Rush Limbaugh -- along with lots
of readers -- took exception to my column yesterday. Now that Rush's
DeLay monologue is featured on RushLimbaugh.com, I'm getting a new
wave of hate-mail. A few points:
1. This isn't about whether DeLay is a good guy or not, or the
value of loyalty, or whatever. Politics is about winning and
losing. I remain completely unpersuaded that sticking by DeLay is a
winning move, either for the Republican Party or for sound policy.
As John Hawkins of
RightWingNews.com puts it, DeLay "is such a spendthrift that he
makes Jimmy Carter look like Scrooge McDuck."
2. Several readers insist that Ronnie Earle isn't someone "no
one has heard of," at least in Texas. Fair enough, but my point,
that Earle's scalp is no big prize, still stands.
3. Rush says that "the Beltway conservatives" -- of which he
takes me to be emblematic -- "do like to say and write things that
occasionally they think will curry favor with the DC liberals."
Come on, Rush. I just tell the truth as I see it. Isn't that what
you do?
