I listened (not just watching, hearing, or viewing etc.) to as much as possible to the actual interview, but the time difference and work got in the way of listening (for understanding and knowledge).

The chosen bits were appropriate to fill in my gaps, as well as for those who claim to be conservative/Republicans to understand what is about to happen to U.S. if we/they let it.

I believe it had to do with the memorial being used, not to memorialize Paul Wellston, but to call for more rampant liberalism in government and blatant self-aggrandizement on the part of the political attendees. And it wasn’t under the surface either. It was disgustingly obvious.

The real exit question is whether or not the current Republican leadership will actually LISTEN and then HEED Rush’s counsel. Methinks that they won’t, and in the end, it will take a grass roots effort to purge the RINOs out once and for all.

What will we do? Sit back and let this happen, or join forces with Rush and fight back with everything we have. I have been a member of Rush 24/7 for several years now. Certainly this is one way of joining forces. Obama and his crew are counting on the fact that Conservative’s usually go about their daily business and keep to themselves. Not much fight will be expected from us by the Obama crew. They pretty much expect to roll over us with a massive steam roller called the MSM… As for my family; some Liberals local to us will likely get mouthy, and they will also likely get their asses kicked into the gutter shortly after shooting off with the mouth. We have had it up to our ears!

This family will stand with Rush Limbaugh!

Keemo on January 24, 2009 at 9:40 AM

I agree with you 100% there. Conservatives need to stand up and fight Obama publicly and vociferously.

I think it will be particularly effective with Obama since the doesn’t seem to like criticism or protests aimed at him. I suspect he could be manipulated quite a bit by large protests and public opinion turning against him.

RalphyBoy on January 24, 2009 at 1:28 PM
He has a bully pulpit with a congregation of 20 million easy.

chunderroad on January 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM

True… But I was referring to the lack of balls at his level of play. Lots of backpedaling and soft handedness in the repub leadership and on the talk circuit right now.

One is too many, and a successful lawsuit and payout does not legitimize the fact that that person was kidnapped by a government. It’s a slippery slope and I wonder how you and your family would feel if that was you – the accidental victim.

Maybe you’ll get picked up next, and if we’re lucky, we’ll never have to hear how you feel about it.

RalphyBoy on January 24, 2009 at 1:28 PM

He has a bully pulpit with a congregation of 20 million easy.

Evidently you’ve not worked in an upper-level management position in a company/organization that has had to adapt to much change in operation.

It is because I have that I am deriding your theory and implying you don’t know what you are talking about.

Comparisons with Rush Limbaugh, a pundit, are irrelevant and immaterial.

By PETER BROOKES
Posted: 1:50 am
January 11, 2009

We should hope that Obama shows as much character and the courage of his convictions. From what I have heard from him for over two years, though, and judging by this week, I have little reason for optimism.

On the premise that simple is best, many Republicans have reduced their operating philosophy to two essentials: First, government is bad (it’s “the problem”); second, big government is the worst and small government is better (although because government itself is bad, it may be assumed that small government is only marginally preferable). This is all errant nonsense. It is wrong in every conceivable way and violative of the Constitution, American exceptionalism, freedom, conservatism, Reaganism and common sense.

Over the last several years, conservatives have turned themselves inside out: They have come to worship small government and have turned their backs on limited government. They have turned to a politics of exclusion, division and nastiness. Today, they wonder what went wrong, why Americans have turned on them, why they lose, or barely win, even in places such as Indiana, Virginia and North Carolina.

But is Barack Obama calling for “better management of government, for wiser decisions,” or is he Carter redux? It seems the latter more than the former. Reagan would most certainly disapprove of American taxpayers funding abortions internationally, including in communist China where they are forced by an oppressive government.

Obama’s tax cuts are the opposite of supply-side economics. He proposes to raise marginal rates for just about every federal tax. He also proposes a raft of tax credits that taxpayers can receive if they engage in various government-specified activities. He is proposing to create or expand a slew of government spending programs that are disguised as tax credits. The spending on these programs is then subtracted from the total tax burden, in order to make the claim that his tax plan is a net tax cut overall.

With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk aggravating the depression. Instead, Obama will follow the opposite of the Reagan strategy. Reagan cut taxes and increased the deficit so that liberals could not increase spending. Obama will raise spending and increase the deficit so that conservatives cannot cut taxes. And, when the economy is restored, he will raise taxes with impunity.

