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| Rush Limbaugh comments on Governor Kasich's Caravan Guilt Trip |
| 2018-10-26 |
| [Rush] I switched over to CNN, and I caught the governor of Ohio there, John Kasich, and he is being interviewed by... I don’t know who the reporter was at CNN. Doesn’t matter. Being interested by the caravan and America and how to deal with it. I just want you to hear this. We have two bites. Here’s No. 1. KASICH: We have a caravan coming north. We don’t want all those people coming across our border. And there are ways to deal with it. I believe that if we would check those who are legitimately in need of asylum could be vetted before they even get to the border. But, you know what? We’re born in America. You know how lucky we are to be born in America and not be born in Guatemala, where they would say to your daughter, you know, if you don’t do what we want, we will rape your daughter or we will kill your son if he’s not a drug mule? Now, they’re marching north. And, you know what? It could easily have been all of us, that we’re in the caravan, that we’re marching north, trying to save our families and save our children. RUSH: All right. So what is... The ruse here, or the technique here, is moral equivalence. There but for the grace of God go I. Phil Donahue used to do this all the time, Phil Donahue would host his show and when the subject of illegal immigration would come up, he’d start preaching about the accident of his birth. "You know, I was born just a few miles inside the U.S. border, and look at the difference it’s made for me." And he started extolling the guilt that he felt over how the accident of his birth resulted in him being an American and how basically unfair that was to other people in the world. As though being born into a country of prosperity and decency is something to feel guilty about. And it may be something to feel very grateful for. I have no quarrel with that. But it’s how you deal with this that matters. We simply can’t take in everybody in the world. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Kasich, dude, just go away, would ya? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-10-26 17:30 |
| #5 It's easy to reply to Phil Donahue's argument or John Kasich's argument. Imagine you are on a lifeboat after a the Titanic sank. There are thousands of people in the water all clamoring to get onto the boat. But the boat can only carry so many people before it becomes unstable and sinks just like the Titanic. Who benefits from that? Then imagine the United States as a Third World socialist shit hole just like the countries from which these invaders are coming. Who benefits from that? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-10-26 11:19 |
| #4 From what Kasich is saying we should train an army of asylum seekers and other volunteers to overthrow the Guatamala/El Salvador/Nicaragua govts that are causing refugees in the first place. The refugees coming in are lucky ones. Dont those in the caravan care about the poor saps they left back in Central America? |
| Posted by: Penguin_of_the_Desert 2018-10-26 11:03 |
| #3 Being a wealthy American wracked with guilt, it is possible for Kasich to go to the third world and help promote capitalism and the kind of institutions that lead to a wealthy country. Simply teaching nations to model their politics and economics on success and not failure would be a start. Latin America should look to Chile which has become a first world country now (or damned close to it) while their neighbors languish in the same old poverty that results from communist thinking. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-10-26 10:40 |
| #2 Survivor's guilt pushed on the rest of us? OK, take in everyone born into a bad situation in another country. Where would that leave the US? It would be the same here as everywhere else, and there would be no chance whatsoever for a better future for anyone. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-10-26 10:27 |
| #1 For God sakes man, there could be 1 or 2 future postmen in that mob. |
| Posted by: Woodrow Oppressor of the Heathen Rus7517 2018-10-26 10:24 |