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
I know one thing. There is not one product or service that Rush hawks that I’ll ever buy. I don’t even tune him in anymore.
I listened to him for a long time.
I’ve always wondered about Sarah’s turn on Cruz. There’s a story for the gossip columns. Maybe he put the moves on her or one of her daughters!
And, yes, although Rush went in a different direction than his family, he may very well be in awe of lawyers - especially ‘constitutional’ experts. And Levin is one of his close friends who he put in the radio business. But he can support Cruz without insulting Trump voters. That’s not necessary. I don’t remember him insulting McCain voters - but then McCain didn’t have any voters, did he?
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“It’s Limbaugh’s program, and he can do with it as he likes. The program is all about his opinion. If “Trumpists” don’t like it, there are other places they can go, but at least, in Rush’s case, the structure of his program doesn’t give him any sort of power to punish them for nonconformity; they can listen or not listen as the case may be. If his attitude harms him financially, why, that’s something he appears willing to cope with.
That said, I think he’s been very adept so far at straddling the fence. “
Rush has NOT been “straddling the fence” - just pretending to (and not very well).
He has had NOTHING but praise for Ted Cruz - calling him the “ideal conservative” and reading every pro-Cruz article he can get his hands on. Conversely, he mocks Trump’s speeches, laughs at callers who support him, and reads every anti-Trump article he can. His disdain for Trump and man-crush on Cruz is evident in every word he says.
Even the other day, when he engaged in some anti-Trump propaganda by playing Ted Cruz’s comparisons of Trump to Hillary, Rush couldn’t bring himself to admit that some of Cruz’s points were out and out lies (actually, I think ALL of them were out and out lies - because Cruz seems incapable of telling anything resembling the truth these days), but even the OBVIOUS ones just left Rush speechless. He couldn’t say “Cruz is full of it.” He COULDN’T attack “his guy.”
At least Levin and Beck, dumb-asses that they are, have the integrity to actually tell you their opinions. If “the program is all about [Rush’s] opinion,” as you say, he’s done a poor job of it, since he pretends to be some shade of neutral, but doesn’t have the honesty to come out and actually tell you he’s in the tank for Teddy.
Funny, over at PJ Media, the never Trump crowd were throwing a temper tantrum that Rush, FoxNews, and all kinds of other ‘conservative’ media was over the top too pro-Trump 24/7.
And they swore they’ve left these outlets/websites for good.
I have always been of the belief that Rush and his show’s cohorts read FR, and especially when his show is on-air, as there have been too numerous occasions when he would say/reference something that I had only just read on the site a few minutes/short time before.
That being said, I sure hope he sees this and the posts that follow.
He will read this thread during breaks from counting his money.
I love that “white as the driven snow”—ha! He worked in Washington for the Bush administration, his wife did as well. His wife works at global Goldman Sachs, CFR and was picked to write up the plans for the North America Union. Now Mr. Outsider has none other than Neil Bush on board. He was also dissembling about the TPP and TPA as well as illegal immigration. The Bush family is all globalist all the time and the Cruzes are joined at the hip to them.
Limbaugh gave an open mike to Arlen Specter years ago, when Specter was outed as "taking Soros money" via Republican Main Street Partnerships. Limbaugh didn't research the issue, and let Specter get away with a technical defense (accusation made a small error in naming the pipeline for the Soros money).
I don't know what Limbaugh did IN ADVANCE with regard to the Cochran/McDaniel primary race.
-- ... he won't tell the whole truth. He is unreliable as a source. --
That has been so for a decade, at least. He is a great entertainer, and his voice has given effective "venting" to conservatives for years. That has been his establishment role, authorized dissenter. I don't think anybody gets to that level of prominence in the media unless they play ball.
Rush married a liberal.
Goldwater married a liberal in his later years.
The marriage explains Rush’s position as well as anything else can.
No, I never listen to Beck, he is off his meds most of the time. But in Houston, Birmingham, Baton Rouge and some other Markets you can listen to Michael Berry. A fresh new face who is very funny, and unlike most of the people here does not swing with the popular opinion. Yes, Michael Berry does have a few choice words Mr. Trump, deservedly so
Well done. Thank you for writing down my own thoughts in such an eloquent way.
