Tom Ridge Lies
REDSTATE
By Erick Erickson(Profile) on Tom Ridge
Tom Ridge, on CNN, said this of Rush Limbaugh:
"Rush articulates his point of view in ways that offend very many… let's be less shrill… let's not attack other individuals. Let's attack their ideas."
Since when has Rush attacked individuals? I listen to the show regularly. He certainly pokes fun at some of them, but he highlights absurdities of character, etc. in pointing out the fallacies of positions on the left.
For example — the President of the United States wants us all to stop breathing to save the environment, but his administration sends Air Force One on a joy ride to take pictures.
Is that an attack on Obama? No. It is pointing out the inconsistencies in Barack Obama's policies.
The problem is Tom Ridge knows, were he to get into politics again, what he says and what he does would be two different things — much like Obama. So he is building up a straw man to protect himself should Rush Limbaugh ever point out that Ridge likes to pretend to be tough on security, but voted against every single strategic and national security initiative Ronald Reagan ever proposed when he was in the House of Representatives.
Folks, the GOP has not moved right in the past twenty years. You cannot tell me that the GOP is more conservative now than it was during the Reagan years.
Tom Ridge, Colin Powell, and others have moved left. They just don't want to admit it.
By the way, Tom Ridge, if you aren't offended by what the administration is doing, you haven't been paying attention. |
