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RUSH: A friend of mine asked me last night after I said, ‘Democrats probably going to have 60 seats in the Senate next year. If they don\u2019t have 60 seats they\u2019re certainly going to get 60 votes with these RINO Republicans we\u2019ve got in there: Collins and Snowe and take your pick, Lindsey Grahamnesty.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘How do you remain so optimistic?\u2019<\/p>\n

‘Well, my optimism is based long term. You\u2019re always going to lose elections. You\u2019re always going to have disappointments. We\u2019re always in cycles.\u2019<\/p>\n

We\u2019re always going to end up with dingbats like Jimmy Carter. It\u2019s going to happen. But I believe, and I think with plenty of evidence, that the American people have the clear ability to recognize doom and gloom in who they elect or who they have elected at some point. They might be fooled by Obama or Hillary this time around, but four years of an Obama presidency doing what he says he wants to do? I have faith the American people are not going to fall for it and think that\u2019s the new America. The history is just the opposite. Long term, your kids and grandkids, I know the challenges look bad — and I know, ‘My God, they\u2019re growing up into a country that more and more people think they\u2019re entitled, and tax rates these kids of ours are going to face. We\u2019re not facing this problem. We\u2019re not getting rid of Social Security. We\u2019re not reforming it. We\u2019re not reforming welfare enough and so forth.\u2019 All of my life — I\u2019m fifty-seven — I remember my dad talking this way. My dad told me, my brother and my friends in junior high and high school, ‘You boys are going to be slaves if we don\u2019t do something about the communists.\u2019 <\/p>\n

We laughed. We couldn\u2019t imagine it. We were just junior high school kids. We laughed. Well, we didn\u2019t laugh openly, but we never thought we were going to become slaves. He did. He was concerned. We were his kids. He knew the threat. Well, lo and behold, we came along and we wiped out the communists in the Soviet Union. We haven\u2019t gotten rid of them. Communism resurfaced in the global warming movement, in a number of places. They call themselves different things now, but essentially leftists and communists. They\u2019re still out there, and they still have to be defeated, but we always seem to do it. But my whole point is that throughout my life I can remember I\u2019ve heard people, adults and then my peers as I grew older, ‘Oh, God! This is horrible. I don\u2019t see how we can recover.\u2019 I remember the economic malaise after Watergate, \u201973 to \u201975. I was in Kansas City, \u201976, \u201977, during the Carter years. I remember people in business in Kansas say, ‘It\u2019s over. This country cannot come back from this, Rush. It cannot! It just can\u2019t. It\u2019s never been worse than this, and there\u2019s no way we can come back. The government\u2019s going to come in and take over all these businesses and regulate them to the point we\u2019re never going to recover,\u2019 and we always do. <\/p>\n

So my optimism is based on histoire. But, not saying it isn\u2019t going to be uncomfortable, or there aren\u2019t going to be rough patches. Any time the government runs the show, folks, you\u2019re going to get screwed. Ask the people in Michigan, ask the person in certain parts of Ohio, ask the people in New Orleans, not only post-Katrina, but pre-, and who\u2019s fixing it in New Orleans? A conservative: Bobby Jindal. Ask the people in California. Ask the people of New York. When you got liberalism running the show unchecked, life\u2019s hard. But even in those places people plod away and they keep doing what it takes to overcome it as best they can. In some of these places they keep voting for these liberals. San Francisco is gone, in that sense. You ought to see what they\u2019re doing: San Francisco and immigration. I have the story. ‘San Francisco is Reaching Out to Immigrants.\u2019 This is in the New York Times from yesterday. ‘The city of San Francisco has started an advertising push with a very specific target market: illegal immigrants. And while the advertisements will come in a bundle of languages — English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Vietnamese — they all carry the same message: You are safe here. In what may be the first such campaign of its kind, the city plans to publish multilanguage brochures and fill the airwaves with advertisements relaying assurance that San Francisco will not report them to federal immigration authorities. … <\/p>\n

‘The television and radio campaign will tell immigrants they have ‘safe access\u2019 to public services, including schools, health clinics and — perhaps most importantly — the police, something that local law enforcement officials say is a chronic problem in emigre communities.\u2019 Now, I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s going to happen here. I can predict this, just as soon as I can predict this program is going to be over in seven minutes. These good citizens of San Francisco opening their town up to every illegal in the country, ‘Come here. You\u2019re in a sanctuary. You\u2019re safe,\u2019 when they find out what the result is, they\u2019re going to say, ‘Well, we need to move \u2019em to Marin, or we need to move \u2019em to Tiburon, or we need to move \u2019em somewhere. We don\u2019t want them around here. We don\u2019t want them amongst us, but we want them somewhere in the state.\u2019 I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s classic, ladies and gentlemen, to watch these things, their unintended consequences and these people who think that life and America can be perfected and that anything short of perfection is failure, and the only thing that matters is our desire to make it perfect, our intentions. If we have good intentions, it doesn\u2019t matter how much we screw up. If we have good intentions, it doesn\u2019t matter how much people get hurt, because we\u2019re trying, ‘Which is more than you\u2019re doing, Mr. Limbaugh! You don\u2019t even think perfection is worth achieving.\u2019 That\u2019s right, sir, because it isn\u2019t! We need a little realism. There\u2019s no such thing as perfection. It is not there, and certainly not in a population of close to 300 million people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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If they don\u2019t have 60 seats they\u2019re certainly going to get 60 votes with these RINO Republicans we\u2019ve got in there: Collins and Snowe and take your pick, Lindsey Grahamnesty.\u2019 ‘How […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhy Rush Remains Optimistic - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/04\/07\/why_rush_remains_optimistic\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Why Rush Remains Optimistic - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: A friend of mine asked me last night after I said, ‘Democrats probably going to have 60 seats in the Senate next year. 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