Okay, where do you get "racist"?
I think the Republicans want to practice racism openly and a platform/party run by Limbaugh will give them the opportunity to do that.
I don't agree with Limbaugh, and think he's a hypocrite (even more so after his drug issues), but this is bullshit. People call Limbaugh, O'Reilly and countless other people racists, and it's total bullshit. Just because they have a problem with affirmative action and other things doesn't make them racists.
I've never seen a single racist comment out of Limbaugh. Even his comment on NFL Fox Sunday wasn't racist. It wasn't "politically correct," but it wasn't racist. In fact, have you ever seen him talk about how much affirmative action and the whole "oh, he must have gotten the job because he's black" assumption actually causes harm? This includes the unrealistic pressure put on McNabb and others, because they were successful, black QBs, but never accepted, even after years of success.
Labelling people racists because you disagree with them is actually racist and an incorrect civil rights judgement. Apparently you did not learn that from the whole Duke LaCrosse team issue? Most other people did.
So, Limbaugh's divorced? So's about 1/2 of the country and many of you. He's struggled with drug addiction? So have many more around the country, and of course, there's those that don't struggle with addiction because they don't want to give up drugs anyway.
This makes Limbaugh a hypocrite, which I've long considered him to be. But it doesn't make him a racist, despite what others want to "misguide" everyone one.
About racism and sexism? Explain Walter E. Williams who sometimes gets to host his show whenever he's out for some reason. Sexism? He supported Condoleeza Rice.
Let alone the African Americans and other minorities that are, or have been, a part of Rush's program throughout its history -- especially in his earlier years when "affirmative action" wasn't well defined or respected.
Truth is that whoever you don't agree with politically you just consider that person to be racist even if that person isn't and that really pisses me off.
Agreed.
I could turn it around and say that the Democrat party is the racist party as they are the ones that destroyed the black family and try to keep the black community in chains, giving them only the crumbs they need to subsist by keeping them in welfare because they don't believe that they have what it takes to succeed, where we Conservatives have more faith in the individuals capacity for success, we believe that we all can do a lot better than we can imagine.
I find it ironic how many people don't realize the number of "poor, white racists" (and sexist) that not only register and vote Democrat, but have been elected -- even in recent years. How LBJ had to thank the Republicans, not the Democrats, for getting the Equal Rights Act pushed through Congress. Etc...
They keep the black community in a second kind of slavery instead of offering them real opportunities and doing whatever needs to be done to improve their education system, something like in Europe, where the money for public education is tied not to the schools, but to the students therefore allowing them to choose the schools that perform the best.
The architects of "separate and [not] equal" are the same ones pushing the same "lip service" to whom ever gives them the votes.
All while the Republican party has always been, at its foundation, equality. Left leaning equality when the rights were less, now right leaning equality when the rights have become "special." People forget that the Democrats have been the pendulum, the Republicans unchanged.