You know, I’m sick to death of the silly bickering over a radio talk show host’s choice of words. How many days now has the right wasted bickering over whether Rush ought to be more careful in his choice of……

Let´s say, just for the sake of the argument, that Limbaugh is an unsavory character. The Democrat party is connected to a galaxy of unsavory characters – some of them have been pals of Obama – but it never seems to ruin them. They shrug it off. “Oh, x is a bit over the top, but you gotta understand where he´s coming from. He means well, he´s passionate about helping people, blah blah.”

You know why? Because they have no enemies on the left. But they have useful idiots voices like Frum on the right. They don´t care about his policy ideas, they care about another stick to beat conservatives with. And that is what Frum doesn´t get. I sometimes disagree with Limbaugh, too. But I have no conservative enemies.

You’re pegging over half the country as deranged because they chose A over B?

Yep. I’m saying there is a serious disconnect when outwardly rational people can look at barry, harry, nancy, ted, chuck, etc. and say, “Those should be our national leaders.” There is something seriously wrong there (and sadly and mysteriously that includes members of my own family).

So let me get this straight, people who may even live a life based on conservative principle, who vote for politicians who openly state they would like to destroy their ability to live such a life and take away the rewards of living such a life, are in fact rational and clear minded. Got it.

peacenprosperity on March 9, 2009 at 10:10 AM

There were two available. It was one or the other. Both had a myriad of problems. You’re pegging over half the country as deranged because they chose A over B?

Using the word “deranged” to describe liberals as a whole is just silly.

For the rest of us, who actually meet people who disagree with us, the evidence is everywhere.

So let me get this straight, people who may even live a life based on conservative principle, who vote for politicians who openly state they would like to destroy their ability to live such a life and take away the rewards of living such a life, are in fact rational and clear minded. Got it.

Patterico

You do not speak for me. Grow up get some balls and then we will talk. I hope Obama fails so far and so bad that this country experiences the pain for a generation and that liberalism as a political force will be forever disowned.

Many people compare liberalism with the story of cooking a frog. Liberalsim slowly eats away freedom like the frog is slowly cook.

With Obama we have the oppurtunity that the liberals instead of keeping the temp slowly increasing will turn up the heat to a degree that the frog (us) will finally jump out of the water once and for all.

So yes I want the dow at 1,500 I want 20% unemployment, I people to equate massive unemployment and poverty with liberalism. I want that for the sake of my children and my grandchildren. I am prepared to go thru the pain and hardship of a bad economy for my children’s future to ensure their freedom.

To want Obama to succedd, to want his policies to work will while it may sound good at this time give my children nothing but tranny. No pain no gain. So buck up and hope and pray for your childrens future that Obama not only fails but fails spectacularly

unseen on March 8, 2009 at 7:47 AM

As The Internet Warrior I could not have said this better!

You did a great service to Conservatives, to the core principals, to our real resentment of The Messiah…

Thank you & again, well said!

Patterico wrote a piece covering the Rush Limbaugh and now David Frum kerfuffle on Hot Air entitled David Frum Does Not Speak for Me Any More Than Rush Limbaugh Does which puts forward some very sensible point s about allowing pundits of any stripe be …

-Aslan’s Girl

This should be interesting, no?

TheUnrepentantGeek on March 9, 2009 at 1:58 AM

In the responses to the thread you linked to TheUnrepentantGeek:

Comment by Patterico on 3/9 @ 12:24 am #

I look forward to it as well. Seriously.

And I have a feeling the Hot Air commenters will like Jeff’s message a lot better than they like mine. (I’m not meaning to damn with faint praise, although it’s not a high bar to set.)

Anyway, more speech is good. I’ll be at work when it happens, likely, but I look forward to seeing it when I get home.

Conservatives believe in the marketplace of ideas. I’m going to go link this on my blog now.

Hee Haw =)

I can’t speak for HotAir, but it should be noted that commenting registration is only open on rare occasions. If he wanted posting privileges, why hasn’t he registered in the last 3 years?

MadisonConservative on March 8, 2009 at 9:35 PM

This should be interesting, no?

