Limbaugh has become Republican establishment radio, and he retains enormous influence in GOP politics. Laura the Unloved draws 14.25 million listeners per week, placing her a close second to the vulgar Pigboy. That conflation is understandable, because they seem the Ozzie and Harriet of conservative radio. Both are bombastic. And both are most appealing for their absolute certitude.
Nothing shakes their conviction that right is right and that left is evil.
He's a professional, and she's not. He couldn't keep his politics off the gridiron. Such skepticism underestimates Limbaugh. Limbaugh has smoothed his rough edges. When he was lambasted for mocking AIDS victims, he quickly apologized.