A letter to Limbaugh (Saturbray)

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: Ephesians 4:15 KJV

Rush you made this conflict yourself by teaching your listeners to think for themselves and they are. You have circled the wagons for Ted Cruz with the rest of the conservative media while a majority of your listeners have chosen Donald Trump. They have heard all of your arguments for your preferred candidate and have logically decided he is not as good a choice as Trump. The disappointing part is after your fans have stuck through thick and thin in your life you have thrown them overboard for the crime of thinking for themselves about Trump.

Many of your longtime listeners have turned the dial and wonder why you have become so strident in your pushing of one candidate over another. In past elections you have remained neutral or held your preference to yourself and simply analyzed the candidates objectively which is why they enjoyed turning into your program. This election you have your favorite while having an obvious dislike for Donald Trump and make fun of his supporters who you call “Trumpists” like they are stupid. You do not understand that is like being called a name by an old friend who you have stood by for years when the world tried to destroy him and then he won’t support you when the same people come with knives.

As conservatives you are used to being made fun of by the Establishmedia, what you don’t expect is to be made fun of by Rush Limbaugh. It is like being in a war and being fragged by one of your own Generals and him enjoying it. We can understand attacks by the enemy, but not by our own leaders and especially someone as influential as Limbaugh while he has no real curiosity as to why this phenomena is happening. The reason they are moving in huge numbers to Trump throughout the country is he is saying the same things Rush has been saying for decades and not afraid of the media like everyone else is. The fact that he is still standing only shows the media is a paper tiger and he has a match and gasoline.

The main reason he is leading is The Wall. Americans are tired of not having a border and being told we should accept every Mexican that comes across it. We are tired of the crime and drugs that comes with that invasion and there is no way to stop it without a fence. The last thing Americans want is a fence in a free country, but we cannot withstand forty million poor people, our infrastructure cannot afford it and Trump is the only one who will get that fence built. Without a wall when the Dems take back over they will pull back the border patrols and let their future voters in to stuff their ballot boxes. They cannot do that with a wall, it will still keep them out.

Politicians will talk about what to do with the Hispanics that are here and whether to deport which is a great debate tactic, but building the wall is the only debate that matters. If you do not close the border there is nothing to discuss. We hear about touchback amnesty and all sorts of clever phrases, but if you do not close the border with a physical wall you are only shoveling sand into the sea and amnesty makes no difference. Once the wall is built then you can talk about what to do with the illegals who are here.

The second reason people are flocking to Trump is his economic solutions. When politicians are running and especially Repubs they are taught to say jobs, jobs, jobs. We will balance the budget and bring our fiscal house in order which will lead to more jobs and blah, blah, blah as the people’s eyes glaze over. Trump has real solutions to the problem and first and foremost is stopping companies from moving to other countries for cheap labor. Yes it will be a pain for a while as the prices of products go up using higher priced US labor, but it will be American workers being paid; now if we could get rid of the unions we would have a perfect world.

His other solution is getting rid of the Global Warming hoax and opening the coal and oil resources to promote cheap American energy. The fear of most politicians to take on the environmental lobby has destroyed the economy. Our reliance on Middle East oil and inefficient Clean energy has sucked our coffers dry as we try to appease the Marxists who want to destroy us. He understands this and rather than fight them on political terms he is brilliant enough to stay with the economics and say he does not believe in Global Warming putting them in a box. Developing our own oil while bringing our jobs back to produce for the biggest market in the world can return us to our once great nation or at least stop the leakage.

His third major appeal is to blow up Obamacare or socialized medicine. He has said he wants to see it torn up and start over with free market solutions. The major problem with fixing it is that once the Insurance Industry has been destroyed like it is now, how do you say, never mind? Now there are millions of uninsurable with insurance since Obamascare said to insure everyone and give the uninsurable lower rates and the insurable higher. How do you cover people who have illnesses that are uncoverable with a policy when they should not have one? How do you go back, that is going to be a major factor and exactly what Pelosi and Obama wanted to happen to force Nationalize HC and all the horrors that go with it?

