It’s Time to Rise Up and Defeat the Socialist Left

by Rush Limbaugh – Feb 8,2019

RUSH:  Look, folks, do not misunderstand me here.  I’m not trying to be Debbie Downer about anything.  Quite the opposite. Let me analogize it this way for you.  During the past 30 years — and I only cite the 30 years because it’s a lot of experience.  I wouldn’t be able to do the program I’m doing today or yesterday or last week 30 years ago.  I did not have the experience, the data.  I had not acquired enough knowledge and had enough experiences to be able to relate it to things.  So it’s a great benefit to have been able to do this.  During these past 30 years, I have been a target of Republican women wherever I go, be it socially or at political events — and in some cases, their husbands and Republican men.

They have approached me and told me that I have to get the party to stop talking about abortion, that it’s killing us.  Now, don’t have a knee-jerk reaction and tune out here.  This has a point.  They would tell me, “We’re losing elections because we have a Christian or Religious Right position on abortion, and we’re targeting ourselves. We just have to forget it.  We are fiscal conservatives, but we’ve got to stop this conservative social issue stuff because it’s killing us,” and for all the reasons that we’ve talked about.

I mean, the men were being henpecked by their wives to shut up about it, and Republicans at large didn’t like thinking they are at the same party with the Religious Right and so forth.  Whenever it happened, whenever I was targeted… It happened a lot of places. I’d go see the crew for Sunday Night Football and we’d be in a van on the way to dinner.  And if it happened to be a Sunday night after an election, boy, would they unload on me. If the Republicans had lost, they would unload!

“You gotta get rid of abortion! You gotta…” And every time it happened — be it on a golf course, I don’t care where — I would say to them, “If we don’t get a handle on this, it’s gonna get to the point someday where we’re gonna be killing anybody who is inconvenient, not just babies.  If we don’t stand up for life… You’ve gotta stop looking at this as some sort of Religious Right issue and thinking you can’t be part of it because you don’t want to be lumped in with a bunch of Christians or a bunch of religious zealots in your mind.

“This is about the fundamental thing we all only have one of, and it’s a life, and we have a political party which is pushing every day for the right to kill whoever they think is inconvenient — and they’re gonna do it one way or the other.  They’re gonna do it with law. They’re gonna do it with health care,” and every time I would point this out, they would pooh-pooh me and say that I was being paranoid and irrational, and abortion was a standalone issue that didn’t have any growth features.  It just was what it was.

I went hoarse trying to tell them that this wasn’t the end of anything, that it was like everything else in liberalism is: The beginning.  But the problem I was up against was that even these educated — very wealthy, in some cases; in other cases well-to-do — people, they didn’t have a concept of liberalism.  To them, everything was Republican versus Democrat.  To them, everything was the Religious Right versus everybody else.  To them, everything was fiscal conservatism, social liberalism, what have you.  And they were immune.

I could not find a way to get through to them and tell them that this was not just about babies and women’s rights to choose and all this.  It was about what kind of country we were eventually gonna have.  If these people who revel, who celebrate the right to kill little children… If those people continue to gain power and don’t pay a price for that….  But I got nowhere.  I frustratingly got nowhere, because what overpowered my attempt to persuade them was the fact that they were embarrassed or humiliated to be in a party that made abortion such a big deal.

They were fine with reading the Wall Street Journal and being fiscal conservatives and all that, but they wanted no part of anything to do with social conservative issues.  They didn’t want to hear about any culture war.  To them… See, they were well enough off that they could avoid it if they wanted to, but it was not just that.  They weren’t even thinking.  To them, it was all party politics.  There was no ideology whatsoever.  They didn’t understand that Democrats were liberals, were socialists, were communists, budding communists.

They didn’t understand that.