I am from Missouri and I do not brag, nor do I LIE. You are most certainly free to presume whatever you wish. I really could care less IF you follow Rush or NOT. AND I do not care if you consider me a lying troll or a bigmouth ignoramus. Realville is the here and now and liberalism is nearly the state of this nation. Bloody Thursday before the Florida primary, was the last straw for me on Rush... Obviously Rush did not have his mirror cleaned that day when he snarled about Newt's ego... and read the liar Abrams trash and insults of the nobody Newt of the 80's... I knew the instant Rush read Abrams words they were lies.... http://spectator.org/blog/2012/01/27/elliott-abrams-caught-misleadi .... but by the time the 'truth' got spoken the damage was done. Sorry, Rush popped his own big ego on this one. Like it or not what goes around comes around.
I vaguely remember Rush talking about the silly Abrams piece, but I don’t remember it being a big deal with Rush. If anything Rush approached it skeptically. In fact Rush seemed to be leaning toward Newt, if anybody, among the (at the time) fairly big GOP primary crowd.
Rush remained skeptical about Mittens right up to the end and seemed to be more focused on Ubanga’s defeat than Romney’s victory. No way was Rush ever a big supporter or apologist for Romney. Didn’t happen. He did look for positives, though. And like Mark Levin and many others, it came down to electing the last man standing or Ubanga, and so (shrug) it had to be the last man standing ... or Ubanga.
(By the way, I personally couldn’t bring myself to vote for Mittens.)
As far as Boehner goes, my take is that Rush has little use for him. Rush, following Reagan’s 11th commandment, rarely lets loose on ANY Republican. He just sees that practice as counterproductive and prefers to concentrate on exposing the lie of liberalism and the damage the Democrats continue to do to our nation.
Rush prefers to use his talk-radio “bully pulpit” to exhort Republicans to do the right thing, the conservative thing, and attempts to guide them in their arguments and communication for the purpose of advancing conservative values. He tries to tell them what to do and how to do it.
My appreciation for Rush continues to grow every day. I have NEVER heard him compromise his conservative principles. He has done 200+ shows per year for 20+ years, and remains steady as a rock. Yeah, he’s made a few mistakes over the (many) years and said a few things he probably wished he could take back, but so what? Who on earth could talk through 5,000 3-hour shows and never make a mistake?
Your original post lambasting Rush was full of holes and inaccurate assertions, and sounded indicative of somebody who only hears or reads second-hand accounts about Rush’s daily shows. The point is, if you believe that Rush is/was a full-throated supporter of Mittens or Boehner you are way off base.
I basically agree with everything else you said on this thread, though.
FRegards,
LH