Gem said:Diuretic Wrote:
I agree with you on most of this...however I see the whole Rush-Drug topic more interesting from the standpoint of how people are reacting to it.
If the left had come out to say - now would be an excellent time to point out why the "Drug War" is an abyssmal failure I would be right with them.
Instead, they used their time to make coke-snorting jokes about a person with - as you put it - a health issue. This doesn't make them look like anything put petty, spoiled children...which is something they are going to have to overcome.
I agree that the "drug war" is stupidity. Decriminalize drugs, get rid of the incentive for gangs to use weapons to protect drug turf. No more illegal gun problem, so everyone can stop fussing about the issue.
But I always wonder why people on the right expect people on the left to be magnanimous to those who've abused them. Might not be nice, but to be expected. And Rush is one of the worst offenders. So yeah...might be a bit of schadenfreud in seeing him squirm. (Though like I said, he got a walk for all intents and purposes).