[livius]

What the heck is the matter with Rush? This was irrational and I honestly don’t understand what he was trying to say.

Personally, I hold Rush at least partly responsible for electing Obama because of his stupid “Operation Chaos” stuff in the last election. He spent most of his shows talking about the Dems, never focused on the lousy candidate that was being pushed on us by GOP Central, and got people so confused by encouraging them to vote for Hillary in open primaries that the conservative “base,” as he likes to call them, had no idea what to do about getting a decent GOP candidate.

I used to think he was having problems answering callers because he didn’t hear them very well, but now (with the supposed wonder hearing aids he keeps pushing) I have no idea what he is doing.

[Yosemitest]

You need to read the supporting information to Rush's article, and read:

• "Making Sense of Republicans Attacking Capitalism", and
  
• "Newt Sounds Just Like Obama".

Yes, it's possible that Rush's hearing loss might be a small factor, but I don't believe there's any "misunderstanding" on Rush's part.

It's hard to take emotion out of this, because we all get very emotional when we see what this ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT IN CHIEF,
and his minions are intentionally doing to OUR country.
But we must keep emotion out of it.
Listen and think. Don't just react.
We mustn't try to play on other peoples' emotions, like the left.
We're better than that.
We can't win if we're NOT conservative.

Like Rush said:

This is so simple.
We got a Marxist in the White House,
come up with a conservative nominee,
run a campaign, win in a landslide, and save the country.

Instead what happened?
The establishment Republicans get scared to death of conservatives,
thinking it's gonna result in a Goldwater landslide,
and they figure Obama can't be beat anyway,
so let's find a moderate that doesn't tick off the independents.
Let's try to win the Senate
and get ourselves in charge of the chairmanships and the money,
and we'll call it a day.

Any conservative that got in the race, the establishment [Republicans] is set out to destroy.
That's where we are.
That's why all this is happening.
Because we got a bunch of people in the Republican establishment who don't think the Marxist in the White House can be beat anyway
and really care more about getting themselves in charge of the money than anything else.
And they do not share our view that the country's future is in peril.
They don't.
That's where we are.

“Operation Chaos” worked like it was suppose to, keeping the Democrats at each other's throat for an additional 6 months.

Try a little harder to understand what Rush is saying.
Read Jay Nordlinger's articles

Let’s Play Two,
Conservatives vs. Capitalism 01/09/12
and P.S. on Conservatives vs. Capitalism 01/09/12.

We don't need to use the language of the left, or sound like the left.
We need to BE ... CONSERVATIVE!