Rush is so wrong. How could he spend more than decades as a professional conservative, witness 1980, 1984, 1994, and 2012, and completely misread the mood of his audience, even the country ?
I know - it is very hard to figure, and there are a number of theories about that. Some are suggesting that he’s sold out as evidenced by the Bain Capital fingerprints on I Heart Radio and his own huge contract with them bankrupting them and him. Another is that his hearing implants are failing. Another is that his wife is very ill.
Others are suggesting that he has been used as a relief valve for the GOPe - a place for conservatives to vent and blow off steam and not actually do anything to permanently upset the power elite apple cart.
It is hard to see into the heart of a man, and it is definitely above my pay grade to try to do so. I am working on tempering my disappointment with his all too human condition, and to appreciate the education I have gotten from him over the years. I am trying not to condemn him for his foibles and I do wish him well.
But that doesn’t mean I have to spend 3 hours a day with him.