“compassion disease where compassion is defined as robbing one American of his hard earned money and giving it to another you find more worthy or needy. It is practicing your charity before men to be seen by them, yet being unwilling to fund it yourself. Instead you force others to fund it so that you can get the praise.”
You are right.
David Limbaugh wrote a recent editorial:
Single-Issue vs. Comprehensive Conservatism
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939710/posts
Excerpt:
“I think Huckabee is a genuine Christian leader and a decent man whom I’ll support, if he’s nominated. But I think that on many political issues, he sounds a lot more like a liberal theologian and politician than a conservative one.
Liberal ones invariably translate Jesus’s heart for the poor as a mandate for massive wealth redistribution, as if state-coerced transfers of other people’s money are acts of Christian compassion. There is nothing compassionate about sapping the human spirit to the detriment of all. “
I don’t agree with David there. In fact, I think that editorial stinks.
Read the entire editorial. I was shocked that that came from David Limbaugh. I usually like all of his columns, but this? No.
I just think the overall spin of the entire editorial was unfair. He takes that one valid criticism and he smears all of Huckabee's supporters with it. Then he drudges up the old "one issue voter" charge. Come on. George W. Bush has been the big champion of "compassionate conservatism." Yet David never slammed the Christians who supported Bush like that.