[Hildy]

I don't understand why Rush is doing this...After hearing Bustamante's speech yesterday you'd think that we'd all come together and do what we have to do. But no, Death before Electability. What does Rush care? He lives in Florida. I mean it...I think he is really out of touch now.

[quidnunc]

Hildy wrote: I don't understand why Rush is doing this...After hearing Bustamante's speech yesterday you'd think that we'd all come together and do what we have to do. But no, Death before Electability. What does Rush care? He lives in Florida. I mean it...I think he is really out of touch now.

After he regained his hearing Rush took his program in an entirely different direction.

He used to be an unabashed supporter of the GOP, calling himself The Majority-Maker and preaching that the GOP was the only party which could move the U.S. forward.

But soon after he got his implant he repudiated his Republican credentials and started calling himself a non-aligned conservative.

I can't help thinking that there is more there than meets the eye to his change of heart.

Three scenarios seem most likely to me: (1) He lost enough of his audience during his deaf period and he has decided that he needs a change of direction in order to regain market share, (2) he feels slighted by the Bush administration and doesn't think he is being afforded the deference which is due him or, and to my mind most likely, (3) he really has his heart set on this football commentator gig and he thinks that anything which smacks of boosterism for the Republican Party will hurt his chances.

Whatever the case, Rush is getting increasingly repetitous, egocentric and annoying — in short he's becoming a crashing bore.