I think Rush misses this point often. Because he disses the Independents often. I’m an Independent but want nothing to do with the GOPe and am a solid conservative. I don’t have trouble making up my mind on issues, nor am I swayed by bumper stickers and rhetoric. Yet he puts me into that undecided category often. I think there is a huge difference in being a Republican and being a conservative. Perhaps that explains why I voted for an obscure Democrat, who’s name I can’t even remember, in the last election rather than casting a vote for Lindsey Graham. There is a difference. The Tea Party is the only refuge for the likes of me.
I understand exactly what you mean.
Rush often confuses independents with moderates.
He has in the past recognized there is a difference.
I think now it’s become a habit more than anything that he uses the word “independent” for “moderate”.
Some independents (like me) see the GOP as too liberal or too much like the democrat party.
Other independents are moderates.
There may be some liberal Independents but the truth is most liberals (because of their activist tendencies) join the democrat party or something more left (if that’s possible these days).