Reagan cut domestic spending drastically as President. But the Obama economic plan is so much like Carter’s, he even has the same Fed chairman Paul Volcker.

Rush, Coulter and Rove oppose Obama strictly on policy, and any conservative should. I just don’t get where this Mickey Edwards guy is coming from. If Obama believed in American exceptionalism, I would support him. Instead he behaved like an ass at his inauguration, apologized for our country to Europeans while he campaigned, and his first words at officially taking office were, “Let’s REMAKE America.” He has made it clear how post-partisan his administration will be, and he has yet to advocate a remotely conservative plan.

He is a blatantly Keynesian economist, a corrupt politician who is extremely liberal, the most pro-abortion President since Woodrow Wilson and weak on national defense. I know I am preaching to the choir, but I felt this needs repeating over and over and especially in defense of Rush Limbaugh.

If the opposition has singled him out, maybe we need to rally around our few voices of patriotic dissent and listen to Rush more. For the record, conservatives have provided alternative solutions to the bailouts since the financial crisis hit. The Republican party should dig in their heels, fight the Democratic party’s dubious plans, grab a mike and explain their opposition like Boehner just did and propose workable alternatives. We should not just lay down. Reagan would certainly never have supported that.

We do know that he killed these people without so much as a ‘by your leave’, and Bush never did anything of the sort.

Obama the mass murderer is incapable of James-Clyburn-style “you’ll take it and like it” honesty due to his policies being built on a crap sandwich.

Correct. Now we pay for mothers killing their baby sons and baby daughters all over the world. It’s evil but it will be presented as good to the ignoramuses who voted for BO.

I’ll third Mr Purple’s [on January 24, 2009 at 8:51 AM] notion because that will be the only place we will be able to learn any truth for quite a while.

What will we do? Sit back and let this happen, or join forces with Rush and fight back with everything we have. I have been a member of Rush 24/7 for several years now. Certainly this is one way of joining forces. Obama and his crew are counting on the fact that Conservative’s usually go about their daily business and keep to themselves. Not much fight will be expected from us by the Obama crew. They pretty much expect to roll over us with a massive steam roller called the MSM… As for my family; some Liberals local to us will likely get mouthy, and they will also likely get their asses kicked into the gutter shortly after shooting off with the mouth. We have had it up to our ears!

This family will stand with Rush Limbaugh!

I urge you all to sign up for Rush’s 24/7 package and show your support for his resistance to Obama.

I applaud Rush’s actions here. I too hope the socialist movement fails horribly. I hope Obama leaves office exposed, convicted, defeated, humiliated and laws are passed to ever prevent a similar tragedy from occurring.

That’s like Hitler telling the German Jews after he was appointed Chancellor in 1933 that the Jews owe their total loyalty to Germany and to not to listen to foreigners who are predicting that if they stay in Germany Hitler will eventually persecute and destroy the Jewish population.

Darvin Dowdy on January 23, 2009 at 9:14 PM

I listen to him at work. He has decided he is not a Republican anymore. George Bush and his crew did a ton of things that most conservatives couldn’t agree with but he was better than the alternative. Please understand that I don’t ever want to say that again but I think it is unrealistic to believe that you get more than one president in your life time that you can really really get behind all of the time. Obviously for most of us it was Reagan. Just think, there are people who feel that Bill Clinton was the best president ever and good grief think of the numbers who believe it about Mr. Obama at this very moment.

You can manage out type your 3s, but the original statement was bald and naieve implying you can just sideline all of them.

Ares on January 23, 2009 at 6:48 PM

You’re wrong. And you’re ignoring the context of my original statement. It was about change and getting those who resist change to adapt to the change. And yes, sidelining those who can not be moved to change is possible and effective. I expect that for example, Rush won’t be getting any interviews from Team Obama. He will be sidelined.

Evidently you’ve not worked in an upper-level management position in a company/organization that has had to adapt to much change in operation. When people work in an area for a long time they tend to feel as though they are the custodians and not only resent change but often work to undermine it. For example the constant leaking that came out of the CIA, Pentagon and State. Most of it likely came from careerists who didn’t like the change that was brought about by Bush’s WoT and it took time to sideline them or eliminate them. But they were purged one way or the other.