RUSH LIMBAUGH: A DEDICATED TEACHER

At the heart of Rush Limbaugh lies a teacher. I don't know if he knowingly fell prey to the 'no child left behind' concept, but just the same, he clearly has. In his efforts to bring everyone into the light, he has lost sight of the fact that by catering to those who can never see the light and those actively seeking darkness, he fails those capable of fulfilling themselves in conservative enlightenment. As with any classroom, spending an inordinate amount of your time trying to bring the willing cave dwellers into the intellectually infrared, results in sacrificing those capable of learning. Being a teacher at his core also leaves him vulnerable to accusations that he is nothing but an entertainer. Of course these detractors who accuse Mr. Limbaugh of excessive theater don't bother to reveal their complicity in turning so much of America into an attention deficit riddled mass, incapable of generating rational thoughts with any regularity, much less focusing upon a set of data long enough to emerge with a valid opinion. Rush has fun, but I am sure any pleasures derived form exposing the hypocrisies of the left does not comprise evidence of hedonistic motives. No matter how much comedy surfaces from his simply applying meaning to the nonsensical rhetoric of the left, the seriousness of the task he took on so many years ago is not lost upon him. If only liberals could understand that if they were not such generous straight men, Mr. Limbaugh's program could never be called entertainment.

I often ponder whether the Democrats hate him so because he does not sound enough like Bill Buckley? For Mr. Buckley was so brilliant, and he had such a pathological need to always find the perfect words to express his opinions,the Democrats' successful war against education turned him into little more than a political anesthetist to all but a select few. Tragically, the fires of ignorance set by the Democrats (that made Sherman's torching of Atlanta look like a marshmallow roast)left a majority of Americans too stupid and too lazy to attempt rising to understand his intellectual precision, formulative excellence and expansive vocabulary. The left has thus added a whole new meaning to the phrase 'ignorance is bliss'. Contemplating the Democrats' loathsome and all too effective assault upon education always brings me face to face with a cancerous lump of my own ignorance: how in the hell did the Democrats convince anybody they were the rightful owners and protectors of education? Perhaps it is similar to the loss of the environmental issue to Democrats: corruptive forces controlling Republicans, and Conservative inability to foresee the threat of having the issue controlled by liberal lunatics.

The accusation that Rush is only a bat boy or water carrier for the Republican party has been only intermittently true, at worst, with only peripheral evidence to support the claim. From time to time Mr. Limbaugh has proven to be an inept diagnostician, ignoring symptoms of liberalism in the Republican Party, thus precluding the administration of any effective preventative measures to retard the advance of the infection. Actually, liberals should be that Mr. Limbaugh's lone occasional failing is to have not responded uncompromisingly to liberal advances in the Republican Party.

Democrats labeling Mr. Limbaugh as the preeminent voice of the Republican Party, a strategy child of James Carville, threatens Republicans as much as a warthog fart threatens a cape buffalo. James Carville's small army of zombie followers that, by the way, are even too delicate to eat meat, can only increase in numbers if aided by prolonged stupidity from Republicans. The frequency, with which politicians have apologized to Mr. Limbaugh after having said the idiotic, is purely a function of the moronic things they have said, rather than ideological flaws in Mr. Limbaugh's message. If Republican politician's egos are bruised because Mr. Limbaugh and not them has the ear of the people, they should get off their lazy, cowardly butts and supply a message in agreement with the Constitution. Micheal Steele's advocacy of reaching out to all with a watered down message places him in utter lock step with George Bush. We all know how effective and worthwhile his efforts were at gleaning that additional half percent of of minority and illegal alien votes. Yes illegals vote, and with ACORN's help, they vote repeatedly. I, however, a citizen of this country, have only voted once per election, and I have never had lawyers banging down my door offering to represent me pro-bono, in a discrimination lawsuit. Actually, Mr. Steele should not be apologizing to Mr. Limbaugh, but to the American people, for wishing to expand upon George Bush's idiocies. I'm positive that the highest mathematical aspirations of every Republican politician concurring with Mr. Steele, was to pull out a 'D'minus in consumer math. A class where you normally earn a solid 'D' just for having learned that merchants don't pay you, but it is the custom to pay merchants for goods and services. Bush and Steele still don't seem to realize that their goal to go from a 5 to 10 percent share of illegal votes to a whopping 15 to 30 percent of illegal votes cast still leaves a minimum of 70% of illegal votes against. And if that is not enough to make you sick, remember that 100% of illegal votes are illegal.

Republicans should use one of President Obama's favorite words and say, Rush is not the perfect spokesman, but until someone else emerges that is better, the Republicans can and have done worse.