While feisty I agree with McCain’s mother. While Rush very knowledgeable about the media, he is severely shallow in philosophical and intellectual thought and displays the defective traits of conservatism in that conservatism can impede liberalism but dose not offer a different course. In addition, Conservatism just offers the same form of collectivism at the expense of individual liberty. He drove the GOP to the ground by turning to populism and pietism rather than individualism and capitalism.
Speaking of conservatism, after a bit of a debate with the conservative loonies at Broadband Reports forum, I sought out thoughts of like minded people; the passage from Why I Am Not a Conservative by Nobel laureate F. A. Hayek captures the problem with conservatism.