Commentary by Rush Limbaugh: Pearls of Wisdom
By Rush Limbaugh, January 20, 2016
URL of the original posting site: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/01/20/pearls_of_wisdom
“This may not be good for me to say, and I’m gonna try to make it so it’s not necessary, but you may need a lot of nuance listening to me today. Avoid knee jerks today if you can and hang in as I go through some of this stuff, because it’s not complicated, but it is detailed.”
“The way the Republican establishment defines conservatism is not what it is. To them it’s hayseed hicks, pro-lifers running around in pickup trucks with shotguns in the back, bitter clingers.”
“The truth is that the Republican establishment has overestimated the conservative base and furthermore they are clueless in understanding what it is that motivates their own base, and, as such, they’re incapable of understanding why Trump has any support.”
“If you’re Sarah Palin, what has the Republican establishment done for you — other than try to destroy you?”
“The Regime continually misunderstands the American people and the relationship they have with the Second Amendment and the role of guns legally in people’s lives.”
“The New York Times has a story on how a bunch of young feminists — exactly what we predicted on this program — are beginning to abandon Hillary as they learn about the ‘bimbo eruptions’ and all of that.”
“Fast and Furious involved thousands of weapons. Not just a handful of guns, not just a few .50 caliber rifles, but thousands of guns were allowed to cross the border. There’s nothing ‘alleged’ about Fast and Furious. It did allow thousands of weapons to be sold to drug dealers in Mexico.”
“A lot of experts think that Obama wanted the drug cartels to commit such heinous crimes with these US weapons, so the public would demand more gun control laws. Count me in that camp.”
“You’re not gonna get guns out of the hands of criminals because, by definition, criminals are breaking the law and will do whatever it takes to get a gun. The only guns you can go get are held by the law-abiding.”
“Nationalism and populism have overtaken conservatism in terms of appeal.”
“Sarah Palin has substantive, logical reasons for doing what she’s doing, and she explained it yesterday for anybody who really wanted to pay attention to listen to it.”
“The Republican Party isn’t conservative. Where are all these conservative people that are contributing to policy being implemented in Congress or in the Senate?”
“I think what’s actually being revealed here is that the Republican Party itself and even some of the conservative intelligentsia has misjudged and overestimated the conservatism of the base, negatively. They have a negative connotation of conservatism. They don’t like it, obviously.”
“Barry Goldwater was never gonna win that election in 1964. LBJ had that election if he didn’t even campaign, coming on the heels of the assassination of JFK.”
“I think we have two political parties, but we don’t. The Republican Party, for whatever reason, refuses to be an opposition party. The Republican Party refuses to stand up and even make the pretense of trying to stop Barack Obama.”
“Trump’s success and his broad-based coalition, which consists of a lot of conservative Republicans, I think the Republican establishment is worried that this all illustrates how unimportant they might really be in the grand scheme.”
“The Republican Party refuses to stand up and even make the pretense of trying to stop Barack Obama. Out in the real world, Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are seen as destroying this country.”
“Barack Obama and the Democrat Party are behaving in ways of befriending our enemies and alienating our friends and allies — and people are at their wits’ end.”
“If conservatism were this widely understood, deeply held belief system that united conservatives and united people as conservatives, then outsiders like Trump wouldn’t stand a prayer of getting support from people. Yet he is. Therefore, it’s safe to conclude that there are other things at play here that make people conservative.”
“The thing that’s in front of everybody’s face and it’s apparently so hard to believe, it’s this united, virulent opposition to the left and the Democrat Party and Barack Obama. And I, for the life of me, don’t know what’s so hard to understand about that.”
“I think from this day going forward, the definition of what and who is a conservative and what and who is the right is now much more broad-based than it has ever been thought to be, and therefore it’s gonna be eye opening to a lot of people who thought they understood it.”

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