There’s a certain radio personality I know (not famous; I’ll call him Bob.) Bob has been a fixture in his community for decades. I like him a lot but haven’t listened to him in years because he can’t speak w/o using the filler word “uh.” I played a little game for years, tuning into his radio show once a week to count how many sentences he can complete that week before resorting to his “uh” word. His record is 7 full sentences, but I suspect he was reading from something that day. Otherwise, he can’t get 2 or 3 sentences out before the “uh’s” start rolling out of his mouth.
Rush has become my “weekly “Bob” game now. This week when I randomly tuned in, the once-great Rush Limbaugh was sanctimoniously trying to decide why Trump supporters are offended by “Trumpists,” which is the word he had just used to describe millions of Dittoheads. Mind you, we are ... Well, we WERE Dittoheads who’ve been listening to him for decades, learning through his tutelage to think for ourselves. Yet here he was, trying unsuccessfully to disguise his derision toward us for daring to refuse to follow his Globalist Path.
It’s sad, really. I’m way past the anger stage at him. Now it’s just pathetic to watch. It’s a little like that sick feeling I get inside when I think about how Cruz had me so fooled. But this is more. This is much more: Rush is an iconic figure. Rush was a stalwart I could usually rely on to see through the BS and tell it like it is.
At least the real Bob doesn’t lie to me. After years of entertaining myself with my silly “Bob game,” I’ve never felt derision toward him, despite not being able to listen to his incessantly annoying speech patterns.
Rush, you may have riches and fame, but you’re not half the man Bob is. I do thank you for the memories and for teaching us so much. Best of luck to you, but you’ll never be viewed the same.
On another note... Y’all check out Laura Ingraham. She gets it, plus she was a FReeper years ago. Oh, she gets it alright.
Meh...
I prefer Herman Cain
Today and for some time now, the people of this nation have looked to the greatness of personality rather than to moral principles. People trust the wisdom of man rather than faith in the reality of a living God. People in America today desire a king to rule over them, whether it is the Pharaoh type we now have or the Godless Nimrodic tower builder who promises security. The nation as a whole on both sides of the political spectrum has made idols out of Godless men who promise greatness. America to a large degree has sold its soul and chosen man over God. Great men show humility before God and acknowledge him as the source of all goodness and greatness. They do not exalt themselves as though they are God. They are repentant before God and seek his forgiveness and guidance every day. Men who come in their own name proclaiming their own greatness and promising to bring greatness with them are in every case men of destruction. Any nation or people who exalts them to rule over them will inevitably come to naught.
Thank you Bray, enjoyable article...
Wow, that was a most excellent post.
I am proud to know ya!
I am going to pass that around. Hope you won’t mind.
A long time ago, the word ‘conservative’ became a litmus test word, sort of like the Tea Party.
Both have been usurped.
Politicians toss the word ‘conservative’ out to appeal to certain types of people, just like the invoke the name ‘Reagan’.
The word ‘conservative’ has basically lost its meaning. It has become whatever the user wants it to be. Politicians use it during election cycles and shelve it until their next election.
Saying one is a ‘conservative’ doesn’t make it so. It is validated by actions, and that is where most politicians fall short.
GWBush was a compassionate conservative. Romney claimed to be a severe conservative. JBush said he was a reform conservative. They create their own labels, so they can market their own brand of political pablum.
The biggest problem real conservatives have is their Battered Conservatives Syndrome. They take the constant abuse from the GOPestablishment, they gripe, they complain, but they hang on, thinking they can change the Republican party from the inside. That didn’t work with Goldwater. It didn’t work with Reagan.
Mark Levin keeps saying ‘we need a new Republican party.’ He never really says what that is, though. Trump seems to be bringing in new demographics and cross-overs and has already received about 2 million more votes in the primaries than Romney did at this point in 2012. But Levin has been trashing Trump for months. Trump seems to be the only candidate in decades who seems to be expanding that ‘tent’ the establishment wants to expand. So, they trash Trump — who is expanding that tent.
It is a lot of talk. Gibberish. Sound-good-isms to fill talk radio air time. It is an Industry and most of the participants who benefit financially do not want any changes to their status quo. That includes talkshow hosts, beltway pundits and commentators, lobbyists, politicians, media and big business.
"Being Conservative" rings hollow since all the so called "conservatives" in congress when along with Obama's budget deal.
It's hard to care about that term when you have people like Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell leading the Republican party.
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