Sticking to his guns doesn’t make Rush a bad guy.
Funny, over at PJ Media, the never Trump crowd were throwing a temper tantrum that Rush, FoxNews, and all kinds of other ‘conservative’ media was over the top too pro-Trump 24/7.
And they swore they’ve left these outlets/websites for good.
I have always been of the belief that Rush and his show’s cohorts read FR, and especially when his show is on-air, as there have been too numerous occasions when he would say/reference something that I had only just read on the site a few minutes/short time before.
That being said, I sure hope he sees this and the posts that follow.
Rush married a liberal.
Goldwater married a liberal in his later years.
The marriage explains Rush’s position as well as anything else can.
Well done. Thank you for writing down my own thoughts in such an eloquent way.
There’s a certain radio personality I know (not famous; I’ll call him Bob.) Bob has been a fixture in his community for decades. I like him a lot but haven’t listened to him in years because he can’t speak w/o using the filler word “uh.” I played a little game for years, tuning into his radio show once a week to count how many sentences he can complete that week before resorting to his “uh” word. His record is 7 full sentences, but I suspect he was reading from something that day. Otherwise, he can’t get 2 or 3 sentences out before the “uh’s” start rolling out of his mouth.
Rush has become my “weekly “Bob” game now. This week when I randomly tuned in, the once-great Rush Limbaugh was sanctimoniously trying to decide why Trump supporters are offended by “Trumpists,” which is the word he had just used to describe millions of Dittoheads. Mind you, we are ... Well, we WERE Dittoheads who’ve been listening to him for decades, learning through his tutelage to think for ourselves. Yet here he was, trying unsuccessfully to disguise his derision toward us for daring to refuse to follow his Globalist Path.
It’s sad, really. I’m way past the anger stage at him. Now it’s just pathetic to watch. It’s a little like that sick feeling I get inside when I think about how Cruz had me so fooled. But this is more. This is much more: Rush is an iconic figure. Rush was a stalwart I could usually rely on to see through the BS and tell it like it is.
At least the real Bob doesn’t lie to me. After years of entertaining myself with my silly “Bob game,” I’ve never felt derision toward him, despite not being able to listen to his incessantly annoying speech patterns.
Rush, you may have riches and fame, but you’re not half the man Bob is. I do thank you for the memories and for teaching us so much. Best of luck to you, but you’ll never be viewed the same.
On another note... Y’all check out Laura Ingraham. She gets it, plus she was a FReeper years ago. Oh, she gets it alright.
Thank you Bray, enjoyable article...
Well said, bray!!!
Nicely done!
There's millions of holes in Trump's positions, and Rush lets him slide. Easy pickings for attacking. Any other candidate with a sad story like Trump's, and Rush would have nailed him long ago.
You won't believe it, but the reason he hasn't nailed Trump is probably because they're buddies. They've played golf together, and Rush can't bring himself to slam a buddy. Even one with as dismal a record as a "conservative" as Trump. So lay off Rush.
Limbaugh = Globalist/Internationalist/Establishment
The Founding Father’s were NOT Globalist/Internationalist or some type of ruling Establishment that most of the public dislikes. That’s what was in Europe at the time and most of the rest of the world. It’s what our Founders were trying to escape.
Today there are many Globalist/Internationalist/Establishment in both major political parties We just have to be able recognize them when we see them. Limbaugh has been a Globalist for a very long time. Just some people are realizing it now. I tuned Limbaugh out back in 1997. Every once in a while (once every 5 years)I will tune back in, and within a few minutes I’m turning the dial because I can no loner listen to the Establishment bull.
Limbaugh did some good things for the conservatives but he is a Globalist/Internationalist/Establishment first type.
Now I see what you did there. Trump has three appeals, but the second one—his solutions—has two parts.
Cruz is a conservative.Trump is a patriot, but not an ideological conservative.
But, ironically, America is an ideology. Consequently, I can happily listen to Cruz, but not (for any length of time) to Trump.
Herbert Hoover was a patriot, too - even famously anticommunist - and he ended up paving the way for the New Deal, and in time the “Great Society.”
We must have rational economics which will get us out of the vicious cycle of high deficits, higher tax rates - leading to even higher deficits and even more self-defeating higher tax rates. Hoover, good man that he was, did not foresee that consequence, economists’ accurate warnings notwithstanding. So onto the merry-go-round America hopped.
The 1932 election was between Tweedildum and Tweedledumber.
