Elective Decisions

Palm Beach, FL—Staying consistent in politics takes the constitution of a rhinoceros.  Unfortunately, it is that rhinoceros which is so aptly destroying the Republican Party—a party that looks uglier flip-flopping than Barack Obama did flipping those Iowa pancakes.

Not only does the Republican Party have any constitution, but it hasn’t shown any consistency on issues that really matter to the American people.  And when it does show consistency, it’s for removing conservatism from the party.  Colin Powell is a perfect example of just that—an individual that wishes to remove conservatism from the Republican Party.

But the symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, and elephants have long memories.  It is then a foregone conclusion that the elephant will trample the rhinoceros when the leadership it so long awaits arrives in Washington, D.C.  Conservatives, however, are becoming impatient.

They no longer wish to wait for a conservative to get their act together and arrive on the D.C. scene.  So, they turn to Rush Hudson Limbaugh III.  Why?  Because he’s demonstrating leadership skills that seem to have been lost in the Republican Party and he’s taking a beating for it.

But “America’s Piñata” is not going to stop.  He is going to continue to advance conservatism no matter how hard the body blows are that he’s taking.  Why?  Well, he has the memory of an elephant, the constitution of a rhinoceros and is remarkably consistent.  And he’s been that way for more than twenty years.

And it will be that consistency that will trample those rhinoceros that are trying to destroy the Republican Party.  With an army of up to 20 million listeners, it’s a result that just about any intelligent individual will conclude.  And if I were one of those rhinoceros about to get trampled, I’d be lining up to determine which butt cheek Limbaugh wanted kissed.

As the week long tribute wraps up, Elective Decisions has taken a look at this remarkable consistency that has lasted for more than twenty years.  In 1988, Rush Limbaugh wrote the “35 Undeniable Truths of Life” as part of an article for the Sacramento Union.  To this day, he stands firm on those principles.

For the first example of Rush’s consistency, we take a look at the first truth of life he wrote, in which he updated in 1994, saying, “There is a distinct singular American culture – rugged individualism and self-reliance – which made America great.”

In 2009, Rush has not wavered from that statement, echoing those same sentiments on an April 2, 2009, show, in which he took a call from Michael—a journalism student at the University of South Florida.  He told his caller about the liberal hatred and the suppression of the American individual at American colleges.

“The thing is here, college professors want to teach the obedient.  College professors do not want to deal with independent, thinking adults.  I mean they will, but I’ve had so many of them call here, people that disagree with the professor, and they’re worried sick what’s going to happen to them because they disagreed.  Professors want obedient children.  All these kids, all these kids do the standard rebellion to one degree or another, full of individualism, they are going to take control of the world, they’re going to grab it by the tail, and within a week of the first semester, they’re robots, willingly.  And that’s what this poor guy at University of South Florida is facing, mobs and mobs of programmed robots, filled with rage, hatred, irrationality.”

Rugged individuality isn’t something new.  It’s a time tested tradition in the Limbaugh family—from his grandfather, Rush Hudson Limbaugh, to his father, Rush Hudson Limbaugh II, and finally to both David Limbaugh and Rush Hudson Limbaugh III.  But rugged individuality isn’t all he’s been consistent on.

He’s also been consistent on abortion as well.  In his original article in 1988, Limbaugh wrote, “Abortion is wrong.”  And on a May 15, 2009 airing of The Rush Limbaugh Show, he talked about a Gallup Poll on abortion, saying, “The Gallup poll has the most interesting result out today.  “More Americans ‘Pro-Life’ Than ‘Pro-Choice’ for First Time — Also, fewer think abortion should be legal ‘under any circumstances’ — A new Gallup Poll, conducted May 7-10, finds 51% of Americans calling themselves ‘pro-life’ on the issue of abortion and 42% ‘pro-choice.’ This is the first time a majority of US adults have identified themselves as pro-life since Gallup began asking this question in 1995. Now, look at me.  The Republican Party, at this very moment, is in a tug-of-war between the country club blue-blood Rockefeller types (made up a lot of people, bunch of wealthy country club types) who want the Republican Party to get abortion out of the party. They don’t want it to be an issue. They don’t like the Christians being in the party. I’ve told you the stories.”

