Quote of the day
posted at 8:45 pm on March 7, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Notice that Limbaugh did not say: ‘I hope the administration’s liberal plans fail.’ Or (better): ‘I know the administration’s liberal plans will fail.’ Or (best): ‘I fear that this administration’s liberal plans will fail, as liberal plans usually do.’ If it had been phrased that way, nobody could have used Limbaugh’s words to misrepresent conservatives as clueless, indifferent or gleeful in the face of the most painful economic crisis in a generation. But then, if it had been phrased that way, nobody would have quoted his words at all—and as Limbaugh himself said, being ‘headlined’ was the point of the exercise. If it had been phrased that way, Limbaugh’s face would not now be adorning the covers of magazines. He phrased his hope in a way that drew maximum attention to himself, offered maximum benefit to the administration and did maximum harm to the party he claims to support…
In the days since I stumbled into this controversy, I’ve received a great deal of e-mail. (Most of it on days when Levin or Hannity or Hugh Hewitt or Limbaugh himself has had something especially disobliging to say about me.) Most of these e-mails say some version of the same thing: if you don’t agree with Rush, quit calling yourself a conservative and get out of the Republican Party. There’s the perfect culmination of the outlook Rush Limbaugh has taught his fans and followers: we want to transform the party of Lincoln, Eisenhower and Reagan into a party of unanimous dittoheads—and we don’t care how much the party has to shrink to do it. That’s not the language of politics. It’s the language of a cult.”
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So imagine the GOP without someone like Rush who can actually articulate.
Total disarray. As it is, Rush actually thinks about what is said, plays opposition clips all day, parries the absurd premises of those espousing outright deception, and the RINO’s, Blue Bloods, elites, moderates, and remaining conservatives are still flailing.
He is extremely dangerous to the left. He distills and exposes the left in one sentence. The rest of the GOP can’t speak in clear sentences. We are in debt up to our eyeballs, the FED seems to have no other solution than to advance one loan or bailout solution after another, with no transparency, unwillingness to state banks getting it, and all in an enormous conflict of interest in benefiting their own central bankers.
The GOP says nothing about any of this, and instead wants to debate health care, energy, and education. ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Why are we evening allowing a discussing on this when the economy crumbles around us. It is total deception to try to tie these issues to any of this.
Starlink on March 7, 2009 at 11:56 PM
“more carefully phrased” according to whom, and for what purpose?
From what I’ve seen, you haven’t shown much support for Rush being himself. You come off like you want to run his life for him. You don’t like his sense of humor very much, and you think he is too angry. Well, realize, that’s what you believe about him. Why would you want Rush to live to please other people, like you for example, anyways?
Bizarro No. 1 on March 7, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Ha. A cult? That’s funny, though an inevitable charge. Lots of Rush’s listeners disagree with him from time to time, as he himself noted last week wrt Dubai Ports deal.
But hey, it fits the theme! Obama gets elected and everybody is looking for the next great cult leader. Of course, Rush has been around a long time before Obama, but lets not let that get in the way of a good narrative :)
Spirit of 1776 on March 7, 2009 at 11:56 PM
Yes! You can be a conservative without agreeing with me or AP or Rush 100% of the time.
AP & I are as far apart as you can get theologically, but I wouldn’t dream of calling him a liberal.
We’ve gotta stop labeling disagreement as liberalism.
jgapinoy on March 7, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Can’t even begin to say how sick i am of Frum. Hey Dave? You and your buddies are the ones trying to shrink the party by kicking out social conservatives. And Dave? You’re the biggest attention whore around these days and you’re getting that attention by constantly attacking Republicans, you’re not fooling anyone.
clearbluesky on March 7, 2009 at 11:57 PM
Heh. Steyn has had legal troubles over his non-abrasive, factual and persuasive work.
The point: People looking to be offended will find a way. Whether they are Frum, or CAIR, etc.
Spirit of 1776 on March 7, 2009 at 11:58 PM
There’s nothing left wing about thinking Rush is a blowhard who screws the pooch on a regular basis and there’s nothing left wing about being an atheist. I don’t see him as being significantly to the left of Michelle, and I think you should reconsider whether your conceptualization of rightist orthodoxy is based on rightist principles or fashion issues.
galenrox on March 7, 2009 at 11:58 PM
If the article is subtitled “A conservative’s lament”, why is Frum listed as the author??
