Although I do find him a bit of a lightweight, Hannity has been doing us all a valuable service the last two or three months by constantly beating 'House Speaker Pelosi' into everybody's head and reminding reluctant conservative voters that the RATS are far worse than the GOP.
I don't think he'll ever be able to fill Rush's shoes when the Maja hangs it up, but for now, he's doing good yeomen's work. Not that I think Rush is going anywhere before the 2008 election because Her Heinousness is too much for him to pass up, but I do think after his current contract is up, he's going to call it quits. God knows, he doesn't need the money anymore, and before "The Path to 9-11" Stalinism from the RATS got him fired up, he did sound kind of bored. My guess is he'll blaze away until the midterms, then sort of meander till the primaries in '08.
I'd love to get Laura Ingraham locally, because I leave for work before her show even gets going, but I think she could fill his shoes. Or if they really want to get people listening again, hire Mark Steyn as his permanent guest host and give him more time to get used to the format, because he was absolutely brilliant filling in a couple of weeks ago.
They all have been lately. Just yesterday for example, that's all Boortz talked about for most of his show. Rush has been doing that too. Which is why I wish he would stop taking vacations so damn often, because, not everybody can get all these talk show hosts that we as FReepers and political and news junkies are aware of. Glenn Beck (I tune into him occasionally) has been beating the drum, and also beating into the skulls of his listeners the dangers we face if we happen to just turn over control of Congress and the White House to the Democrats, and the dangers we face in the Middle East by allowing Iran to continue down it's current path.
Contrast that with the purists on both the extremes, they're more concerned with bashing Bush. They have no plan, other than to "teach the GOP a lesson" by voting for Democrats.