On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh, “a talent on loan from God” returned home to his Creator. Rush, a towering symbol to truth and liberty in this country, died after a battle with lung cancer. Rush was one of the most deserving recipients of a Presidential Medal of Freedom in my lifetime. He was a monumental media icon who transformed talk radio and politics in his decades behind the microphone. His was a voice of sanity and a beacon of light for conservatism for 30 years.
His voice may be gone from the airwaves of the American landscape but will never be absent from the hearts and minds of patriotic Americans. Rush was all about God, Faith, Family & Country. He was a lion for conservatism as Billy Graham was for Christianity. America has lost a giant, a warrior for freedom and liberty.
Rush told us this day would come. I think he was also telling us to take up the conservative cause and carry on his legacy. His loss is incalculable but we can honor him by ensuring this great country that he loved so much continues to be the beacon of freedom he knew it to be.
Rush was a profile in courage. He stood up to the cries of racism because you can’t scrutinize Obama’s policies because he needs to be treated in an infantile manner because he’s half black. Rush showed us the path to follow. We just need to be brave enough to take. We need to be his voice now.
Perhaps the best way to honor his memory is a short excerpt from a speech he gave at CPAC in 2009 (The whole speech was well more than an hour). The speech he gave was “off the cuff.” No notes just Rush talking.
“For those of you watching on C-Span as well, and on Fox, I want to tell you who we all are in this room. I want to tell you who conservatives are. We conservatives have not done a good enough job of just laying out basically who we are because we make the mistake of assuming people know. What they know is largely incorrect based on the way we are portrayed in pop culture, in the Drive-By Media, by the Democrat Party.
“Let me tell you who we conservatives are: We love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don’t see groups. We don’t see victims. We don’t see people we want to exploit.
“What we see — what we see is potential. We do not look out across the country and see the average American, the person that makes this country work. We do not see that person with contempt. We don’t think that person doesn’t have what it takes. We believe that person can be the best he or she wants to be if certain things are just removed from their path like onerous taxes, regulations and too much government.”
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“We love the people of this country. And we want this to be the greatest country it can be, but we do understand, as people created and endowed by our creator, we’re all individuals. We resist the effort to group us. We resist the effort to make us feel that we’re all the same, that we’re no different than anybody else. We’re all different. There are no two things or people in this world who are created in a way that they end up with equal outcomes. That’s up to them.
As Don Surber has noted:
That was 12 years ago.
He was not alone this time. Nor is Donald John Trump standing alone. There are 75 million of us and counting. The America Limbaugh faced that day is not the America we are in today. The divide has widened, true, but conservatives have the wind at their back. We are winnowing our leadership.
There will never be another Rush Limbaugh. I am certain that there was a long line today, à la Trump Rally style, to welcome Rush to Heaven.
“Precious in the sight of The LORD is the death of His Saints” Psalm 116:15