Rush Limbaugh has been all over Trump lately, in a display of egregious suck-up-ery rivaled only by the lap dog impression he reserved for Sarah Palin.

(Rush hasn't slavered over Palin for a while. Did her reality show cool his interest? Or had he only been feigning interest so long as the Palin camp gave him manufactured legitimacy when Palin went on his show during her book tour? Tis a mystery that will likely never be solved.)

But Trump is big in the news these days, and Rush has an unerring nose for riding on other stories' coat tales. So Trump it is. And as ridiculous as Trump is, as borderline liberal some of his convictions, there is one thing Rush likes and admires about Trump more than anything else.

It's not Trump's policies, or his speeches, or his position on any financial or social issue. It isn't what Trump believes that Rush likes; it's who Trump is: a pompous, self-aggrandizing braggart.

In other words, Rush likes Trump because Trump is just like him. (OMG - Trump is Rush's Tina Fey!) He even said so. Commenting on Trump's now infamous "I'm proud of myself for convincing Obama to release his birth certificate" speech, Rush Limbaugh said, "For a while I thought, my gosh, I'm watching myself here. (laughing) Biggest kick out of it."

You have to wonder, is Rush Limbaugh tone deaf? (I mean in the metaphorical sense, obviously. He is literally tone deaf due to a side effect of his Oxycontin abuse.) Does he realize that people watch Trump specifically because he is so hate-able? Does he understand the difference between someone people pay attention to because they like (Oprah) versus someone people pay attention to because they do not (Snooki)?

Or does he simply not care? In Rush Limbaugh's world, attention is attention, regardless of how you get it. If you can get it partly for being grotesquely rich (and grotesquely aware of that fact, and grotesquely willing to trumpet it all the time everywhere to everyone) all the better. Rush likes to do that, too. He claims it's because his wealth is "inspirational." But really it's because he likes to brag and rub people's noses in it.

Both Donald Trump and Rush Limbaugh are poor winners. Which may be the best argument for hoping that Trump doesn't win the Presidency. Not just because he would be such a terrible President, but because he would be so terrible with the gloating.

(And make no mistake, Trump would be a terrible president. To be the President of the United States, you have to think about other people. So that's never going to happen. At least Rush is self-aware enough not to consider running for office.)

But I will leave you, dear readers, with another wonderful quote from that same transcript. It really made my day.

"Politics is show biz for the ugly."

Ain't that the truth, Rush? But darling, remind me what it is YOU do for a living? Ah yes.

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