tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post7851631851808342024..comments2024-03-28T05:47:44.752-05:00Comments on RIFLES AT DAWN: Just Give Me ONE HOUR With El-Rushbo...Tim Morrisseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00457723301178870851noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-79677787115409689192010-08-11T11:38:04.177-05:002010-08-11T11:38:04.177-05:00Dad,
>> Yah...but like Bill Buckley, I'...Dad,<br /><br />>> Yah...but like Bill Buckley, I'm not a RandFan. <<<br /><br />Well, that's OK. I had no truck with Rand before I read her novel. Now I see that she's got something substantial to contribute to the promotion of American exceptionalism.<br /><br />>> Change is coming.....one way or the other. <br /><<<br /><br />Is that it?! Hey! You're supposed to be a big-time blogger! How 'bout somethin' with more meat on the bone, eh?<br /><br />The Town Crank<br />Neenah, WISteve Erbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05065643506800242801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-14000336705985872122010-08-10T08:36:58.652-05:002010-08-10T08:36:58.652-05:00Yah...but like Bill Buckley, I'm not a RandFan...Yah...but like Bill Buckley, I'm not a RandFan.<br /><br />Change is coming.....one way or the other.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-5021446734281268562010-08-09T21:18:02.432-05:002010-08-09T21:18:02.432-05:00Dad,
Me? Wrong?!?! Well, I suppose it could hap...Dad,<br /><br />Me? Wrong?!?! Well, I suppose it <b><i>could</i></b> happen...<br /><br />Freedom, free markets, and small government are very, very hard sells. Have you ever read, "Not yours to give", the story of Davy Crockett's conversion to a Constitutionalist? Of course you have; I don't think that you'd have missed it.<br /><br />I only mention it because to progressives it seems so archaic, outmoded, and mean-spirited. It's only <b><i>natural</i></b> for the government to help people, and who are we to deny the legitimacy of the government's mandate to provide help where it's needed.<br /><br />Of course, those that buy into the idea of government as impartial benefactor conveniently forget that government also protects big business in myriad ways. Even though our Congresscritters haul the captains of industry up before Senate panels and dress them down before national audiences seemingly every week, all that sound and fury signifies nothing. We simply have more and more of government bureaucracies and our elected encumbrances covered in big business pocket lint so that those businesses can be provided with bigger and bigger bailouts and too-big-to-fail protections.<br /><br />So while we're nannying big business we might as well nanny the rest of us, eh?<br /><br />The Town Crank<br />Neenah, WI<br /><br />I'm reading <i>Atlas Shrugged</i> for the first time. Boy, howdy! Ayn Rand sure wrote something for the ages!Steve Erbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05065643506800242801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-75263270319351822922010-08-09T10:55:02.016-05:002010-08-09T10:55:02.016-05:00I hope Crank is wrong.
And I agree:
1) Limbaugh...I hope Crank is wrong.<br /><br />And I agree:<br /><br />1) Limbaugh is one of history's greatest entertainers, and<br /><br />2) He DOES impart a spin.<br /><br />So what? Nothing wrong with a clash of ideas; it's usually the way in which solid compromises are made. <br /><br />At least you're clear-eyed about the ultra-spin of the Left (which DOES encompass the press).<br /><br />And Beck is as close to raving lunacy as anyone--except that he DID hit a gold-mine with the Progressives. There, he's right.Dad29https://www.blogger.com/profile/08554276286736923821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-73977518161555012412010-08-09T10:05:29.721-05:002010-08-09T10:05:29.721-05:00A couple things...
A few years ago I subscribed t...A couple things...<br /><br />A few years ago I subscribed to Limbaugh's web site for one reason and one reason only: the news digest. His staff collects stories from all the major news sources into one place. There are as many if not more links than Drudge without the stories about houses full of animal droppings. <br /><br />You know yourself, Colonel, that I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. You also know that Limbaugh DOES present news along with his copious commentary. I would say that the people "who think what they're doing is 'news'" are really looking for an ideologically simpatico figure to give them a reading of the news that doesn't make them gag. Limbaugh, for all of his manifest faults, gives people a counterpoint to the packaged, focus-grouped, and stylized news broadcasts.<br /><br />Personally, I like Dennis Miller more than Limbaugh. I was disappointed when WOSH swapped Miller's show for Glenn Beck between 9:00am and 11:00am. They moved Miller to 6:00-9:00pm, but I'm rarely in the car alone at that time (my wife can't tolerate talk shows).<br /><br />I've tried listening to Beck, but I've found that he makes far less sense live than he does in print (...and all that cross-talk with his sidekicks just ain't that entertaining). His book, "Arguing with Idiots" has one of the best defenses of the 2nd Amendment I've ever seen.<br /><br />I was talking with an old friend the other day who's a staunch conservative. He was shaking his head over Obama and over "that idiot" George W. Bush. We came to the conclusion that the progressive movement will prevail because it's easier to sell nationalized health care than it is to support the independence of doctors and hospitals; it's easier to sell the idea of giving control of GM to the unions than it is to let it go bankrupt; it's easier to sell regulation of business than it is to sell the idea of less regulation and a free market. The progressives that punch through national health insurance legislation and banking reform and a moratorium on deep water oil drilling, well, they may take a beating at the polls this November, but the Republicans that replace them will sure as shootin' fumble the ball again; and the next wave of Democrats can pick it up in four or eight years and push it further downfield towards the nanny state goal.<br /><br />And Rush Limbaugh will be powerless to stop it.<br /><br />The Town Crank<br />Neenah, WISteve Erbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05065643506800242801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-573188106264061392.post-45299767254908208822010-08-09T07:41:35.948-05:002010-08-09T07:41:35.948-05:00I'd give you one hour with him. Or maybe two. ...I'd give you one hour with him. Or maybe two. That is a show I'd listen to!Lunch Box Momhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08595984115469570689noreply@blogger.com