{"id":13937,"date":"2012-11-15T18:31:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-11-15T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T18:31:11","slug":"ron_paul_on_selling_freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/11\/15\/ron_paul_on_selling_freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul on Selling Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, I want to play these Ron Paul sound bites. I was gonna hold this off \u2019til the next hour, but I\u2019ve started in this direction. And, no, I have not forgotten about Benghazi <\/a>and the timeline here. We\u2019re gonna get to all that. Ron Paul, farewell speech to Congress yesterday. We got two sound bites. I found this intriguing.<\/p>\n

PAUL: I thought a lot about why those of us who believe in liberty as a solution have done so poorly in convincing others of its benefits. If liberty is what we claim it is, the principle that protects all personal, social, and economic decisions necessary for maximum prosperity and the best chance for peace, it should be an easy sell. Yet history has shown that the masses have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely, if ever, fulfilled.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Has he not just nailed it there? He has for me. I know a lot of you think we\u2019re listening to kookville here, but, for me, this nails it. We are the party of liberty. We are the essence of liberty and freedom. That\u2019s what it\u2019s all about. When I made my CPAC speech<\/a>, the theme was liberty. We want this to be the greatest country ever. We want you to be the best you can be. We want everybody to be the best they can be. We want to get all the obstacles out of people\u2019s way. Freedom. Why is that a hard sell? Because it is. Freedom did not win in this election. Freedom did not win. Why is it a hard sell? Why are those of us proclaiming freedom, why are we the ones mocked, laughed at, insulted or impugned? ‘Cause that\u2019s all we stand for, that\u2019s all we want for anybody and ourselves is liberty and freedom. <\/p>\n

And yet look at how we\u2019re really viewed. We are seen as the deniers of freedom. And why? Well, we don\u2019t believe in abortion, and to the left the ultimate freedom is aborting your baby. Gay marriage. We\u2019re said to be on the wrong side of gay marriage. To the left, especially to the young today, gay marriage, gay rights is the legalized pot issue of the sixties. It is the thing they care most about. It is the civil rights issue of the sixties. Gay rights and gay marriage, among young college people, age 30, maybe a little older. <\/p>\n

We are not looked at as people who believe in freedom. They see us as thwarting their freedom. Figure that. Now, there\u2019s a reason why. I know the answer. That is because on our side, along with freedom, there are natural limits to it that we call morality. And that\u2019s what the other side doesn\u2019t want any part of. You start talking about morality, that\u2019s judgmental. That\u2019s not freedom. If you start implementing morality, they say you\u2019re imposing your moral views on everybody, when all we think we\u2019re doing is continuing traditions and institutions which have been shown to maintain the freest, most productive, conducive, peaceful society the world has known. <\/p>\n