RIP Rush Limbaugh
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Rush briefly had a TV show but dropped it when the knives came out. On radio he didn't have to give a shit. He spawned the now decades long obsession with the Fairness Doctrine and Air America and other liberal failures to compete with him
Then a drumbeat of smears over the years and of course Obama being obsessed with him because he was one of the few who didn't bend the knee.
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I think "small government" should be replaced with "limited government". Government will never be small, but it should be limited when it can be. Look at what the government red tape did in regards to the PNW forest fires. These fires grew in large part to the restricted timber laws that Oregon and Washington passed. Had logging companies been able to thin over grown forest areas, it would have slowed the spread and saved millions of forest acres.HHusky said:
Nobody with an ounce of intelligence has ever believed that "small government" is a realistic or a worthy objective. It's not an intellectually honest pursuit and neither political party has ever pursued it, regardless of what they said during a campaign. It's a fantasy. And all most of you ever mean by it is you want the government to do stuff you like, but not stuff you don't like.RoadTrip said:
Do you consider social media writ? How was Rush's spoken opinions on subjects like small government different than intellectual prose on the same subject in 1980?HHusky said:Political conservatism was actually moored to conservatism writ broadly, and was intellectually and philosophically coherent in in 1980.
Rush helped to change that.
Missed by the right wing's rabble. No one else.
Small government is at best a rhetorical flourish required to pander to the stupidest voter a Republican can hope to convince to pull the lever for him come election time. -
Remember when the dazzler used to post about the great success of Air America? Good times.RaceBannon said:Rush briefly had a TV show but dropped it when the knives came out. On radio he didn't have to give a shit. He spawned the now decades long obsession with the Fairness Doctrine and Air America and other liberal failures to compete with him
Then a drumbeat of smears over the years and of course Obama being obsessed with him because he was one of the few who didn't bend the knee. -
As if Ronald Reagan ever did anything to shrink government at any level.RaceBannon said:Nobody with an ounce of intelligence has ever believed that "small government" is a realistic or a worthy objective. - HHutzky
Other than the guy H claims to have voted for twice in the 80's
He was an adept politician. He paid lip service to lots of things. Unfortunately, in a Western democracy, it is crucial to capture some reasonable share of the gullible vote.
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I had a summer jerb in college that had me driving around a lot for a couple years. I listened to Rush, and a whole raft of other talk shows, then, but never really since. Not my bag.
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Nobody with an ounce of intelligence has ever believed The Dazzler actually practices law either.
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I didn't know Snerdly was a real person, much less a black guy, until Race poasted something relatively recently.
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If any of you "remember" that, do get in to see your doctor.WestlinnDuck said:
Remember when the dazzler used to post about the great success of Air America? Good times.RaceBannon said:Rush briefly had a TV show but dropped it when the knives came out. On radio he didn't have to give a shit. He spawned the now decades long obsession with the Fairness Doctrine and Air America and other liberal failures to compete with him
Then a drumbeat of smears over the years and of course Obama being obsessed with him because he was one of the few who didn't bend the knee. -
And you voted for him twice. AllegedlyHHusky said:
As if Ronald Reagan ever did anything to shrink government at any level.RaceBannon said:Nobody with an ounce of intelligence has ever believed that "small government" is a realistic or a worthy objective. - HHutzky
Other than the guy H claims to have voted for twice in the 80's
He was an adept politician. He paid lip service to lots of things. Unfortunately, in a Western democracy, it is crucial to capture some reasonable share of the gullible vote.
Gullible is your middle name. RUSSIA