Gohawgs on March 7, 2009 at 11:52 PM
Because we conservatives lament that Frum has not been brutally attacked by a raging javelina yet.
TexasJew on March 7, 2009 at 11:59 PM
Winning converts to conservatism.
I’m just offering some advice. And I think he can be hilarious.
jgapinoy on March 7, 2009 at 11:59 PM
TexasJew,
Invite him on down to south Texas, then!
Gohawgs on March 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Frum and his cohort slagged on McCain/Palin from the left, and Limbaugh and Malkin slagged on them from the right.
So now we have President Needsanap. I hope they are all happy. I most certainly am not.
funky chicken on March 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM
The great undecided vote in the US can’t be compared to the touchy, nasty Islamofascists in Canada.
jgapinoy on March 8, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Or to get us to eat our own.
Spirit of 1776 on March 8, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Together we stand, divided we fall, and, Join or die. Could have been phrased in a more civilized manner as well, but they wouldn’t have had the same impact.
FloatingRock on March 8, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Rush is the most sucessfull talk radio host ever, I seriously doubt he needs any advice on how to suceed.
doriangrey on March 8, 2009 at 12:01 AM
LOL!
=Yawn=
Me, too.
jgapinoy on March 8, 2009 at 12:02 AM
The strategy of pretend grievance is the same. So, yes it absolutely can.
Spirit of 1776 on March 8, 2009 at 12:02 AM
If we are stupid enough to do that then we deserve what we get.
doriangrey on March 8, 2009 at 12:03 AM
He says his main goal is to build an audience, & for that he needs no advice.
If he wants to persuade more folks to come to our side, he needs advice.
jgapinoy on March 8, 2009 at 12:03 AM
Ditto! :)
sheebe on March 8, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Goign for another oddball award ?
William Amos on March 8, 2009 at 12:04 AM
You have but one life, let it be gay
Shouldn’t one do as one’s told to?
No, let the moment enfold you
Grab up every golden chance
Give this world a sweeping glance
Let it set your soul a-dancing night and day
Live, here’s to life, let us all be gay
PercyB on March 8, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Words calling men to war are a little different than words persuading folks to adopt your political philosophy.
jgapinoy on March 8, 2009 at 12:04 AM
Keep it happy
Keep it classy
Keep it gay!
funky chicken on March 8, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Probably not, the first step to converting liberals into conservatives, is to get them to hear the truth. Truth doesnt care if you like it, it is what it is.
doriangrey on March 8, 2009 at 12:05 AM
Well, we’re there. The question remains, what will be on the other side? Fred said that this cycle was a fight over the soul of the Republican party. Considering what has transpired, I think he is right. But the battle, obviously, isn’t over.
Spirit of 1776 on March 8, 2009 at 12:06 AM
TexasJew,
Invite him on down to south Texas, then!
Gohawgs on March 8, 2009 at 12:00 AM
Geraldo is in my town right now, on the bridge, doing a piece on the border violence (2000 dead in the last year just over the river in Juarez). Frum should go over to the Anapra colonia and get all conservatively compassionate with some of the homies over there over the border fence we’re trying to build.
They’ll find him plugging up a bunghole in the desert sometime before next Christmas.
TexasJew on March 8, 2009 at 12:07 AM
But this is the point; what the idiot messiah (and his lunatic gang in Congress) want to do to this country will kill it, literally. The situation is that serious. This is not the normal Dem versus GOP or left versus right. This is marxism and the destruction of the US versus her preservation.
progressoverpeace on March 8, 2009 at 12:07 AM
Yes; however, the argument put forth should have zero holes in its logic and leave no room for rebuttal.
Upstater85 on March 8, 2009 at 12:08 AM
People who listen to Rush aren’t going to be turned off by his phrase. The people that don’t listen to Rush aren’t going to be exposed to the “words persuading folks to adopt” his philosophy, because they will never hear them.
So they hear what Rush says, clipped by the media, and obviously more people tune in. Then he has a chance to persuade them.
Spirit of 1776 on March 8, 2009 at 12:08 AM
I agree, but you’ve got 50 million “low-info” undecided voters who care more about who’ll win American Idol.
jgapinoy on March 8, 2009 at 12:08 AM
So basically, we’re all still claiming to know the credentials that make one “conservative” based solely on individual policy positions, or the recognition of certain conservative pundits?
