Why Did Rush Limbaugh Change His Mind on Sotomayor?

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Rush said: "if I can be convinced that she does have a sensibility toward life in a legal sense" IF is the operating word here. He is not convinced. If you listen to him, you will realize that Rush does not easily keel over to accommodate pressures in any direction. He doesn't need to. Rush is a conservative rock in a sea of emotional Obamamania...

Sofia Stafford of IL 10:43PM August 02, 2009

Listening to Rush reminds me of why I am no longer a Republican. I am more of a John McCain or Colin Powell Republican. At present there seems no longer a place for me, nor for Colin Powell or, really, even for Jon McCain.

Alan Granger of TX 7:54AM June 11, 2009

Whether Rush is responding to others' advice, or is able to grasp a basic fact on his own doesn't matter. Sotomayer is intelligent, but lacks the intellectual power to be anything but a back bencher. She'll never be a strong influence over the other justices, and will do less harm than some others might. She might be an identity-politics activist (a subtle form of racist), but so would anyone this administration nominates. She's a lesser-of-evils candidate for the job.
I suspect that this isn't Rush's own decision. It's more likely that wiser heads are pressuring him to let the right choose its battles more carefully. -

bob of MA 2:46PM June 09, 2009

Stating that Rush "has changed his mind" just because he voiced a hypthetical is a bit of a stretch, don't you think?
Though, if the desire behind this survey is to plant the thought that he did, the best way to that end is to make it part of the headline. Usually a fairly effective ploy on the part of a partisan writer.
Except the intellegent onee in the audience see right through that sort of cheap writing.
"This was realized decades ago in Canada and Europe."
Say what? Since when is Europe a bastion of tolerance, speaking softly and sacrificing oneself to help the oppressed?
Probably the LEAST mature and compassionate people in the world are Canadian and European.

RP 8:49PM June 07, 2009

Those of you who do not listen to Rush yet persist in parroting the unfair attacks on him are the epitome of the uninformed and ignorant. You are the perfect Obama voter.

Mike Constitution of FL 2:11PM June 06, 2009

I don't pay attention to the ravings of drug addics or hypocrites such as rush'

mickey blankenship of CA 3:59PM June 05, 2009

Two possibilities:
1) He MIGHT be beginning to sense that Sonia Sotomayor is not as liberal as he once thought---and that ought to be a concern. WE NEED TO HEAR THE JUDGE MAKE PERFECTLY CLEAR IN HEARINGS THAT SHE INDEED IS A LIBERAL, BEFORE WE CONFIRM HER.
OR
2) Rush is back-pedaling to cover his own reputation. Remember his "Operation Chaos" idea to derail the Democratic convention last summer? What a bomb. Even he know he doesn't need to keep making those errors to a national audience.

Muser of NM 12:13PM June 05, 2009

Perhaps the real issue is the end of the "isms". People realize that the exponents at the extremes with their very loud and mainly ungracious tone and words, are a danger to their society. This was realized decades ago in Canada and Europe. The USA is merely reflecting the changes that occurred elsewhere. Universal Health care is next as the USA moves towards a more compassionate and less-shrill or might I say towards a more "mature and developed" society.

John Mitchell 10:08AM June 05, 2009