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“.....As a long-time listener who has been entertained and informed by Rush’s prodigious “talent on loan from God” for years, this protracted game of footsie with Trump is deeply demoralizing. They’re both hyper-successful Alpha Males and occasional golf partners, so perhaps there’s some personal solidarity and friendship in the mix, but Rush’s calling card has always been the fierce defense of conservative principles. He excoriates “establishment” politicians for ideological deviations and heresies, shreds liberal strawmen, and exposes posers. Trump is a self-serving, unprincipled, unreliable political shape-shifter. He’s a walking, bloviating strawman, habitually arming the Left with ammunition to claim vindication for their cartoonish characterizations of conservatives. And he’s the ultimate conservative poser. He may be pushing the right buttons to suit a segment of the populace’s mood, but he evinces exceedingly tenuous knowledge of issues, and displays little in the way of loyalty to any core convictions beyond, “what benefits Donald J. Trump at this exact moment?” The above quote from Rush’s Tuesday monologue attributes conservative criticisms of Trump to some deep-seated desire to earn “respect and admiration” from the biased mainstream media — the “drive-bys” as Rush calls them, a moniker that is often infuriatingly apt. This is a variation of the tired “Beltway cocktail party” refrain, wherein right-of-center figures deemed insufficiently devoted to the cause are presumed to be in the thrall of coastal elitists. That template isn’t always inaccurate, it must be said, but it’s been overused and abused as a means of impugning motives, rather than engaging arguments.....”

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/12/10/poll-nearly-70-percent-of-trump-followers-would-support-him-in-independent-run-n2091546


41 posted on 12/13/2015 12:48:57 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Guy Benson is a fag. No its’true. A real pole smoker.


59 posted on 12/13/2015 1:13:57 AM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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