And Allah, to your earlier point of Frum being a liberal agent, look how McClellan turned out. Maybe not a liberal agent, but he certainly turned a corner.
MadisonConservative on March 8, 2009 at 12:09 AM
I think you’re right on this. Our coalition broke down, some segments got too much power so other segments defected, and so now it’s about establishing a new coalition which means there’s a lot of zero-sum stuff between the different segments, and part of that’s gonna meaning fighting it out amongst ourselves.
galenrox on March 8, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Please do remember, liberals/socialists/communists/treasonous bastards do like to pretend to be conservatives. They like to pretend to be offering up genuine disent or constructive critisim.
doriangrey on March 8, 2009 at 12:09 AM
I would add: If the dollar goes, it’s very likely all over for the US. The Precedent’s plans will kill the dollar. Dead. After that, it’s anyone’s guess what emerges, but those in power now are the raving lunatics of marxism.
progressoverpeace on March 8, 2009 at 12:09 AM
Mr. Open Borders is in town? How exciting…Check his papers.
Gohawgs on March 8, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Bingo.
Patton, for example, was known for not being especially found of defensive holding actions.
MB4 on March 8, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Coincidentally, Frum is a four letter word.
Buy Danish on March 8, 2009 at 12:10 AM
Frum keeps harping it is social conservatism that is killing the party when Prop 8 just went down in a state Obama cruised in. The second thing is catering the conservative message to younger voters who are always hostile to the Republican Party. Arguing we need this demographic to favor us is like the democrats arguing they need the south. They don’t NEED it they would like it but it is probably the last demographic that will fall to them before many others. He does this trick with other demographics to make his point. To get back to his gay marriage example. If you are a young voter worried about gay marriage over the economy and health care and terrorism, etc. then you aren’t a viable Republican voter. Frum lays out this false premise every time that positions that voters report they disagree with the Republican Party about are swing issues for moderate Obama voters. No “moderate” is going to sell his soul on bread and butter issues to get something hardly beneficial like gay marriage. Gay marriage is a trophy that gays want to fight for but it isn’t a trophy others want to sacrifice for. I could go on but this guy is putz. The funny thing is that Levin said he will go off now and write and article about me after he had Frum on his show and here it is.
Conan on March 8, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Here’s Mark Levin roasting Frum. Listening to Frum speak, I thought I was listening to a Liberal.
RepubChica on March 8, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Thanks for the help, MB4. Much appreciated.
progressoverpeace on March 8, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Yeah, Frum’s a brilliant guy, but big-government conservatism strikes me as being a contradiction in terms.
galenrox on March 8, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Of course, but so does AP and he’s sort of conservative (I think he’s more libertarian). What criticism of his has been constructive? Little to none. (I like AP) but it’s Palin has a cult, Rush has a cult. That’s fear of a movement.
I agree. I think the coalition is going to change.
Spirit of 1776 on March 8, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Thank you. I wish I could have written it that well, so I’ll just re-post it for emphasis.
Skandia Recluse on March 8, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Limbaugh’s been underestimated and vilified before, and that will continue.
As long as there’s a leadership vacuum in the GOP…as long as the leadership is more concerned with cultivating a nice image and grabbing whatever parts of a balkanized electorate they can…Limbaugh’s going to be front and center.
ddrintn on March 8, 2009 at 12:14 AM
Can you imagine how loud the sound of liberal heads exploding would be if a Rush for President movement were to go viral???
doriangrey on March 8, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Oh, and I don’t think Frum is a liberal secret agent or anything, I just think he’s a liberal. I base that assessment on his enthusiasm for big government solutions to health care and emissions control, among other things. He also appears to be an open borders guy, and is probably a fan of globalism too.
Here’s a problem that I can’t figure out: there are lots of folks who oppose illegal immigration because it collapses wages for blue collar Americans but who support corporations when they move their factories overseas, even though that has the same effect.
funky chicken on March 8, 2009 at 12:16 AM
It will never happen. It’s Christmas time 24/7/365 now, and Obama is Santa Claus. Much of America’s inhabitants aren’t even true-blue Americans anymore. By 2023, the majority of the inhabitants of America will not even be ‘Americans’ period. They are very recently from other countries with other cultures and they have brought their way of life, their level of morals (or lack thereof), and their way of doing things with them. They’re here to fulfill their ‘American Dream’ and by god they’re going to get it, even if the Democrats have to give it to them on a silver platter. His entire campaign and his entire Presidency so far has shunned the hard working money makers who drive this country’s economy.
