From: larry@peak.psl.nmsu.edu (Evil Engineer doin' it the Cowboy Way)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Rush in the National Review
Date: 27 Sep 92 20:12:45 GMT
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Organization: New Mexico State University, MetaPhysical Science Laboratory

In article <Bv5JDD.KKC@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> aaiken@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Andrew C. Aiken) writes:
   >In article <Bv4ywK.L77@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, aaiken@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Andrew C. Aiken) writes:
   >> 
   >> 	Rush has an article in the latest (Oct. 5) issue of National 
   >> Review.  It is entitled, "Turn the Voters Loose," and it is written as
   >> a part of a set of three essays on how Bush can still win this fall.
   >> Rush advises the president that he can still win if
   >> 
   >> 	1) he exposes Clinton/Gore as liberals
   >> 	   (liberals don't win the presidency)

   >1) Clinton/Gore are moderates (even George Will admits that).

	   But this is a statement of opinion (yours and George Will's),
   not a statement of fact.  The terms "left", "moderate", and "right" are
   certainly relative, and probably meaningless.

So true. When you are far enough to the right, moderates are leftists.
That's my major bitch with Rush, the Republican party, and many so-called
"conservatives" posting to this newsgroup: lack of moderate viewpoints.

Everything is simple black and white to Rush and his herd of Dittobrains;
all Republicans are good, all Demos are bad, all conservatives are good,
all liberals are evil, and anyone not 100% for Rush is the enemy. No
middle ground is tolerated.

   >> He makes minor points as well, but this is the gist of it.  Pick
   >> up a copy - there are several other interesting articles in the issue.

   >The gist is that Bush is a failure and does not deserve another 4 years.

	   Therefore, Clinton deserves four years?  Clinton is not equivalent
   to the contrary of Bush.  Why endorse any of these fools?  As I have stated
   before, I shall exercise my prerogative and not vote for President.  Let

Sure.. well, there is always Perot.. (if you're going to throw your vote away).
Might as well REALLY waste it!

   anyone who actually believes that a politician can make his life better
   maintain this illusion at his own risk.  Though the principles upon which
   this country was founded are noble, they have not been heeded, just as
   Benjamin Franklin feared.  Modern Americans really do deserve the brutality

Funny you mention Benjamin Franklin. A *real* character, who liked to run
around bare assed naked [in Paris], and did all sorts of "naughty" things
with the ladies. Inarguably a great man, I wonder how he would stand up to
the modern politics of the bible thumping, self-righteous, puritanical
Right? Ben would probably be out campaigning for Jerry Brown if he were
around today. And, unlike Clinton, Ben would definitely know how to inhale.

   and hardship that they have prepared for themselves, but future generations
   don't.  I have resigned myself to the likelihood that there will be no
   nation, no small corner of this Earth, where there will not be a small
   man with a ledger-book, waiting to transcribe the private facts of my 
   life.  Bureaucracy is metastatizing, and soon these small men will be 
   clogging our oceans and jungles.  

They already are. They're called *management* in most corners, and a large
part of what's wrong with the world nowadays. It's all part of Me Now, and
the corporate grab. In a few years, the small businessman will be a rare
critter indeed. (No matter that 2/3 of the non-government jobs are
supplied by small business..)

   Such a melancholy age it is becoming, one in which everything of 
   value must be secreted. It is this way that a great people fall.   It seems
   so unalarming and natural. The people demand tyrants: they shall have them.

Tyrrants? The ones I'm worried about are the Fambly Values crowd, who keep
insisting that we are a Christian nation, instead of a nation with true 
religious freedom.

   Andrew Aiken