Rush Limbaugh Goes Full Nutter - The Most Illogical Pretzel Argument Ever Presented

The Conservative Treehouse ^ | 2-25-2016 | sundance

[smoothsailing]

I know from the comments section many people have discussed how bizarre the recent ravings of Rush Limbaugh have become. However, I had not spent time listening to them, until this happened.

As far as I can tell this was actually broadcast by Rush Limbaugh yesterday. To say he’s contracted a viral strain of election cycle cognitive dissonance would be a severe understatement. Listen to this logic:

I know from the comments section many people have discussed how bizarre the recent ravings of Rush Limbaugh have become. However, I had not spent time listening to them, until this happened.

As far as I can tell this was actually broadcast by Rush Limbaugh yesterday. To say he’s contracted a viral strain of election cycle cognitive dissonance would be a severe understatement. Listen to this logic:

If Ted Cruz wants to win he’s got to focus exclusively on attacking Trump. Why? Because Cruz has to realize Marco Rubio is not going to drop out. If Rubio is not going to drop out, Rubio is not the obstacle – Trump is…

See if you can follow this logic. Marco Rubio is not going to leave the race, therefore it is the better course to attack the stronger frontrunner because, well, according to the Limbaugh logic, Trump winning in all the contests must mean he is positioned to leave the race – or something.

Seriously, this is what Rush Limbaugh is presenting to his audience. This makes absolutely ZERO sense. This is completely nonsensical. This is epic level moonbattery.

What makes Limbaugh think Donald Trump, a candidate who has won three consecutive resounding victories, is less disposed to staying in the presidential race than a freshman senator who has won absolutely no primary contests?

…And if Trump is no less committed to exit, then how does it make more sense to spend time trying to eliminate the stronger of the two candidate options?

We have heard rumors there are times when ineffective “gaslighting” can lead to absolutely insane expressions of logic. It would appear this rumor is profoundly true.

People pay this guy to hear this stuff?

[DJ MacWoW]

What's pathetic is the absolute worship of Donald Trump. There will be no criticism allowed nor will he be vetted because he's TRUMP.

Trump is not the second coming of Christ anymore than Ted Cruz is. They are fallible human beings and the sycophantic worship of Trump is the same that Obama enjoys.

The blind worship is alarming. We've seen it before. This kind of adulation minus any criticism never turns out well.

[paintriot]

Rush, if only repeating Shapiro, is still trying to help Ted with this. I think Rush has generally been unfair to Trump, and in doing so, alienating much of his listening audience.

[traderrob6]

“The blind worship is alarming. We’ve seen it before. This kind of adulation minus any criticism never turns out well.”

Amen!

[elhombrelibre]

Rush isn’t a real conservative. Trump is. Trump was a conservative when Rush was in kindergarten.

[SaxxonWoods]

Waste of bandwidth. Rush is an entertainer and so is Sundance.

Rush wants ratings and Sundance wants clicks.

Cruz is not paying any attention to these two and neither should anyone else.

Gahh.

[Fantasywriter]

What’s pathetic is that no Cruz supporter on this thread has any idea why Rush read that article.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

He never left Oxy, he just appears to have moderated.
He “sniffles” thru-out the entire show.

[InterceptPoint]

Not to defend Rush who I rarely listen too anymore due to his preference for talking about Rush. And worse is his tendency for repeatedness - making the same comments repeated endlessly until the segment ends.

Mark Levin, despite his rantings which are way too common, is better than Rush. Way better.

But back to defending Rush on this issue. I think the underlying rationale is that Rubio is the ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE. As a result THE ESTABLISHMENT will support him to the bitter end just like they did for Jeb. As a result they will drive Cruz out by splitting the vote until he gives up. Cruz is basically finished if he can't eat into the Trump numbers. That is bad news for Cruz and, IMHO as a Cruz supporter, that means the Cruz campaign is essentially over since he is not going to succeed in cutting into the Trump support.

To bad but that's politics. Trump just sucked all of the oxygen out of the Cruz campaign.

So, IMHO, it is going to be Trump vs Rubio once Cruz is gone. If we are lucky and I think we are, Trump will be so far ahead by then that Rubio will have no chance to keep up even when it gets to mano y mano. My hope is that Trump will pick Cruz but I find that less likely than a Trump-Rubio Ticket. Actually Trump plus a Governor makes more sense. Is Jerry Brown available? (Just kidding.)

[smoothsailing]

What do you expect from a guy that worked in a grocery store?

