. . .is really the same reason his radio show is so popular. Rush always seems to be in a good mood, no matter whether the political arena is going his way or not. Clinton gets elected twice on a plurality? Rush has a field day skewering his administration. Clinton gets caught in perjury, but then gets away with it? Hey, what are ya gonna do, and Rush just keeps on going, having fun with it all the way. Al Gore tries to steal the Presidency? Rush satirizes this wooden Presidential wannabe. And even when it looked like he was going deaf, Rush kept up the good cheer. Liberals see this and conclude "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot". But that's because they've confused overseriousness and gloom with wisdom. They don't realize, as Nathaniel Branden has often pointed out, that suffering is what humans do the easiest. Happiness and good cheer are the qualities that take effort to produce. Rush has them in spades, his critics don't. And that's, deep down, why they hate him.
