Rush, get well soon! You are in my thoughts and prayers.
Now, Rush isn't the conservative movement. He himself would say that. He merely articulates what millions of us think and know to be true. The best we can do is to continue to be engaged in what matters to be important to us, our Faith, our family and friends, and our Country. We carry on the daily fight and we continue to educate everyone we know and love as to what is right and good about the American people........and in doing so we win and we piss off the libs and the America is wrong crowd
to no end.
This has been perhaps a critical false alarm for all of us who claim the moniker of "Conservative".
Up to this point, many of us rely of the megaphones of folks like Rush, Beck, Hannity, Boortz, Levin and others to put voice to the thoughts and concerns we all think. This is why Rush and the others are as successful as they are: they have the courage and means to say what we think, and to make what we think heard, even when their Lord- and Ladyships in Washington don't
want to listen to us. It has been comforting, empowering to us to know that thanks to these men and women, our point of view isn't being drowned out by the hue and cry of the Idiocracy.
However...
As painful as it is to consider, there is a new paradigm unfolding inside the Beltway. Washington elitists on both sides of the aisle are being made increasingly uncomfortable by the lines of questioning they wouldn't have to face if only the examining light of "talk radio" (et.al) wasn't illuminating their every corrupt move. Congress-shits openly talk about reinstituting the "fairness doctrine", to hobble, obfuscate and mis-direct the attentions of those watching them. FCC officials speak brazenly of plans to revoke station licenses from "mega-conglomerates", and in turn hand them to "more diverse" broadcast formats. Administration hacks openly revise or remove web pages that show them in any less than a complimentary light, and use the power of the FCC, IRS and any of a myriad of Federal police agencies to harry and harass political opposition. By all appearances, the executve and legislative branches of the Federal government are only awaiting a good, scary crisis they can use as pretext for breaking into their censorship candy store and running wild.
Their strategy behind these tactics will be to divide American opinion, and conquer us, one little piece at a time.
Are you ready?
If the politicians, bureaucrats and lawyers shut down talk radio tomorrow, would you be sufficiently informed to pick up where Rush, Hannity and Beck leave off, at least in your own neighborhood? Could you explain your conservative principles clearly enough to your neighbors? More importantly, could you, as, say, a straight-laced social conservative, find enough common ground with the more moderate - yet still fiscal conservative - neighbor next door to stand shoulder to shoulder with them?
Rush frequently refers to America's "rugged individualism" as one of our defining characteristics. As much as we have enjoyed gathering together to listen to him, and the others, are we ready to be rugged individuals
when if the unthinkable happens?