2016 promises to be between Tweedildum and Tweedilkleptocrat.#NeverHillary
#NeverDemocrat
Thank you for speaking for me and my husband. I keep thinking Rush is going to come on a radio show and say, Folks, I was just kidding all these months about Trump. Just wanted to see if you were truly mind-robots or if you can actually think for yourselves. It was all a joke (heh,heh) like the time I said I would throw my support to Bill Clinton. Remember that? You all thought I really meant it, but I was just playing with you, being absurd. This time I did it for a much longer time, but folks, I was just playing with you, being absurd. I am still your harmless fuzzball El Rushbo and you are still my dittoheads.
Thousands of Americans are dieing from Mexican brown heroin and Obama doesn’t say a word neither do the GOP approved *conservatives*. Makes you wonder if the United States has also become a narcostate like Mexico.
There was a time when Rush was all for ‘original intent’ of the Constitution. But his support of either Cuban as eligible to hold the office of president demonstrates that Rush has thrown our Constitution into the trash. I have no respect for any that willfully joins in with the liberal attempts to destroy our Constitution.
When one compares and contrasts the private lives of Trump to Rush, Trump is actually more conservative than Rush. Rush’s love affair with the globalists, open borders, amnesty bulldozers is NOT conservative. I think GAWD has removed that talent he loaned out to Rush.
“Rush you made this conflict yourself by teaching your listeners to think for themselves and they are.”
EXACTLY, and Rush explained to us just who the GOPe are and what they want. Before Rush, most of us were clueless as to why we never seem to get a candidate that cares about border security or white, working class, people. Now we know this is BY DESIGN.
And the GOPe got away with it, UNTIL NOW. They jumped the shark with open borders...there is NO WAY that legalizing 30,000,000 new (mostly) DEMOCRATS is going to anything other than a DEATH BLOW to conservatism. Unlike Europe, we have a strong, conservative Christian base, which has so far been able to pretty much balance out the left...30 MILLION new (mostly) Democrats will tilt us to just what Europe is - which is a continent with FAKE ELECTIONS where the only choices they have are their equivalents of Hillary and Bernie in virtually every ‘election’. The candidates that want to be like Trump and protect their countries are simply brought up on charges, and therefore prevented from running.
Rush exposed this GOPe after being perplexed (like all of us) for many years, and Trump walked straight into the opening that the GOPe gave him.
I LOVE IT!
I just received a bizarre boo-hoo FaceBook post from Rush whining that Cruz has everyone pitted against him while Trump has all these supports and marveling that under these circumstances Cruz has gotten as far as he has. What planet is he on?
Is Rush not able to acknowledge that almost the entire Conservative Punditry (except for Gateway Pundit, CTH and FR) including National Review, PJ Media and most of FOX news, among many others aren’t full bore behind Cruz? Began to wonder if Rush has insulated himself from the national conversation to the point where he only checks in with Drudge who’s also behind Trump.
A person as insightful as Rush used to appear to be would know that Cruz is a dead man walking and has been for some time. But instead, Rush insists on propping him up while smearing Trump at every available opportunity. No way to question him except through a tightly screened phone call. No room for comments on his website. He can’t and won’t face the onslaught of criticism.
So what’s next for Rush when Trump wins the nomination and, I hope, the WH? I have a feeling that you folks who are hanging in as loyal listeners are in for a shockeroo if you think he’ll support Trump 100%. Don’t count on it.
Great write-up, by the way.
Also, this is beginning to look like a pattern for Rush, sadly. In this case he gets us all worked up and informed as to what the GOPe thinks of us and what they do behind our backs to lock out our concerns. Then Trump comes along and threatens to smash the GOPe to pieces...and who does Rush side with: The ONLY PERSON alive that can stop Trump from getting to 1237.
It reminds me of the Sandra Fluk deal. Rush rightly warned us to look out for the gender card, and sure enough it came. But then Rush dug into Sandra Fluk, calling her a slut - and guess what, HE STEPPED RIGHT INTO IT, losing listeners and many, many, advertisers, and also hurt the GOP effort in that year.
That is EXCELLENT. You summed up the situation perfectly.
Rush, if you read this, please know that the Rush I believed you to be would have seen this movement happening and would have been so happy and proud. You used to say “Follow the money.” When we do this, we see how the other candidates are owned by the Global Cheap Labor Cabal. Trump isn’t perfect but those points in the above letter nail why we need to give him that chance. ALSO, he has already changed the face of politics just by his campaign alone, and it has made all the talking heads, the ones who used to slam you, wet their Trousers in fear. The Rush I thought you were would have loved that.
I hope that something in your life is distracting you from being the American you used to be. I am sorry your wife is ill. Because I do hate the thought that you are paid off to give these opinions on your show. I hope you didn’t choose the GOPe over your loyal fans, who now have left you, and we are heartbroken and/or disgusted.
(I left you because you chose to appease Ailes and Schumer behind our backs and then lie about in self defense and call us haters, actually, not because of your support of Cruz. But at this late date it is curious.)