How Does Rush Define a Conservative?

Hellooo…

If I wasn't such a big dittohead myself and longtime fan of Rush, I would be thinking he's abandoned the ideals of conservativism and sold out to the military industrial complex. He is sounding so much like a NeoCon, he's just not the good 'ole Doctor of Democracy.

Rush Limbaugh says that he "can see possibly not supporting a Republican nominee" this year." Why? We "don't have a genuine, down-the-list conservative." Then he lists his top five criteria of what an ideal candidate should be:

Okay, top five right off the top of my head, not in any particular order: limited government. Get government out of people's way. Number two, belief in the system that it's people who make the country work, not government. Number three, don't give me a laundry list of policies without a philosophical underpinning that explains the policies. Number four, don't tell me that government is the agent of change and that you are going to lead the government. My brand of conservatism is based on individual entrepreneurism, rugged self-individualism, telling people that they're the ones who make the country work. I think this is born out by history and people respond to it. And then, fifth, after all of those things that I would define as conservative, which includes the belief that people can triumph over the obstacles in their lives, that they're not incompetent, they're not incapable, and they're not stupid, the fifth thing is, is there any leadership on any of this?

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Mr. Limbaugh… Dr. Ron Paul is the ONLY true conservative and fits your criteria if you'd just open your mind a tiny bit.

Ron Paul rocks!