Obama is the patron Saint of the lazy and so-called “disenfanchised”. Everyone knew and knows he is a Socialist and everyone who voted for him dug down deep to bring that inner Socialist to the surface to make that vote. For others, it was as natural as donning their Che shirt and meeting their other lazy unemployed friends at the WIC store, foodstamps in hand.
Obama will soon lead them to the promised land with little or no effort on their own part … all on the backs of those greedy uncaring bastard Americans; intelligent hard working tax payers earning far too much money to benefit from his windfall giveaway of money and free healthcare and housing and everything else that you can have for free by simply staying uneducated and under employed.
Why would the majority vote against that?
SilverStar830 on March 8, 2009 at 12:16 AM
How does Frum look himself in the mirror? Does he not see that he is just a stooge for the left-wing media? Does he think they would put him on the cover of Newsweek if he supported Rush?
commodore on March 8, 2009 at 12:16 AM
Because that Promised Land is fantasy.
ddrintn on March 8, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Frum is a four letter word.
2Tru2Tru on March 8, 2009 at 12:18 AM
No disagreement there. I think conservatives as a whole need to start identifying their ideology not by particular issues, but first by basic concepts on how government should operate. We get easily swept away in social arguments, and even economic approaches. However, it all comes down to smaller government. That trumps everything on this side of the fence. It implies independence, self-reliance, and people taking responsibility for their problems rather than the government dealing with them. Damn near all issues, social or fiscal, can usually be disseminated based solely on this approach.
MadisonConservative on March 8, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Yea, I never could understand how liberals can be pro abortion and against the death penalty either.
doriangrey on March 8, 2009 at 12:18 AM
Forgive the Godwin’s Law example here, but by that reasoning a Jew on talk radio should have said in 1933, I hope Hitler succeeds, but there’s no chance that he will. Fascism always lead to tyranny. But I’m pulling for him.
What you are asking of Rush is that he should have phrased things in a politically correct way. But why? This is Rush. He is not a politician. He does provocative talk radio. You are advising him as if he were running for an election.
keep the change on March 8, 2009 at 12:18 AM
That sir is treason…. Off to the reeducation camp with you…. ;p
doriangrey on March 8, 2009 at 12:20 AM
That’s well stated.
Spirit of 1776 on March 8, 2009 at 12:21 AM
I don’t know about that. The main opposition to illegal migration is that they have no right to be here, regardless of what they do once they’re here or what the effects are. This is our country, not theirs. It’s a matter of national sovereignty, not wages. Those who oppose illegals because of wage issues usually come from the left (unions). But the left never has consistent theories, since much of their ideology is emotionally-driven. Some on the right might make the wage argument, as an addition, but I don’t think that is the driving reason for very many.
progressoverpeace on March 8, 2009 at 12:22 AM
Buy more ammo. Practice regularly at a range. Be ready.
bill30097 on March 8, 2009 at 12:23 AM
On the fear of a movement, I think there’s merit to that. It’s a fear of populist conservatism, which is what you get when personality is the most valued. I mean with Palin, she gives a great speech, she’s got a great record in terms of orthodoxy, but the support for her is a lot of the “She sees how I see, she feels how I feel” and less “She has the best understanding of the economy and has the best idea of the specific things that need to be done to fix it” or “she has the best understanding of foreign policy and would do the best job in managing our foreign relations”.
I’m afraid of that. Ideally we wouldn’t have to choose between ability and personality, but when we do I’d feel a lot safer if the emphasis was placed on ability.
And on the libertarian thing, real libertarians (who aren’t anarcho-capitalists or civil libertarians) see libertarianism and conservatism as being one in the same. The coalition has to change, and I hope it moves in a more libertarian direction (although since Bush doubled the size of the federal government, it’d be really hard for it to not move in somewhat of a more libertarian direction).
galenrox on March 8, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Frum is a four letter word.
2Tru2Tru on March 8, 2009 at 12:18 AM
I don’t know what that means, exactly, but an anagram for ‘Rush Limbaugh’ is “Grim Bush Haul”, which is kind of a good description of the last 4 years for us conservatives.
