RIP Rush Limbaugh

Definitely one of the greatest Americans of the last century. Single handedly brought conservatism out of the closet. In the 1980s I was a National Review subscriber and that was literally the only source for rational political thought available. Rush started saying the most common sense things and for some reason that gave him the largest audience on the radio. The haters like the KobeSlobberer can't offer one example of why he is a fascist. The just hate him for being an American conservative who loved freedom and liberty. Rush turned on the flashlight and the cockroaches like the Slobberer headed for the dark. A real leftard man would engage him on an intellectual level. They never did because the term a "real leftard man" is the ultimate oxymoron. So, it was just ad hominem attacks. Just like the Tug and the MSM. Never any intellectual engagement.

BennyBeaver

Good riddance.

HHusky

Political conservatism was actually moored to conservatism writ broadly, and was intellectually and philosophically coherent in 1980.

Rush helped to change that.

Missed by the right wing's rabble. No one else.

RaceBannon

I was driving to the Rose Bowl with my mom in late 1990 through the vast wasteland of Oregon when we came across him on the radio. My mom was immediately uncomfortable so I left it on of course.

I started to listen off and on when we got back and I was driving to jobsites. I still voted for Clinton twice and then Gore so it took like 14 years and John Kerry for me to be brainwashed

Rush drew listeners who agreed and disagreed. Who loved him and hated him. But they tuned in. He was funny which is something the sour pussed left has never figured out.

Rush also had 10 to 20 times as many listeners as cable news. He used to say he felt bad playing clips from MSNBC because he gave them more listeners than they could ever get on their own

A broadcast legend who will always partly be known for the lack of quality of his opposition.

RoadTrip

Political conservatism was actually moored to conservatism writ broadly, and was intellectually and philosophically coherent in in 1980.

Rush helped to change that.

Missed by the right wing's rabble. No one else.

Do you consider social media writ? How was Rush's spoken opinions on subjects like small government different than intellectual prose on the same subject in 1980?

WestlinnDuck

Political conservatism was actually moored to conservatism writ broadly, and was intellectually and philosophically coherent in 1980.

Rush helped to change that.

Missed by the right wing's rabble. No one else.

So typical. Mr. Conservative, aka The Dazzler, can't actually discuss why Rush wasn't an intellectual and philosophical conservative. Unlike the dazzler's intellectual and philosophically coherent conservatism.

PurpleThrobber

Political conservatism was actually moored to conservatism writ broadly, and was intellectually and philosophically coherent in in 1980.

Rush helped to change that.

Missed by the right wing's rabble. No one else.
Do you consider social media writ? How was Rush's spoken opinions on subjects like small government different than intellectual prose on the same subject in 1980?

Leftists think anyone who doesn't buy their bullshit is rabble.

Which is why the safety gets walked up frequently.

HHusky

"Americans who have gotten fed up with having elections stolen from them by the Democrats, including the White House."--Rush Limbaugh

Quite the "conservative".

WestlinnDuck

Conservative and accurate. Unlike you and the Russian Collusion hoax which you deep throated.

RoadTrip

I was driving to the Rose Bowl with my mom in late 1990 through the vast wasteland of Oregon when we came across him on the radio. My mom was immediately uncomfortable so I left it on of course.

I started to listen off and on when we got back and I was driving to jobsites. I still voted for Clinton twice and then Gore so it took like 14 years and John Kerry for me to be brainwashed

Rush drew listeners who agreed and disagreed. Who loved him and hated him. But they tuned in. He was funny which is something the sour pussed left has never figured out.

Rush also had 10 to 20 times as many listeners as cable news. He used to say he felt bad playing clips from MSNBC because he gave them more listeners than they could ever get on their own

A broadcast legend who will always partly be known for the lack of quality of his opposition.

Good lord. I discovered Rush in '92 driving in the Oregon wastelands on my weekly trip from Portland to a construction site in Walla Walla.

RoadTrip

Conservative and accurate. Unlike you and the Russian Collusion hoax which you deep throated.

Don't forget Hands up Don't Shoot. No the Dazzler is speeshal in his ability to swallow large loads of bullshit.

HHusky

Political conservatism was actually moored to conservatism writ broadly, and was intellectually and philosophically coherent in in 1980.

Rush helped to change that.

Missed by the right wing's rabble. No one else.
Do you consider social media writ? How was Rush's spoken opinions on subjects like small government different than intellectual prose on the same subject in 1980?

Nobody with an ounce of intelligence has ever believed that "small government" is a realistic or a worthy objective. It's not an intellectually honest pursuit and neither political party has ever pursued it, regardless of what they said during a campaign. It's a fantasy. And all most of you ever mean by it is you want the government to do stuff you like, but not stuff you don't like.

Small government is at best a rhetorical flourish required to pander to the stupidest voter a Republican can hope to convince to pull the lever for him come election time.

Sledog

I was driving to the Rose Bowl with my mom in late 1990 through the vast wasteland of Oregon when we came across him on the radio. My mom was immediately uncomfortable so I left it on of course.

I started to listen off and on when we got back and I was driving to jobsites. I still voted for Clinton twice and then Gore so it took like 14 years and John Kerry for me to be brainwashed

Rush drew listeners who agreed and disagreed. Who loved him and hated him. But they tuned in. He was funny which is something the sour pussed left has never figured out.

Rush also had 10 to 20 times as many listeners as cable news. He used to say he felt bad playing clips from MSNBC because he gave them more listeners than they could ever get on their own

A broadcast legend who will always partly be known for the lack of quality of his opposition.

Half my brain tied behind my back! Rush.