Then perhaps you forgot that he threatened on at least two seperate occasions he was 'that close' to leaving the GOP.
The GOP them passed a couple dozen of the worst policies Obama demanded, then attacked Ted Cruz, Then nominated Donald "I donated to Bloomberg, Killary and various liberal causes" Trump.
I used to refer to that on FR as "The Galactic inch" because he seems to have a pretty LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOng measurement for 'That close". And that was BEFORE the Cruz/Trump idiocy by the GOP.
He's still there because he refuses to stand behind the words he speaks. That is yet another bit of proof positive that he is no different than the rest. I'm sorry Invar. He has said and done many good things in the past. But he has helped empower this evil. He had the chance, repeatedly to stand up and he has done nothing but cave in. Thats the unfortunate history.
Well, we can either continue to bash everyone over past actions and blame them for everything or move forward and attempt to get what remains of the Conservative movement to coalesce around another Conservative outsider party.
What is important to me is that
I have left the failed stupid party, which is nothing but another arm of the Ruling Class Oligarchy running D.C. Whether national radio hosts do or not is irrelevant to me in terms of getting my dander up because they talk all big and bad but have failed to actually follow through with their threats.
This cycle remains to be seen whether or not he will fold and practice insanity again, or actually write in or go 3rd party. Like you, I doubt he will - but I will say that I will not be terribly surprised if he does. Especially if the Trump gaffe machine and all the bashing he is getting from his former colleagues continues. He is getting pissed to the point of bashing back on social media, former friends even. Given how it was the Trump Militant themselves who pushed me from simply not voting for Trump to activism against their prince, they may push Levin to do what he actually threatened to do.
Not that it will make any difference at this point anyway. We saw our last somewhat legit national election back in 2008.
Levin I am assuming really thought the GOP could be reformed from within by pushing true Conservatives in primaries and in congressional races, even though we knew back in 2012 that the rules changes made ensured no possible grassroots could wrest control away from the oligarchs. We watched those changes take their toll on nearly every Conservative running in that party this cycle. In fact, that the GOP has chosen to oust and primary every single TEA Party Conservative in their ranks was only discussed by Levin. None of the others even mentioned it.