I don’t think Rush, Laura and company have any less influence than they ever did. Not too long ago they stomped McCain’s abysmal immigration bill. The problem they’re having this year is that they can’t create something from nothing. They can’t stir up excitement in the Republican electorate when the candidates themselves aren’t cutting it with people. Mitt, Fred, Rudy, Huck etc. never were able to make conservative hearts sing the way Hill and Barack apparently can with Dems. That’s not the fault of Talk Radio. That’s the fault of the candidates.
Find a good cause and a good candidate and the radio guys will pump up the volume so to speak.
You’re acting as if those of us who listen to Rush and the rest are the robots the liberals say we are. We don’t follow them, zombie-like wherever they choose to lead. They’re successful because they reflect us, not because they direct us. I’m pretty demoralized with our choices this year. I don’t think talk radio is thrilled either. They’re not tone deaf at all. It is just that the music stinks.
