I just sent this to Rush Limbaugh, but who knows if he will ever see it. I know he gets lots of mail and I am no longer a subscriber so I don't have the subscriber's email access.
Look Rush, I like you but I have disagreed with you a few times over the years mostly because I'm farther to the right than you. I guess that plays into my whole frustration with your blaming people who want to jump ship to a third party. (e.g. Constitution Party would be a good option for me).
You sound like someone who is blaming a battered woman for leaving an unhealthy relationship. "Stay and change him!" A woman who is legitimately unhappy with her corrupt husband has MORE of a chance of changing HIM than we have of changing those moderate and liberal Republicrats in the party. You can spend all your time trying to control his behavior, I suppose. But even if you are succesful at that, as soon as you relax and go back to having a normal productive life, he will return to it. Or you can get out and find a healthier relationship with someone who has your same worldview.
I don't mean to judge, but for someone who has thrown in the towel (whether she started it or not) on a marriage relationship three times, you sure are advocating a lot of perseverance for the rest of us in a relationship that isn't even a covenant before God.
Even if I go to a third party, I am happy to support real conservatives in the Republican party like Michelle Bachmann. But that is not going to stop me from supporting real conservatives in the Constitution Party.
The only thing that gets a little kid to behave sometimes is not yelling and threats from the parent. It is his belief that the parent will do the unpleasant punishment that they say they will do. If all we do is threaten to leave and not really do it, just like the terrorists we are fighting overseas, they won't believe we mean it.
I'm not saying to jump to a third party just to send a message, if you don't believe in what the third party represents. But you point to the democrats' unity as an EXAMPLE of how the Republican party ought to behave? Since when do we take our cues from them? It's the liberals and spineless moderates that are dividing the party, not the third party advocates. Even if you believe the third party advocates are not responsible for dividing the party (so far that is unclear to me) then you must stop sounding like you are blaming them as much as the others.
Paula
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