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
Cruz is supported by the Bushes. It doesn't get anymore establishment then that.
Hey, that was a great quote you said there. Do u mind trying to shorten your brilliance somehow so it’ll fit into my tagline?!
Well said, bray!!!
Nicely done!
There's millions of holes in Trump's positions, and Rush lets him slide. Easy pickings for attacking. Any other candidate with a sad story like Trump's, and Rush would have nailed him long ago.
You won't believe it, but the reason he hasn't nailed Trump is probably because they're buddies. They've played golf together, and Rush can't bring himself to slam a buddy. Even one with as dismal a record as a "conservative" as Trump. So lay off Rush.
Cruz is the fall back guy for the GOP. They may not like his pushiness but he is all they have. Hehehe. :^)
Limbaugh = Globalist/Internationalist/Establishment
The Founding Father’s were NOT Globalist/Internationalist or some type of ruling Establishment that most of the public dislikes. That’s what was in Europe at the time and most of the rest of the world. It’s what our Founders were trying to escape.
Today there are many Globalist/Internationalist/Establishment in both major political parties We just have to be able recognize them when we see them. Limbaugh has been a Globalist for a very long time. Just some people are realizing it now. I tuned Limbaugh out back in 1997. Every once in a while (once every 5 years)I will tune back in, and within a few minutes I’m turning the dial because I can no loner listen to the Establishment bull.
Limbaugh did some good things for the conservatives but he is a Globalist/Internationalist/Establishment first type.
Rush was bought and paid for long ago. Only this time he is having big problems trying to hide it.
with a little massaging this open letter will serve a devastating hit to Rushs’ already flailing reputation. The guys got no integrity.
+2
The question is; Why is he willing to burn it down?
what you’re essentially describing (3rd paragraph) is likely a significant reason to explain Rush and Levin’s behavior, although I doubt they would ever see it in themselves. Envy can be a powerful motivator on a subconscious level. It can be insidious and lead to one’s own self-destruction if not recognized and dealt with.
The typical cycle of envy that becomes toxic to self:
Envy -—> leads to resentment -—> causes anger -—> the anger is then projected onto the source of your anger. (e.g., You want to get rid of the anger because it’s an unjustifiable anger. It feels inherently uncomfortable because you cannot rationalize the irrational.)
I’ve had way too much coffee. :-)
Depending on what state you live in your children in the public schools are already being exposed to this but hey maybe no one will notice.
These questions would have never even came up 20 years ago.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. ~Ronald Wilson Reagan
Trump exposed who is a real friend of the American People and who is a friend of the Rich Power Class GOPe. Looks like Rush was thinking of his own pocket and not what is good for the nation. Even if he isn’t nominated, Trump has changed forever the political stage. Rush must GO!
Now I see what you did there. Trump has three appeals, but the second one—his solutions—has two parts.
Thank you for your insight and I agree but the choice is between Trump and Cruz, when I look at Cruz I see a fraud, a very stealthy and hypocritical fraud. Cruz is like a serpent very cunning, he is something like the description of the Anti-Christ someone who is so convincing that may be able to fool even the elect. Cruz has a religious message and to me it is very cultish. Cruz really thinks he is all that and I believe that he is a hypocrite which makes him very dangerous—remember David Koresh? All sweet talk and Bible verses, the devil can quote Bible verses all day long if he wants to.
I look at Cruz and I look at Trump, both men have faults. You can see Trump’s a mile away but you have to get real close to Cruz to see his. Trump has been in the public eye for 30 years. He has been an adulterer but people do wrong things and they mature and change and I think Trump has. Jesus saved his greatest criticisms for the hypocritical clergy of his day not the obvious sinners and in the end it was the hypocritical clergy who had him crucified not the people at the local pub.
Cruz is a conservative.Trump is a patriot, but not an ideological conservative.
But, ironically, America is an ideology. Consequently, I can happily listen to Cruz, but not (for any length of time) to Trump.
Herbert Hoover was a patriot, too - even famously anticommunist - and he ended up paving the way for the New Deal, and in time the “Great Society.”
We must have rational economics which will get us out of the vicious cycle of high deficits, higher tax rates - leading to even higher deficits and even more self-defeating higher tax rates. Hoover, good man that he was, did not foresee that consequence, economists’ accurate warnings notwithstanding. So onto the merry-go-round America hopped.
The 1932 election was between Tweedildum and Tweedledumber.
2016 promises to be between Tweedildum and Tweedilkleptocrat.#NeverHillary
#NeverDemocrat
All the time that Rush was on the air there was never a nationalist candidate running for President (Reagan excepted) so he just went along with all the GOP baloney. Trump was totally out of the box and was not preapproved by the GOP establishment. He was a wildcard and the GOP control freaks could not have that.
You mis pronounce Trumpists he is really saying Trump Pests. If you watch his Ditto Cam the facial expressions and Rolling eyes along with the hand flinging you get a better understanding of his contempt for "Trump Supporters" an expressions he can't seem to find in his vocabulary.
I am a lifer with Rush and will remain a listener but I am deeply disappointed in his whole Trump Supporter put down routine.
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