I know people that work in a grocery store. They're intelligent, decent hard work working people.

Why would you put such people down? Very un-conservative.

[DJ MacWoW]

I’m sure Sundance, who outed a protected witness and posted pics of her husband and child, knows so much more than Shapiro and Rush just because he supports Trump and so do you.

[DJ MacWoW]

Like I said, I don’t care. Trump supporters pan any opinion or facts that aren’t worshipful of Trump. Everyone else is wrong if they don’t worship “The New Won”. No dissenting opinion or point of view allowed. Sounds like Obama.....

[Pelham]

“This is kamikaze style advice for sure by someone who is not in the arena and has nothing to lose. If Cruz takes this birdbrained tack he will flame out for good in this campaign and his political career will be toast.”

That’s my call, too. And since Cruz is my backup choice I’d rather not see him wreck his chances.

This is stupid advice given by a political novice (Shapiro, not Limbaugh).

Shapiro acts like a hysterical schoolboy consumed with destroying the popular school jock. And since he can’t do it himself he wants Cruz to risk his future by doing it for him.

[traderrob6]

That is one of the more inane statements I have read on this forum over the past 12 years.

Rush was a principled conservative when Trump was a registered Democrat confiscating property from little old ladies.

BTW, here’s some facts on your boy:

1.He thinks affirmative action is okay.
2.He would fund Planned Parenthood except for abortion. (This is current federal policy)
3.He supports a progressive income tax. He does not favor a flat tax.
4.He doesn’t want to cut Social Security or Medicare.
5.He’s in favor of a ban on assault weapons.
6.He invited Bill and Hillary Clinton to his wedding.
7.He doesn’t “fully believe in supply-side economics”.
8.He wants to lead “from behind” on Ukraine. Trump believes that Germany should take the lead on Ukraine.
9.He hates the Iran deal, but he wouldn’t abrogate it after taking office.
10. A short 5 years ago he termed the Republican approach to immigration enforcement “mean spirited”.
11.He has supported/supports such liberal sacred cows such as ethanol subsidies, Kelo and govt. bailouts.

[smoothsailing]

Good assessment. Thanks for posting.

[CWCoop]

This blog is garbage and a waste of time. It is going out of its way to look for outrageously, outrageous, outrage in order to get noticed. I would avoid this “Conservative Tree House” because it is more like the nut house than a tree house.

[lentulusgracchus]

I can always tell that [R]ush is about where I am. Strange that he is against Trump so much.

It's probably because Trump is running as a Republican but is in fact what I once jokingly designated a DiABLO : a "Democrat in All But Label Only".

Policywise, I don't think (and I think Rush would agree) Trump would really go after the swollen federal agencies, packed with 'Rat nominees and hires, and try to cut them down to size by RIF'ing the 'Rats the way Ted Cruz has explicitly and scrupulously promised to do. The 'Rats themselves talk about making Government not smaller, but more efficient. It's buncombe, and we know it; the Left never means it, because those huge appropriations are a goal in themselves for the Left. So they lie, and then they keep spending and hiring. With a twist.

The Clintons and Obama have sought to politicize the Civil Service by packing it with their votaries and political adherents. This is a violation of the Hatch Act to which the GOP-e has been tone-deaf (and I have a letter from former Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas to prove it). The GOP has not and will not do anything about radical 'Rats using the Civil Service as a partisan jobs factory.

The way to beat their play is mass RIFs and closure of agencies and cabinet-level departments (Dept. of Energy, Dept. of Education to name two -- Cruz targets five).

In many areas, Trump is a 60's Democrat, and that's not what we need. If the "reaction" to Clinton/Obama Progressivism is just MOR Democrat policies, then the Left narrative of "inevitable" drift to the Left -- "progress" -- remains intact. Trump would become, in their analysis, a Hegelian synthesis candidate, and a suitable target for future Left agitprop and revolutionary action -- "evolution feeding Revolution".

We must instead make a clean break and utterly and finally repudiate Leftism like Margaret Thatcher did. Trump is not that kind of man, and he won't do the job if elected, not even if we ask nicely.

[traderrob6]

Perhaps to stimulate a lively discussion?

[Pelham]

They are worth every rupee that they are getting paid.

[MHGinTN]

No matter how nasty and obscene an accusation you make toward Rush, he is not going to acknowledge your existence. Run along, child.

[smoothsailing]

This thread quickly got 100 replies, obviously it’s of interest.