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BY RUSH LIMBAUGH
WSJ Opinion Page, Monday, October 17, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT

I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals. We are confident in our principles and energetic about openly advancing them. We believe in individual liberty, limited government, capitalism, the rule of law, faith, a color-blind society and national security. We support school choice, enterprise zones, tax cuts, welfare reform, faith-based initiatives, political speech, homeowner rights and the war on terrorism. And at our core we embrace and celebrate the most magnificent governing document ever ratified by any nation--the U.S. Constitution. Along with the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes our God-given natural right to be free, it is the foundation on which our government is built and has enabled us to flourish as a people.

We conservatives are never stronger than when we are advancing our principles. And that's the nature of our current debate over the nomination of Harriet Miers. Will she respect the Constitution? Will she be an originalist who will accept the limited role of the judiciary to interpret and uphold it, and leave the elected branches--we, the people--to set public policy? Given the extraordinary power the Supreme Court has seized from the representative parts of our government, this is no small matter. Roe v. Wade is a primary example of judicial activism. Regardless of one's position on abortion, seven unelected and unaccountable justices simply did not have the constitutional authority to impose their pro-abortion views on the nation. The Constitution empowers the people, through their elected representatives in Congress or the state legislatures, to make this decision.

Abortion is only one of countless areas in which a mere nine lawyers in robes have imposed their personal policy preferences on the rest of us. The court has conferred due process rights on terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay and benefits on illegal immigrants. It has ruled that animated cyberspace child pornography is protected speech, but certain broadcast ads aired before elections are illegal; it has held that the Ten Commandments can't be displayed in a public building, but they can be displayed outside a public building; and the court has invented rationales to skirt the Constitution, such as using foreign law to strike down juvenile death penalty statutes in over a dozen states.

For decades conservatives have considered judicial abuse a direct threat to our Constitution and our form of government. The framers didn't create a judicial oligarchy. They created a representative republic. Our opposition to judicial activism runs deep. We've witnessed too many occasions where Republican presidents have nominated the wrong candidates to the court, and we want more assurances this time--some proof. The left, on the other hand, sees the courts as the only way to advance their big-government agenda. They can't win national elections if they're open about their agenda. So, they seek to impose their policies by judicial fiat. It's time to call them on it. And that's what many of us had hoped and expected when the president made his nomination.

Some liberal commentators mistakenly view the passionate debate among conservatives over the Miers nomination as a "crackup" on the right. They are giddy about "splits" in the conservative base of the GOP. They are predicting doom for the rest of the president's term and gloom for Republican electoral chances in 2006. As usual, liberals don't understand conservatives and never will.

The Miers nomination shows the strength of the conservative movement. This is no "crackup." It's a crackdown. We conservatives are unified in our objectives. And we are organized to advance them. The purpose of the Miers debate is to ensure that we are doing the very best we can to move the nation in the right direction. And when all is said and done, we will be even stronger and more focused on our agenda and defeating those who obstruct it, just in time for 2006 and 2008. Lest anyone forget, for several years before the 1980 election, we had knockdown battles within the GOP. The result: Ronald Reagan won two massive landslides.

The real crackup has already occurred--on the left! The Democratic Party has been hijacked by 1960s retreads like Howard Dean; billionaire eccentrics like George Soros; and leftwing computer geeks like Moveon.org. It nominated John Kerry, a notorious Vietnam-era antiwar activist, as its presidential standard-bearer. Its major spokesmen are old extremists like Ted Kennedy and new propagandists like Michael Moore. Its great presidential hope is one of the most divisive figures in U.S. politics, Hillary Clinton. And its favorite son is an impeached, disbarred, held-in-contempt ex-president, Bill Clinton. AMEN to this analysis, it is RIGHT on.

The Democratic Party today is split over the war and a host of cultural issues, such as same-sex marriage and partial birth abortion. It wants to raise taxes, but dares not say so. It can't decide what message to convey to the American people or how to convey it. And even its once- reliable allies in the big media aren't as influential in promoting the party and its agenda as they were in the past. The new media--talk radio, the Internet and cable TV--not only have a growing following, but have helped expose the bias and falsehoods of the big-media, e.g., Dan Rather, CBS News and the forged National Guard documents. Hence, circulation and audience is down, and dropping.

The American left is stuck trying to repeat the history of its presumed glory years. They hope people will see Iraq as Vietnam, the entirety of the Bush administration as Watergate and Hurricane Katrina as the Great Depression. Beyond looking to the past for their salvation, the problem is that they continue to deceive even themselves. None of their comparisons are true. Meanwhile, we conservatives will continue to focus on making history.

Mr. Limbaugh is a radio-show host. This is the latest in our occasional series.

