Gee, both of Rush’s most-detested candidates lead in the polls in a conservative state. I didn’t listen to him today, but he must be wondering what’s happened to his influence.
What has happened is that he sold out and has been shilling for Romney for over a month now, in spite of his claim to want to remain “neutral.” Neutral, my eye. I don’t listen every day, but I’d bet that he hasn’t had a single good thing to say about either McCain or Huckabee in that month, and sees no wrong in Romney.
As it becomes more and more obvious that a large share of his regular listeners are incensed over his treatment of Huckabee, not to mention his out and out lying about his supposed neutrality, Rush has grown increasingly strident. Too bad he couldn’t have been more objective from the beginning instead of buying into Romney so easily.
It’s almost like Romney has bought him off or something, given Rush’s reluctance to consider anything negative about Romney’s record (such as the impending disaster he left behind, RomneyCare, or the fact that he’d never get re-elected in the state he supposedly led successfully for four years.)
If anyone listened today, what did Rush have to say about the article “Limbaugh Gets Behind Romney” in the Boston Globe? Michael Levenson really nailed it; Rush picked his horse in this race a while ago.
What treatment is that?
The same treatment given to any other socially liberal democrat?
Hauckabee just happens to be running on the R ticket because the dems have no use for white evangelicals.
Otherwise he looks pretty much the same as hillary.
The last time America elected a President who couldn't get re-elected as governor, we got stuck with Jimmy Carter. I know two Republicans from Massachusetts both of whom are moderately conservative. Both detest Mitt Romney.
There's only one person who Rush has said is a real conservative. But he didn't say that about Mitt.
Saying someone is a real conservative is about the closest we're gonna get from Rush for an endorsement until the nominee is picked.
He even(well, his webmaster/graphic artists) even made a graphic on it with the man's picture.
It was Fred.
FWIW, I haven't heard Rush say anything bad about Mitt. Haven't heard him say anything bad about Fred or Rudy either. Or even for that matter Paul. But a graphic with 'real conservative' seems closer to an endorsement to me than a lack of mean words.