Can't conservatives unite with party?

Watching CNN Feb. 6 relating to the Tuesday primaries and McCain's surge in the Republican Party, they showed a segment with Rush Limbaugh railing against McCain, stating why he is such an abomination to the conservative wing of the party.

And what is Mr. McCain's great sin, according to Mr. Limbaugh?

That McCain dared to try to work across the aisle with the Democrats. This is his great crime, the very nadir of malfeasance being perpetrated against all the conservatives in the country.

Now I ask all you religious right conservatives: How on earth do we expect to come together as a nation, when the greatest problem that can beset us is talking across the aisles of our government, trying to establish support on issues that concern all of us as Americans?

According to Mr. Limbaugh, anyone who deviates from the ideas set forth by him and his ilk are absolutely not to be countenanced.

Does he not realize this very state of mind is what precipitated the Civil War? Those southern hotheads never waited to see what Mr. Lincoln would do before firing on Fort Sumter. They were not about to listen to any ideas but their own, and if it couldn't be their way, well, let's just tear the country apart.

Isn't this why we've suffered through this social civil war for the last 25 years, because the social right wing conservatives will not allow for anyone else's ideas but their own?

Will we always be red states and blue states, rather than the United States, because of people like Rush Limbaugh, spewing their vitriolic venom across the land?

Whatever happened to "united we stand, divided we fall?"

Rosemary Colbert

Schaumburg