TexasJew on March 8, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Shhhh or you’ll ruin the outrage.
geckomon on March 8, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Isn’t amazing that Rush has a thread devoted to him every day? Harmless little fuzzball.
technopeasant on March 8, 2009 at 12:23 AM
Conan on March 8, 2009 at 12:11 AM
The smartest thing would be for the GOP to stand for the rights of individual citizens to vote on divisive social/moral issues in their individual states. If you look at 2008, gay marriage initiatives failed but abortion bans failed also.
Trying to force citizens to adopt a particular stance on bedroom/medical type issues is a loser, IMHO. That goes both ways….Obama’s gonna try to force all American citizens into a one-size-fits-all, you-better-stay-healthy medical plan, and Americans aren’t going to like it once they have to be part of it and start hearing that they can’t get the medical care they want.
It’s hard to sell the idea that the GOP is for freedom of choice when one marqee issue is abortion, especially when most Americans are moderately pro-choice, meaning that they just don’t want politicians telling them what to do.
funky chicken on March 8, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Rush has doubled his audience in a week from 14m to 25m. That must be some sort of record.
technopeasant on March 8, 2009 at 12:24 AM
No, only the context is different. They’re both rallying calls.
FloatingRock on March 8, 2009 at 12:24 AM
You were
clnurnberg on March 8, 2009 at 12:25 AM
Do you happen to have a link handy?
FloatingRock on March 8, 2009 at 12:26 AM
Fantasy?
What the hell do you think he’s trying to do as we speak?
/aye carumba!
SilverStar830 on March 8, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Here’s Mark Levin roasting Frum. Listening to Frum speak, I thought I was listening to a Liberal.
RepubChica on March 8, 2009 at 12:11 AM
Actually, I thought that I was listening to a hysteric 911 emergency call.
From Frum.
TexasJew on March 8, 2009 at 12:27 AM
Funny how Michael Steele seems more jealous of Rush being a better entertainer than Rush is jealous of Steele being a better party leader.
Steele should go into showbiz rather than politics.
William Amos on March 8, 2009 at 12:28 AM
You were doing exactly that! It is another part of the Alinsky strategy to infiltrate existing institutions. No one is buying it this time around though. It is so transparent that it is laughable.
PrincipledPilgrim on March 8, 2009 at 12:28 AM
Palin has lots of ability, especially when it comes to balancing a budget and handling energy and international relations. I still can’t understand why her obvious competence in governing an enormous and strategically important state didn’t shine. So she doesn’t have a silver tongue. So what?
Way too many conservatives are pining for Ronald Reagan, and that’s another thing that really hurts the GOP.
funky chicken on March 8, 2009 at 12:29 AM
There’s been times I’ve disagreed with Rush and even questioned his facts. However, one thing I have not seen/heard Rush do is attack someone, anyone, without being attacked first.
If I were Rush, I’d say this is the best publicity money can’t buy.
Kini on March 8, 2009 at 12:29 AM
I agree completely. It’s inherent that there will be the internal debates of influence and the external conflicts on the advancement which side, and when we focus too much on the internal battles they all become moot because it doesn’t matter who gets the most of our no influence. If we got to a point where we realize what unites us is more than what divides us we could really move forward, but that may be a ways off because those core principles suffered a lot under Bush.
galenrox on March 8, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Sure, here’s a link.
Spirit of 1776 on March 8, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Eat his waffles???? ;p
doriangrey on March 8, 2009 at 12:31 AM
We will hold on, we will get through
We will not abandon the Red and White and Blue
I don’t know how I don’t know when
But we will see our home reborn again
Hold on til then, oh wait and see!
Someday again we will be free!
PercyB on March 8, 2009 at 12:33 AM
Human rights are not negotiable in freedom of choice. The GOP was founded to end slavery, which was another example of a group that was not treated as human. There is already a party which embraces death at the beginning of life and the end of life – the democrat party.
Vashta.Nerada on March 8, 2009 at 12:35 AM
Death and Taxes the two things everyone has to face and every democrat worships.
William Amos on March 8, 2009 at 12:36 AM
Well in fairness you’re talking to a guy who pines for Gerald Ford, I definitely put substance over style. Balancing the Alaska budget and taking on the federal bureaucracy and cutting our spending in the massive ways we need strike me as two different things, as are the necessary foreign policy experience necessary to negotiate a deal with a Canadian construction firm and managing our complex security and financial relationships with the rest of the world.
