A Tribute to Rush Limbaugh.

The New York Times has a long profile of Rush Limbaugh. Now, I'll tell you I like Rush. He is an entertaining and exceedingly funny. He changed my mind on many things. Before I heard him, I was your typical NDP Socialist voter. But two things I remember forever put me on the right wing conservative side of most political issues. First, I remember playing a Devil advocate's once about America with an NDP type and he expressed a hatred of the U.S.A. that was irrational along the lines of Nazi hatred of Jews and the South African's feelings about Blacks. This person went through all sort of mental somersaults rather than admit that America had many virtues. Second, I remember Rush's assessment of his opponents as being more decent and fair-minded than most of his opponents' assessments of him. Rush describes most of his opponents as wanting good but having bad ideas about how to achieve it. The typical opponent of Rush describes him as being an idiot or a yahoo. The anti-Rush type further denigrates all Rush listeners as mind-numbed robots and so on. They never tell you why they disagree with Rush. I wonder if they have ever listened to his show. I wonder if they have any idea what Conservatism and Libertarianism is about. I guess they are too busy "thinking for themselves" to find out.