I'm a Rush fan (probably less so today than in the past), and I feel he's still the number one guy when it comes to articulating conservative philosophy. He is the master.
But here's the rub. If one truly believes in the conservative principles how can they say that a moderate (I really think moderate is overly gracious when applied to Mitt) is suddenly okay. This happens, it seems, every election cycle with Rush.
Throughout the year we hear Rush's slams and numerous parodies about McCain, Graham, Snowe, etc., but once the election is near its all about fear and how we have to support the non-democrat.
When Rush went through his "rough patch" (drug use, etc.) we stood by him 100%! We knew the media was using this event to hurt Rush and minimize him, but true conservatives stood by him.
Today, he could have taken a similar position with Newt (certainly as it related to Ronald Reagan and the completely false accusations leveled at Newt), but Rush got cute and danced around it ever so slyly. I wonder if Rush would still be on the air today if his followers had danced the same dance a few years ago.
Okay, at the end of the day, I still like Rush and I won't be able to not listen to him again (I will probably wait until AFTER the Florida vote). I don't pretend to have all of the answers, and I apologize if that sounded like my intention. My grandkids do give me the vision I need to see beyond next week, or even next year, but that's just me.
God Bless.
I think there is way to much reading between the lines on Rush. Rush has never endorsed anyone. Rush has mocked Romney so don’t try to tell me he is the bag for him. I think what really riled Rush on Newt (as it did me) was when Newt went after Romney’s money. Rush’s big passion is that everyone succeed and don’t envy others success and money. Newt really lost me for a week when he went on the assult of Romney’s weath and out of touch. You can attack Romney on myriad of issues that shows his lack of being a true conservative, Newt played to the press and into their hands when he went down that path. I do believe Rush, like many of us, are torn, we don’t feel especially strongly about any of these candidates. For those that are diehard Newt supporters now, ask yourselves, Sept, October of last year, was Newt your pick for Presidential candidate of Republican party. I would challenge you that there was less then 5-10% of Free Republic posters who would have answered yes to that.