Letters to the Editor
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Spin Resembles Backpedalling
At least Gingrich was honest. Bush, leadership, and inane radioheads suggest that Dems, even though they only won slightly suggesting that most races were close (not really and certainly not across the board), only won what they did because they ran conservative candidates. First, that's not how they were portrayed during the campaign. Second, most weren't conservative. Webb, promptly corrected the conservative characterization of himself. Now they are clearly conservative, by the neocon standards of this administration and much of the Republican leadership, but let's not try to pretend that they are in fact Republicans at a short-lived masquerade ball. They are Dems and most ran on a highly successful progressive campaign and won convincingly (just ask Santorum about the margin of defeat he experienced!).
Limbaugh is now backpedaling to say that he was wrong for carrying the water for 'unnamed leaders' that didn't deserve it. That even though, he was troubled and disagreed with them, he still pushed them and their agenda to great personal angst. He regrets it, but did it just because he thought the stakes were so high. Unpack that any way you like and you get someone who cares more about schilling and less about integrity. Now this has never been lost on me, but much like the neocon self-destruct, it's nice to hear him do it to himself.