Thanks for sharing your take David. I read Erick yesterday and today and Charlie at Bulwark this morning and i found myself wondering if i was reading about the same person's death. Hell, i used to listen to him as a bleeding heart liberal back in MN. He was entertaining and aggravating back in the early 90's. I would even call in from time to time just to argue. Then he changed.
I won't morn his death nor dance on his grave. Sorry he died; light up another cigar and catch the big C. Which is the perfect segue to my point. Accountability. It's a word that has become absolutely foreign to so many.
You can ignore it or pretend there are no consequences for your actions, but there always are; either in this world or in the next. I am a huge fan of accepting the ownership of my actions. It's easy to blame anyone and everyone for things that happen, but the reality is the one most responsible is the one you see in the reflection in your mirror.
Mr. Thornton, you are mostly correct in your observations. However, I must take issue on one thing, and that is that Rush Limbaugh never was a Cruz backer. Oh, he would say a few nice things now and again about him, but in the time frame from Trump descending the escalator in Trump Tower up until the Republican Convention, he was all about Trump. I know, because I missed very few of his shows in that time frame, and each and every show was devoted to his glowing, almost sickening praise of Donald Trump. That is where he and i parted company as to where our conservatism would take us. I am no longer a Republican thanks in large part to Rush's incessant bootlicking of Trump, and Trump ultimately garnering the Republican nomination.
Rush Limbaugh spent decades putting evil out into the world. He mocked, abused, and lied about anyone who didn't see and look exactly like he did. I am not required to mourn the passing of evil men, nor am I required pretend he wasn't what he was.
And as a passing note, nobody on this planet is more responsible for teaching the right that lying has no consequence than Rush was. For 40 years he told lies big and small, most against the most vulnerable of people.
Thanks for sharing your take David. I read Erick yesterday and today and Charlie at Bulwark this morning and i found myself wondering if i was reading about the same person's death. Hell, i used to listen to him as a bleeding heart liberal back in MN. He was entertaining and aggravating back in the early 90's. I would even call in from time to time just to argue. Then he changed.
I won't morn his death nor dance on his grave. Sorry he died; light up another cigar and catch the big C. Which is the perfect segue to my point. Accountability. It's a word that has become absolutely foreign to so many.
You can ignore it or pretend there are no consequences for your actions, but there always are; either in this world or in the next. I am a huge fan of accepting the ownership of my actions. It's easy to blame anyone and everyone for things that happen, but the reality is the one most responsible is the one you see in the reflection in your mirror.
That’s well said as well.
Mr. Thornton, you are mostly correct in your observations. However, I must take issue on one thing, and that is that Rush Limbaugh never was a Cruz backer. Oh, he would say a few nice things now and again about him, but in the time frame from Trump descending the escalator in Trump Tower up until the Republican Convention, he was all about Trump. I know, because I missed very few of his shows in that time frame, and each and every show was devoted to his glowing, almost sickening praise of Donald Trump. That is where he and i parted company as to where our conservatism would take us. I am no longer a Republican thanks in large part to Rush's incessant bootlicking of Trump, and Trump ultimately garnering the Republican nomination.
Rush Limbaugh spent decades putting evil out into the world. He mocked, abused, and lied about anyone who didn't see and look exactly like he did. I am not required to mourn the passing of evil men, nor am I required pretend he wasn't what he was.
And as a passing note, nobody on this planet is more responsible for teaching the right that lying has no consequence than Rush was. For 40 years he told lies big and small, most against the most vulnerable of people.