A speech LONG overdue
The CPAC masterpiece by Rush Limbaugh (11 parts~1 hour+) shows conservatives how they must speak if they are to win.
posted by Davout at 5:19 PM
Sunday, March 01, 2009
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5 Comments:
Yes this speech is great. Very logical and designed to appeal to intellect and common sense. He has, however, gone against his principles in the past such as support for McCain and Bush.
He had previously always disparaged McCain, and rightly so, but then supported him in the general instead of admitting the two major parties offered no choice - this big government liberal or that one. And he didn't properly take Bush to task for many very bad policy decisions that were clearly not based on the underlying concepts of small government and fiscal responsibility.
Overall I agree with much of what he says but how could he sell out his principles in support of these two boneheads? George Bush pretty much destroyed the conservative cause in the US as Limbaugh stood by!
Limbaugh brought up the important fact (in part 5) that many women lean on the crutch of welfare to kick men out of the house.
Most of the conservative commentariat doesn't have the balls to say that.
Michael Steele justifiably got steamrolled when he called Rush 'just an entertainer'.
Limbaugh is one of these "State is the root problem of everything" reductionist conservatards.
Actually, the whole thing is far more complicated than the likes of Limbaugh suggests.
They are a huge amount of dynamics at stake, and you cannot just lay all the blame at the hands of "the State".
This "Small Government" vs. "Big Government" dichotomy is total BS. I mean, who is to judge "Small" and "Big"? A Government is a Government, I am afraid.
Another falsity Limbaugh espouses is that only ugly women are feminist. Wrong again, Establishment conservatard. Beautiful and average looking women can be feminists, just as much as ugly ones. Sexually attractive women can be feminists, as the unattractive ones.
Limbaugh prefers to ignore all this though, and in doing so he avoids addressing the real fundamentals.
MRN,
Lewt me preface this by saying that I am not a Limbaugh acolyte. I don't much care for his buffoonery on a variety of other occasions.
That being said, a very large amount of the problem is due to the state interfering in the lives of people, mostly men, via taxation:
Consider, for example, that daycare, maternity leave and 'flex time' would be completely unworkable without male taxpayer money. Without these programs, most women would not be able to live the illusion that they are 'doing it all'.
I don't believe Limbaugh ever said all feminists were ugly. However he did stereotype feminists as generally being ugly.
Logically, there is some validity to his argument: an ugly woman is less likely to find a husband to pay her bills and thus more likely to push herself into the workforce.
Once in the workforce, the ugly woman has to rationalize her existence therein as having come about for reasons beyond her looks and thus arose the illogic of feminism (the kneejerk assumption that men and women are equal).
"Small Government" will not solve Feminist Welfare/Alimony/etc.
Only by deligitimising and destablising Feminism will these systems be removed.
Feminists must be pointed out as The Enemy, not the State, which is in reality just being caught in the crossfire.
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