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Rush did the right thing here.

He removed himself from the debate, while keeping his position on the issue intact.

The left was losing this debate bigtime until he used the word "slut".

Now let's go back to them losing again.

The left was losing this debate bigtime until he used the word "slut".

The left was never "losing" this debate. The entire issue has been about changing the conversation from things like gas prices to instead putting conservatives on the defensive about social issues like birth control.

Even if the specific issue of forcing church organizations to cover contraception polls well for us, we are still losing the war because we are not talking about the economy, gas prices, debt, etc. Worse, because there really are social conservatives like Santorum who really can't resist weighing in on his belief that contraception in general is bad, the issue continues to become more about whether condoms and birth control pills are morally okay rather than how outrageous it is that the government is now requiring religious institutions to cover them.

We are never, ever going to win this debate. We could if the issue could remain solely on the appropriateness of requiring church organizations to cover contraception - but with so many social conservatives who actually do oppose birth control in principle, the issue will never remain focused on the insurance piece of the debate.

Every day that we are talking about this is contraception nonsense is a giant political loser for the Republican party.

You said...
“Rush did the right thing here.
He removed himself from the debate, while keeping his position on the issue intact.

The left was losing this debate bigtime until he used the word “slut”.

Now let's go back to them losing again”

Agree. The left wants to keep the focus on Fluke. Also, if I remember, Shultz did apologize for calling Ingraham a slut.

The bigger issue isn't Fluke but whether the government can force religious institutions, or anybody, to sell what it demands

Rush did the wrong thing.

Once you admit you are in error the left smell that drop of blood and then the shark feeding frenzy REALLY begins. Now they can claim they made him apologize, ‘ We got him. Now we know what he`s like. He`s wrong, admitted it, will always be wrong. Time for him to go or we boycott and pressure advertisers ...etc,etc, ad infinitum. ‘

NEVER admit you`re wrong to the radical left.

Rush did the right thing here.

He removed himself from the debate, while keeping his position on the issue intact.

The left was losing this debate bigtime until he used the word "slut".

Now let's go back to them losing again.

Refreshing to see at least one other on this thread that gets it and isn't responding with a DU level of intelligence. Still, though, the use of the word "slut" only accelerated their losing on the issue. It was something of a catalyst that enabled their simmering looniness and vicious character to rapidly foam up all out of bounds before they had a chance to reign in any of their more nutty folks like Sheila Jackson Lee. With less than 15 seconds of calm, off-hand comments Rush revealed the character of a significant portion of the leftist community. With a single paragraph in which he retracted none of his analysis of that community he gave them a form of what they claimed they wanted but not what they really wanted, which was his destruction and that of all other conservatives. It was a superb bit of work.

This, combined with the revelations of her fraud, the machinations of Obama, George Stephanopoulos, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and their complete lack of outrage over their own folk's attribution of the slut and c*nt word to Sarah Palin and others, only serves to further light up the Left like a laser target for what we've got to do in November. Thanks, Rush, for a job well done!