Rush Limbaugh: May Not Support GOP Nominee

"Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh stunned his listeners by announcing that he might not support the Republican presidential nominee in this year’s election.

Limbaugh said on Monday’s show: "I can see possibly not supporting the Republican nominee this election, and I never thought that I would say that in my life."

The reason: “You don’t have a genuine down-the-list conservative” among the GOP candidates.

“Wherever you go here in this roster of candidates, you're going to be able to point out ‘not conservative, what he did there is not conservative’” Rush said.

The Republican front-runners want the nomination “because it's their turn,” he also stated. “We tried that in '96 with Bob Dole and now they're running the same scenario…

"I'm telling ya, it's gonna come down to which guy do we dislike the least. And that's not necessarily good."

After Rush’s pronouncements, Los Angeles Times blogger Andrew Malcolm wrote: “Across the country, people were dropping their coffee cups, choking on sandwiches, fainting and driving off the road. The king of conservative talk radio not supporting the Republican nominee?”

But Limbaugh’s remarks are not quite so surprising in light of statements he made about GOP candidates Mike Huckabee and John McCain last week:

“I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party. It's going to change it forever, be the end of it. A lot of people aren't going to vote. You watch.”

Rush has the tendency (cough, always) to emphasize the blatantly obvious, but even he admits that his popularity is due to passion rather than any semblance of brilliance. We the people have been in full frontal dither over the paucity of Conservative candidates, but NONE of our talk show brethren, Rush included, helped Fred Thompson out a bloody lick when he needed help the most and Fred was and remains the ONLY Conservative worth mentioning when discussing this appalling mess. I expected the popular feminine hosts to flock to the pretty boys, and while Rush did not do that his silence concerning Fred spoke volumes.