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I HOPE HE FAILS |
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Written by Rush Limbaugh
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Monday, 19 January 2009 |
TTP salutes Rush
Limbaugh for having the courage to state what all rational conservatives feel.
I got a request here from a major American print
publication. "Dear Rush: For the Obama [Immaculate] Inauguration
we are asking a handful of very prominent politicians, statesmen, scholars,
businessmen, commentators, and economists to write 400 words on their hope for
the Obama presidency. We would love to include you. If you could
send us 400 words on your hope for the Obama presidency, we need it by Monday
night, that would be ideal."
Now, we're caught in this trap again. The premise is,
what is your "hope." My hope, and please understand me when I
say this. I disagree fervently with the people on our side of the aisle
who have caved and who say, "Well, I hope he succeeds. We've got to
give him a chance."
Why? They didn't give Bush a chance in 2000.
Before he was inaugurated the search-and-destroy mission had begun. I'm
not talking about search-and-destroy, but I've been listening to Barack Obama
for a year-and-a-half. I know what his politics are. I know what
his plans are, as he has stated them. I don't want them to succeed.
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I'd be happy the Republicans
have laid down. And I would be encouraging Republicans to lay down and
support him. Look, what he's talking about is the absorption of as much
of the private sector by the US
government as possible, from the banking business, to the mortgage industry,
the automobile business, to health care.
I do not want the government in charge of all of these
things. I don't want this to work. So I'm thinking of replying to the
guy, "Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need
four: I hope he fails."
See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's
outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do
that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is
unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails?
Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten
us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of
it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if
the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails."
Somebody's gotta say it.
Were the liberals out there hoping Bush succeeded or were
they out there trying to destroy him before he was even inaugurated? Why
do we have to play the game by their rules? Why do we have to accept the
premise here that because of the historical nature of his presidency, that we
want him to succeed?
This is affirmative action, if we do that. We want to
promote failure, we want to promote incompetence, we want to stand by and not
object to what he's doing simply because of the color of his skin?
Sorry. I got past the historical nature of this months ago.
He is the president of the United States, he's my president,
he's a human being, and his ideas and policies are what count for me, not his
skin color, not his past, not whatever ties he doesn't have to being down with
the struggle, all of that's irrelevant to me. We're talking about my
country, the United States of America,
my nieces, my nephews, your kids, your grandkids.
Why in the world do we want to saddle them with more liberalism
and socialism? Why would I want to do that? So I can answer it,
four words, "I hope he fails." And that would be the most
outrageous thing anybody in this climate could say. Shows you just how
far gone we are. Well, I know, I know. I am the last man
standing.
I'm happy to be the last man standing. I'm honored to
be the last man standing. Yeah, I'm the true maverick. I can do
more than four words. I could say I hope he fails and I could do a brief
explanation of why. You know, I want to win. If my party doesn't, I
do.
If my party has sacrificed the whole concept of victory,
sorry, I'm now the Republican in name only, and they are the sellouts.
I'm serious about this. Why in the world, it's what Ann Coulter was
talking about, the tyranny of the majority, all these victims here, we gotta
make sure the victims are finally assuaged.
Well, the dirty little secret is this isn't going to assuage
anybody's victim status, and the race industry isn't going to go away, and the
fact that America's original sin of slavery is going to be absolved, it's not
going to happen. Just isn't, folks. It's too big a business for the
left to keep all those things alive that divide the people of this country into
groups that are against each other. Yes, I'm fired up about this.
The above is a transcript
of the Rush Limbaugh Show from January 16, 2009.
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