{"id":294046,"date":"2018-12-07T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=294046"},"modified":"2018-12-10T16:05:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:05:47","slug":"revisiting-pat-buchanans-1992-culture-war-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/12\/07\/revisiting-pat-buchanans-1992-culture-war-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Pat Buchanan\u2019s 1992 Culture War Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: By the way, it\u2019s Pearl Harbor Day today. I wonder if anybody will remember George Bush, the last World War II president. In fact, George H. W. Bush is the last president this country has had who fought in a war where America won. He\u2019s the last president who fought in one. He\u2019s not the last president who was president when America was victorious in a war. But he\u2019s the last president to have fought in one, and that has ramifications. So, anyway, here\u2019s how this CNN story begins — and, by the way, I\u2019ll tell you something else we\u2019re gonna do today, I think. I\u2019m still in the process of trying to figure it out.<\/p>\n

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The last two days, in covering the funeral and the presidency and the life and times of George H. W. Bush, quite unintendedly I ended up speaking a lot yesterday about history and the 1992 Republican National Convention<\/a>. That happened because I was reacting to things I was seeing in the news, such as, “George H. W. Bush: The last man of civility, the last man of temperance, the last presidency with bipartisanship. Now with George Bush gone, so goes America. We\u2019re never going to have these wonderful days again. Why can\u2019t we go back to them?<\/p>\n

“Of course, the reason we can\u2019t is Donald Trump, blah, blah, blah.” You know the drill. I made the point yesterday, and it\u2019s important to make it again, that what we\u2019ve seen in the past two days — the funeral ceremonies and George H. W. Bush — we\u2019re not looking at American politics as it used to be because it\u2019s never been that way. We\u2019re looking at what America culture used to be! When we\u2019re watching the Bush family and the way they\u2019re conducting their affairs and the way they are speaking of their fallen patriarch….<\/p>\n

And the way his friends have eulogized him and the way the whole thing was planned, the way it was carried out, the way it was executed flawlessly. These are old American cultural values that are on display. It\u2019s those that we have lost. It\u2019s those values, it\u2019s that culture, it is that America that people yearn for. Not a return to the fifties, but a return to a code, a return to a common-sense definition of morality and values and virtue, along with the democratic recognition that the majority rules with compassion for losers in the minority and so forth.<\/p>\n

All of that\u2019s gone! Now, they tried to tell us that what we were looking at was the way politics used to be in the way George H. W. Bush was being lauded, celebrated, praised. Not true, ladies and gentlemen! That\u2019s not at all true. Our politics has never been that. American culture is what we saw on parade, a lost America. So, as evidence of this, I shared memories of the 1992 Republican convention where it could be said that the modern-day culture war actually began.<\/p>\n

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So what we did, we went back to the audio archives, and I got some samples of Pat Buchanan\u2019s speech.<\/a> It was a call to arms of the culture war that we were just entering, and why the Democrat Party — as epitomized by Bill and Hillary Clinton — posed a grave threat in this regard. I realized talking about it yesterday, a lot of people weren\u2019t alive then or old enough then to remember it. So if I want to go back, I\u2019ve got the sound bites from Buchanan\u2019s speech, and it\u2019s amazing how prescient he was.<\/p>\n

If you have not heard this, if you weren\u2019t old enough or you weren\u2019t alive, you\u2019ll go, “Wow!” when you hear some of these. And there\u2019s another thing that I wanted to do. I wanted to contrast the funeral proceedings for George H. W. Bush with the Wellstone memorial. So if I want to do that, we\u2019ve got the bites here. We\u2019ll do an A-B, side-by-side comparison, and you will be blown away by the incomparable difference in the way both were conducted. You will realize our politics has never been what the media and others would like you to believe they were when George H. W. Bush was president.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I need to get started here on the audio sound bites if I\u2019m gonna get all of these in. We\u2019re gonna start here on August 17, \u201992. This was the Republican convention in Houston. Pat Buchanan spoke. This is the speech, by the way, the Republican establishment tried to say is why Bush lost to Bill Clinton. It was the same then as it is now. The conservatives are always the reason Republicans lose and talking about abortion is to blame — although I think we\u2019re so past that. But depending on what age Republican establishmentarian you talk to, they still think abortion is the reason Republicans don\u2019t win anything. So not the case. But again, one of the reasons I\u2019m doing this is to show you what it was like in 1992 and to show you the deterioration in our culture had started by then, and that Donald Trump has nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n

BUCHANAN: George Bush, the defender of right to life and a champion of the Judeo-Christian values and beliefs upon which America was founded!<\/p>\n