YOUR LIPS TELL ME NO! NO!

They also tell us how we should run our campaigns, conduct interviews and produce ads. So helpful are they that one can come away feeling a little suspicious -- well, a lot suspicious.

For an unexpurgated run through of all of our sins, one cannot beat listening to Rush Limbaugh. He has the ability to take anything any Democrat says and turn it into a confession of an ax-murderer.

Oh, he gives us advice too but mostly he rants and raves about the total vileness of all Democrats and how our country is in dire danger if one of them ever gets into the government.

There are lots of analysts on TV news, but none spends quite as much time in the ano-rectal junction of the body politic as does old Rush. The fascinating thing is that he uses audio transcripts of things Democrats say to prove his points.

Howard Dean has really gotten under the Limbaugh skin. He exhorts Democrats to elect Dean because Bush will surely beat him. The next day he's raving about another candidate, and so it goes.

Following a brief sound bite of a candidate, Rush goes on to tell how that shows that Democrats all have horns and tails. However, most of the time he exposes the Republican's Achilles heel -- blaming everything on someone else.

A case in point was one day when, as usual, he was telling his listeners how terrible Democrats were. He played a bit from the RNC Chairman, Ed Gallespie, accusing the Ds of meanness in their politics.

He followed that with a short burst from the DNC Chairman, Terry McAulliff, who declared that Rs had no peer in meanness and let fly with a list from the Willy Norton ad, through the years of persecution of Clinton, candidate Bush's horrible actions toward John McCain to the present.

We thought Rush had played the wrong recording but no indeed. He took every point Terry made and BLAMED it on some one or something else! If you listen to most any R, you will hear that no matter what happens that is bad, it is someone else's fault.

For some time now, the Rs have been blaming President Clinton for 9/11 and are touting a book that claims he failed to capture Osama bin Laden. The source for that accusation was a former Clinton political consultant, Dick Morris. Yeah, that one. The R^Òs vilified Morris as a liar, a deviant and untrustworthy until he gave them juicy, unsupported bits about Clinton.

Now the Rs spin is that it was Saddam's fault that we invaded Iraq. He was the one who hyped all the rumors about WMD, the immediacy of their use and a connection with Al Qaeda (not dear Tony and Georgie.) How easy it was to dupe those eager for any pretext to invade.

We know. Listening to Rush may make you angry but believe us, hang in there and you will be laughing at his stupidity and getting a good idea of what a Ditto-Head really is. Remember the slogan, "You can learn a lot from a dummy."

Rush's self-love is a killer. He tells you right off that he "has talent on loan from God!" That really is an insult to God who should sue for defamation of character.

So, over and over, Rush and the others berate Democrats and tell them who they should elect and what they should say and how they should say it. As if they had our best interests at heart HA!

Struggling in the quicksand of another Viet Nam, they blame others for their mistakes -- mistakes we will be paying for years from now. Rush and the dittos are scared stiff that Dean and the other candidates will get the vote out. Watch their eyes that show the panic and perfidy but never mind what they say. As the old song goes:

Your lips tell me no! no! But there's yes! yes! in your eyes.
I've been missin' your kissin' Just because I wasn't wise.
I'll stop my scheming and dreaming, 'Cause I realize;
Your lips tell me no! no! But there's yes! yes! in your eyes.

twanda@sover.net

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