Here's one of the reasons I really, really hate Republicans.

[BurtWorm]

[gristy]

1. "Cause they smoke cigars while wearing a golf glove?

[karmaqueen]

2. I think he started the real "Hate"

I know there was always a divide of sorts but his followers are the worst. The justify anything no matter how ridiculous as long as he gives the OK. I know families who no longer speak because he thinks it is just fine to disown your family if they are liberals. I think it must be something in his voice that sooths the souls of the mentally unstable,like a drug. The only trouble is instead of becoming calm they turn into zombies who can only repeat insane talking points and can no longer recognize the truth. I know a few very well who are unbearable.

[SharonAnn]

6. He made it OK to hate. He made hate something to be proud of.

[Warpy]

7. This was posted earler

"I once had a friend who listened to Rush Limbaugh three hours a day. He was a Republican operative. He sat in my apartment, wearing headphones, while I worked. He swore that if I put on the headphones for 10 minutes, I'd be hooked. So I put them on.

"Inside the headphones was another world. Everyone in this world thought the same way, except for liberals, and they were only cartoon characters, to be defeated as though in a video game. In the real world, my friend was unemployed and had been staying with me, rent-free, for two months. But inside the headphones, he could laugh about welfare bums instead of pounding the pavement."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/27/AR2006102701475.html

The whole article explains a lot.

[gumby]

3. Limbaugh created the gateway

which all ugliness marched through.

Limbaugh is like a TV series. Instead of Stargate, he created Hategate.

Each week, viewers are enthralled with the nefarious exploits of Newt, Abramoff, Rove and DeLay as they plot to steal, kill and control.

On the mystical side, viewers will see the evil plots of the reconstructionists as they seek to convert an entire nation into perversity.

All this exciting destruction of humanity passes through Limbaugh's Hategate. Don't miss next week's episode.

[JackBeck]

4. I agree with almost everything you say.

Except that Reagan created the gateway when he did away with the Fairness Doctrine.

[gumby]

8. I never understood the Fairness Doctrine.

I don't think it mandated equal time between what could be considered 'opposing viewpoints.' Rush could be on 3 hours a day and as long as the station carrying him put on a 3 minute rebuttal at 3am, that was considered 'fair.'

What Reagan DID do was create the notion of neo-con Alzheimer's insanity as a viable political platform. Reagan's handlers created the Reagan Myth which surpasses any reality, regardless of any Fairness Doctrine.

I'm confused......

[raysr]

5. He just brought

out the hate that was already there!

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Word!