While I have no love for Hagel, I have asked myself if Rush and Hannity carry so much weight, how come we nominated an unqualified Republican for President and elected an unqualified person for President and, how come we were able to elect the greatest President, Ronald Reagan, without the help of either Rush or Hannity?
Got asbestos?
Rush was credited with putting the 94 congressional elections over the top. But what has he of Sean done for us lately?
Well there was the 2006 congressional elections. Not only did we lose seats, but we lost control.
As you noted, McCain go the nomination against Rush's very vocal objections. His little operation to screw with the democratic nomination process to weaken Obama for the long haul paid off in spades. Oh wait, Obama ran a pretty seamless campaign.
And he was very vocal against the election of Obama. Guess who's going to the White House. Few people were more vocal about the bailout than Rush. I see that was passed too.
It's one thing to have positions and answers we probably all pretty much agree with. It's quite another to be able to convince a majority of others that you can't simply press a button and disconnect from them allowing you to have the last word.
Secondly, "we" didn't elect Obama.
Thirdly...Ronald Reagan was a conservative...and acted liked one.
Any other questions?
MOLON LABE
I agree with you boxer21. I think conservative talk radio influence has dimished as they have tied themselves to the Republican Party, which compromises their otherwise conservative message, as though those values meant less than the Party. If they didn’t tie the conservative message to the party but merely applied those principles the life and left it up to the audiance to go with the logical results the conservative outcome would be more meaningful. Dems would still be critized twice as much as Repub. but the principles could be left standing free and pure.