>> I know Rush is all about entertainment, but if you listen to him because you think he supports conservative views,
When I listen to Rush, I do so for the entertainment value.
>> He’s not the RNC HQ, for God’s sake.
Yet, it’s the RNC that created the circumstances you want Rush to commit to. Let’s not forget about the Primary battles at FR. It was a retrograde process of elimination that few FRiends were happy about. Was there a candidate that you wanted Rush to endorse? I was hoping for Thompson, Hunter couldn’t launch, the Primaries were a disaster. It became of battle of religion that McCain exploited for the victory.
I would expect the constituency to select the best candidate without endorsements or marching orders for that matter. Maybe my expectations are too high, but I respectfully disagree with your point of view. There was time early 2008 that I was expecting an endorsement from Rush, but in hindsight, I don’t think it would have made a difference - neither would it have affected my vote.
The who of the pick is irrelevant. If he’d picked according to his stated conservative principles, he’d still have picked, and we’d have had a primary process with a conservative to rally around instead of conservatives short on dough fighting loaded moderates. If at any point a strong conservative organizer had said, hey, let’s choose a straw poll as our final call on this insofar as our conservative is concerned, and then in the primaries we’ll all vote for the top conservative vote-getter, we’d have been far better off, especially if that vote getter had publicly agreed to abide by the vote him/herself.