"I don't consider myself an offensive guy. I'm just a harmless, lovable little fuzzball." Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh owes Michael J. Fox and the millions of Americans who suffer from an incurable disease an apology. He will not though. It's standard practice for people of his own ilk not to admit that their wrong or take resposibility for their own actions. Yet, they own the rights to personal responsiblity. Go figure.
With the stakes so high, it's understanable for one particular party to pull out all the stops in securing victory for their respective party. Yet, the G.O.P. has stepped over the line. A point of no return. Crawling into the realm of vile and despicable. Folks, I present to you, the Republican party's "Carnival of Ugly," coming to a town near you.
If you believe in the power of factual information, it'll tell you that under the leadership of a Republican controlled congress, that this country's well-being is in jeopardy.
Conservatives like Rush Limbaugh don't seem to buy that idea.
The Conservatives of this generation view "facts" as myth and their "lies" as facts.
The claim that Michael J. Fox was using his illness, to claim that he was even FAKING his illness, is absoultely without any merit.
But, this is what Conservatives need in a time of crisis.
They need to protect their sheep from reality.
And by doing that, they create artificial facts that can easily seduce Americans who have no clue on how the political process works.
It's happened before. Just ask John Kerry, Max Cleland, the Clintons, and every Liberal who is afraid of their own "Liberalism."
It won't work this time.
Congress is so screwed up from Republican rule, that I have no choice to support a Democratic party who continues to act like a kinder, cuddly version of the G.O.P.
If you seek "Compassionate Conservatives" then look no further than the Democratic party of this generation.
Conservatives have a monopoly on hypocrisy.
Folks like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Sandy Rios have smeared Michael J. Fox for allegedly using his illness for political purposes.
Let me remind the Conservatives of two words, Terri Schiavo.
Conservatives had no problem using Terri Schiavo to further their agenda. Terri Schiavo was their martyr in the fight for life campaign. Sean Hannity was the main culprit. Coaching Ms. Schiavo's nurses into saying things that could be favorable to the Conservative agenda, which believed that her husband was a soulless barbarian that only wanted her money.
Shameful.
What's even more shameful is a collective response in denouncing Rush Limbaugh's smears and subsquent mocking of Michael J. Fox's illness.
When Ann Coulter called the 9/11 widows "harpies" there was no collective outrage from the G.O.P. No comment from Tony Snow, no comment from George Bush.
Yet again, another smear job by a Conservative, and all quiet again on the Conservative front.
Conservatives claim that they will bring "honor" and "integrity" to this country. Now it seems that those two words are nothing more than brilliant marketing slogans.
Then again, everything they've done up to this point has been all about marketing. Even the faux "war on terror."
Rush Limbaugh, the Conservatives answer to Howard Stern, is a shameless prick who is the personfication of how the Conservative machine operates.
When you can't run on your awful record, smear you opponent with a sprinkle of lies.