Based on his comments and tack, I have always assumed he was one of the dems on the panel, but the one who sometimes was reasonable. Shows what I know! Anyway, who says the R party lost in this election? From my point of view the election was stolen for geopolitical reasons, because the public is not smart enough to pick our leaders, so they are "selected" for us by...
This gives us a puppet, who obviously will be put in his place if he thinks he is smart enough to take an independent position from his puppet masters. IMHO this all boils down to a few simple truths. Rush is invaluable to the R's, who, without his righteousness, would probably all lose their minds. The government is the government's government. It no longer is of, by and for the people. It picks winners and losers and does not do it's job in any kind of an efficient manner. It obviously is not accountable to the people, and has morphed itself into a behemoth dinosaur beholden to none. There is no place in the public square for truth and honest debate anymore.
The winner in this election is as obvious as the nose on your face. The summer Olympics of Chicago in 2016!
I admit that it's a fine catch-phrase, but it's a bit much if you really mean to take it seriously.
Of all the posters to this thread, it seems that your posts are the most "correct," in your own mind.
Well, I will certainly grant that my opinions differ from many of those expressed on this thread, and as such I suppose they stand out. To the extent that I agree with Kondracke on the matter of talk radio, and others do not, I suppose it's appropriate to say that I consider my posts to be "correct."
While I don't agree with Kondracke on a lot of things, even within this article, I do think his underlying point in this instance is the correct one. As a political movement Conservatism seems irrelevant and bereft of useful ideas. I don't think our underlying principles are wrong ... but I do think that we tend to lose sight of what they are; and I'm convinced that we very often fail to apply them to the world as it is today.
And hence you get an Obama -- a cipher who seems to have ideas to fix what's wrong; and an adoring media who are longing to be led by a charismatic figure.
When you look at the "impact" of talk radio on this phenomenon you find that it had ... little or no effect. The vaunted power of talk radio quite obviously did not penetrate the consciousness of the folks who needed to be convinced. As a result Obama controlled the debate.