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..... Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingrahm, Boortz, and the rest of the Conservative talk show hosts
All of the "conservative stars of talk radio" have one thing in common:

They all stand to make obscene amounts of money off conservatives for the next eight years, listening to their cathartic rants and ventings on their call-in shows; from book signings and appearences; from ratings and ad dollars on their networks; and name-dropping at the same cocktail parties that The Left attends, because after all, they're one big happy entertainment industry.

The Old Sarge gets it. Did these talkers even get their own listeners off the couch and out the door to vote? No. (Another 5% showing up at the polls could have made this a different election) Did their vastly entertaining preaching to the choir convert any Democrats? No.

These fellows are part of the entertainment industry and their job is to sell ads. Period. They are the marketing gateway to upscale, 35-65, white men: a huge market. What? This is a mystery? Downscale, you go sports, NASCAR, country music. On one you sell financial, retirement, medical, and insurance products. On the other you sell beer, trucks and cars. On both, you sell Viagra.

Does no one remember when ex-disc-jockey Rush Limbaugh was pro-illegal immigration ... parroting the Chamber of commerce theory that it was the sign of a "healthy economy?" Look it up.

There is nothing wrong with what these talkers do. However, it is very wrong, IMHO, to think that they are some sort of moral or political force to be reckoned with. They have a devoted audience ... including occasionally, me. The Left talks about them incessantly ... but as a distraction.

Cheerful admission: Rush Limbaugh and Ronald Reagan probably did combine to make sure enough men got out to swing the after-Jimmy election and probably made some temporary conversions. After all, RR used to be a Democrat, too. But like all converts the "Reagan Democrats," have either back-slid, or failed to show. We seem to be inexorably oozing backwards into the era when all the real conservatives in the country could meet on the poop deck of the Cyrano for drinks with WFB ... and it wasn't a big yacht.

Newsflash: with a turnout of less than 50%, the Republicans ... particularly under the genetically damaged RNC ... are never going to take a major election. In 2008, McCain lost to the most preposterous candidate ever put up by any party and his lame campaign got nowhere near 50% of registered Republicans to the polls.

Did these talkers even get their own listeners off the couch and out the door to vote? No.

Can you please enumerate provable facts that validate this?

..... Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingrahm, Boortz, and the rest of the Conservative talk show hosts All of the "conservative stars of talk radio" have one thing in common:

...they do immeasurably more than Kenny Bunk to promote conservatism.

“Cheerful admission: Rush Limbaugh and Ronald Reagan probably did combine to make sure enough men got out to swing the after-Jimmy election and probably made some temporary conversions.”

Limbaugh had zero impact on any Reagan election. Limbaugh didn’t begin his political radio career until 1988, the same year he first bothered to vote.