“Rush has, in the past, had great political instincts.....”
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He still has those great political instincts. I think Rubio is simply a blind spot (and I believe a temporary blind spot) for him. Clarity in Rush’s perception of Rubio’s true character will be restored to Rush—hopefully in the relative near term.
Rush has pretty well worked all his life and probably hasn’t had much time to frequent pool halls. Or, more accurately, the kind of pool halls in which I wasted some of my youth. Rubio is a familiar type to me—the hustler. I learned to recognize his type in my youth and thus avoided the losses that sometimes befell some of my slower learning (or perhaps more gullible) friends. It was only recently that I started to see through Rubio’s facade and recognized the “hustler” character that was hiding behind that facade. After all these years I had started to let some of my character recognition skills get rusty and it took the Amnesty Gang of 8 business to restore those skills to me.
I hope Rush wakes up soon to Rubio’s true character and learns to recognize that he is being hustled. We need Rush; he is one of the great hopes we have of regaining and then retaining the great Republic we were given.
I don’t think Rush would ever agree with your analysis of Rubio, which is certainly original thinking on your part.
I think what makes Rush go easy on Rubio is that he sees in Rubio a youthful optimism that he himself can no longer conjure, and he finds that optimism ingratiating. It is my opinion that, like me, Rush knows in his gut that America is finished. America is now nothing more than a land mass populated by moochers, cretins, ingrates, and parasites who have absolutely no respect for the military and who vote for big government to confiscate money from their neighbors so that it may be “redistributed” to them in exchange for their votes. It is not an America worth defending anymore. That America no longer exists.
The parasites outnumber the hosts now, and there’s no going back. America is dead.
The Democrats have won.
America has now elected - - twice - - an African communist as its president and Commander-in-Chief. If that doesn't tell you America is finished, nothing will. Rush can hardly believe there are people like Rubio out there who still appear to have hope that America can be restored. Rush's problem is that he doesn't really know what kind of vision for a restored America Rubio truly has.
Thanks for a thoughtful post. I’d like to learn more. What specific behaviors do you associate with a “hustler?”