I am an actor and someone employed in the entertainment business. I have my own opinions about how this government should be run and how disgracefully it has been run by both parties. I want to give it as hard as I can to those who willingly seek political roles and disgrace their office and, conversely, commend those who, in my opinion, behave commendably. I express those opinions un-self-consciously while never believing for one minute that they will influence anyone or anything. I do it as an American. For me, it's an American thing.
I am not the head of my Party.
Rush Limbaugh is an uneducated, marginally talented, overbearing, recovering drug addict who was, at least according to Wikipedia, ineligible for the draft because he had cysts on his ass.
I have dear friends of mine who represent real Republicans. Goldwater Republicans. Strong on defense. Tough on immigration. Fiscal conservatives. Not the bullshit Reagan wing of the party which, along with Clinton killing Glass-Steagall, brought us to where we are today.
My friends who are these real Republicans (not hypocritical evangelicals who are too lazy to raise their own children properly so, therefore, insist that all public institutions and policies bend to their will to make that job easier) do not listen to Limbaugh. They don't care what he says. They think he is an amusing entertainer. Like most progressives I know are well aware how hit-and-miss Michael Moore can be and, ultimately view him as an entertainer and don't give a damn what he says.
Until Limbaugh gets real, weans himself off the big salary and runs for office, he will always be nothing more than a poorly educated, marginally talented buffoon who has developed a real talent for manipulating the G-spot of the neocon consciousness and massaging the hate gland of so many economically displaced white voters in America.
I hope to God the GOP gets its act together soon and finds a real leader for their Party. Rush Limbaugh as the spokesperson for the GOP? 2010, I can't wait.
He is a respectful, serious man with serious points!
Limbaugh on the other hand is a crazy, desperate, sad hate monger.
Her divisiveness has remained in full gear since her election as Governor only her narcissistic tendencies are getting in the way of her priorities. Anyone donating to SaraPAC is putting their money into the Palin Abyss. She's building so many gates, her career may be headed for the pearly gates.
Yet, people are wasting their neurons that fire electrical impulses that cascade from their brains to their finger tips to tap buttons on a keyboard that processes them and sends the combination of letters that form words out for the world to see about who? Rush Limbaugh? Really?
Limbaugh thrives off of people bashing him and talking about how wrong he is on a given issue. All you have to do to get your wish of a world without Limbaugh, is, whether it is good or bad, stop fueling his fire by talking about him. Simple.
The separation of church and state is vital to the progress and vitality of a democracy. The right wing neo cons don't want a democracy though, they want religion to rule all our lives, which is no better than the Taliban or the Iranians, who allow religion to govern them--the very way of life we are against. Our country is built on freedoms, freedom of speech, freedom of religion etc. I say if you don't like those freedoms, MOVE to another country. We will not stand for anyone destroying our democracy.
What the republicans really worship about Limbaugh is the same thing they admire in Reagan - his persona and his cult of personality. I suspect that Rush will be in the dustbin of history's ridicule in 15 years. His own lack of wisdom and appalling absence of compassion will ultimately tarnish even his pithy, snide witticisms and thin to the breaking his sarcastic over arching radio voice. How dramatically over time we have seen the conservative party fall. How loudly they splash around like a drunken drowning man in 8 feet of water. Do any of us really think this group can rise again? Let this "party" go where other outmoded, outrageous things have gone, to where the platypus and the dodo bird went. Let it be replaced by something more adaptive and less distorted - like conservationism or populism or neo socialist democracy.
I had never had looked at it that way, but you are so right! Keep up the good work. We need more people like you, people who really care about our country and are willing to take the time to get involved, no matter the cost.
As this is my first post I'll introduce myself. I'm TheBigTent, a monicker contrived to give the correct impression that I try to accept others for what they are, within limits, and welcome them into my world. It is indeed unfortunate that I had to, upon my first exposure here, run into someone who is an embarassment to all of us OR should be! No amount of slanted reportage or damage control explanation in feigned sincerity on the boob tube replete with the hand-holding excess can change that.
Give us a break Alec. Take your show on the road and don't come back. You make us an easy target for those on the right.
Btw, I know many evangelical Christians and do NOT appreciate your broad-brush demonzing of them. Just because you define them as you did doesn't make it so. You do such as a rule w/out facts to back such charges up. To believe in God appears to be a secular mortal sin to the likes of you. You are NOT welcome in my big tent. I do NOT like or tolerate arrogant, pompous *sses.
I, too, realized recently that point, about religious rules being enacted as law just to make easier the task of raising children within that religion.