[Finny]

Remember too the CONTEXT of the supposed "endorsement" of Romney. It was about ten minutes of monologue, and the subject was NOT Romney, the subject was the dismal field of Republicans. I never heard, nor did I ever see transcripts, of Rush "urging" people to vote for Romney. It's a myth that Rush "backed" Romney. It's TRUE that Levin, at the very end, urged people to vote for Romney over McCain in the primary, but Levin made it CRYSTAL CLEAR that it was a reluctant endorsement, that he thought Romney was the least bad of a piss-poor lot.

Go back and listen to or read the ENTIRE segment referred to here, where Rush very carefully said that Romney "embodied" -- "probably embodied," if I remember correctly, the three legs of the stool. Furthermore, Romney was only mentioned in passing, a very small part, of that discusion from Rush. WORDS MEAN THINGS, and Rush tiptoed around anything close to an endorsement, though Romney's suporters flat-out LIED and said otherwise. The only time I've ever heard Rush praise Romney was for his Religion in America speech. Rush has NEVER, that I've heard, praised Romney's politics and on the contrary, during the '08 primaries, he played clips of Romney and followed up with, "Folks, this is not conservatism." He also said after the first primary debate that included Fred Thompson: "Folks, there was only one conservative on the stage last night, and that conservative was Fred Thompson."

Seeing as how Romney was also on that stage, it's pretty clear to me that Rush thinks pretty lowly of Romney's politics.

[joesbucks]

Ok, so the field was dismal. He said Romney embodies the three legs of conservatism. Rush was playing a game to destroy McCain. But since words mean things, it appears Rush danced with the devil whether he said probably or does embody.

[for-q-clinton]

Well I listened to it live 4 years ago and to be honest it had me confused for most of this election cycle until Rush mentioned it again. I thought I must have just dreamt it because no one was talking about it. I even asked about it on FR and no one responded. If it was not an endorsement then I either took the bait and fell for the trick or Rush didn’t do a good job of ‘splaining his position or he was endorsing him (to defeat McCain).

Keep in mind I am NOT a Romney backer he is way to moderate and wishy-washy for me, but it wsa pretty clear to Rush was backing Romney at the last minute. Which was as shocker because he really doesn’t endorse in the primary. For example, who has he endorsed this time? no one.