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Originally posted by wannabuyamonkey:
But does this mean that we're to disregard everything the man says? Listening to most liberals lately you'd think that conservitism has been disproven with the failings of one man.

If you want to deal with what the man says, then fine we have an argument, but don't try point to a mans sin as a negation of his arguments.

I don't think conservatism itself has been disproven. Just Rush Limbaugh. And his "sin" isn't drug addiction, his sin is hypocrisy. His statements on Monday show he still doesn't get it. and as the article I posted on the previous page made clear, addiction isn't about any "weakness" or "moral failings" that need punishment. That's something I don't think some conservatives are ready to accept yet.

hy·poc·ri·sy (h-pkr-s)
n. pl. hy·poc·ri·sies

The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.

Hmmmmm . .

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"Just because I may have been doing something that appeared to be contradictory to what I was suggest[ing] others do doesn't mean that what I was suggesting others do was wrong," he said. "Critics want to harp on all this hypocrisy, there is no hypocrisy in this."
It didn't 'appear' to be contradictory-- it *was* contradictory.

His ego seems unaffected, and addicts with unaffected egos continue to use. We'll see....