Why I admire Rush Limbaugh

On Saturday afternoon at CPAC, Rush Limbaugh showed yet again why he is the leading conservative voice in America. Without question, Rush Limbaugh is the most capable of
communicating basic conservative principles. He does it with eloquence and brilliance, shooting down every liberal biased attack on what being a conservative is all about.

In his speech, Rush Limbaugh re-iterated that conservatives love people. He said that conservatives, unlike liberals, don't assume up-front that there are groups of people who could never make it in society and thus require government aid. Conservatives believe that anyone can make it if they are ambitious enough. I fundamentally agree with this. When people accept government aid, they resign themselves to being eternally poor. They never do anything with their lives. Liberals who claim to be on the side of the poor only serve to leave those people in perpetual poverty while making the rich poorer as well.

Limbaugh also went hard after President Obama in a way that few people dare to these days. He reminded the CPAC crowd that liberals have always wanted Bush to fail and now they are asking conservatives to support Obama. This hypocrisy should be countered, Limbaugh said. There is nothing for conservatives to agree with liberals about. Conservatives want the country and the economy to succeed. Liberals want the country to be weaker by virtue of their anti-capitalism and pro-government ways. Thus, Limbaugh rightly repeated that he wants Obama to fail because success for Obama is failure for the country.

This kind of courage and conviction is certainly welcome. Few people speak with the courage that Limbaugh does. He doesn't care about media scrutiny. He is his own person and nobody will get him to back down.

What an asset he is for the movement.