{"id":214345,"date":"2016-09-06T16:40:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T20:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/06\/schlafly_was_the_mother_of_conservatism\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T14:20:28","slug":"schlafly_was_the_mother_of_conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/06\/schlafly_was_the_mother_of_conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"Schlafly Was the Mother of Conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Phyllis Schlafly passed away, the mother of conservatism, if you will, along with William F. Buckley and a few others way back.\u00a0 I remember Phyllis Schlafly was tough.\u00a0 Phyllis Schlafly was demanding.\u00a0 When it came to the principles of conservatism, she harbored no infiltrators.\u00a0 She harbored nobody insincere about it, and she was able to identify those who were trying to capitalize on it but were not sincere about it. She could spot them a mile away.<\/p>\n

When I first came on the scene, which would have been August 1st of 1988, it took a year or two for — well, it actually didn\u2019t take that long.\u00a0 The first year all kinds of conservative leaders from every walk of life, from academe to politics, to wherever you found them, “Who is this guy?” they said, because I had not networked. I don\u2019t network today. I don\u2019t have a group of people that I\u2019m constantly networking.<\/p>\n

\"original\"I\u2019m a lone wolf.\u00a0 And, as such, nobody\u2019d ever heard of me.\u00a0 And they couldn\u2019t figure that out.\u00a0 I mean, the conservative movement is unique enough that most everybody in it prominent should have been known, and they had no idea who I was, and many of them were hands off for a while, very protective of the movement, understandably so.\u00a0 You don\u2019t want to be infiltrated by a bunch of people who intend to do it harm.<\/p>\n

And Phyllis Schlafly was, as I say, extremely demanding.\u00a0 Look, she was never disrespectful.\u00a0 Quite the opposite.\u00a0 She was always welcoming and appreciative, and it was mutual.\u00a0 And I did a number of appearances where she was also in attendance and appearances at her request, but when my mother met Phyllis Schlafly is when Phyllis Schlafly finally decided that I was okay.\u00a0 And my mother became relatively close, for not being in the movement, through mutual friends, and traveled with Phyllis occasionally when she went to Florida for winters over in Naples.<\/p>\n

But she was something.\u00a0 She was tough. She was unrelenting. She defined the whole idea of sticking by your principles, standing by them.\u00a0 And, as I say, she did not tolerate anybody halfway.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that she wanted to excommunicate people.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t exclusionary in any way, shape, manner, or form, it\u2019s just she believed it.\u00a0 And she led and she was insistent that anybody in a prominent role actually be real and not a pretender.<\/p>\n

You know, every movement that has a claim in fame has people that want to be part of it because they want personal aggrandizement or fame.\u00a0 She was on the lookout for those kinds of people, and, as long as they were genuine, as long as they were really conservative, as long as they were really interested in advancing the principles, she was fine.\u00a0 But if you weren\u2019t, and if you happened to be a liberal, she was, you know, just as tough and inspirational as anybody in the conservative movement has ever been.<\/p>\n

She could be as nice and outgoing and as engaging as anybody you would meet, but, if you riled her up, you knew about it.\u00a0 She was a great role model for a lot of people.\u00a0 She passed away at 92 and has left everyone with her last book and column.\u00a0 Big Trump supporter, big Trump advocate.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s interesting, you know, many in the conservative movement look at Trump as destructive and damaging to the conservative movement, because they don\u2019t believe that he is.\u00a0 And Phyllis was all-in.\u00a0 And nobody will ever challenge Phyllis Schlafly\u2019s conservative credentials.\u00a0 She had her critics.\u00a0 She wasn\u2019t perfect, and she might have people think that she was off the rails here or there a time or two.<\/p>\n

But the fact that she was all-in for Trump was inspiring to a lot of people, and she led a lot of people to Trump because of that.\u00a0 And she really did finally decide on this whole establishment versus everybody else alignment, she believed in it, and she thought that the establishment, elites, the ruling class and so forth had many pretenders claiming to be conservatives when it came time to campaign and get votes, but they failed.\u00a0 And it was her opinion they should go.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why she was rabidly pro-Trump.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Phyllis Schlafly passed away, the mother of conservatism, if you will, along with William F. 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