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| What Rush Means To Us, And To Me |
| 2020-02-05 |
| [Town Hall] - It’s a tribute to the great Rush Limbaugh that the reaction to his cancer diagnosis by the tens of millions of people he inspired was not to be devastated but to focus and to resolutely offer their thoughts and prayers in his fight. And he will fight ‐ he’ll fight this like he has fought everything and everyone else that tried to take him out over the last third of a century. He is the archetypal conservative brawler, a no-apologies, no-excuses conservative who never submitted, never allowed himself to be domesticated and neutered by the elite. At the same time, he is gracious and a charity juggernaut. We love him for his strength and wit, and the left ‐ to judge by its vicious, hateful glee over the news ‐ has never forgiven him for either. But then, the glory of Rush is that he doesn’t ask to be forgiven. Here’s how I learned about Rush. I was back from the Gulf War in mid-1991, out of the Army and staying with my parents for a few weeks before I went to LA to start law school. One day, a guy I grew up with who lived across the street told me, "You gotta hear this Rush guy!" ...That’s when this all began for me. Sure, I was conservative already, but I was kind of on my own. Lots of us were ‐ millions of us thought we were the only ones who thought like we did. Back then, being a conservative meant you waited for the National Review and maybe the American Spectator to show up in your mailbox. That was it. That was the whole conservative media. You social media cons are spoiled. We were the conservative diaspora. And conservatism was still nice. Nice worked for Ronald Reagan, but he had a spine of steel. Nice did not work for George H.W. Bush. He would dive bomb a Japanese destroyer and send me and half a million others off to war, but get into an undignified political brawl? Oh well, I never! He got pummeled. But Rush was not interested in submission. He was interested in conservatism, raw and undiluted. And he gathered us together and demonstrated that we were not alone. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Best wishes and prayers for Rush that his treatment is successful. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-02-05 22:32 |
| #1 AM talk radio was at its peak when conservatives Paul Harvey The Rest of The Story and Rush Limbaugh were back to back broadcasts. |
| Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 2020-02-05 05:22 |