Rush, the collective mind of Americans and especially Conservatives is extremely intelligent. Millions of Americans put together are what makes this country work and they have been weighing this race. They see which candidate is speaking to their frustration and which one will do what he says and they believe Trump is their man. He does not speak political speak, he speaks English; New Yawker English, but almost the same thing. He is not going to say one thing and then when he gets there say never mind it is too hard and we will just play along with the Democrats like has happened every other time including Bush. He talked Conservative and the first thing he does is teams up with Teddy Kennedy to destroy the education system and Medicare as a way to get along. They don’t see that in Trump.

The last big thing America sees is someone who is not afraid to be politically incorrect. He is driving the left absolutely crazy with calling a spade a spade. Now that is the shortest trip known to man, but the permanently offended are rioting with the thought of someone calling illegal immigrants what they are. They are apoplectic having their Sanctuary Cities being taken away and not allowed to rape and kill without consequences. To actually say that Islam is a problem makes their heads explode as we watch gang rapes happen around the world and he points that out. Political Correctness is destroying our civilization and he touches that third rail over and over again to the cheers of ordinary Americans.

Rush, many of your listeners who are supporting Trump see him as you in many regards. He has changed the dialogue and taken the Marxists to task and forcing them to explain themselves. Yes, he uses invective humor and is modest just like you to do to them what they do to us only he does it better. He finds their weakness and exposes it to the world and like you say good humor has to have an element of truth and his does. When he goes after Crooked Hillary it is going to be devastating and stick to her like a skunk stole. The American Conservatives are not ignorant or gullible with Trump, they see a rough General who can lead this country back from the Marxist abyss and articulate what capitalism is and why it is the best system ever devised. We see one of the last people we would have chosen as the best choice to articulate what you have been saying for three decades and America is tuning in.

Yeah you might have to create something original, not just rustle papers, not-talk about yourself, pimp Apple products, smoke cigars, and carry on one-sided conversations with yourself.

Rush has been phoning it in for years. How much of his show is now just him reading the news to us?

He and the other talk show hosts are just sore that they had no hand in creating the Trump juggernaut.

Bingo! You get it. It’s one of the two lessons I’ve learned this election season. We need to stop focusing on which jersey our candidate wears. The word “conservative” is but a team jersey. Even if the candidate “believes it in his heart.”

Whom does the candidate work for? Follow the money: whom does he have to pay back? This trumps his personal ideology. You can be a conservative and still be bought and paid for.

Cruz supporters are so blinded by his conservative jersey they can’t see that he will never have the freedom to govern according to it. Bush was the same.

Trump was useful in stealing thunder for Jeb, Huckabee, Paul and others. He served that purpose but remained viable which wasn’t supposed to be in the cards. Remember, Rubio was supposed to represent the new wave of candidates. There was one unexpected early casualty because of Trump. Scott Walker. He was Rush’s boy early on and before Trump.

During the days of the fight to get NAFTA passed, he WOULD NOT SPEAK OF IT except as possibly a good thing, and denigrated anyone who might try to talk about its dangers. Since then, after it is too late, he writes of the dangers of loss of jobs, BUT NOT WHEN IT WOULD MATTER.

He was somewhat late to the party, imho, when he actually started recognizing that we were being invaded.

What he says IS brilliant so often, and I have been listening for most of the past 20 years. His obstinance about addressing NAFTA caused me to leave for a period of years. I do see him now in ways I could not see him before. I used to see him as being as honest and dispassionate and True Blue American as it’s possible to be, but now I question most of my impressions about him. Brilliant? Yes. Educational? Indeed. (I love the kid books.) Sell out? Don’t know, but right now I’m thinking its possible. I’m still not ready to believe that totally, but am now considering it.

You posted what is by far the best post on this entire thread.

I have not heard Rush condemn a Trump candidacy in the general election . I think some folks here are reading more into Rush’s dialog than Rush is trying to convey.

There is a vocal minority of Trump supporters who seem to think that if you're not 100% on board with Trump right now, you are the enemy and open to attack in their scorched earth campaign. Donald Trump, who in all likelihood will be the nominee, needs Rush Limbaugh and people like him in the fall campaign to try and heal a divided party. It would be wise not to burn these bridges.

I have seen Rush go back and forth and even defend Romney.

