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It looks like I won't ever have to listen to {or turn off} erick the red in a substitute role for Rush. Thankfully!!!
We’ve all heard of Rush Limbaugh, but wasn’t Erick Erickson a psychologist who died about 20 years ago?
Bring it on Eric. We are ready to rubble. You are trash now but when we are through with you you will be ashes in a whirlwind.
This is pure liberal mob tactic. It will backfire, IMO. There’s always this circular firing squad and idealogical purity test and he/she who claims to be the administrator of it first seems to be the one who can claim the higher moral ground. Trust in Rush versus trust in EE is, oh, 200:1.
Note very carefully that Rush and Levin have not >>endorsed<< Trump. No way. They are simply being open to him, and pointing out that Trump is in no way idealogically pure. And leaving it at that. Levin isn’t even endorsing Cruz, perhaps the most idealogically pure candidate, as well as a super intelligent man.
When someone tells me I am not allowed to think something that emanates from their mouth and is as shallow and self-serving as this EE rant, I react negatively. That’s MY conservative value.
Trump is willing to try to bring America and the Republican Party back to life. Jeb will say a few words at the burial service of each - any questions?
Erickson: “all those in a position of leadership… actively encouraging the Trump phenomenon, you are neither a conservative nor a Republican anymore and should not expect anyone to take you seriously again.”
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We have a saying around here about one’s alligator mouth overloading one’s hummingbird a$$. Republicans per se are dead to me as of 2012, but since when are conservatives obliged to conform to, or even tolerate, the utterances of some self appointed commissariat?
Thanks for the writing and presenting the article.
If Erick wants to rumble with Rush, call him out or draw lines in the sand, he’s gonna’ lose & badly.
Members of my family and I have been listening to and talking about Rush/Trump & we are very interested in what we’ve been hearing. Rush has certainly not endorsed Trump, but he also talks about & holds forth on what is positive about him - as one small example, the way Trump destroys being “PC”. Those candidates (Rand Paul, Rick Perry) who want to spend their time trying to drag Trump down are sinking in the polls .... they should avail themselves of the path Trump is clearing through the jungle of enemedia to explain why THEIR policies and plans would be better than any of the other candidates.
For whatever reason, EE has fallen into the Trump sinkhole along with Paul/Perry. Dissing Trump seems to be a personal vendetta for him. It shows he’s a small, small man and Rush/Trump are large and in charge. Have at it EE ..... loser.
I have “unsubscribed” three times from Red State yet continue to get it. I refuse to give my time to someone who considers himself so high and mighty that he can select who will speak over the selections of the American People. I will no longer read or listen to E.E. on any subject whatsoever.
While I sometimes find myself aghast at Trump, he’s clearly shaking the power structure around and to my mind, that’s a good thing. Erickson, on the other hand, is an example of The Problem. Insular and easily seduced by the proximity to “people” in Washington.
In summary, get back on the reservation or we won’t invite you to our party. The GOPe has all the maturity of a junior high girl.
I think the “Trump effect” is nothing more than the mainstream media attempting to boost ratings at the expense of the legitimacy of the Republican party.
The last debate was the highest rated non-sports cable event in history. These people know what they are doing.
Rush and everyone on here who gives legitimacy to Trump is being naive. Like Bruce Jenner, the “rent is too damn high” candidate a couple years ago, Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Morton Downey, etc... he is a media sensation. His fame has been created by the media buzz and when they are no longer in need of him, it will be destroyed by the media.
The longer we keep pretending he is a viable candidate, the greater chance of a Democrat in the White House.
Why, at this point, are there tensions? The delegation of delegates doent happen for a while yet. The focus on a long distance horse race instead of holding Boners and Ditch’s feet to the fire is a waste of energy.
I couldn’t agree more. This is the first time in 25 years I’m not listening to Rush. His tacit endorsement of Trump day after day is enough. Usually Rush poo poos polls but all he does is tout the Trump polls w/ NO analysis of Trump’s position. Not a single mention of Trump’s love of eminent domain, which should be a deal breaker for any true conservative. What does Trump have on Rush, I wonder?
Frankly I don’t much listen to any of them these days. That includes guys like Limbaugh and Levin. I pay attention to their opinions but no more or less than I pay to anyone else.
I do my own thinking and I do my own research.
What I have on the TV right now is the Science Channel “How its made”. Not even remotely political, just simple this is how we make this doodad.
Either EE is an attention-whore or he is finally coming out of the closet as a eGOP operative.
what is Eric protecting? It seems that the Republican party and their supporters are only protecting their own personal interests.