{"id":15935,"date":"2012-04-16T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T18:47:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-04-16T18:47:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T18:47:22","slug":"why_stay_at_home_moms_threaten_the_left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/04\/16\/why_stay_at_home_moms_threaten_the_left\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Stay-at-Home Moms Threaten the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Janice, Shiloh, Illinois, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Last Man Standing. It\u2019s wonderful to talk to you again. And ask your wife to give you a really big kiss from me for what you\u2019ve been through since you\u2019ve taken the president on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, will do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to talk about Hilary Rosen because she said the truth, too, Rush. She was correct when she says her words were poorly chosen. The mistake she made was she made that comment about Ann Romney.<\/a> If you would take the whole thing that she said and remove that one line, she was going after the white single mother vote of fish town in Charles Murray\u2019s new book.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because the thing is stay-at-home moms are not unionized. They can speak out, and that\u2019s why the left has been so gob smacked.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll tell you, there\u2019s another thing, too. You have a good point here, but there\u2019s another reason, too, why stay-at-home moms — and I shared this earlier — there\u2019s a reason why stay-at-home moms are a threat and that is they\u2019re the essence of independence, the essence of rugged individualism. They do not need the state. They\u2019re not asking the state for anything. They\u2019re not asking the government to pay for this or pay for that. They\u2019re not putting any stress on the federal budget, for example. And as such they\u2019re not controllable, and they\u2019re not dependent. And that, to any statist, is a huge threat. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s another reason why stay-at-home moms, I think, actually are a threat to women like Hilary Rosen and other leftist pundits who want the state paying for school lunch, school breakfast, school dinner, food stamps, contraception, you name it. Every aspect of life, they want the state involved in, and a stay-at-home mother doesn\u2019t involve the government. Married, stay-at-home moms: That\u2019s who were attacked. Ann Romney, married, stay-at-home mother. “She never had to work a day in her life!” You know what reeeally irritates them? In addition to stay-at-home moms being the flip side of a welfare mom, a stay-at-home mom…<\/p>\n

Look at me. I\u2019m talking to you now. Instead of having the government, stay-at-home moms have a husband to support them — and you don\u2019t think that irritates some of these leftist women? Remember the early days of feminism. Women were to ignore, put aside relationships as one of the reasons for happiness in life. Now, I realize some of you are new to the program. Some of you may be too young to remember what was going on in the late sixties and seventies. I lived it. Don\u2019t doubt me on this. In the dawning era of this age of feminism, women were told all kinds of things. A relationship, a man were shackles.<\/p>\n

That was holding you back. It was denying you your full potential. Being a mother, staying at home? You\u2019re letting the sisterhood down, but you\u2019re letting yourself down, too. It was a full-court press to throw away as many traditions in male-female relationships, both at home and at work, as possible. I kid you not on this. It was not hidden. There was nothing subliminal about this message. It was dead on, right between the eyes. There were books, lectures. The feminists went on TV, made remarks about it. Having a life that depended on a man for any amount of your happiness was a sin. And if you don\u2019t like it that way, depending on a relationship for any part of your happiness, you were missing the boat.<\/p>\n

You were falling prey to the old traps that had been set by the patriarchal-dominated society from the get-go. Because all it was was slave work. It was vacuuming and ironing and cleaning up the messes of the kids and all that. This was the “liberation” of “women\u2019s lib.” It was liberating women from all of these traditions. And you cannot have women\u2019s lib without also requiring liberation from men and relationships and marriage and so forth. The feminists would say back then, for you young ladies in the audience… Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan and Molly Yard and Eleanor Smeal and a whole bunch of them, would constantly say, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.”<\/p>\n

That was one of the statements, and it was militant. This was not advice that they were giving. These were demands. Now, the reason I remember this stuff, for those of you young ladies (and young men in the audience, too) is because I was just turning 20 and 21. In 1971, I was just turning 20 and 21. I\u2019d moved out of the house. I\u2019d moved to Pittsburgh. I was on my own. It was new, fresh, exciting times. Then this feminism stuff hit, and it was a mess, \u2019cause it turned women angry. Pshew! Even if you went out and had a date, there was no fun to it. And it wasn\u2019t every woman, of course. They all didn\u2019t fall into it. But a whole lot did.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I\u2019m simply trying to give you backup for the assertion here that to women like Hilary Rosen (these leftist feminists who seek to “liberate” women from all these traditional “shackles”), the fact that Ann Romney had a husband supporting her and not the government, that is as irritating a factor as anything else in this. More so than… I mean, it\u2019s the “reason” Ann Romney, quote, unquote, “never had to work a day in her life.” Or, as Bill Maher on eloquently said on Friday, “It\u2019s why Ann Romney never had to get up at seven o\u2019clock in the morning get her ass out of the house,” quote, unquote, Bill Maher. It\u2019s because there was a husband there who provided for her and the kids.<\/p>\n

