Replies

Thank you three for the comments and confirmation.

I have been listeing to Rush (on and off) since 1990 - right about the time of the lead up to the Gulf War. I was in the Air Force, and was flying jet cargo missions from the States, to Europe, to the Middle East, and back again for months. I was flying on he road for over a year, rarely home, even when the war ended (all our folks and equipment had to come back again). But after that I finally started to tune into Rush regularly.

That was over 25 years ago. Over time, I realized you could tell a lot about Rush from his personality and demeanor. I think he is a brilliant political mind and commentator.

But he is not the same the man he was in terms of his courage and beliefs. Remember when he used to do "Homosexual Updates" in the news? He would expose and attack the gay agenda. Well, the homofascists fought him for short time, and Rush folded like a cheap tent. The same can be said for other social issues.

These days, Rush is much more interested in the Inside Baseball back and forth that goes on within the Establishment.

He is actually part of the Establishment, although he denies it. And that is the problem.

The other governing factor at play here is that Rush has some deep insecurity issues that he has never come to grips with. For all his millions and his success, he still fears that he is nothing more than a college drop out former FM DJ. He desperately craves and needs the affirmation of the Washington DC power players to provide him with constant platitudes that he is a Legitimate.

“He (Rush) is actually part of the Establishment...”

I’m not sure he is, but then again I didn’t like what I heard on Friday. The LAST THING that The Establishment wants is to be forced out of the shadows. They had a GREAT GAME going - where they would select candidates at the dog catcher level, fund them, and eventually some made it to high power positions...which is why true conservatives very rarely made it to high office, even though the HUGE MAJORITY of Republican primary voters are true conservatives. Scott Walker’s early days is an example that comes to mind. He’s running for Milwaukee City Council and he asked about Illegals (or somehow gets on the topic - maybe regarding Sanctuary Cities)...he says that he’s for Open Borders (I use that term very loosely here)...and he gets the support needed to move up and up. Had he said that he’s for Secure Borders (as in building a wall), The Establishment would have politely thanked him and moved on to another candidate, until they find who they want...we would have never even heard his name.

By the time the vetting process was over, you had 17 candidates running for the Republican nomination. 15 were clearly Open Borders, 1 was debatable (Cruz), and Trump was the other.

That’s the way The Establishment likes it (with the exception of Trump, of course), with their work being done quietly, behind the scenes...and giving the Republican voters a slate with more than 90% of the candidates being for Open Borders, yet a Republican voter base that’s 70% for Secure Borders...that left many of us scratching our heads, including Rush. It took him a long time to figure out the scam, but he did, and HE EXPOSED IT...which is the only reason that I know of it, and most others here know of it. He deserves a LOT of credit for that, and he CLEARLY was not making friends with The Establishment in doing that.

Trump then comes along and finally starts cracking some heads in that bunch. Rush could have EASILY have joined The Establishment in telling us that Trump is a big phoney and is unelectable (as Medved preaches non-stop), but Rush pretty much treated both Trump and Cruz equally. About the only thing that Rush did do that looked Establishment-driven to me was his drooling over Rubio...but thankfully Trump dispatched Rubio (at least for now).

At this point I’m thinking that Rush has joined just about every candidate other than Trump and has undergone a personality change due to the intensity of the campaign, and Rush is simply tired of seeing Trump in one ‘scandal’ after another...some of Trump’s making...most not, but still a ‘scandal’ as far as Rush having to react to it. He does seem to understand that the only effect that Cruz can still have in this primary season is to drive it to a Brokered Convention, where Cruz probably won’t even get a ticket to attend, much less be the nominee...so I’m wondering if his fatigue is preventing him from making that connection when gets on Trump’s case.

I’ll listen again next week...maybe he’ll calm down by then.