I don’t think she’s as incapable as she gets portrayed as being, and her success as governor of Alaska is a lot more significant than she gets credit for, but I don’t think that she’s the most able or really anywhere close.
galenrox on March 8, 2009 at 12:38 AM
DAVID FRUM = LARGELY UNKNOWN AND IRRELEVANT (EXCEPT TO ANTI-CHRIST TWITS LIKE ALLAHPUNDIT)
So, why the Hell is Allahpundit even quoting this doofus? I mean, I have read Frum’s stuff and heard him speak AND I AM NOT AT ALL IMPRESSED BY HIM!
FYI – NEWSWEEK’s current issue out has ARABIC WRITING on the cover and an article about “living with radical Muslims”.
I will be burning that issue of NEWSWEEK (more like NEWSWEAK) and putting video of it online for others to enjoy.
TheMightyQuinn on March 8, 2009 at 12:40 AM
Thanks.
FloatingRock on March 8, 2009 at 12:40 AM
I think Sarah is a very natural speaker it is just the MSM kept complete control of any interveiws she gave and so chopped up her replies to make her sound bad.
The problem during the campaign was the McCain’s people tried to keep too tight a control over her. Then turned on her when McCain himself started to flounder.
William Amos on March 8, 2009 at 12:41 AM
Would if I could find it. Empty shelves at every Wal-Mart for 50 miles. Last night I cleaned out Gander Mountain of Winchester white boxes.
MadisonConservative on March 8, 2009 at 12:42 AM
Ah! AP’s back. Now I understand the fb comments I’ve been seeing.
Connie on March 8, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Oh, from the debate. Yep, Fred was right, alright.
FloatingRock on March 8, 2009 at 12:44 AM
ROTFLMAO… Yes, guns and ammo are the one part of the economy Obama has stimulated even if unintentionally.
doriangrey on March 8, 2009 at 12:44 AM
Ah the Straw Man! A favorite of the Sapwolf. I usually use it on our leftist hordes.
Usually.
Sapwolf on March 8, 2009 at 12:46 AM
SERIOUSLY FOLKS!
Who gives a rat’s ass about what the Frumster says about the GOP or Conservatism in general (or specificly) other than anti-Christ/atheist Libertarians?
TheMightyQuinn on March 8, 2009 at 12:47 AM
Yeah. I heard him say it on the radio a couple times too.
Spirit of 1776 on March 8, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Personally I blame the RNC, everyone was put into a box that none of them could fit in. The strength of the ticket was the ability to talk straight, and neither McCain or Palin were talking straight in the campaign.
galenrox on March 8, 2009 at 12:48 AM
This many posts to conclude that Frum is a moderate at best?
Man, we at HA need to get a refresher course or something.
Sapwolf on March 8, 2009 at 12:48 AM
About the same number of people who actually think capitalizing entire starting sentences makes your post worth a damn.
MadisonConservative on March 8, 2009 at 12:50 AM
+1
galenrox on March 8, 2009 at 12:52 AM
I wouldn’t know as I don’t listen to talk radio, but from what I’ve heard he pretty much thinks like me.
Connie on March 8, 2009 at 12:52 AM
Tying the currency to something physical, be it gold or otherwise, is the only way to avert hyperinflation.
angryed on March 8, 2009 at 12:53 AM
Gold, silver, zinc, trees….whatever. As long as it is something that you can physically point to and say we have X amount of these and therefore that is worth Y amount of dollars.
angryed on March 8, 2009 at 12:55 AM
I don’t believe I mentioned Rush or Allah’s atheist religion. Though Allah’s point about conservative thought on the economy being like religion, as if there is no evidence that conservative principles work is curious.
Since you don’t know what my conceptualization of rightist orthodoxy is, why do you think a should reconsider them.
My point is if Allah is a Frumper and he seems to be, then in the future I’m going to consider just disregarding his postings and just read Ed’s.
Kjeil on March 8, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Allah’s mad that Rush basically pwn3d him with his Hot Air shout out.
Brains on March 8, 2009 at 12:56 AM
Liked the post AP and the Frum comment from the link:
Limbaugh is kryptonite
Exit Question: Is it safe to assume that AP may really be Clark Kent?
disillusioned on March 8, 2009 at 12:57 AM
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