Hi clo,
Limbaugh is shameful. But I've had his number for years, so no big surprise. He's a cheap kinda guy.
It is the capitulation to Limbaugh labelling that has killed the GOP, in my view. He and his ilk make the party toxic for the majority of people that think a little bit and who have experienced a life. And so you get the sort of candidates whom a chauvinist, anti-factual, regressive, mostly ignorant portion of the voting population wishes for. And that part of the GOP electorate is a reflection of who Rush Limbaugh is.
This isn't to say that, for instance, an argument cannot be made for limiting the size of government, depending upon circumstances. But that is a different thing from saying government is always intrinsically wicked, which is plain daft. It isn't to say that there can be no social or fiscal advantage to lowering higher rates of income tax, but the possibility of benefit obviously depends upon where they start, and if there are ill consequences of doing so in the circumstances you are in, just admit it and try to figure a solution to the problems we face based on reality. It isn't to say that having a strong military isn't a useful thing for a sovereign nation, but does a country really need to have a defense capability beyond the reach of the next 20 countries combined and does that military need always to be at war?
So the dogmas have become ridiculous, where once the argument emanating from the right of the spectrum was a wee bit more subtle, and much stronger for its subtlety.
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