Posted on 04/11/2021 8:40:15 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
no one can really replace rush and a lot of that is is sense of humor
I agree. Things are just too grim to tolerate without his sense of humor. The only other guys who can inject humor (IMO) are Howie Carr and Mark Steyn.
Trump never should have gone after McCain in that way, or the Gold Star muslim parents. He hurt himself more than he hurt his adversaries in those instances.
The Red Eye guys are generally good guys but I barely listen anymore to them. When they go on and on about subjects I consider boring, I wonder if there are truckers falling asleep and driving off of cliffs listening to them.
Get back to us a couple of months from now to let us know how he did.
Charlie Kirk was never Trump until Trump became the nominee.So was Rush.
Rush was all in for Rubio early on.
Speaking of which, the Red Eye Guys were kicked off of WABC for being boring, per Bernard And Sid in the morning, they said the show put people to sleep. But I still listen on other stations using the iheart app
Certainly by 2016 many conservatives were frustrated & angry over Bush II & Obama's alleged "war on terror" -- why were we still fighting half-heartedly and dying tragically after all those years?
Well, one reason was because "war heroes" like John McCain continued to support the effort.
Trump had a new idea, but to sell it he needed first to bring McCain down a notch or two, so he did.
And I think it's at least arguable that Trump won more new support opposing McCain than he lost.
But there's another, even more insidious factor which McCain epitomized -- the usual Republican political career path.
Typically an ambitious young Republican politician begins his career both talking the talk (campaigning) and walking the walk (voting) very conservatively, but then over many years gradually grows ever more "moderate" until, by career's end they feel entitled to vote against their own party on key issues, like Obama-care.
McCain's title as "maverick" moderate went back to at least 2002, well before Donald Trump's political career, and so made McCain an obvious target for Trump to cement his own conservative support.
So most conservatives support Trump not despite his attacks on McCain & Co., but rather because of it.
As for Trump's attacks on "Gold Star muslim parents,", I think that was pure Democrat media disinformation, and certainly not for the last time.
I stopped listening to the Red Eye Guys when they came out as never-Trumpers. Did they remain Never-Trumpers? It sounds like they must have come around. If so, I wonder when that occurred.
Unlistenable.
They might offer him the job.
Thank you. More than anyone ever needs to know about this dweeb—and his uniparty-backed “movement”.
Red eye isn’t even passable as a talk show. There is zero originality - it’s just regurgitated news reports - with boilerplate commentary. But at 3 am, the standards needed are minimal.
Agreed - very well put.
Very funny comment about the red eye guys. I’ve wondered the same thing. I’ve never learned one thing from them and listen no longer, too. Silence is preferable.
What happened to Dan Bongino taking Rush’s spot? I heard he was to take the spot in March?
“Trump never should have gone after McCain in that way, or the Gold Star muslim parents. He hurt himself more than he hurt his adversaries in those instances.”
Why not, both of the above were using their positions to SCREW OVER Americans. If they wanted to be left alone, then they needed to leave AMERICANS alone - but they chose to play ball, and no one, them or Obama (because he’s black), or Skunk Cabbage (because she’s a woman), or Senator Max Cleveland in Georgia (who lost 3 limbs in combat) deserve a FREE PASS, when they endanger the future of Americans.
Once you play ball, and play for the other team, prepare for consequences...there was NO HIDING behind uniforms or skin color, or anything else, not with Rush - he FULLY UNDERSTOOD how the Democrats used these people as political human shields and he wasn’t putting up that crap.
“So was Rush. Rush was all in for Rubio early on.”
Any evidence of that. The most that I saw was Rush saying ‘good things’ about Rubio, which I would agree were ‘weird’...but Rush otherwise was quite neutral, although he did lean towards Cruz at the very end.
...and Rush was NEVER close to being a Never Trumper, when one remembers what the NeverTrumpers were saying about Trump (using far stronger language to attack Trump than they ever used to attack any liberal). In fact, I remember Rush saying flat-out, at least once, that Trump is no liberal (Rush knew him personally)...which is what moved me away from Cruz and over to Trump.
...but the crap with Rubio was weird, and I’m still clueless as to why he said what he did, after killing himself to fight Rubio’s Amnesties over the years.
Rush lived in Rubio’s area. They probably were personally acquainted.
No one person is “replacing” Rush. Actually, it’s several different radio hosts who are taking his time slot in different affiliates his show came out of. That’s all.
I remember it mostly like that. Rush was never “Never Trump” but was skeptical of him not seeing the motivations of the other side through an ideological prism and how “making a deal” wasn’t going to work with the other side...and Rush specifically said “Trump is *not* a conservative” for which there was a lot of evidence to suggest as such and he, like me, were very skeptical he did a genuine 180 degree turn in such a short period of time on a host of issues. Until just before running he was still in favor of amnesty, and he had blasted Romney for supposedly being too harsh on immigration and blamed that for his loss in 2012.
Rush never endorsed Rubio but went beyond saying just “nice things.” He was also very defensive of Rubio after his “robot Rubio” gaffe at the NH debate.
No one has taken Rush’s spot. The Rush Limbaugh Show continues to air. Some stations are starting to put completely different shows in the time slot.
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