When has Rush endorsed anyone but the parties nominee AFTER he was chosen? Rush will not endorse Romney, neither will he endorse Thompson. But listeners will be left with the indelible impression (earlier) that Fred Thompson is the only front-runner that is a solid conservative. Now that Fred Thompson is no longer one of the front runners (tears for our nation, and jeers to South Carolina (McCain/Huck? WTF?); it seems that Mitt Romney is receiving the “Fred Thompson treatment” from Rush, (except the verbiage has changed to ‘most conservative’ of the front runners)but this is not and will not be an official endorsement.
Rush has made his philosophy clear on this. We will point, wave and point, jump up and down holding a sign, draw you a map, but he will NOT actually come out and say ‘come on people, go out and vote for Candidate X, he has my endorsement’.
But if someone cannot interpret his verbal jumping up and down holding a sign and pointing; well then I don’t see as that person is smart enough to be convinced either way by Rush’s reasoning and will instead vote for Huckabee because he had a glowing white cross behind him and said God told him to run for President.