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:Personally, I have no personal animosity towards Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter and their ilk because they have a right to express their views.  However, I find them distasteful and repugnant because they make their livings by practicing conservatism as if it's all about condemning and belittling those who disagree with you instead of trying to win them over on the merits of a positive argument.  Ronald Reagan is held up as the epitome of what a "true" conservative should be, and these people are nothing like him - Reagan, like William Buckley, worked at winning people over instead of running them over.

:Personally, I have no personal animosity towards Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter and their ilk because they have a right to express their views.  However, I find them distasteful and repugnant because they make their livings by practicing conservatism as if it's all about condemning and belittling those who disagree with you instead of trying to win them over on the merits of a positive argument.  Ronald Reagan is held up as the epitome of what a "true" conservative should be, and these people are nothing like him - Reagan, like William Buckley, worked at winning people over instead of running them over.

:You can call me a hypocrite if you want, but I'm not buying it.  I admit when I'm wrong, I admit when I don't have all the answers (which is usually the case), and I don't judge others for being human and therefore subject to human flaws and fallibility, because God knows I'm fallible too.  When someone like Limbaugh sits in presumptuous judgment of others, only to back off from holding himself to the same standard, ''that'' invites criticism.  An experience like his drug arrest could have led him to show more humility without compromising his other values, but he seems as self-important and judgmental as ever.  I have no need to disparage him on CP though - even the edit that started this thread was not intended to attack Limbaugh, but to report on the current events in the news as the GOP looks to re-establish itself and find new leaders, as even Fox News is [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/03/limbaugh-flexes-clout-gop/ covering] today. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 16:16, 3 March 2009 (EST)

:You can call me a hypocrite if you want, but I'm not buying it.  I admit when I'm wrong, I admit when I don't have all the answers (which is usually the case), and I don't judge others for being human and therefore subject to human flaws and fallibility, because God knows I'm fallible too.  When someone like Limbaugh sits in presumptuous judgment of others, only to back off from holding himself to the same standard, ''that'' invites criticism.  An experience like his drug arrest could have led him to show more humility without compromising his other values, but he seems as self-important and judgmental as ever.  I have no need to disparage him on CP though - even the edit that started this thread was not intended to attack Limbaugh, but to report on the current events in the news as the GOP looks to re-establish itself and find new leaders, as even Fox News is [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/03/limbaugh-flexes-clout-gop/ covering] today. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 16:16, 3 March 2009 (EST)