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But Rush is largely singing the same tune as he started with in 1988.
To my ears his riff is sounding old, tired and boring and Rush is beginning to get on my nerves.
Rush is like a prehistoric insect frozen in amber, forever trapped and ossified by his immediate environment.. He needs to broaden his horizons...

Isn't this the kind of rhetoric liberals use to describe conservatives? I thought conservatives were SUPPOSED to stick to their ideology, SUPPOSED to try and preserve the conservative principles that helped get us where we are... but now you want Rush to become a flip-floppy, unprincipled waffler who becomes more and more PRO-BIG-DADDY-GOVERNMENT? Why, that'd make him just like all the other sheeple in America, slowly accepting increased taxation and reduced freedom, accepting Republican budgets that break the bank and ramp up Big Government spending in key liberal areas -- Health, Education, and Welfare.

So you're upset at Rush because he's being TOO GOOD of a conservative? Maybe YOU need to re-evaluate what a 'conservative' is, instead of just accepting the creeping involvement of government into EVERY facet of your life.

BTW, I think Rush is a big fat windbag most of the time, but I respect the fact that he hasn't completely given in to the complete liberalization of our culture and leaders (and I'm a Libertarian, for goodness sake). I'd think more Conservatives would applaud such efforts, but evidently not.

Zoid wrote: So you're upset at Rush because he's being TOO GOOD of a conservative? Maybe YOU need to re-evaluate what a 'conservative' is, instead of just accepting the creeping involvement of government into EVERY facet of your life.

And maybe you need to read what I said.

I haven't accused Rush of having an inconsistant philosophy, I said that the world has largely passed him by.

He's constantly beating the same dead horses and it's long past being uninteresting.

For instance, Rush decided that in order for there to be peace in the Middle East the Palestinians had to be thoroughly trounced militarily like the Germans and Japanese in WW II.

Putting aside whether this concept has validity or not, there comes a time when the point has been made and it's time to move on.

But Rush hammered on this theme day after day for a couple of weeks until I got so bored and exasperated that I just couldn't listen any more.

And it's been the same with most of his program material since he lost and then regained his hearing.

Maybe he's too much into a comfortist and cacooned lifestyle to be on the cutting edge anymore.

Whatever the cause, Rush has become a broken record who just is no longer very interesting.

But since you brought up ideological consistancy I say that Rush isn't practicing what he formerly preached.

I have may times heard him disapprovingly accuse disgruntled conservatives of caring more about ideological purity than about winning.

This perfectly describes Rush today.