From yesterday's show:
RUSH: It is amazing to me. It is, even though it shouldn't be, but it's amazing to me -- how Jeb Bush and Rudy and Chris Christie, all these people... Jeb Bush, we quoted him earlier today. He's nervous. He says (paraphrased), "Ah, don't start talking about fear and emotion. This is not what I want to hear our nominees talking about." Christie and a lot of these people say: You gotta stop talking about social issues.
Republicans are say, "We've got to stop talking about this abortion stuff. We gotta stop talking about contraception." It is the Democrats who are obsessed with this stuff! Why can't our people go on offense? Why can't our people say, "It's the Democrats who are obsessed with all of these social issues"? Look: "Maryland Gay Marriage Bill to Governor's Desk." That's not a social issue, gay marriage? We have a federal judge this week in San Francisco who ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act, signed by Bill Clinton, is unconstitutional. He just took it upon himself to say that a piece of legislation is unconstitutional. Defending traditional values is not modern? It's off topic? Attacking them is modern and good politics?
That's what we're to believe here? All we're doing is defending traditional values. All we're doing is defending the institutions and the traditions that have made this country great, and apparently that's what you're not supposed to do? "No, no, don't do that! Mr. Limbaugh, you're just gonna make people nervous. Women aren't going to understand." You wouldn't believe the e-mails. "Rush, women's brains can't compute this way. You're making a big mistake here just by bringing this up." Oh, so we can't defend all these great traditions, but the left can attack them? The left can attack them and rip them apart and tear them down, and that's good politics? Is that what we're to believe?
We're supposed to sit by while great traditions and institutions like marriage are ripped to shreds. Obama just, as a dictator would, demands that contraception be free and paid for. He can't do that! We're supposed to not say a word because "Obama's on the right side, here. That's good politics" We conservatives are on defense on these matters. We're not trying to change the world. We're trying to preserve it! I'm just gonna tell you: For all of you friends and not who are telling me to leave this stuff alone, please take it somewhere else. If you don't have the desire to defend this stuff, then don't get mad at me, because I do. Because I am not gonna join the side of this that says, "The good politics, the smart politics, the side of this you want to be on politically is to tear down these traditions and institutions."
I am not going there. I'm not gonna go there to attract a larger audience. I'm not gonna go there to avoid criticism. We're not the ones that issued the rule violating the First Amendment. They did! We didn't go to federal court to impose our will and to claim that the will of the people is unconstitutional. They did! We are not the ones doing social experiments with the US military. They are! And yet we're divisive? We're anti-modern? We're unfocused? We're old-fashioned? We're racist, sexist, bigot homophobes? I'm sorry, I am not gutless. And, by the way, I discussed economic issues and every other aspect of Obama long before anybody else got to the table. While everybody else was afraid to be critical of Obama, I was not.
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I am not a Republican, but have voted that way since 1980 because of abortion, recognizing what it would portend for this country. It's like living through the fall of Rome. It appears no lessons are being learned from history--from Rome to the Third Reich, it's moral bankruptcy which brings empires down. How can so many people be sooooo stooopid?
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