[nathanbedford]

The opposition to Mark Levin expressed on this thread advanced by some who do not even listen to him and probably never read his books are misdirected against a man who by word and deed has proven his unshakable conservatism and the half thought out complaints are evidence of ideological confusion.

Mark Levin has been sounding the tocsin of alarm against the Republican establishment, against Rinos, against phony conservatives for years and he has illustrated his warnings with anecdotes extending as far back as his own participation in the Reagan administration. His conservative bona fides extend that far back and they are genuine because they are incidents of real action. The last one I remember is his recounting the story of finding Saul Alinsky's books being distributed by the Carter administration at our cost. He has recounted the battle between Reagan and Ford in 1976 to instruct us all on the true conservative approach to gaining the nomination.

Mark Levin has given the history of Rino domination of the party he has given their resistance to Ronald Reagan proper historical context so that we understand who the Bushes and John Boehner and Mitch McConnell are. He recounts betrayal by Orin Hatch on his program. It is hard to identify anyone in the pantheon of conservatives who are publicly known who would have been more strident in their attacks on Rino Republicans and who have lent their support to insurgents in the house and who has lent his airtime to insurgents seeking election in the House and Senate.

Mark Levin is not the problem, he is part of the solution, why in God's name do we shoot the messenger?

He has been loud and long in his criticism of the House leadership and loud and long in support of the insurgents including Dave Brat. Mark Levin stands out among broadcasters as one of the few who will risk his reputation by endorsing candidates, even in primaries, and even when the odds against his choice of winning are long. He does that not to advance his reputation but to advance conservatism. He has time and again recounted the opposition by the Rino Republicans to Ronald Reagan. No one has been more emphatic than Mark Levin in describing the breakdown of conservatism and the Republican Party over the years. It is not just his criticism but as activism and commitment through his career and through Landmark Legal over decades which lends him credibility.

More, he has written commercially successful, influential books espousing true conservatism and has even advanced a very influential argument on behalf of Article V thereby energizing an attempt to cure the problems seen in Washington. Whether you approve or disapprove of a convention of the states, it is undeniable that Mark Levin has seen the problem and has advanced a solution.

I know of no pundit who has been more right on all the issues. He is right on trade, right on immigration, right on convention of the states, right on deficits and budgets, right on the war against terror, right on Obamacare, right on environmental tyranny, right on the meaning of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. I know of no issue on which he is "wrong."

Nearly faultless on substance, his popularity speaks for his engaging broadcast personality as he remains in fifth place among radio talkers and his newly launched Levin TV appears to be hugely successful. I was pleased to receive a year subscription to his television program from my children for my birthday and I can say that the presentation is as professional as it is entertaining but most important it is factually driven, logical, and consistently conservative. The television program, the books, the radio show all our carefully grounded in an exposition of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, a review of relevant court decisions, real and often very personal history, or the actual wording of the law in question. He presents in-depth interviews of fascinating guests and actually lets them talk, a 180° departure from his one obvious failing on radio, his rudeness to callers. All in all, in four disciplines, television, radio, publishing (books and Conservative Review), and legal activism Mark Levin has demonstrated excellence, competence and popular success.

His career demonstrates that he walks the walk as well as talks the talk. Mark Levin is not part of the problem he is part of the solution.

[wintertime]

Levin, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity and the rest IGNORED Obama’s fake birth documents, fake social security number, non-attendance on the Columbia campus and many other aspects of Obama’s highly questionable past.

For that reason alone **all** are untrustworthy.

That Levin was completely sucked in and fooled by Cruz is forgivable the above is not.

[Lazamataz]

Dude, I’ve loved ya over the years, but if you don’t see that the fight is not Conservative/Liberal, but Globalist/Populist — and if you don’t see that Levin is on the Globalist side — then I fear you’ve lost your edge.

[Lazamataz]

Example: If he is anti-Globalist, explain why he spits out the terms Populist or Nationalist with contempt.

[Mechanicos]

When one sells out their soul for the almighty dollar they fall hard in the eyes of those who want to save America.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/08/gop-establishment-money-funding-mark-levin-glenn-beck-erick-erickson-to-attack-trump/

[ResisTyr]

Yeah...that was all yesterday. Today, he has lost his mind. The man needs mental help. At the very least, anger management therapy. I use to be his biggest fan...no longer. Ever since he entered self-destruction mode.

[enumerated]

Your defense of Levin is a perfect explanation for why so many on this thread used to love him. Nobody is denying the Mark Levin you describe existed, in fact, there is a nearly universal premise to each testimonial that he was the favorite, that he was indispensable, that people went out of their way to listen each day,

Yes, there are a few comments about him having a shrill or whiney voice. Most of us liked it when his voice would get high or when he would treat a caller with a certain deserved contempt and hang up on him. It was refreshing to hear his unwillingness to suffer fools. (That aspect of Levin actually reminds me of Trump). One commenter on this thread mentions being bothered by Levin’s occasional innuendos about Southerners - that occasionally bothered me too.

Other than those few criticisms, Levin was almost universally adored by the people on this thread and other FR threads regarding Mark Levin. I don’t think there is any basis for your suspicion that the people criticizing Levin never really listened to him - they clearly used to, but have lost respect due to his stubborn and Hillary-enabling contempt for Trump. It is this sudden about face of ardent Levin fans from needing to listen to hours of Levin daily to not being able to listen, and it’s root cause (antiTrump) that you are failing to acknowledge.

I can’t speak for others, but please don’t doubt my past admiration for Levin and my heartbreak at the loss of him as a conservative mentor now that I am unable to listen to him. I still try and as one FReeper mentioned, it takes only a few minutes before I feel the sting of Levin’s rebuke - the insult of Levin’s direct or implied charge that I must be ignorant of basic economic principles, not a true conservative or worse, if I do not share his contempt for Trump and admiration of Cruz.

I received my masters in macro economics at Temple, my favorite professor being none other than the real great one, Walter Williams. I am an educated conservative, I do support Trump, who is not perfect, and if I want to be ridiculed for supporting Trump, believe me there are many places I can go to receive my daily dose of insults. It makes me so sad that Levin considers me a moron.

What I really can’t reconcile is how for Mark Levin, Mitt Romney and other neverTrumps, it’s only the specter of a Trump presidency that causes them to say “never!”, “this is unthinkable!” “How will I explain to my granddaughter how Trump could become President and I stood by and did nothing to stop it!” They simply did not express the same horror at the prospect of Obama or Clinton becoming president. Do they not realize how this looks?

What a crock this #neverTrump sentiment is, and yes Levin is guilty of it. If there was any truth to Trump’s supposed lack of conservatism it would have manifested by now, and we’d have a liberal platform at the convention and Trump would already be rushing to the left. He’s not, and Trump and his supporters are owed a big fat apology from you neverTrumps. Including the once great one, Mark Levin.