“I don’t need to repeat ‘em,” Limbaugh continued, “but I’ve told you the stories how in New York in the nineties, all these well-to-do Republicans would come up to me and say, “What are you going to do about the Christians and abortion issue?  It’s killing us.”  When I was out in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, three weeks ago for a Milken Institute Forum, prior to going out on stage in the greenroom, I was talking to a bunch of Republican types who said that they had gone to a cocktail reception the night before at the home of a wealthy Republican in Beverly Hills, and the entire subject matter was devoted to how the party has got to get rid of abortion if it is going to have any chance of coming back and beating Democrats.”

“So what is the Republican Party going to do now with this news,” asks Limbaugh.  “And what are these country club blue-blooders going to do with this news?  And why do you think this is happening in the first place?  See, I’ve always known that abortion was a 50-50 issue.  I don’t think it was ever an 80-20 pro-choice majority.  It never was.  Just like there were never three million homeless.  But the number was out there, and the assumption — because the Drive-Bys and the Democrats dominated news cycles, the assumption was — that everybody that was ‘enlightened’ and everybody that was informed and educated and sophisticated was pro-choice. And make no mistake about it: pro-choice means pro-abort.”

Pro-choice does mean pro-abort, and for more than twenty years, Limbaugh has remained consistent on abortion.  But there’s got to be something out there he’s flip flopped on—right?  What about the environment?  Well, Elective Deicisons dug to find if he so much as blinked an eye on Mother Earth.

In 1994, he wrote, “The Earth’s eco-system is not fragile.”  And on April 22, 2009, Rush spoke about irony and the founder of Earth Day, Ira Einhorn—a murderous, kook bucket thug.  “We’re talking here, if you just joined us, about the founder of Earth Day.  But as the writer, Michael Tremoglie, at the Philadelphia Bulletin says, ‘There is a little mentioned irony about the Einhorn saga.  Ira Einhorn was arrested for murder March 28, 1979, the day the Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident occurred. Ira Einhorn, environmentalist, was charged with murder during the same period as one of the greatest environmental accidents in United States history.’  But the real irony is that more people died in the apartment of Ira Einhorn, co-founder of Earth Day than at Three Mile Island. The environmentalist killed more people than the so-called environmental disaster.  Happy Earth Day.”

Rush has proven that the environmental movement certainly has its fair share of whackos, harming far more people than it helps.  And his consistency on the environment spans far more than just a decade, but once again proves left wing nut jobs wrong again.

Much to Elective Decisions’ surprise, he has even proven consistent on feminism, writing in 1988, that “feminism was established to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.”  But there’s no way he could still hold that same position he held in 1988—could he?

Well, on September 2, 2008, Sarah Palin and Jennifer from San Diego gave Rush another opportunity to show us just how consistent he is on feminism.  “I am so happy that you called.  Because yesterday I made mention of the fact—and I did it very illustratively and I got some people upset with me, but I said that one of the reasons, one of the many reasons she’s (Palin’s) hated is rooted to my Undeniable Truth of Life Number 24, which is that feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream of society. And I said one of the reasons that she’s hated is that she can wear skirts and get away with it among these old feminist lions, and that she’s a babe.”

But how consistent has Limbaugh remained on taxes?  Surely he’s seen that a growing government is now what Americans want, and that an increase in taxes will certainly be what’s necessary for government to solve all America’s problems.

In 1994, Limbaugh wrote, “No nation has taxed itself into prosperity.”  But that was then, and today things have to be different.  Right?  How then can Rush claim that Americans want taxes low?  After all, Colin Powell—the titular head of the Republican Party—says that Americans want a bigger government, not a smaller government.  And with increased spending comes increased taxes.  No one can possibly suggest that taxes should stay low.  Could they?

El Rushbo did.  On March 30, 2009, Rush did just that.  He spoke about Governor Patterson and his plans for a tax increase on New York’s rich.  He also spoke on the debilitating effects that Obama and Patterson would have on New York’s budget deficits.

