Rush may not have endorsed Trump, but he certainly legitimized him in the eyes of many who'd otherwise have dismissed him as a game show host.
In that sense, Rush (and others like Hannity) can be fairly blamed for Trump's rise and Clinton's election this November.
Yes. About halfway through the primaries, Limbaugh came down with Trump brain-fever.
He could have shut down Roger Stone's slander machine. He could have laid the facts out honestly - without even shilling for Cruz. But you could see he was getting giggly seeing the mediuh react to Trump's crudity and impolitic responses.
You know what? I liked that, too. I had a reason for liking it; and those were not Trump's reasons for doing it.
I liked that, and Limbaugh no doubt liked that, and many conservatives liked that, because the mediuh in this country is a mental-hospital full of liars and sociopaths. Living off the opportunity of a free society, they work 24/7 to DESTROY that free society, turn it into a Marxist hellhole. So, yeah, my first impressions were good.
I'm honest enough with myself to admit when I'm wrong about first impressions. Obviously Trump wasn't doing it because he hated the media; he was doing it because he liked making a spectacle and being outrageous. He cannot tell between dissing media that deserves dissing; and slandering and destroying the reputation of competitor and challenger who is challenging on grounds of PRINCIPLES and POLITICAL PLANS.
And obviously Limbaugh doesn't have the ability to admit when HE was wrong; so he's doubling down...compounding it every step. What would have been some egg on the face is now going to be the destruction of his career...and of America.
And it was an obvious early misjudgment - the difference between dishing out what is due and destroying a man's good name; his father's good name; the names of women who probably had nothing to do with the object of this destruction. Even calling the man's citizenship into question.
It almost-certainly won't happen. But it would be sweet revenge if Donnie the Tammany Bagman finds himself in office, overwhelmed, Impeached and on trial in the Senate. With Cruz as the critical vote.
Sweet revenge.