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Who is the most influental conservative voice in America?

Who is the most influential conservatve voice in America?


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I don't consider pot a drug. I consider it an herb.

I don't do hard drugs and I don't even drink, so there.

Well that's wonderful and all.

But the country considers it a drug, so your personal definition means jack **** and is no less rationalization then someone going "Rush got addicted by using a legitimate drug for a legitimate purpose"
 
Well you'd have a hard time in his scenario then using the people he's referencing...as you have guy who regularly and continually did drugs but stopped only cause he can't purchase it anymore insulting someone and degrading them for being a 'druggie", and then you have a guy that thinks that punishments should be harsher for people on drugs yet took advantage of the law as they're written currently and got off with naught but a slap on the wrist.

Only if you add the specific people that he is alluding to into the question. But if you take the question at face value: "Who would you trust more if you had no choice? A pot head or somebody on hillbilly herion?" my answer fits perfectly.
 
I don't know, at that point it'd come down to trust them to do what and how much have they had respectively.

A pot head that's not smoking? Well him of course. A pot head that is high out of his mind compared to someone that's taken one vicoden? Probably the vicoden guy. Trust to be part of my hotdog eating contest? Well bring on the pothead. Trust to have a reasonable conversation that won't be filled with giggles? Give me the guy on hillbilly heroin.
 
I don't know, at that point it'd come down to trust them to do what and how much have they had respectively.

A pot head that's not smoking? Well him of course. A pot head that is high out of his mind compared to someone that's taken one vicoden? Probably the vicoden guy. Trust to be part of my hotdog eating contest? Well bring on the pothead. Trust to have a reasonable conversation that won't be filled with giggles? Give me the guy on hillbilly heroin.

My point was that I wouldn't base it on their drug use, but instead on their character.

But I got to admit, Id totally take the pothead in a hotdog eating contest, as well.
 
Well that's wonderful and all.

But the country considers it a drug, so your personal definition means jack **** and is no less rationalization then someone going "Rush got addicted by using a legitimate drug for a legitimate purpose"

Oxycontin is addictive. Pot is non addictive.

How do you know what his purpose was?

We still have a 55mph speed limit. I imagine about 95% of the peo0le ignore it, some causing deaths. Is that all right with you?

I have never heard of pot killing anyone. Oxycontin has caused many deaths and led to extreme violence among many of it's addicts.

I don't consider pot a drug because I say so.
 
I don't know, at that point it'd come down to trust them to do what and how much have they had respectively.

A pot head that's not smoking? Well him of course. A pot head that is high out of his mind compared to someone that's taken one vicoden? Probably the vicoden guy. Trust to be part of my hotdog eating contest? Well bring on the pothead. Trust to have a reasonable conversation that won't be filled with giggles? Give me the guy on hillbilly heroin.

You don't know much about drugs, do you? You probably live in a gated community.
 
I have never heard of pot killing anyone.

16 year old Teen Dies after Rolling Car off Cliff – Marijuana in System
Studies indicate that the level of marijuana found in Ruxana’s blood would impair her driving ability, decrease her reaction time and decrease her motor skills, said Iain McIntyre, the forensic toxicology laboratory manager for the Medical Examiner’s Office.

“These are all things that would and have contributed to motor vehicle accidents,” he said.

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Woman Kills Self and 7 others While High on Marijuana
On August 29, 2009 Diane Schuler, while under the influence of alcohol and marijuana drove the wrong way on a freeway killing herself and 7 others including her 2 year old daughter, 3 nieces and 3 men in the SUV she hit head on. She smoked pot one hour before driving.

And more stories here ....Citizens Against Legalizing Marijuana – CALM » crime
 
Oxycontin is addictive. Pot is non addictive.

Incorrect. You've been proven incorrect time and time again with this. Either your memory is faulty or you have no problem lying over and over again. Pot is addictive.

How do you know what his purpose was?

Its public knowledge he began taking it for a legitimate medical problem.

We still have a 55mph speed limit. I imagine about 95% of the peo0le ignore it, some causing deaths. Is that all right with you?

Am I alright with people dying? In general no. Am I alright with people speeding? In general yes. Am I alright with someone that routinely goes 8 miles over the speed limit calling someone that routinely goes 15 miles over the speed limit a "Speeding Jackass"? Yes, yes I would.

I have never heard of pot killing anyone. Oxycontin has caused many deaths and led to extreme violence among many of it's addicts.

