While eating a late lunch today, a mandatedly-inexpensive lunch, mind you, due to the MIA invitation to dine at the Orchid office, I read a nice little article at the National Review. One man’s thoughts about various and sundry things about the current state of our dissed-graced nation.
While nodding my head in agreement at his points, a little ball dropped into a little hole, followed by a little “click!” and a realization:
Today’s most vehement Demon-crats hate Rush Limbaugh because he is SUCCESSFUL.
Not only is he successful, but he is successful without being beholden to anyone, let alone to the government (read: favors from politicians), for his success. One of those self-made men. You know, kinda like our Founding Fathers.
Ok, so some of you may have already come to this realization on your own, but I find it explains a great deal about what’s going on in and around the White House.
Anyway, scary idea, that of independent thinkers, when what you need is utter dependency from the masses in order to put your personal vision, your “great plan” in place. Worse is when you have an independent thinker with a big mouth exercising our basic right of free access to a microphone and saying things that apparently, at least according to the ratings, an awful lot of people want to hear.
I said before that I’d never listened to Rush Limbaugh until his address to the CPAC. Frankly, main-stream media-driven curiosity is what drove me to park my butt in the den in front of the television, but in all honesty, it was his words that kept me there. Words that rang clear and true and – much to my surprise – matched the very same things I’ve been saying for a long time.
And I realized that all along, regardless the stated political affiliation of the candidate I checked off on a voting ballot, I’ve always been a conservative.
Gosh, it’s so nice to be out of the closet.
And it’s even nicer to find that there are more and more and – much to the vehement Demon-crats chagrin and despite the ever-increasing pace of their tap-dancing spin machine – even more people who think like me. People who are looking at this country and looking even more closely at our elected representatives and wondering just what the hell is going on. People standing up and questioning the blatant hypocrisy and the sheer stupidity that belches out from both ends of the Beltway like a drunk after a big Mexican dinner.
The bad news, the sad news, is that we put those idiots there. But the good news is, like Bill Cosby once told his kids, we can take them out and replace them.
Every single one of them. Donkey’s asses and elephants alike.
In the meantime, speaking of donkey’s asses, I’ve heard tell about a statement that, “Rush Limbaugh is no Bill Buckley.” I went a’searching and can’t help but wonder what those brayers are smoking? The National Review’s cover story for September 6, 1993 was all about Rush and about former President Ronald Reagan gladly passing on the torch to Rush as the “Number One voice for conservatism in our Country”. Rush Limbaugh was a regular contributor to the National Review. Which was founded by…? I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count.
William F. Buckley. Who liked Rush Limbaugh.
Most interestingly (meaning, most ironically, considering current circumstances) I came across this tidibit about good old William F.:
Buckley appeared in a series of televised debates with Gore Vidal during the 1968 Democratic Party convention. In their penultimate debate on August 28 of that year, the two disagreed over the actions of the Chicago police and the protesters at the ongoing Democratic Convention in Chicago. After Buckley responded to Vidal’s argument by stating that Vidal’s position was “so naive” and saying of the protesters “some people were pro-Nazi”, Vidal called Buckley a “Crypto-Nazi”, to which Buckley replied, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I will sock you in your goddamn face, and you will stay plastered.” (Wikipedia)
Any wonder Rush considers him a mentor, may the gods rest his Conservative soul?
Nits1 says
M’Dear some days I’m so proud of you I could just spit, but since I don’t spit, I smile A LOT!:-)