It’s been a while since I caught any of the Rush Limbaugh show. I was aware that he and his dittoheads were Thompson supporters, but I haven’t had the opportunity to see what their reaction is to Thompson’s withdrawal, and McCain’s seeming ascendancy.
So, it was with some amusement that I encountered the following comment in Colin McEnroe’s blog at the Courant:
Still it is worth pausing to note the way the Republican party seems poised to shrug off the advice—nay, the orders—of Limbaugh and his imitators. They keep sending McCain back to the kitchen, and the wait staff keeps bringing him back out, spruced up with fresh parsley. He’s not their idea of a real conservative. Unfortunately, conservatives don’t seem to agree with conservative talk shows anymore about what a real conservative is.
Here’s hoping that the days of Limbaugh-inspired angry social conservatives dominating the GOP might be fading, and fiscal conservatism and realism return to the mainstream.