{"id":31791,"date":"2009-02-26T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:40:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:40:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:40:34","slug":"how_to_persuade_obama_voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/02\/26\/how_to_persuade_obama_voters\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Persuade Obama Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: Margaret in Appleton, Wisconsin. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am calling for a couple of reasons here. I was thinking earlier when you were saying that the press is all about, ‘Well, we all should support or president and we should never, you know, deride things that he\u2019s doing, and all that.\u2019 As a Christian, Rush, I do totally believe what the Bible says about praying for our leaders, but I pray for this man\u2019s wisdom, if there is such a thing; if he possesses it, in any way, shape or form. I pray that God will somehow provide people around him that will finally get through to him and make him see common sense, Rush. Common sense! And look at the markets. I mean, look what everything has — has — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, okay —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — what\u2019s been happening since he took office.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Time-out. Time-out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I believe in prayer, and I believe in miracles, like the fog that stopped the British from wiping out George Washington. But I don\u2019t want to just sit around and wait for it. You want to know how to sway Obama voters? You call \u2019em ‘cruel.\u2019 I will explain this when I come back.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I want to expand on something. A lot of people tell me, a lot of people ask me, ‘Rush, how are we gonna persuade these Obama voters, or just any liberal? How we going to persuade \u2019em?\u2019 You know, it does happen. I, on this program, as a result of this program, have persuaded millions of liberals over the past 20 years to change their minds about things. I have received testimony from them, letters. Some have even called asking for forgiveness. You\u2019ve heard some of them call here and thank me for awakening them. So it can be done. So you\u2019re saying, ‘Okay, Rush. Well, what did you do? Did you do this? Did you purposely set out to persuade?\u2019 Yeah. Like I\u2019ve told you, folks, I\u2019m not quitting \u2019til every American agrees with me. <\/p>\n

Why go through this every day if it\u2019s not about persuasion, especially in dire consequences like now? Yeah, I\u2019m trying to convince people. But how do you convince liberals? Well, you see, you have to understand why liberals are what they are. Now, many people confuse liberalism with a set of political principles and thus begin to argue with them on the basis of those political principles. That\u2019s not how you do it. Liberalism is not… Well, it is in some respects, but a lot of people also believe (I am one) that liberalism\u2019s a state of mind, that liberalism is a psychosis. And what is it based on? What is liberalism really based on? Well, you can use the word ‘fairness.\u2019 <\/p>\n

But what is that? I mean, that\u2019s an obscure concept, practically impossible to apply. Unless you assume that everybody is the same as everybody else, that nobody has any differences of any kind, then you might be able to talk about fairness, but of course you can\u2019t so that\u2019s not the case. So this notion of ‘fairness,\u2019 what liberals really want — and there are a variety of liberals. I mean, the intellectual liberals want control. But even the intellectual liberals and the nonintellectual liberals, the one thing they have in common is they want to feel good about themselves. That\u2019s why they believe the things they believe. You can\u2019t apply logic to liberalism because it is illogical. <\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t make any sense. Like Obama\u2019s budget. There\u2019s no logic here. He can\u2019t pay for what he\u2019s spending, and he doesn\u2019t want to. It\u2019s not about paying for it. It\u2019s not about finding revenue. He\u2019s going to say that\u2019s what he\u2019s trying to do simply because he knows most people want this stuff to be paid for. They don\u2019t want huge debt, but he doesn\u2019t care. If he cared, he wouldn\u2019t be doing any of this because we\u2019re not going to pay for it. We\u2019ll print money, whatever, we\u2019re not going to pay for it. None of this, or very little of it, is going to be paid for. It\u2019s not his concern. His concern is saddling the nation with the debt. His concern is doing all this. He\u2019s one of the ones that wants control. <\/p>\n

This is about personal power for Barack Obama, personal power for Democrats and party power for the Democrat Party. The rank-and-file, the Obamaites out there that look at him like he\u2019s God — like he\u2019s The Messiah, who have blank stares on their face with tears streaming down their checks — they just want to be part of something they think is good and decent. They want to matter, and they want to feel good about themselves. So liberalism is simply — eh, it\u2019s more complex than this, but it\u2019s basically — just a way that they can feel good about themselves. So how do you attack that? Well, in the process of making themselves feel good about themselves, they destroy people\u2019s lives. Just tell \u2019em that. Just tell \u2019em they\u2019re cruel. <\/p>\n

‘What do you mean, Mr. Limbaugh? I care!\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘About what?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘I care about African-Americans and poverty.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Really? What have you done for them?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, we\u2019ve — we\u2019ve — We care about them. We don\u2019t like the circumstances in which they live because of you.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘I\u2019m not doing anything about it. You guys have. You guys have transferred money. You have spent money. You have sent welfare. You have destroyed the black family — and you have felt good about yourself in the process! You think you\u2019re helping but you\u2019re not, and that\u2019s why we are never allowed to look at the results of liberal programs. We only have to, and are allowed to, look at their good intentions, because their good intentions are what make them feel good about themselves.\u2019<\/p>\n

So all these liberals — again, you have different versions. She asked me how to persuade liberals in her neighborhood there. We\u2019re not talking about the Dick Durbins and the Ted Kennedys. These people are far more than just trying to feel good about themselves. There\u2019s the acquisition of control and power. The average dunce liberal that votes for these people, it\u2019s about their intentions. ‘We tried to help, Limbaugh. At least we cared! You didn\u2019t care about anything. You never want to help people that are suffering. All you do is increase…\u2019 No, it\u2019s just the exact opposite. We do. We actually come up with solutions to all this. We think that it\u2019s unconscionable that there should be such suffering as there is in the greatest country in the world. <\/p>\n

So we see some suffering and we immediately say, ‘How to fix that?\u2019 You look and all you want to do is feel good about yourself because you notice it and care, and you might come up with some plan you think will fix it, that makes it worse. So if you just… I think a lot of liberals listening to this program over the years have changed their minds. I\u2019ve inadvertently gotten to them by illustrating to them that while they\u2019re out there feeling good about themselves, they\u2019re not fixing anything. The rage and the anger that they all feel, the rage and the anger that they all feel to me is evidence that they really don\u2019t feel good about themselves. So they create these illusions that they care and they feel good about themselves, but they\u2019re living a psychosis, psychology or what have you. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s about making themselves feel good, and they don\u2019t. So they\u2019re angry and enraged and they get really mad — they get really mad — when you tell \u2019em that they are the exact opposite of what they think they are. That\u2019s why I say tell \u2019em they\u2019re cruel. ‘Do you realize how cruel what your beliefs are? Do you realize the cruelty your beliefs have been imposed on people?\u2019 They don\u2019t want to hear it! They are the sweetest, the nicest, the most caring and compassionate. You make them feel otherwise about themselves, and, bam. That\u2019s why they hated Bush. That\u2019s why they hated Bush, among other reasons. He didn\u2019t care about them. He made them feel insignificant. He didn\u2019t give \u2019em the time of day. Tell \u2019em they\u2019re cruel. Just tell \u2019em they\u2019re mean. It\u2019s the exact opposite of the way they think about themselves. You\u2019ll destroy \u2019em. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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