Sure, if your war aim is simply to mouth off, vent your spleen, show the home team how incredibly right and funny you are, and make the enemy feel really unhappy then, yes, do what Rush did. (And what I do in arguments most of the time too….)
If, on the other hand, you actually want to achieve something useful for your cause than you simply have to think more strategically. In Conservative-land, Rush’s response was funny and apt and hilariously but justifiably over-the-top. But for anyone who is not a conservative – which is at least half America, not to mention most of the rest of the world, it was pure poison.
It gave, not least, the impression that conservatives are so stuck up that they even think kids messing around with sex before marriage are at best sluts, at worst prostitutes. Now I know this isn’t exactly what Rush meant, but it’s how it sounded to liberal ears and how it’s being spun in the broader media.
Trust me, it doesn’t make conservatives look good. It makes us look like unelectable freaks.
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