Rush: Where'd They Go?

Last Tuesday I managed to catch a moment of Rush's show while he was lamenting the inner problems of the Republican Party as it related to the missing 4 million voters. He stated,

RUSH: That's it. Four million Republicans that did vote against Obama in '08 sat home in 2012. Do you realize that if those four million had shown up, Romney would have won? Question: Why didn't those four million show up? Is it because of amnesty? Is it because of abortion, immigration, contraception? No way! Well, it might be. It might be the fear that the Republican Party was gonna go in that direction. Those four million said, "The hell with it!" More likely it's that. The party wasn't conservative enough in its messaging.

I personally think Rush is missing something obvious, and that is consistency. After voting for over 20 years for what I thought would be conservatives, I have discovered my own blindness, and I think many others have too.

Rush wonders about amnesty and abortion and a conservative message, but what about the police state growing up all around us? What about the never ending war on terrorism, and the fact that anyone may literally be considered a terrorist?

It is deeper than that though. I think Libertarianism is becoming more popular as an explanation of the world while offering real answers to the issues before us. I personally think many conservatives are beginning to see that the State grows in power no matter who is in charge, Left or Right. Even Rush has said as much many times.

So when a real candidate enters the Republican nomination process with real answers about how to deal with the real fundamental causes of our nation's problems, Rush calls him a dunce and refuses to deal with his ideas, doing the very thing he claims liberals do to Conservatives.

Inconsistency is the sign of a failed argument, and Rush is as inconsistent as they come.