.
Had McCain won, Conservatives would have lost out in the GOP for a generation. Now he's lost, there's a chance they can gain ground again.
McCain had no chance of winning... recall that McCain's campaign was BROKE... 6 months prior to the election, he was days from throwing in the towel and then; and I don't recall the specifics, but the Huckster came into play and McCains bulb re-ignited... and after he selected Palin, he had a sliver of a chance... absent Palin, McCain would have lost by 20%.
But had he won, he'd be at 30% right now... I personal can't stand that sorry fascist fuck... And I seriously doubt that he'd have improved much as President.
It's arguable that had McCain won, that his failure would have demonstrated in finality the foolishness of tolerating Centrists in the GOP.