Derbyshire?
Who is this mope?
High-brow, intelligent guy from UK. Conservative principles are better expressed by other folks at NR, like Ponnoru or Goldberg.
Oh so wrong.
He often writes for National Review. I think he’s actually a medical doctor, but I could be misremembering.
He may espouse conservative principles but he abandoned Christianity and is a “Mysterian” which is described as a position with a ‘strong agnostic’ religious viewpoint.
No way I am betting the farm on him being right. Man’s smarts only get him just so far. I can see someone like him looking down on Rush and other religious conservatives because we’re stupid enough to believe in God. A little bit of jealousy the low-brow God-fearing conservatives seem to get more attention.
And I would also say that if there is a void in conservative talk radio and that people who want a more NPR-type conservative talk show format, I’d would say “go for it.” If it’s national and it’s not on the same hours Rush is on, I’d check it out.
But to me it seems more of a subtle sour-grapes I am not the conservative successor to Buckley, why won’t conservatives want me more than Rush, kind of thing. It sounds a little liberal-whiny to me.
Now I will point out in my own personal opinion, I do not place Rush in the same categories as Hannity and ORiley or even McLaughlin. Never heard Rush sound like Hannity geting into insult tossing with a liberal (I remember one with Alec Baldwin for ex.). That I don’t need to hear. Same with McLaughlin Group where everyone just goes nuts at each other. But Rush doesn’t do that kind fo stuff and that’s why I can listen to him the last 19 years (started in 1990).