Posted on 04/30/2016 6:29:51 AM PDT by bray
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.
Pray America wakes
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.
If people still support this, Rush will go on. I predict his era is over and after Trump is inaugurated he will realize it.
Exactly!
Trump has exposed both as "full-throated" puppets of the GOP-Establishment.
And they are legion.
I listen about 2-5 hours a week. He seems about as even handed as anyone I’ve heard.
I’ve heard him say that the way Cruz has snagged delegates is legal and not unusual. And the next breath saying that if the GOP goes ahead and goes against the will of the electorate, if Trump has a solid lead, it will be the destruction of the party.
I voted for Trump 2 weeks ago. I prefer Cruz for his constitutional purity but am a realist and love the way Jim Robinson proves that Trump is a conservative. ( http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3421722/posts?page=704 ) 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.
Rush was on the Trump bandwagon until it appeared he wasn’t going to self destruct. Over time he has more and more distanced himself from Trump while not crossing into being negative. Trump is nothing more than an accumulation of the all the things these hosts like Rush have been harping on for years, especially since 06.
He should dance with the one that brung him to the dance instead of going outside to smoke cigars and drinking adult beverages with the good ol’ boys.
‘Start your own radio program localy, if you think you can.’
What a snotty comment. This is a thoughtful, even-handed, deeply insightful column. It stands beautifully on its own. It does not require a radio program to make its points.
I’ve listened to him on an off since the early 90s. IMHO he has been fairly neutral, although he definitely leans Cruz. This week he had a pro Cruz caller, who was obviously reading from a script. She is going on about how Cruz always tells the truth and how Trump is a big liar when Limbaugh says
“If you want a pure candidate, Ted Cruz is white as the driven snow”.
I turn off the radio.
Sean Hannity has had the most balanced talk show IMO.
Great letter. Perhaps Rush should reread some of his history books on the First American Revolution. Many of us have warned Rush about talking conservatives who don’t drain the swamp, but join the alligators. Rush has chosen to inflict these wounds on himself. Sadly, even after Rush saw that the anger which made Trump was bigger than a single candidate, he refused to see that the institutions he held dear were committing suicide by indifference to the people. You can’t claim the mantle of conservatism and continue to support the mendacity of the elected Republicans.
Truly a wonderful post, bray.
Spot on and thank you for so eloquently representing us!
That’s what I thought as well - a union member is basically saying that the Reagan democrat vote is being regained, and Rush makes fun of him. Bad, Rush. Very bad.
Rush is a part of the Hegelian Dialectic-—It is the ONLY reason he wasn’t “killed” by his masters. He has the studded collar ON and there is a chain connected to his collar and held by Soros/Rove and the sodomite satanists.
He is the valve for the anger-—to redirect it and channel it so we just go along with the take-over——like good little frogs in the pot.
Truth will set us Free-—and he couches the Truth-—never is like a Michael Savage (who has been a little controlled)-—or an Alex Jones—or Drudge—who NEVER are controlled although they can be fooled. The Luciferean elites/CIA who have controlled magazines and mastermined the killing of Kennedy—the 9-11 event—the Patriot “Act”-—LOL-—to get total control and ability to lock up true patriots (like the Bundy’s and literally KILL LeVoy——has been facilitated by the “great” Rush Limbaugh. He is as much a Trator as Obama—and the Clintons-—but in Sheep’s clothing.
The trick is on us. (MSM (including the “right side” was bought and controlled in 1910-—and only the “fringe” news has the truth—Rush is exactly like Bill O and Megyn Kelly-—part of the dog and pony show to allow a complete takeover of the World.
To get wealthy and hold onto a powerful platform-—you need to sell your soul to the sodomite elites-—that means offer your children to the goat-god like at the Bohemian Grove. He has no children-—and that is a MAJOR point. Hillary aborted her boys-—and had Chelsea for a prop-—to “fool” the masses.
As Ray Bradbury stated——it is ALL a “dog and pony” show to addict and keep you from the Truth (seeking Wisdom/Bible/Original Sourced documents/Classical Education).
And Levin......each time I tune in it's a non stop Cruz fest.
....so I tune in to him less and less.
Rush likes Trump but Trump will never be conservative.
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By saying that Trump is not conservative, the Establishment has shown us that we didn’t really know what they meant by “conservative”. Conservative meant supporting NAFTA while chattering about process. Conservative meant enabling amnesty while chattering about process. Conservative meant supporting Obama’s agenda while chattering about process. Conservative meant supporting bigger and bigger government while chattering about process.
We can now look back on all the “conservative” pundits and see that they sold us out a long, long time ago. Thank you Donald J. Trump! At least now when they give us a wooden block and send us into the gas chambers, we won’t think we are taking a bar of soap into the shower! Or, God willing, we can take this country back and make it Good again! Because America has to be Good before it can be Great!
Rush likes Trump the way Obama likes Churchill. Did you hear Obama tell the Brits he’s “crazy about the guy,”?
Limbaugh has long defended the rich, the wealthy, big business, and the Republican elites in Media and Government. And that’s fine except that to most people these groups don’t need much defending.
But Limbaugh almost never defends the plight of the working man and woman other than claiming his “defense” of the aforementioned groups “trickles down” on the hoi polloi below.
Which has been demonstrated to be nonsense.
After 25 years of declining incomes, disappearing good-paying job opportunities, trillions in debt, stupid wars our military are not allowed to win, massive increases in health costs and now Obamacare, ridicule from a statist media and entertainment complex, eight years of the worst President in American history, and a voter-empowered but cowardly and feckless “conservative” majority Congress and SCOTUS, we the “Silent Majority” have had enough.
We rally around an “America First” candidate, the first since Reagan, and what do our “betters” in Media and Government do? Not only ridicule our choice but ridicule we, the “Silent Majority.”
Well Mr. Limbaugh, we’re not gonna take it anymore. Not from you, not from Fox News, not from the GOPe, not from anyone. Your hot air doesn’t cut it anymore. it is time to take action to save a rapidly dying Republic.
Take your golf, your private jet, your cigars, your iPhone, your Bushies, your Neo-Con interventionism, and your contempt for “Trumpists” and shove it.
There’s a new “Mayor of Realville” in town and it ain’t you.
This transgender weirdness is something that has just recently been sprung on us so people are not sure what to do about it. It sounds like this question was sprung on Trump because of the North Carolina decision and all the brouhaha that came about. He did not have time to have a plan as what to do about this.
At Trump Towers and other places transgender men dressed as women probably use the women’s room but they probably look pretty much like women. I don’t like this of course but if they can pass for women it is not as threatening as a guy who really looks like a guy going into the women’s rest room. Anyhow I don’t think that this hot potato has to be dropped solely in Trumps lap. There is a whole industry that gives counseling to people with confused gender identities and enables their confused thinking. There are Dr. Frankensteins who give hormone shots to little kids and who perform grotesque operations. There are legislators who support these abominations. Cruz was very quick to criticize Trump but he did not say what he would do.
Rush is done for me and my family. He is off his rocker.
Sticking to his guns doesn’t make Rush a bad guy.
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