On the one hand, I’m sorry his marriage didn’t work out. I know how much pain there is in such relationship beaking up.
OTOH, I do see the irony. He has been mimicing Bush’s “sanctity of marriage” line for a while. One has to ask, how much sanctity can there be in your marriage if you’ve been divorced 3 times? Perhaps it’s not the “holy state” as much as it’s just a legal contract and allowing gay folk to enter into it may not be the death knell the right has been claiming.
Oh, don’t worry, I see the irony. But sometimes I just get tired of Reeder’s conservitive bashing, especially when the OP takes the intellectual low road of “I guess you just can’t please a woman.”
However, I do enjoy a well-written Republican bashing thread…
Truth be told, I had considered chiming in with an observation that this would free Rush to marry his true love, that fine individual he met as he experienced his deliverance on a canoe trip down a river. But I decided that would be too low-road, so I didn’t do it. Oh, wait.
I am confident that no one has changed their opinion of Rush Limbaugh because of this. Or anything else, for that matter.
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I’m convinced that 80% of his self-absorption is radio schtick.
But the 20% that that leaves is still way too much for anyone to live with.
This speaks volumes, too.
I agree with this statement, BTW, and it saddens me. I think pundits on all sides should be expounding on family values, because many families across America certainly are in crisis.
Advocating certain things that would strengthen families, though, might run the risk of angering parts of a fragile liberal coalition. Addressing this, then, takes a politician of great courage, and we all know how rare that beast is.
Just out of curiosity, what “values” are you talking about and in what way are families in “crisis?”
Things like…?
Oh, yeah, it really takes balls of steel for a politician to bang on about the the importance of family. You almost never hear them do it? :rolleyes:
Seriously, what the hell “values” are you talking about that it takes so much courage to advocate?
You know, the stuff Rush holds so near and dear… anti drugs and stiff penalties for those who violate drug laws, the sanctity of marriage while he’s ass deep in dissolving his own 3rd marriage… stuff like that.
Yes, it speaks volumes for the liberal pundits who understand that “family values” is code for a political agenda which does not wish to recognize the validity of family compositions outside the heterosexual marriage with children model.
Rush at least weekly belittles the inherent humanity of gays and lesbians by calling us threats to the “sanctity of marriage,” while pissing all over the institution all by himself. I’d say that deserves a pitting.
How so?
You do realize what “family values” means, don’t you? It’s NOT an inclusive term. It doesn’t include gay families, it doesn’t include families with only a single parent, it doesn’t include families that live outside the “Christian” norm.
It is not the place of any politician to dictate to me and my family what “values” we should have. Bill Clinton said it in 1992: “We don’t need the government telling us about family values. Our families have value.” (not a precise quote)
The family values movement is actually very anti-family. It draws lines and ascribes value only to the shrinking notion of Ozzie & Harriet with two kids and a dog, in an America, to be figurative, where most people have cats.
Yes, and it’ll obviously help these families to pass hate laws that harm homosexuals, how? Because that’s the current big stick in the “family values” golf bag.
Not that I particularly give two toots about Limbaugh’s marital situation (it’s a private matter, folks), but IIRC, his first two divorces came about because he was foolin’ around with someone else while married. Wonder if that’s the case here?
As for divorced liberals, I’ll just note that Al Franken, the Limbaugh of the left, is still married to his first wife. 
Not to attempt to douse the fabulous Rush-flamefest here, but could it be, just possibly, just maybe, that Marta is moving out of the Palm Beach manse this weekend so the announcement was meant to pre-empt one of the neighbors calling in a tip to some media outlet when they see the moving truck waiting for admission past the gate?
I listen to him one or two days a week, and that is not the way he puts it. He is not a very religious man, and I’d be very surprised to hear the word “sanctity” leave his lips unless speaking of Reagan.
His M.O. is more mockery and derision than fearmongering.
Sounds like he’s addicted.
I don’t think so. It doesn’t take any courage to address family values. It takes courage to live family values and let others live their family values.
Accessible, affordable health care for poor families - that would take great courage. Real tax relief for the poorest families, not the richest corporations - that would take great courage. Trusting people to form their own stable family units as they see fit - that would take great courage.
Badgering people because they are not living up to some cockamamie, outdated, artificial, idealized, sugar-coated, pseudo-religious, Lawrence Welk vision of American society - all that takes is meddlesome, holier-than-thou fervor. And it is unwelcome.
Rush is allowed to have his own opinions on family values and drug use. When his actions don’t back up his opinions, he’s a hypocrit. Do as he says and not as her does.
By the way, Early Out, your last two sentences would make a great sig.
True, but to paraphrase Wilde, losing one marriage is a misfortune, losing three smacks of carelessness.
Hmmm. . . . Having to shell out money to both Roy Black and a future ex-wife. Good thing he got that really sweet contract a few years back. He’s gonna need it.