Do Conservatives practice what they preach?

Question

“We have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs ,,so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.” ---Rush Limbaugh

Answer 1

Do they practice what they preach? Limbaugh on drugs (figuratively and literally), Mark Foley on the sex issue AND the gay issue, runaway spending, supporting the troops (both abroad and after they come home wounded), religious issues (they are devout believers in greed), and so on.

Reminds me of the old line: "Doctor, where do you practice medicine?" "Oh, I don't have to practice it, I know it!"

Answer 2

I dont think that its a fair argument to single out Rush Limbaugh as the conservative representative. Hes in a category all his own called: The Crazies.

Answer 3

*Gays and gay activists are those insisting that the authorities "supply them the the main suitable option" to get married, we are saying pass away it on my own. *who're you attempting to undertake? it is not as much as me.... *technological know-how is technological know-how---there is not any "telling" somebody what it particularly is. as quickly as we can of course see the so-talked approximately as information have been manipulated for an time table, we only call a spade a spade *no conservative has asked a public college to cater to Christianity--if something, that's the atheists activists screeching like infants that their eyes would be burned out or their ears will fall off in the event that they're subjected to something no count if sight or sound that has to do with God---yet they proceed to be silent on Islam. So, perhaps you're able to coach what you pontificate and reassess your factually incorrect speaking factors memo.

Answer 4

I get harsh about some of the conservative view but I'd have to say in their defense that Rush is not their voice. He's just a bum making a fortune for saying inflammatory things.

Answer 5

On October 3, 2003 the National Enquirer reported that Limbaugh was being investigated for illegally obtaining the prescription drugs OxyContin and hydrocodone. Other news outlets quickly confirmed the investigation.[40]

On October 10, 2003, Limbaugh admitted to listeners on his radio show that he was addicted to prescription painkillers and stated that he would enter inpatient treatment for 30 days, immediately following the broadcast.[41]

Limbaugh has said his addiction to painkillers came as a result of several years of severe back pain heightened by a botched surgery intended to correct those problems.

A subsequent investigation into whether Limbaugh had violated Florida's doctor shopping laws was launched by the Palm Beach State Attorney, which raised privacy issues when investigators seized Limbaugh's private medical records looking for evidence of crimes. On November 9, 2005, following two years of investigations, Assistant State Attorney James L. Martz requested the court to set aside Limbaugh's doctor-patient confidentiality rights and allow the state to question his physicians, stating it was necessary because "I have no idea if Mr. Limbaugh has completed the elements of any offense yet."[42] Limbaugh's attorney opposed the prosecutor's efforts to interview his doctors on the basis of patient privacy rights, and argued that the prosecutor had violated Limbaugh's Fourth Amendment civil rights by illegally seizing his medical records. The ACLU issued a statement in agreement.[43] On December 12, 2005, Judge David F. Crow delivered a ruling prohibiting the State of Florida from questioning Limbaugh's physicians about "the medical condition of the patient and any information disclosed to the health care practitioner by the patient in the course of the care and treatment of the patient."[44]

On April 28, 2006, Mr. Limbaugh and his attorney, Roy Black, went to the Palm Beach County Jail to surrender after a warrant was issued for his arrest on the charge of doctor shopping.[1] According to Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the Sheriff, during his arrest, Mr. Limbaugh was booked, photographed, and fingerprinted, but not handcuffed and then was released after about an hour on $3,000 bail.[2] [3] [4] After his surrender, he filed a "not guilty" plea to the charge. Prosecutors agreed to drop the charge if Limbaugh paid $30,000 to defray the cost of the investigation and completed an eighteen month therapy regimen with his physician.[45]

Limbaugh asserted that the state's settlement agreement resulted from a lack of evidence supporting the charge of "doctor shopping." Under the terms of the agreement, Limbaugh may not own a firearm and must continue to submit to random drug testing, which he acknowledges having undergone since 2003.[46]

Limbaugh has, throughout the years, condemned illegal drug use on his radio broadcast and has stated that those convicted of drug crimes should be sent to jail.[47]

Roy Black, one of Limbaugh's attorneys, stated that "Rush Limbaugh was singled out for prosecution because of who he is. We believe the state attorney's office is applying a double standard." [48]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rush_Limbaugh#Prescription_drug_addiction

Answer 6

People who are given pain killers very often end up hooked on them!.......Having had several surgeries, I can understand how this happens! I can also guarantee you that Mr. Limbaugh was NOT himself pleased to find that he had become dependant on them. It is what it is and nothing more than that! And, yes, as a good conservative I practice what I preach!

Answer 7

Agreed. Do you really believe most conservatives use drugs? Really?

Answer 8

Aren't you the noble one. What's that saying about glass houses. Don't start with the throwing of stones. This question alone shows the liberal hypocrisy.

Answer 9

I am a conservative. I practice what I preach.

Answer 10

Do you mean Rush or Conservatives?? I dont get that..