Uh no, those burned bridges within the GOP. Rush's "hero" Ronaldus Maximus never did that, and thus Ronaldus Maximus's shining legacy, unlike what looks to be Rush's bitter one.
I'm posting this at 1:09 PM EST.
Dane. I never saw Rush as the keeper of the bridges between the various factions of the Republican Party.
I am not sure whose department that is.
I always viewed Rush as the voice of Conservative principals.
To the extent that the Republican Party abandons those, and to the extent that its various candidates abandon them, Rush will not join in. And I think that is appropriate.
Ronald Regan’s legacy, however you want to describe it, was not one of abandoning Conservative principals for the sake of the Republican Party. (Although even he may have done it once or twice).
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers.” Ronald Wilson Reagan, Conservative Political Action Conference, February 15, 1975.