At the end of the day his success in the mater takes a backseat to who he DID promote. If he was a conservative in deed and not merely word, he;d have stood up on principle and told his audience a simple truth. You do not get conservatism by electing liberal republicans.
There is nothing about that concept that should be remotely controversial. But he didn’t. He may as well have promoted GOP picks from day 1 because he ultimately, and always has, done so when the chips are down regardless of who it is. A party man to the core.
And a pressure relief valve.
But Norm, we are hearing that Levin is a apologist for Ted Cruz. Don’t ya know? He came up with that candidate chart and he is writing op/ed pieces to defend Cruz. How can he be a GOPE guy and do that?
I find Levin to be extremely smart, well read and very knowledgeable. I don’t find him to be always right or agree with him all of the time. I think he has been wrong more than once about people. I don’t know if he is that good of a judge of character. However I have learned quite a bit from him about the Constitution and other things. I too have been irritated by his repeated threatening to leave the GOP. Many times I have shouted at the radio “Just do it already! Stop moving the line in the sand.”
Levin criticizes the Golden Boy and all of a sudden a boatload of hate is unloaded on the guy.The Trump folk are very happy with you at this moment because Levin dared to scold their hero.
The bottom line is that talk show hosts are talk show hosts and they all usually have huge egos. There is no one you are going to not be irritated with from time to time. I stopped listening to Rush as I couldn’t stand his version of the Donald Trump show any longer. Levin is the only guy I can even tolerate now and I’ve been irritated with him too lately over his happy talk about Trump, Carson and Rubio.
Perception is funny. Depending on who your guy is one’s opinion is always a bit biased towards your candidate. I kept thinking that Levin was actually going to vote for Trump. LOL! Maybe he will!
This isn’t about Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity etc. It’s about people thinking for themselves. We should use these people as information starting points and do our own homework. Hero worship for a talk show host is just as silly as hero worship for a political candidate. They are all flawed in some way. We all are.