OTOH, Rush, like all thinking people, in the past has exhorted conservative voters that if they want to make a difference at all, and have any chance of implementing their ideas, they must work within the framework of the Republican party. Voting for Mr. Forgetaboutit from the Forgetaboutit party is, as Rush used to proclaim day after day, plain dumb.
All Rush is doing now, by not even mentioning the good things Bush has done and by not appreciately the political process and context, is drive the political puritanicals to vote for Mr. Forgetaboutit. <>Rush's complaint that Bush should be using his popularity to "recruit new conservatives" shows an appalling lack of political instinct. New conservatives aren't made by telling liberals or anyone else that conservatives demand ideological purity as defined by Rush or whoever else claims to be the conservative mouthpiece.