"Imperfection"? I think the fact that people continue to look to a thrice-divorced, arrogant drug addict as the "epitome of morality and virtue" speaks volumes about so-called "conservatism" today.
Don't think we look to Rush for perfection, just articulation of what we believe. Don't get hung up on the messenger. What's your problem with his message? C
So you are one to throw him to the wolves in spite of his being one of the true conservatives in the nation? He never said he was the epitome of morality and virtue so why ascribe those statements to something he said? He admitted his mistakes and went on with his conservatism. Liberals wallow in their mistakes and make excuses for them or try to make them "legal."
Anyone who looks to Rush for morality and virtue has serious problems. However, he's a good guidepost for conservative thinking in general.
Once again: Conservatives (and Christians) forgive the sinner, Liberals forgive the Sin.
Every Great man has his flaws, but Great Ideas are STILL Great Ideas.......
Oh, well, it's so good to see that sheltonmac has done so much good for the conservative movement and maintained a lilly-white life that we can now completely condemn the ineffectual Rush Limbaugh.
Rush isn't really a -well, he may be a conservative, but he is not a revolutionary Jeffersonian. So I don't consider it very helpful to speak in terms of "conservative" and "liberal" because we end up in a semantic miasma. That said, he is the funniest analyzer of idiotic journalism on the American scene, a sort of Podunk Mencken. He has no real education, and I'd be hard pressed to call him eloquent, but he is unparalleled in his social commentary. One simply hangs on his words.
Number one who's looking at Limbaugh as the "epitome of morality and virtue"?
Number two...I know a M.D. that's been divorced twice, and is an arrogant jerk most of the time...but if I needed surgery, he's the guy I'd pick to do it.
Rush continues to say things that I say, or think. Rush continues to make me laugh out loud.
Do I agree with him all the time? No. Do I look to him for moral guidance? Of course not. I'd like to think that I'm discerning enough to understand what Rush is...and what he isn't.
FWIW-