Rush Denounces the "Moderate Myth"
Rush Limbaugh in the Wall Street Journal: Senator McCain is more liberal than Giulani or Schwarzenegger.
"During the Republican Convention, one journalist after another, one so-called political expert after another, told us that these men were given prominent roles to soften President George W. Bush's harsh, conservative image and help him appeal to the undecided and independent voters who will determine the outcome of the election." But no! The media "have it all wrong." McCain, Giulani, and S...egger are "unabashed and unashamed advocates of conservative principles and policies. In fact , none of them mentioned any of the issues that supposedly define them as moderates."
So apparently as long as you don't mention a position it doesn't exist.
Read the whole column. If you've ever wondered whether Limbaugh is a mental muscle-man whose partisanship just makes him sound dumb, this editorial has your answer (nope!).
Also in the WSJ, Mary Anastasia O'Grady is drumming up fears of a free-world vs. communist struggle in the Caribbean (China's gettin' uppity!); and the editors are praising the acquittal of longtime WSJ sweetheart Ahmed Chalabi of murder charges ("call it a victory for Iraq's fledgling rule of law").
Chalabi has been the victim of a character assassination akin to what Saddam did to his enemies. "Jockeying for power is inevitable in newly free Baghdad, but the US didn't topple Saddam so that his successors could use prosecutors to eliminate rivals the way he did."
Meanwhile, Daniel Henninger calls Democrats a kind of rudimentary species that never out-grew its adolescent self-absorption -- the "galaxy of rights discovery and self-enhancement" that was the 60's. While Democrats are dinosaurs who continue to defend the "holy ruins" of the poverty programs of the 60's (what Henninger calls the "Mother Ship"), the Republicans are a dynamic "party of ideas."
Oh, and a bunch of stuff about hysterectomies, and a little 200 word essay by Michel Kelly-Gagnon attacking the French. What else is new?
"During the Republican Convention, one journalist after another, one so-called political expert after another, told us that these men were given prominent roles to soften President George W. Bush's harsh, conservative image and help him appeal to the undecided and independent voters who will determine the outcome of the election." But no! The media "have it all wrong." McCain, Giulani, and S...egger are "unabashed and unashamed advocates of conservative principles and policies. In fact , none of them mentioned any of the issues that supposedly define them as moderates."
So apparently as long as you don't mention a position it doesn't exist.
Read the whole column. If you've ever wondered whether Limbaugh is a mental muscle-man whose partisanship just makes him sound dumb, this editorial has your answer (nope!).
Also in the WSJ, Mary Anastasia O'Grady is drumming up fears of a free-world vs. communist struggle in the Caribbean (China's gettin' uppity!); and the editors are praising the acquittal of longtime WSJ sweetheart Ahmed Chalabi of murder charges ("call it a victory for Iraq's fledgling rule of law").
Chalabi has been the victim of a character assassination akin to what Saddam did to his enemies. "Jockeying for power is inevitable in newly free Baghdad, but the US didn't topple Saddam so that his successors could use prosecutors to eliminate rivals the way he did."
Meanwhile, Daniel Henninger calls Democrats a kind of rudimentary species that never out-grew its adolescent self-absorption -- the "galaxy of rights discovery and self-enhancement" that was the 60's. While Democrats are dinosaurs who continue to defend the "holy ruins" of the poverty programs of the 60's (what Henninger calls the "Mother Ship"), the Republicans are a dynamic "party of ideas."
Oh, and a bunch of stuff about hysterectomies, and a little 200 word essay by Michel Kelly-Gagnon attacking the French. What else is new?
posted by hellisotherpeople at 1:46 PM
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