IIRC, Rush's defenses of Mitt Romney only came in the general election campaign. Prior to Romney getting the nomination, it seemed that Rush didn't care much for Romney. Just like in 2008, Rush had little use for McCain in the primaries but was in his corner in the general election. Rush might be leery of Trump now but he'll be in Trump's corner come the fall campaign.

Rush went whole hog for Romney 2012, just prior to the Florida primary. I remember because that is when I stopped listening to him.

Way off buddy. Rush in recent months started praising Cruz and reporting only glowing news about him. He tries to be evenhanded but it showson that he favors Cruz and won’t report negative or harmful news about him. He won’t state facts and news that might be unfavorable to Cruz. But he goes after Tru p. He reports constantly the negative news about Trump while acting like he is level headed in coverage and in his positions. But even ridicules Trump supporters and argues with Trump callers. He ignores anything that is favorable for Trump. He didn’t even talk about Trump’s big primary wins on Tuesday. The guy went on hours about Cruz winning Wisconsin. He hasn’t nailed Cruz because Rush thinks Cruz should win on second ballot. He is helping Cruz “win”. He is Cruz’s PR man along with Mark Levin, Steve Deace and Glenn Beck. He is paid off by Cruz as well.

Rush went whole hog for Romney 2012, just prior to the Florida primary. I remember because that is when I stopped listening to him.

I absolutely detested the politician Mitt Romney and everything he stood for. He was a continuation of his family's opposition to all things Goldwater and Reagan. I think that I would have been quite sensitive to Rush lending support to him and I never detected it prior to the general election when Rush supported Romney as the opposition to Obama.

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Way off buddy. Rush in recent months started praising Cruz and reporting only glowing news about him. He tries to be evenhanded but it shows that he favors Cruz and won’t report negative or harmful news about him. He won’t state facts and news that might be unfavorable to Cruz. But he goes after Trump. He reports constantly the negative news about Trump while acting like he is level headed in coverage and in his positions. But Rush even ridicules Trump supporters and argues with Trump callers. He ignores anything that would be positive news for Trump. He didn’t even talk about Trump’s big primary wins on Tuesday. The guy went on hours about Cruz winning Wisconsin. He hasn’t nailed Cruz because Rush thinks Cruz should win on second ballot. He is helping Cruz “win”. He is Cruz’s PR man along with Mark Levin, Steve Deace and Glenn Beck. He is paid off by Cruz as well.

The Daily Caller said that talk radio personalities were being paid off by the Cruz campaign or at least his establishment lackeys to report what they wanted. I think they bought off Rush since he sounds like he is working PR for Cruz. http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/08/gop-establishment-money-funding-mark-levin-glenn-beck-erick-erickson-to-attack-trump/

That's your evidence? A story which relies on a blog report from Sundance which doesn't even name Limbaugh. There are a few all-in-the-tank-for-Trump bloggers who I wouldn't trust to accurately report the time of day.

This one is known in our household as Some Dunce. A lot of Trump supporters are quick to call Cruz supporters "shills" while not recognizing them in their own camp. This one is every bit as far off the rails on the Trump side as Beck is on the Cruz side.

“Yes, he said we thought of him as the messiah. Ridiculous; there is only one and it is not Mr. Trump. Rush wants Cruz as the nominee. To use a Rushism: I get that. But we don’t always get what we want but we often get what we need.”

I get that to. What’s so PUZZLING about Rush is that he has told us that like Trump, Cruz’s ONLY CHANCE for the nomination was to win on the first ballot, since both will be excluded on later ballots.

But now Rush is touting Cruz? It’s almost as if he is more interested in taking down Trump than about what comes next - which includes a wholesale evacuation of Trump supporters from the party, and that means DOWN-BALLOT too.

I too have stopped being a Rush, Levin listener. It’s so weird, I raised a Rush “baby”. I still listen to Hannity, but I’m tuning into Laura and a local guy, Rick Roberts. I’m just shaking my head at these developments.

Sorry, nope. I’ll express my opinion as I see fit. Insults and telling people what to do and who is off limits from criticism, doesn’t fly. Sounds like liberal thinking to me. Rush is off his game in so many ways, it isn’t the quality show I loved.

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