Rush Limbaugh Quotes
Democrats believed in "progressivism." They believed in Big Government. But they at least attached optimistic outcomes to it. They really believed they were helping America. They really believed they were helping families, helping people. Now they've just become, "The country's horrible, it's rotten, it needs to be reformed!" The liberals of John F. Kennedy's day did not think there was anything really major wrong with this country.
Limbaugh, Rush. The Rush Limbaugh Show, Premiere Networks, 9 Mar. 2017.
After JFK’s assassination, many of his appointees who were liberal Democrats, were concerned that LBJ was a Southern conservative and might not want to serve in a conservative administration. Johnson satisfied Heller and all of the other Kennedy appointees who he asked to stay on. Actually, Johnson was more liberal than JFK, and proved it during his Presidency.
His indictment was rejected by the American voters when they rejected Ryan and Mitte Romney in the election of 2012. This quotation illustrates one of the problems of ideology in politics. Ryan “indicted” everything about progressivism in effect saying to the voters that there is not one progressive idea or analysis that might be useful or even important to the body politic. The same thing happens when ideologues on the left claim that there is nothing of value in conservative thinking. In reality many of the greatest facets of America can be traced to progressive ideas and many to conservative ideas. The United States has been an amalgam of political ideas taken from the entire range of human thinking the world over.
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III was an American radio personality, conservative political commentator, author, and television show host. He was best known as the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, which was nationally syndicated on AM and FM radio stations.