See, the women are not supposed to depend on that. It was okay if the government ended up providing for you — that was cool — but not a husband, not a man. You\u2019re supposed to do that yourself. And if you couldn\u2019t do it yourself, then you turn to government programs. Now, today\u2019s Ann Romney\u2019s birthday. Did you know that? It\u2019s Ann Romney\u2019s birthday. The Democrats were actually couple days early with their gifts last week. It\u2019s probably a happy birthday. I\u2019m just telling you. I\u2019m not sure making these statements to be provocative. I\u2019m not trying to make anybody mad. I\u2019m just telling you what “is.” I lived it. I grew up in an era where more women than you can count were told, “The worst thing that can happen to you is to have your happiness derive from a relationship or a man.”<\/p>\n

Now, they still needed men. They wanted them, but it wasn\u2019t pleasant. It really was true. Compliment her appearance and it was an insult. It was sexist. It was “objectifying” her. You know, you\u2019d open the car door. “I can do that myself! I\u2019m not some weakling!” This stuff really happened, and it was commonplace.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nancy, Roanoke, Virginia, thank you so much for waiting. Great to have you on the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I just wanted to say that I believe the real reason that we stay-at-home mothers are seen as a threat is that we\u2019re home every day listening, together with our children, to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, that\u2019s not just a joke. I think that\u2019s part and parcel of what the anger with stay-at-home moms is, homeschooling, all that stuff, listening to talk radio, not giving your life over to the government, to the state, to the Democrat Party. I mean there\u2019s all kinds of reasons that are rolled up into this resentment.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My children grew up listening to you and they\u2019re all three conservative adults at this point, so —<\/p>\n

RUSH: And they\u2019re fine people so far, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Very much, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Well, that\u2019s very sweet of you. How old are they now?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Our youngest is getting ready to graduate from college. Our middle is a doctor, and our oldest son is a West Point grad in the Army.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. Well, congratulations. <\/p>\n

CALLER: They grew up on you, they subscribe to The Limbaugh Letter, and they\u2019re just really grateful for the influence that you played in their life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I can\u2019t thank you enough. You\u2019re making my day here. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you for all that you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate it. That\u2019s just great. I hear this kind of stuff, and I\u2019m still a little embarrassed. I don\u2019t know quite how to thank people properly for that, but I appreciate it more than you can possibly know. But, yeah, it\u2019s a War on Rush Babies, too, because like she said, her children grew up listening to this program. The resentment and the hostility — why be angry at women who stay home and raise their kids? What is there to be mad at about? It\u2019s none of your business. Okay, you\u2019re a woman, you\u2019re a feminist and you want to go work and so forth, fine. What\u2019s so wrong with a woman who wants to stay home and raise the kids? Well, I\u2019ll tell you what. It\u2019s because there\u2019s a husband there supporting it all, and because that\u2019s a violation of one of the first tenets of feminism, is don\u2019t make a man part of your life. Don\u2019t make a relationship that big a deal in terms of your happiness. It\u2019s just not supposed to happen. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Jim in Reno, Nevada. Glad you called, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line><\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you! And hello! I just called to add another reason why full-time mothers are despised.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I\u2019m hoping you\u2019ll have time for me to add one thing to your list of undeniable truths. But the thing that is not liked about full-time mothers — and, you know, we\u2019ve let the left label them as “stay-at-home moms,” but that implies somebody who never gets their you-know-what out the front door. But they are full-time parents as opposed to ones that split their time and then do not devote all their time to their children. At any rate, they are not only independent, but they raise independent children because there\u2019s no government programming there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s very much true. The children are not introduced to statist programs, either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The children end up becoming self-sufficient, self-reliant, and not needing government, and that… No, you\u2019re absolutely right. That\u2019s a great adjunct.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s the threat.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you\u2019re exactly right. But I\u2019m gonna cut you off before you add to the 35 Undeniable Truths of Life \u2019cause nobody does that. I\u2019ve always said: “Don\u2019t try this at home.” The 35 Undeniable Truths… In fact, I tried to do it again. I tried to come up with a second 35, and they\u2019re good, but they\u2019re not nearly as powerful as the originals. But there\u2019s more truth to what he said than you think at first blush. Because the children are raised to be self-sufficient and self-reliant because that\u2019s the experience the parents have had. That\u2019s the morals, the values are all taught. Now, you\u2019ve got stragglers. Some of them don\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

You know, nobody\u2019s family ever turns out Beaver Cleaverish. Everybody\u2019s got a couple bad apples in their family, but for the most part the theory holds. That\u2019s how you get Rush Babies. And, by the way, that\u2019s how else you get free thinkers. Stay-at-home moms with a traditional nuclear family, raising kids, teach them to be free thinkers. Which, when you stop and think about it, used to be a liberal thing. Liberals used to be the ones who were open-minded, tolerant, afraid of nothing. And they always ran around saying it was right-wingers that wanted to censor them. And look how things have changed! Every censor around practically is on the left. And they\u2019re dead serious about it. If they don\u2019t want to hear it, it shouldn\u2019t be said.<\/p>\n

And if somebody says something they don\u2019t want to hear, they want that person to be punished.<\/p>\n

No question about it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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