I like Rush, but on this I strongly disagree with him. How ironic that it’s been Rush who says that Democrats don’t give up power that easily. Once they get power they don’t want to get rid of it.
Yes, on racial issues Rush tries hard to be as Politically Correct as any liberal Democrat. He likes to stress the fact that the Republican Party was largely responsible for passing the 1965 Civil Rights Act and that southern Democrats opposed it.
Now this is true, but there was also a significant Republican Senator who opposed that bill, and his name was Barry Goldwater. Those southern Democrats who were allied with Goldwater were an integral part of what was called the ‘conservative coalition’, an informal group that controlled Congress from the late ‘30s to the mid ‘60s.
If Rush wants to align himself with the Rockefeller-Javits wing of the GOP who passed the Civil Rights Act that’s fine with me, but he needs to stop calling himself a conservative and admit that at heart he’s really a 60’s Republican liberal or 60’s Democrat Cold Warrior of the Hubert Humphrey mold. He’s often far closer to them than he is to the likes of Reagan’s hero Goldwater or the old conservative southern Democrats whom he likes to portray as a pack of racists. That’s been one of the oldest tactics of the Left. If Rush wants to mimic them then he should at least take their name.