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Miss Marple wrote:: …Rush does not understand longterm goals, in my opinion. He has repeatedly demonstrated that he lacks the patience for incremental improvement, and often recommends actions which would polarize the electorate and ultimately be a disaster. And if he is rudely sighing over the president's speech (I listened to the speech on Fox and not Rush) then he is being a big jerk.

Rush is in danger of becoming an anachronism.

After 9/11 America's mindset began to change, but Rush continues to harp on pre-9/11 themes.

Unless he gets up to speed he's going to be talking to a smaller and smaller audience as time goes by.

For instance, he's still harping about SUVs rather than the eco-terrorism driected against SUVs.

"Rush is in danger of becoming an anachronism."

Au contraire, my FRiend...Rush has tapped into a rich vein of committed conservative Republicans and independents who are increasingly concerned with--and appalled by--the Bush-led GOP's lack of spending discipline. Many of us have worked 20-30-50 years to see a GOP POTUS and GOP Congress simultaneously in the sincere hope that the Federal Leviathan would be restrained from growing out-of-control. Instead, it's growing faster than ever...what gives?!

"After 9/11 America's mindset began to change, but Rush continues to harp on pre-9/11 themes."

"Pre-9/11 themes" have not gone away just because we are fighting a War on Terrorism (which Rush has enthusiastically endorsed and cheerled, BTW!!)

"Unless he gets up to speed he's going to be talking to a smaller and smaller audience as time goes by."

If "getting up to speed" implies signing onto the Bush GOP's spending bonanza, I believe you are sadly mistaken. Rush's audience continues to stand by him because of his principled conservatism, not for his alleged cheerleading of the Republican issue du juor.

FReegards...MUD