I mean….let’s say Rush said what he said and then…..said this is what we need to do instead. Bam!
Instead all he has is opposition for opposition sake…looks like Rush is tryin to sabotage the only life line out there. –strangelet on March 8, 2009 at 6:10 PM

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Nonsense!
I’m tempted to concur that you do indeed present yourself here as a “moron”, as another poster has suggested. Perhaps though, you’re not quite terminally “deranged” yet — and was simply not notified of Rush’s antidote ie.(“what we need to do instead”)
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From the Wall Sreet Journal:
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123318906638926749.html#printMode
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Now, may I suggest you take your head out of your soup bowl, wipe your face, go to bed, get up early and try to read for comprehension. Lovingly, a kinder gentler conservative…
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“Let’s Roll”

I can’t speak for HotAir, but it should be noted that commenting registration is only open on rare occasions. If he wanted posting privileges, why hasn’t he registered in the last 3 years?

MadisonConservative on March 8, 2009 at 9:35 PM

Gee, but the “rare occasions” CAN’T have anything to do with it?

Jeff Goldstein has made it known at Protein Wisdom and Dan Collins has made it known here that Goldstein would like commenting login privileges here at Hot Air.

What’s the hold up?

Stephen M on March 8, 2009 at 8:17 PM

I can’t speak for HotAir, but it should be noted that commenting registration is only open on rare occasions. If he wanted posting privileges, why hasn’t he registered in the last 3 years?

The dour prime minister was a blithe spirit despite a mutinous British press corps that was whingeing about the president snubbing the prime minister. First, President Obama sent back the bust of Winston Churchill that Tony Blair lent to W.; then the White House downgraded the “special relationship” to a “special partnership.” The Rose Garden press conference where Mr. Brown was going to stand “podium-to-podium with the Messiah,” as one British scribe dryly put it, was demoted to a “press availability” in the Oval.

Then the president offered a lame present of DVDs — including “Psycho” — in return for the prime minister’s cool gift of a pen holder made from the wood of the Victorian antislave vessel H.M.S. Gannet. Critics wondered if the brusqueness was because, as Mr. Obama wrote in “Dreams From My Father,” his grandfather was beaten by British colonial troops in Kenya. The press also conjured paranoia that the president’s “Lady MacBeth” had been behind the clipped treatment because, as James Delingpole snipped in a Telegraph blog, “Her broad-brush view of history associates Brits with the wicked white global hegemony responsible for the slave trade.”

The British tabloids carped that, while Sarah Brown gave the Obama girls Top Shop dresses and necklaces, a “solipsistic” Michelle merely gave the Brown boys models of Marine One. (Step it up, Desirée).

As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America’s macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her “poor nerves.” The president tried to urge Americans to man-up and buy stocks. In a Times interview on Friday, he further advised us not to “suddenly stuff money” in our mattresses.

Wall Street is weak and jittery, rejecting the vague and laconic courtship of Timothy Geithner. G.M. is verging on bankruptcy, and A.I.G. should be. Americans are confused and fretful. President Obama admitted in his Times interview that the United States is not winning the war in Afghanistan, even as he denied — and then called back 90 minutes later to really deny — that he’s a socialist.

Let’s face it: The only bracing symbol of American strength right now is the image of Michelle Obama’s sculpted biceps. (NYT)

Any image of Michelle Obama is far from a bracing symbol of American strength; that part Maureen needs to work out, or something…

unseen on March 8, 2009 at 7:47 AM

Since your post was long, I just wanted to say what a well written post you did. I so agree.

Amen. I’m afraid it would take just that for Americans to think liberalism = evil; we have the whole academia and media to counter.

-Aslan’s Girl

Aslans Girl on March 8, 2009 at 8:37 PM

I feel the same way. Liberalism is a evil mental disorder. The most vile and evil of all.

Using the word “deranged” to describe liberals as a whole is just silly.

Maybe if you’re a pontificator that’s trying to be diplomatic, you’d choose other words. Somehow “ill-advised” just isn’t strong enough to describe an agenda of unprecedented deficit spending on leftist pork, plus tax hikes, universal health care, card check and carbon sanctions imposed on a seriously fragile economy that is shrinking at a 6 percent rate. If the economy were a puppy, this administration would be jailed for cruelty to animals.