From: pearsodc@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (if God's your father then call home!)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Free at last!!
Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:48:56 GMT
Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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francis deck writes:
>We are free at last from an executive branch which believes
>that it is above the law, and that its purpose is to enrich
>private individuals.  At least I hope that will turn out to
>be the case.  

keep hopin'.

can you say "ron brown?"  can you say "zoe baird?"  can you say "william
christopher?"  these people subscribe to the same ol' boy philospophy that has
corrupted washington for generations, and will continue to do so as long as
liberal democrats run congress (which is another bastion of people who 
believe they're above the law that you ever so convienently forgot to mention).

true change will come when the party that's been in charge the past 40 years is
booted.  that ain't the republicans i'm talkin' about either, folks.

>               We're free from a guy who calls himself a
>conservative, but who has taken initiatives on any number
>of occasions to increase the size and power of his own
>branch of government.  

if you're talking about dear old george, then i will concur.  i never have been 
a george bush fan, i think he's a member of the republican country club that's
been the closest thing to a loyal opposition we've had over the past twelve 
years.  reagan wasn't bad, but he wasn't the saint rush claims him to be, and
i'm convinced george is a closet liberal who could never come out and admit it
without losing what little support he had within the republican camp. 

you're right, tho.  decreasing government waste was never first on george's
agenda.  i voted for him, tho, just because i'm scared to death of clinton.
he doesn't have the religious right "on his side" to keep him straight...

>                        We are free from someone who caters
>to the right wing, e.g. Rush Limbaugh and the TV preachers.

boy, you can dream, can't you?  8-)

rush ain't going away.  the next four years will only make him stronger because
he's the only straight-talker in the lot of the "dominant media culture" right
now, which makes him credible even when he stretches the truth.  he'll be
challenging jay leno by year's end and up to 20 million listeners on the radio.

as for the tv preachers (and speaking as an evangelical Christian myself), i
think you'll watch the influence of pat robertson and his cronies diminish over
the next four years as the "religious right" (the title we've grudgingly taken
from the "dominant media culture", the title they've grudingly taken from us)
starts to see that more and more the major guys like robertson, falwell, et.al.
are starting to give money more and more importance and God less and less.
money will never take the place of faith and ministry and the evangelicals 
(contrary to how the media likes to picture us) aren't dummies.  i think you'll
see those major personalities who keep God's call ahead of their own - and right
now i'm afraid they only number two, billy graham and james dobson - rise to
prominence in the ministry front, and they will likely stay smart and stay the
heck out of politics.  robertson and falwell are fast losing my support as
political figures.

the moral of the story will turn out to be this:  don't be so quick to call
this an era of change.  four years from now you're going to be just as fed up
with washington as you were when you went to the polls in november, and you're
going to want change and not the same old rhetoric the clinton administration
is shoveling out.  that is why you will vote kemp(/bennett?) in 1996.

mark my words.  i don't claim to be right often, but i think i am this time.

>f.deck
>
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