Pubdate: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 Source: State, The (SC) Copyright: 2003 The State Contact: http://www.thestate.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/426 Author: F.L. Benedict LIMBAUGH MAY LEARN COMPASSION IN REHAB Well, well, can you believe the pit-bull mouthpiece of the right-wing Republican party is a junkie? So now he goes off to a high-priced rehab, and all is forgiven. If he were a poor kid from the tenements trying to score a joint, he'd go to jail. But money talks, so he walks. I hope Rush Limbaugh will find some compassion for the people he's been trashing all these years. But I won't hold my breath. I'm reminded of what another of his kind said back in Reconstruction, "There's still a few years of good stealing in South Carolina." Now that their idol has been found to have earthen feet, may I repeat what I was told by a wise old man years ago? The only difference between modern-day Republicans and the carpetbaggers of bygone days is the present-day ones are homegrown - or maybe the descendants of the leftovers. Poor Wade Hampton must be spinning in his coffin. F.L. BENEDICT, Gaston - --- MAP posted-by: Josh