Exactly. And why would an addict functional enough to do three hours a day pretty flawlessly not see how stupid it was to send explicit e-mails that any first grader could decode as drug orders? And why trust some bozo housekeeper and her crook husband in the first place? What ever happened to background checks? The truth is simply not evident yet, so much of this is out of character for him which really makes one wonder.
I used to e-mail back and forth with Rush years ago when I was a sysop on a Rush-related forum section on CIS. This was when he first went national, from the early to the mid-90's. He was always relaxed and friendly, but never said stupid stuff that any unscrupulous person could use against him in any communications I had with him (totally innocent and harmless types of comments).
Come to think of it, that's where he met Marta, as I recall, and admittedly meeting a woman through e-mails was somewhat risky for a well-known guy that the Dems would have loved to set up. But this whole current thing is too weird.