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- From: pearsodc@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (if God's your father then call home!)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Free at last!!
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 04:48:56 GMT
- Organization: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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- francis deck writes:
- >We are free at last from an executive branch which believes
- >that it is above the law, and that its purpose is to enrich
- >private individuals. At least I hope that will turn out to
- >be the case.
-
- keep hopin'.
-
- can you say "ron brown?" can you say "zoe baird?" can you say "william
- christopher?" these people subscribe to the same ol' boy philospophy that has
- corrupted washington for generations, and will continue to do so as long as
- liberal democrats run congress (which is another bastion of people who
- believe they're above the law that you ever so convienently forgot to mention).
-
- true change will come when the party that's been in charge the past 40 years is
- booted. that ain't the republicans i'm talkin' about either, folks.
-
- > We're free from a guy who calls himself a
- >conservative, but who has taken initiatives on any number
- >of occasions to increase the size and power of his own
- >branch of government.
-
- if you're talking about dear old george, then i will concur. i never have been
- a george bush fan, i think he's a member of the republican country club that's
- been the closest thing to a loyal opposition we've had over the past twelve
- years. reagan wasn't bad, but he wasn't the saint rush claims him to be, and
- i'm convinced george is a closet liberal who could never come out and admit it
- without losing what little support he had within the republican camp.
-
- you're right, tho. decreasing government waste was never first on george's
- agenda. i voted for him, tho, just because i'm scared to death of clinton.
- he doesn't have the religious right "on his side" to keep him straight...
-
- > We are free from someone who caters
- >to the right wing, e.g. Rush Limbaugh and the TV preachers.
-
- boy, you can dream, can't you? 8-)
-
- rush ain't going away. the next four years will only make him stronger because
- he's the only straight-talker in the lot of the "dominant media culture" right
- now, which makes him credible even when he stretches the truth. he'll be
- challenging jay leno by year's end and up to 20 million listeners on the radio.
-
- as for the tv preachers (and speaking as an evangelical Christian myself), i
- think you'll watch the influence of pat robertson and his cronies diminish over
- the next four years as the "religious right" (the title we've grudgingly taken
- from the "dominant media culture", the title they've grudingly taken from us)
- starts to see that more and more the major guys like robertson, falwell, et.al.
- are starting to give money more and more importance and God less and less.
- money will never take the place of faith and ministry and the evangelicals
- (contrary to how the media likes to picture us) aren't dummies. i think you'll
- see those major personalities who keep God's call ahead of their own - and right
- now i'm afraid they only number two, billy graham and james dobson - rise to
- prominence in the ministry front, and they will likely stay smart and stay the
- heck out of politics. robertson and falwell are fast losing my support as
- political figures.
-
- the moral of the story will turn out to be this: don't be so quick to call
- this an era of change. four years from now you're going to be just as fed up
- with washington as you were when you went to the polls in november, and you're
- going to want change and not the same old rhetoric the clinton administration
- is shoveling out. that is why you will vote kemp(/bennett?) in 1996.
-
- mark my words. i don't claim to be right often, but i think i am this time.
-
- >f.deck
- >
- clueless chuck ___
- pearsodc@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu (o o)
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