Thread by @LarrySchweikart

1)From Axios, showing they are clueless: "Conservative talk splinters in post-Rush era"

2) This piece, citing newer people as more "ideological" implies Rush was a mainstream R. Absolutely wrong.
axios.com/newsletters/ax… #axiosam

2) Rush was a populist/R to the right of Ronald Reagan on issues such as illegal immigration and foreign trade.

3) For a while he was supportive of foreign involvement, but since about 2008 began to sharply qualify that position.

4) The reason there is no voice out there . . .

4) contd . . . who can replace him is that virtually all of them are globalists in the Nick Knack/Yertle/Ru Paul mold. (i.e., Benji)

5) Some of them get the moral issues of life right, but faceplant on trade, immigration, & globalism.

6) Others get some of those right, but flopped on the vaxxes (i.e., even Bannon and Tucker were originally pro-vax.)

7) Many (Buck Sexton, Andrew McCarthy) come from the Deep State. Far too many are ex lawyers (Levin).

8) The only lawyer I've found suspicious of the legal . .… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

8) contd . . . profession court system is Barnes. The commonsense Rushisms about
"They will always tell you who they fear" & "there is no reason to reach across the aisle. These people must be defeated, not "worked with" are totally missing.

9) I think many want to seem "serious" and "sensible" without appreciating the spiritual battle we are involved in.

10) Rush NEVER actually put this fight in spiritual terms---but he always framed it as though it were.

11) In his final five or so years, he lifted his rule of not criticizing Republicans because they had become so onerously filled with snagglegadgetry that they could no longer be tolerated.

12) Moreover, because he VERY rarely had guests (& never during primaries) . . .

12) contd . . . Rush never got caught up as Glenn Beck did supporting one candidate over another (a candidate who would lose).

13) While I think he could have asked harder questions on air of peope like Dick Cheney, he nevertheless subtly ALWAYS alerted them that . . .

13) contd . . . "your policies are NOT playing well in middle America."

14) Rush alone, of ALL the GOP talking heads, refrained from automatically dismissing Trump in 2015. He may not have endorsed HIM, but he clearly said "these are the issues Americans care about."

15) It became obvious by subtraction who was NOT talking about those issues (i.e., every other GOP candidate).

16) Rush always advanced theories I would call cutting edge but not conspiracy-laden. For example, he wrongly said Cankles would not run for office because . . .

16) contd . . . her psyche couldn't tolerate a loss. Well, she didn't lose until 2008, and then she had to hide her resentment cuz it was against the "first black candidate" Zero. (Which of course is a lie---the "Rev." Jesse "Jackh . . . soooon" as Rush pronounced it was 1st.

17) But he was proven right in the aftermath of 2016 when she reportedly went nuts after her defeat.

18) He, like I, didn't think Rutabaga would get out of a primary, let alone cheat his way to the Oval Oriface (as Rush would say).

19) Rush didn't shy from nicknames, and though never nasty (as some of mine can be), they were nevertheless funny and on point. "David Rodham Gergen," for example for his slavish reporting on Cankles.

20) I'm not even getting into his remarkable voice, his sense of humor . . .

20) contd . . . his understanding of and appreciation for rock music prior to losing his hearing; his interest in cultural issues & sports but especially as they did/did not reflect politics.

21) How right-on was he when he said sports was one of the few areas of . . .

21) Contd . . . American life where you can invest everything and have it not mean anything? Of course, the left has polluted sports now in a variety of ways.

22) As much as I miss him, I think Rush knew when to exit stage right. The transoid/racist/demonic world we have . . .

22) contd . . . would probably dampen his sense of humor and shock his sensibilities.

23) As much as he used AM radio to replace WFBuckley, Jr. as the spokesman of conservatism who used the pen and television, I think the "next Rush" will not be of the radio or TV medium.

24) But if I knew where that "it" was,

I'd already be there.

Love ya Rush. You're still "the GOAT."