Thought this would be interesting reading for me "friends" on the LEFT. Let the ranting begin! Carry on.

richie154

What did Rush say about drug users again? And what was he caught doing?

Don't ever compare any conservative bull$chit to something worthwhile like the B757.

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DavidMich

Politicians are all crooked sum' bitches anyway. Some are just worse than others. Bottom line, they only want whats best for themselves, and their personal agendas.

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STEVEJ

As soon as saw who wrote it, I stopped reading. Hallucinations of drug addicts don't interst me. Any other scholars in your bags of tricks Jimbo. Whats going on, did the Party put out a APB for all memebers to go into high BS mode to boost ratings?

Criton

It's funny, Steve. I read what you post with great interest. I never know when I might learn something new. I'm surprised you would be so closed-minded. From some of your past posts, it seems you have no problem digesting what other people ascribe to Rush Limbaugh. Given the opportunity, I would think you would gladly read what he has to say. Then again, its much easier to simply dismiss him as a "drug addict" isn't it? Where's all that wonderful "liberal compassion" I hear so much about?

N2272V

Richie, don't ever tell me "don't ever" unless you think you can back your BS up buddy. One thing I love about compassionate Liberals, they are only compassionate when it SUITS them.

You're dismissed Richie, you're stuck on stupid.

N2272V

Yep, we wouldn't want a LIBERAL like you to have an open mind. You might actually LEARN something from it.

Carry on Steve, I'm happy to see you're still stuck on stupid.

richie154

One thing you'll find is I am not compassionate. Blow it out your *** oldie.

Right wing Nazi-cans really crack me up, especially how they ask for extra helpings of BS from their likeminded radio/tv outlets.

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Criton

You know, you might be taken a little more seriously here if you actually brought something to the table.

N2272V

Liberal morons like you who call others Nazi's crack me up. You're nothing more than an irrlevant punk Richie. As usual, you offer up nothing more than your usual inane and banal insults rather then debate any relevant facts.

Dismissed, you're seriously stuck on stupid.

richie154

Bring something to the table? I don't have a whole ton to work with...it's a Rush Limbaugh post. Break it down, and you have Right wing ego preening and Left wing bashing. That doesn't "bring much to the table". I have a pretty hard time taking any of that seriously; along the same lines, I bet you would have a helluva time taking a Michael Moore post seriously...Left wing preening of egos and Right bashing. Try taking that seriously.

And since Rushie mentioned the Harriet Miers deal...

How retarded is this...you don't have to have any judicial background whatsoever to sit on the Supreme Court! Regardless of political position, that should scare the hell out of you.

Bring something to the table...puh-leaze.

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Criton

It's not just this topic, Richie....It's every topic you decide to post in. You throw a few insults and expect everybody to wonder in awe how you came to be so brilliant.

JFK'ER

Since when does a woman's right to have an abortion affect Rush Limpbag? As far as John Kerry being an anti war activist.......well he had that right considering he saw the Vietnam War first hand......unlike Mr Limpbag.

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Hapag-Lloyd

No Criton - Jim McDonald does that. Not Richie.

Your problem is that you usually try to water down a discussion with dumb questions you already have the "right" answers for. However, imho that schtick is old news by now. Think of something new.

Until then, dismissed.

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Criton

Thanks for informing me of my problems. Coming from DAC's very own resident Schweitzer, it means a lot. I'll try to do more to better meet your expectations.

Hapag-Lloyd

Whatever, Criton, whatever...

I bet DAC´s resident Bouhler will provide a different point of view.

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Criton

Lately you seem to have a real Nazi fixation. Problems at home, perhaps?

Hapag-Lloyd

No, everything just fine here. Thank you.

Nowadays, I respond in an appropriate matter. Plus, Rush Limbaugh topics deserve nazi comparisons. Don´t like it? Too bad.

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Criton

Funny..... I feel the same way when I see some of your posts.

N2272V

Labeling anything Rush says as deserving of Nazi comparisons is intellectually weak. But then, most of the Liberals on this forum have displayed a propensity for intellectual weakness.

I love it when closed minded, supposed intellects, start sounding like nazis.

Carry on. Entertaining at best, factual at the least.

Chansen

Airbus and Boeing are political enough without being posted in unrelated stuff! Someone must be trying to think to hard or not thinking at all.

Magnesium Overcast

Still content to cut 'n paste drivel from a fat druggie? It's only a cadre of lawyers keeping Rush's lardass out of the pokey.

Yet another repulsican bites the dust... Breaking news concerning Randy "Duke" Cunningham of San Diego... will plead guilty to an assortment of crimes aimed at accumulating largesse. Conspiracy, bribery, etc. How shameful for a Vietnam-era ace to succumb to the lowest of political debauchery.

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MD11Freighter

Hey leave the 757 out of this one

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