“This is just one of the elements of a $121 billion spending deal that the governor and legislative leaders forged in secret in a race to make the April 1st budget deadline.  A lot of other taxes and fees, including expanding the deposit law to include plastic water bottles,” Rush stated.  “The tax on tobacco is skyrocketing.  Now it will be up over a dollar a pack.  That happens also in April.  But I want you to see if you can follow something here.  They’re going to raise taxes on all these people — dramatically, 31% in New York State-who earn over $500,000 a year.  At the same time, the Obama administration is moving directly against one of the industries that pays people that much to limit their bonuses, to limit their salaries, to limit how much they can be paid, and to limit how they can run their businesses.  So if the Obama administration succeeds in reducing salary—they want a $1 million cap on these people, a salary cap.”

Rush continued slamming New York.  “I’m telling you, these people have been paying a lot of tax freight.  There is no way Governor Paterson’s going to raise $4 billion a year on this.  Because, folks, it’s axiomatic: when you raise taxes on an activity, you reduce that activity.  People start doing that activity less.  In this case: working.  When you reduce taxes on an activity, then that activity increases.  When you reduce taxes on income, people start working harder to earn more.  Governor Paterson needs to cut taxes on people.  He needs to spur investment.  He needs to get people going and working.  It’s just the exact opposite.  Governor Paterson is like most other liberal Democrats: zero-sum game. The economy is a pie. It never grows. Somebody gets their slice; somebody gets their slice.”

And El Rushbo finally wrapped up the effects on the economy, noting, “If somebody’s slice is bigger than somebody else’s it means that somebody else is being cheated.  So we gotta even this out.  Obama looks at it the same way.  So massive tax increases in New York—and, of course, in New York City.  And over all spending in New York will go up over 9%, almost 9%, overly spending will go up almost 9% while tax increases go up like 31% to a little over 8% in New York for the ‘super rich.’ (interruption)  I don’t know what the breaking point in New York is, Mr. Snerdley when people leave.”

If enough rich leave New York, the state will be really up the creek without a paddle, leaving the state to go bankrupt under the same failed policies that Democrats always leave us with.

From rugged individuality to taxes, Rush Hudson Limbaugh III has remained remarkably consistent.  But far more than anything else and what endears Americans and conservatives to him the most is his love of America.  His endless optimism and unwavering consistency on America has propelled him to success more than anything.

In 1988, Rush wrote, “You should thank God for making you an American; and instead of feeling guilty about it, help spread our ideas worldwide.”  On June 2, 2009, he said this about the greatest country in the world:  “All right.  We can’t impose our values on the rest of the world, right?  That’s what President Obama said.  Sure as hell sounds like the rest of the world can impose their values on us.  They don’t like Gitmo, we have to shut it down.  They don’t like what we’ve done, fine, Obama will run around and apologize.  I’m telling you, folks, it is not the United States of America that serves as Barack Obama’s role model.  It’s other socialist nations that have failed and the concept of socialism that is his role model.  I’ll tell you what, stupid little community organizer, organize this.  These values he talks about, universal, freedom, democracy.  Why are they universal?  Answer me that, Snerdley.  Why are freedom and democracy, representative republicanism, why are those universal?  Exactly right.  It’s because we have fought with blood, sweat, and tears to make ‘em so, and many Americans have given their lives for those enduring universal principles that are not worth imposing on anybody, of course.  Our values of freedom just didn’t bloom on their own.  Now, freedom is the natural state, I think, of the human as created.  But tyrants, other men as leaders are the ones that curtail and lasso and constrain that freedom.”

Rush Limbaugh has remained remarkably consistent for more than twenty years, and this is why he has become “America’s Piñata.”  It’s no wonder why the left hates him so much.  He has done nothing but refute their lies year after year, and all it gets him is to become the focal point of their rage.

Well, at Elective Decisions, we praise Rush Hudson Limbaugh III.  He is a patriot in every since of the word.  He does nothing but praise those that would defend this nation against all enemies.  He promotes the ideals of liberty as laid out in the Declaration of Independence.  He galvanizes the conservative movement, he has given us leadership when no one in Washington, D.C. would dare to do so, and he will trample the rhinoceros that threatens conservatism today with his army of conservatives that are thirsty to return to power.  He will leave them covered under a steaming pile of elephant dung.

So thank you Rush Hudson Limbaugh III.  We thank you for all that you have done and for all that you will do the next twenty years!

 

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