George Rebane
The subject of this post is the candyass response of Republican politicians to the Limbaugh/Fluke imbroglio.
On ‘The Sad Tale of Sandra Fluke’ and extensive comment stream continues to (finally) air the destructive twists and turns of Obamacare that once more revealed the Left’s intentions on the breadth of entitlements subsidizing personal recreation, and their intentions on the constraint of conservative speech. The former is part of their long promoted socialism for America, but the latter is a classic illustration and application of their asymmetrical logic on discourse in the public square.
The asymmetry between what progressive pundits can say and how it is received in the lamestream (and their sheeple audiences), and what a conservative can say is a matter of record. It is a long and detailed historical litany that I will not repeat, but will point you toward so you know what I’m talking about. Red State’s Lori Ziganto writes ‘Limbaugh, Fluke, 'War on Women’ and the Travesty of Cravenly Caving to Lies of the Left’, Erick Erickson writes 'Silencing the Right', and Reason’s Nick Gillespie examines when ‘It's Like Totally Different When a Liberal Blowhard Guy Calls a Conservative Woman a Twat!’. There are more similar recountings, but with these you’ll get the idea.
The national response rolling over the countryside has been well-managed by the Left, reaching from the White House down to the loud local lefties in every community, with ours probably serving as the posterchild. This you can confirm in ‘The Sad Tale …’ comment stream where some of our progressive luminaries in high dudgeon have posted monuments to their one-sided disgust at Limbaugh’s original remarks and my launch of a discussion of this new area of outrageous public entitlement. These will stand as archeological monuments to 21st century leftwing mores and mentality.
But my gripe here is with the Republican response to the howling heard over the land today. The proper reply from prominent Republicans to Obama on down on this matter is, ‘Suck it up, this is what free speech sounds like. Limbaugh has plowed no new ground with his remarks, but followed in your own well laid and deep furrows. You are piling this crap into a high mountain only to hide your bankrupt social and economic policies during the election year.’
But I haven’t heard any Republican of national note make such a statement. Instead they continue to duck the topic or make candyass clucking sounds about Limbaugh’s “imprudence” while the Democrats’ machine rolls out their mischevious message over middling minds everywhere.
Locally, you can get a snootfull by tuning in to KNCO this morning.
[9mar12 update] A correspondent sent this little vignette from O'Reilly that summarizes a lot of the background to Ms Flukes purposeful activism.
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