Rush never questioned core values.
He questioned the composite of the current electorate.
He questioned tactics.
When he asked non-rhetorically "should the republican party be for free birth control? I don't know!" that's questioning core values. There's no way around that.
And that's just one example from the thirty minutes I listened to today.
I did not get to listen to Rush or anyone else very much today, because I was working.
As I drove home, I heard the self flaggelating diatribe that the republicans/conservatives had not
“courted” latinos, women, young people, etc., etc. I think if there is any failing in the conservative/republican community, I believe it is a failure to keep up with technology. Democrats spoke effusively about “targeting” potential voters a couple of years ago as they set up shop in Chicago. In my humble opinion, I believe it went well beyond “targeting” and into “data mining”.
It doesn’t take much imagination to see a “Lonely Hearts” posting on Facebook from a single woman or a “foreclosed” posting from a homeowner to a “late notice” from a student on their student loans to see there is a possibility.
Combine these postings with algorythyms and a street map and you have potential voter to contact.
In the good old days we used voter registration and walk lists to target our potential voters.
We need to catch up with technology. I don’t think “data mining” is illegal. Maybe it is just smart! Smart enough to zero in on certain electoral republican districts, i., West, Bachmann, Mack, Brown, etc., as well as the presidential election.
Yes, we need to catch up!