No doubt there will be much, and I mean much, written about him in the coming days. I was never a real fan, though I didn't hate him. I valued some of what he said, and more of what he revealed. Nonetheless, I'm deeply saddened that he has died, and I feel an urgently needed voice in our time has been silenced. It was in God's timing at the end of the day, and perhaps it signals the need for a new voice to rise.
In any event, I'll remain in prayers for him and his family, and for all who will no doubt be touched by his passing. RIP.
Like him or not he was a force to be dealt with. Even Teddy Kennedy had tried to pass legislation at one time that would have restricted conservative voices like Limbaugh's from voicing conservative thought over the radio.
ReplyDeleteI've distrusted the media and the democrats for a long long time. Ever since the downfall of Nixon, the media and DEMOCRAT party have kept patting themselves on the back with a job well done. Just as they thought they controlled everything the people in the country thought heard or saw on tv Rush Limbaugh rose up in the media and hit the MSM with both barrels.
I liked Limbaugh. I liked that he as a voice for the many of us that had no voice. He exposed the democrats and liberals for what they were with not a twitch of remorse or fear of the left. Like Trump, he was self made and did not give a crap what the left thought of him. He may have sounded childish at times, or boorish but so what? He called a spade a spade and he lived in the collective minds of the liberals for decades.
He will be missed by a lot of people. Real people, the fly over country people, the great unwashed. They are the ones built this country and defended this country and Limbaugh supported them and was their voice. As I said in the other post, we are leaving an era and entering a new one. Applies to both church and state. RIP Rush. You have my prayers.
He will be missed, that is sure. I wonder who, if anyone, will fill his shoes. Though I hope whoever does mitigates some of the problems Rush had over the years. I don't think he was always in the right, and I feel his brand of conservatism that put a high premium on financial liberty, often at the expense of other conservative ideals, cast a long shadow on even Christian conservatives. But on the whole I considered him a net positive, and his breaking the media monopoly and exposing the uglier side of the Left are among his most important contributions IMHO.
DeleteI won't know what to think about this until Mark Shea tells me. 8-P
ReplyDeleteMore seriously, though, Rush's great strength was holding the feet of Democrats to the fire. His great weakness was the major weakness of the whole Conservative movement during the time Rush was broadcasting: he failed to hold the feet of Republicans to the fire. Oh, he called out Republicans on many occasions, and he let his views be known in the primaries; but when the general election came around, he very predictably backed the Republican, no matter how much that Republican was "kinder and gentler" at the expense of being Conservative. (One of Trump's few virtues is that he never went in for slow surrender under the pretext of being kinder and gentler.)
ReplyDeleteThe Left got where it is today by making sure Democratic candidates understood what was non-negotiable to them. Support for the LGBTQ+ agenda was non-negotiable for the Left; support for a traditional understanding of human nature was never non-negotiable for Conservatives, who were happy with whatever table scraps the GOP gave them. The same pattern holds for abortion and other key issues. One party was as innocent as serpents; the other was as wise as doves.
I think that's spot on, for both Rush and conservatives. He might buck conservatives, but it was always in the 'because they're not being faithful conservatives' manner. That sort of slick 'we speak out against our side for not being devoted enough to our side' level of accountability. But not when our side is wrong.
DeleteAs for the Left, yep. I've said for good or bad, the Left earned its victories. In the name of tolerance and diversity, it laid out its ever growing list of non-negotiables and would accept nothing less than 100% conformity. The right, however, convinced even Christian conservatives that the only non-negotiables involved the dollar sign and the free market, everything else was worth throwing under the bus for those two grails.