Rush Just Said, Maybe I Should Endorse Ron Paul

[Revolution9]

I totally agree with RP however as someone who has listened to Rush since the day he took over for Morten Downey on kFBK in Sacramento (early 80's) I listened to him rip liberatarians over legalizing drugs. One specific caller got ridiculed and slamed because he said he was addicted to MJ and didn't want to be a criminal because of it.
"Just quit" he was told.

And then he got caught in a hypocritical sting and was turned.

Randy

 

[rg123]

Do you realize how much money Rush will make if a Dem wins the office. He will be on every day screaming liberal this and liberal that. Business will be real good for Rush. I'd bet he is loving every second of it. Rush loves Rush

 

[morerocklesstalk]

While pondering who he should endorse, Rush Just Said, Maybe I Should Endorse Ron Paul, at least he believes in The Bill of Rights.

Are you sure he didn't say the the pill of rights?

 

[Henry]

Correction.

Apparently the first email to Rush was wrong, my email just kicked back. Here is the correct one.

mailto: ElRushbo @eibnet.com

 

[wv@SC]

C`Mon Rush!Stop teasing us!Endorse Ron Paul and get your respectability back!

It'll take more than that for him to get that back in my opinion. To me, it doesn't matter (except for the multitudes of sheeple that listen to him) who he endorses. If Rush endorses somebody, then you probably need to check and make sure you aren't making a mistake.

 

[itshappening]

Do you realize how much money Rush will make if a Dem wins the office. He will be on every day screaming liberal this and liberal that. Business will be real good for Rush. I'd bet he is loving every second of it. Rush loves Rush

so true..... good for ratings

 

[shooter_tx]

Maybe the humble pie that Rush has had to eat over his drug use had made him feel a sense of his own vulnerability. Couple that with his (so far) failure to stop the McCain train, and his credibility is at an all-time low RIGHT NOW.

Endorsing Paul would be a HUGE step for him, and he might lose the network over it. I doubt he'd do it, but you never know. It would be a huge gamble for Rush, but a HUGE boost to our campaign. We could win over it, and a rising tide raises all ships...including the EIB Network.

He could even quit the Masons (he's reportedly a 33rd degree, and those people are notoriously pro-world government)....but, anything is possible...

I sometimes wonder if that's why Rush is not so tentative about supporting Paul. His career and livelihood would be in jeopardy.

If you're reading this Rush, it's OK. We'll keep you afloat if you're on the right side.

 

[Richard in Austin]

After all his bloviating about 'true conservatism', he has lost any credibility he might have had by not endorsing Ron Paul.

Rush is just another sock puppet, and a drug snob/hypocrite.

 

[constituent]

Rush used to hold a lot of swaying power until his hypocritcal drug use.

funny, i thought it was his only quality worth defending.

 

[Devil_rules_in_extremes]

Anybody have a YouTube of it?

 

[Soccrmastr]

Someone needs to upload a clip of this!!!!!

 

[shooter_tx]

MArk Levin is the biggest Neocon fag.

He's a huge neocon, and one of Hannity's best friends.

And although [unlike Rush] he's never been able to bring himself to use the term "neoconservative" in anything approaching/resembling a negative light, he does speak poorly of "pseudo-conservatives." Which is close.

Again, some of these guys are so entrenched, it's going to be a series of baby steps to save them.

 

[theseus51]

I don't know why we need a youtube. It was like half a sentence, and the original poster said what it was exactly.

 

[shooter_tx]

He just said the GOP needs to return to "Constitutional Conservatism"!

There's hope for him yet.

I'm a classical liberal from a philosophical perspective. But politically I'm conservative...... from the time of the Founders.

I'm all about trying to *conserve* the classical liberalism of the Founders, if that makes sense.

 

[MadTheologian]

*jaw drops*

 

[Richard in Austin]

Of course, with a Ron Paul presidency, and a sympathetic Congress, Rush wouldn't have much to bitch about, as others have already said. Rush, Hannity, O'Reilly, and other professional complainers would lose raison d'etre and market share.

 

[Goldwater Conservative]

Rush on why he will not support John McCain:

"The failure of establishment republicans to uphold conservative principles in the last decade or more has resulted in the mess that they are complaining about. This mess is a result of their failures and false promises. Now they are seeking a new definition of conservatism and this new definition is not conservative because it requires an expanding government."

What's insane is that he's supporting many of these pseudo-conservative ideas as if they're actually conservative.

He actually used the full-version of the word "neocon" a few weeks ago.

He was talking about how the Conservative movement is split three ways:

"First, you've got the fiscal conservatives. These are the people supporting Mitt Romney. Next you've got the Evangelical conservatives. These are the people supporting Mike Huckabee. And finally you've got the national security conservatives..... the neoconservatives..... and these are the people supporting John McCain."

He's obviously misinformed. The neocons are not national security conservatives, they're open border nation-builders who want to spend trillions of our tax dollars and lose thousands of our troops in police efforts around the world that mire us everywhere while leaving us completely open to attack here at home and doing nothing to address the state-less nature of the terrorist threat.

 

[hawks4ronpaul]

He actually used the full-version of the word "neocon" a few weeks ago.

He was talking about how the Conservative movement is split three ways:

"First, you've got the fiscal conservatives. These are the people supporting Mitt Romney. Next you've got the Evangelical conservatives. These are the people supporting Mike Huckabee. And finally you've got the national security conservatives..... the neoconservatives..... and these are the people supporting John McCain."

I was just incensed that he excluded Ron Paul, who is better on all three points by any objective analysis*, but I was just happy that Rush was able to get the word "neoconservative" out of his mouth. Small victories. Baby steps.....


* Better on spending and the economy. Better on freedom of religion and religious expression (albeit not on forcing a certain brand of religion down people's throats). Better on national security (albeit not on forcing a certain worldview down other sovereign nation's throats).

David Frum had the same talking points about the 3 factions/candidates, and Frum also ignored that RP is all of them wrapped in one.*

*Except RP is not neocon BECAUSE RP is for national security.

http://hawks4ronpaul.blogspot.com/

 

[kigol]

Rush is an entertainer first, political thinker second. The political scene is his stage and he wants a stage upon which he can be most entertaining and draw the most listeners. Rush will take care of Rush first, the truth a distant second.

so true

 

[angelatc]

I don't think of Rush as a neocon hack. I think of him as an anti-Democrat hack. His show reaches it's heights (or lows, depending on where you stand) when the Dems are in office. He made a career off of Clinton bashing.