No one says you have to love or even listen to Rush; I am just trying to figure why you are on this post; commenting about someone you really have no honest clue about.
So basically, Rush is boorish, a clown, pompous without reason, arrogant without reason, unless you're in the in crowd? Yeah.
I've listened to many many hours of Rush, fyi. I'm not so bold as to venture an opinion on this thread without having long experience and considered the subject carefully.
Dittoheads' complaints with me may have some merit. To whit, Who am I to complain if a large group of voters who vote my way most of the time, if they get their political education and direction from a clown? Nevermind the fact that the same clown becomes a symbol of conservatism and Republicanism, an albatross driving away millions of moderate Americans?
Now that would be a great debate, trying to figure out whether Rush has actually brought any net gain to the conservative movement. Of course, it's an unknowable, though the dittoheads would have no problem offering "proofs" that Rush saved America from Al Gore himself. One poster on this very thread has already said something like Rush is more important than Reagan!
I will give Rush and his dittoheads this - they are entertaining.