Rush Limbaugh....
...is nuts.
J.D. Hayworth may be an ideological true believer, but he's not worthy to carry John McCain's briefcase.
McCain may not fit all the litmus tests Rush would confront him with. But he's something worth having around in American politics: a genuine conservative in the British sense, who is about tradition, honor, and country first, and ideology second.
"What's going on" is a subject far larger than the current standards of Right-wing orthodoxy. Among the things that are "going on" in America right now is a crying need for people just like John McCain, who can transcend ideology and seek common ground with those outside the conservative fold. Only with the help of John McCain and his ilk can the polarization which may well be the greatest single long-term threat to our democracy be blunted, and Americans begin once more to think less in terms of red or blue than of red, white and blue.
John McCain is an American first, and an ideologue second. That's a distinction Rush Limbaugh is unable to make- which is what makes him somewhat less than the most enlightened guide for the Republicans of Arizona in selecting their nominee for the U.S. Senate. Or, that matter, for the rest of us.
J.D. Hayworth may be an ideological true believer, but he's not worthy to carry John McCain's briefcase.
McCain may not fit all the litmus tests Rush would confront him with. But he's something worth having around in American politics: a genuine conservative in the British sense, who is about tradition, honor, and country first, and ideology second.
"What's going on" is a subject far larger than the current standards of Right-wing orthodoxy. Among the things that are "going on" in America right now is a crying need for people just like John McCain, who can transcend ideology and seek common ground with those outside the conservative fold. Only with the help of John McCain and his ilk can the polarization which may well be the greatest single long-term threat to our democracy be blunted, and Americans begin once more to think less in terms of red or blue than of red, white and blue.
John McCain is an American first, and an ideologue second. That's a distinction Rush Limbaugh is unable to make- which is what makes him somewhat less than the most enlightened guide for the Republicans of Arizona in selecting their nominee for the U.S. Senate. Or, that matter, for the rest of us.
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