Well thank you. Let me give you a fact that is as worthless as the one you just stated. I took a **** today. Wow, great, now we've both stated worthless facts. And after both of them guess what....Pot is stil a drug.

I don't consider pot a drug because I say so.

And that's fine. You could say the President is actually called the Kwijibo in Chief, you could say the Sky is not actually blue but Mac & Cheese yellow, and that you call cars "Vroom Vroom machines.

That wouldn't magically change the fact that the President is called the President, the color of they sky is called blue, that cars are called cars, and that pot is a drug.
 
16 year old Teen Dies after Rolling Car off Cliff – Marijuana in System
Studies indicate that the level of marijuana found in Ruxana’s blood would impair her driving ability, decrease her reaction time and decrease her motor skills, said Iain McIntyre, the forensic toxicology laboratory manager for the Medical Examiner’s Office.

“These are all things that would and have contributed to motor vehicle accidents,” he said.

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Woman Kills Self and 7 others While High on Marijuana
On August 29, 2009 Diane Schuler, while under the influence of alcohol and marijuana drove the wrong way on a freeway killing herself and 7 others including her 2 year old daughter, 3 nieces and 3 men in the SUV she hit head on. She smoked pot one hour before driving.

And more stories here ....Citizens Against Legalizing Marijuana – CALM » crime

"Alcohol" and marijuana. Noted. I have been driving over 50 years and have never had an accident or gotten a traffic ticket. I drove stoned on pot most of my life.It actually made me a safer driver.

It kills me when someone drinks a fifth of jack daniels and smokes a joint, then they blame it on the pot.

How about over the counter cold medicines? It is much more dangerous than pot. Prescription meds such as sleeping pills, groovy pills, etc, are much worse.
 
The mighty and proud JesusSaurus Rex has lead conservitives and ate liberals since the cretacious period. :)
 
It's plain discrimination not to test everybody in our society instead of just certain people. It's a miscarriage of justice to give some people immunities to drug testing. Test them all or none at all.

If my employer found pain killers in my urine. Am I going to get fired?

Are you suggesting that everyone should involuntarily be routinely drug tested?

I'm a fine upstanding citizen with no police record of any kind, unlike Rush.

congratulations for not getting caught.
 
If my employer found pain killers in my urine. Am I going to get fired?

Are you suggesting that everyone should involuntarily be routinely drug tested?

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congratulations for not getting caught.

I don't think anyone should be drug tested. I think it is unconstitutional. I am saying that if some people have to get drug tested then everyone should be tested up to and including the president of the united states.
 
Are you calling me ignorant?

No, I'm calling your attempt guess that I live in a gated community an "ignorant" one since you based it on little actual factual useful knowledge and instead based it off of a joking comment regarding stereotypes used in regards to drug users
 
That doesn't make sense to me. Why do you want more totalitarianism and intrusion just because there is totalitarian and intrusion when you don't want there to be any totalitarianism and intrusion?
 
No, I'm calling your attempt guess that I live in a gated community an "ignorant" one since you based it on little actual factual useful knowledge and instead based it off of a joking comment regarding stereotypes used in regards to drug users

I was speaking metaphorically.
 
That doesn't make sense to me. Why do you want more totalitarianism and intrusion just because there is totalitarian and intrusion when you don't want there to be any totalitarianism and intrusion?

Because if pressure were brought to bear about drug testing everyone then they would finally declare it unconstitutional as it is.

I do believe in equality regarding the rule of law. Why should only some people be tested and not others?
 
I'm not sure why this poll even exists as Rush runs the Republican party and all others are mere wannabes.
 
Most influential - and all we get are a few ****-pickers?
When I look for influence I don't look for "who I see more" or "who gets the most controversial headlines" - I look at who actually *has* influence and power.

General David Petraeus is my top choice for OBVIOUS reasons.

There's Supreme Court Justice Scalia, of course.

Dick Morris - political analyst . . . I like this guy, personally - one of the few.

Ailes and Murdoch - President and owner of Fox News

So is Paul Gigot - unlike TV yaptraps who go for ratings or like Ann Coulter who goes for "being most offensive" - he's the editorial page editor for the New York Times.

And Antonio Machiavelli - haha - ok - not a modern guy but he's very influential, still. . . and I just like him and thought I'd throw him on here. :)

Rick Santorum - started the No Child Left Behind monster of a disaster - originally known as the Santorum Amendment. . . out of the picture but left an incredible sway over our children's education.
 
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