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RUSH: There is more in that Charles Babington story at AP<\/a>, and rather than have me tell you, since some of you wish to doubt me — and by the way, when I say some of you, we in this audience understand there are probably a whole lot of new people tuning in today, and I realize some of you have had a lot of skepticism about me. You may be a bit more curious because of the speech, which we\u2019re going to get to in just a moment. I\u2019ve been talked into replaying parts of the speech. For those of you new to this program, something you must understand is I really don\u2019t like talking about myself. I always move forward. What happened yesterday happened yesterday. But my staff and my e-mail are overwhelming. ‘Why aren\u2019t you talking about the speech?\u2019 The speech was the speech and it\u2019s out there. But I will relent. If the public demand is that I replay elements of my speech and we talk about it, so be it. We will do so in just a second.<\/p>\n

But want to share with you one more passage from the Charlie Babington AP piece, the analysis piece, in which he says the Republicans ought not try to win \u2019cause if they win in battling Obama they might lose, which tells me that Babington thinks the American people are a bunch of uneducated sheep who actually want to see the United States economy continue to decline. And I, ladies and gentlemen, refuse to believe that that\u2019s the mind-set of the American people. Charlie Babington, AP, reported on the actual agenda behind Obama\u2019s budget. He says Obama\u2019s proposals are this, quote, ‘An interrelated plan to undo major elements of President Ronald Reagan\u2019s conservative movement.\u2019 By the way, I\u2019m doing this program without a teleprompter. I just saw Obama — it\u2019s happening right now — introducing Kathleen Sebelius as the new Tom Daschle, secretary Health and Human Services. He needed a teleprompter to introduce a cabinet appointee! No teleprompter here, folks, and no teleprompter Saturday in Washington for my speech.<\/p>\n

Obama admits his budget is an attempt to reshape the foundations of our country. Just as I said Saturday, he calls his plan a threat to the status quo in Washington. He wants to undo major elements of President Reagan\u2019s conservative movement. Precisely that. That\u2019s why I am being targeted, because I represent it. Sad to say, but I am the most prominent voice for conservatism in America today. I don\u2019t mind being a prominent voice, but it\u2019s a shame that my political party wants to throw it overboard. So many people who campaigned for office and got elected on it are now wimping out in our party, out of fear, fear born of mainstream media criticism, fear born of not being critical of somebody because of the color of their skin, or just plain fear for whatever reason. So the effort to marginalize me and to impugn me, mischaracterize me since I represent the most prominent national voice on conservatism is the explanation for why they\u2019re doing it. They want to wipe out conservatism. Conservatism is the antithesis of what Obama and his people believe in.<\/p>\n

Conservatism works. Conservatism is the foundation of our country. I opened the speech — I\u2019ll tell you what, I was driving into town Saturday afternoon after landing at Dulles, I\u2019m driving in, and I realize that Fox, I didn\u2019t know that CNN was also going to televise it, I realized that Fox and C-SPAN are going to televise this speech. Oh, here\u2019s another thing. It\u2019s supposed to be 30 minutes, 5:00 to 5:30. Well, they were running ahead, they sent me out there at 4:45, and at the 30-minute mark, ‘Keep going, keep going, keep going,\u2019 so I kept going and going and going and going, and it went on for an hour-and-a-half. But driving in, I decided that, hey, this is my first address to the nation on television, this is going to be carried by two networks — it was three as it turned out but I didn\u2019t know CNN — so why not treat it as such? Why not take the opportunity here and go beyond just the audience in the hotel ballroom at the Omni Shoreham.<\/p>\n

So I thought driving in, what would be a proper way to start? See, I don\u2019t script my speeches, either. They\u2019re all winged; they\u2019re all ad-libbed. As I said during my speech, I don\u2019t have to write down my core beliefs. They\u2019re in my heart. I don\u2019t have to write down my principles to remember them. They\u2019re in my heart and my passionate belief in them allows my memory to recall them whenever I want. I don\u2019t need to write down anything, and very few conservatives actually write anything, if it\u2019s in your heart. We\u2019re not a series of calculations. Conservatism is not a bunch of calculations on how to fool people, how to persuade them, how to lie to them in order to make them think we\u2019re something that we\u2019re not. So why not start out knowing that there are going to be people watching this who will not fit the profile of the passionate conservatives inside the ballroom at CPAC, why not tell them what ‘conservative\u2019 is? I didn\u2019t want to give a classic Burkian or Buckley definition of conservatism. I wanted to give a definition of conservatism that addresses the criticism, the popular criticism of conservatism throughout the country, from the left and the Drive-By Media. And this was it.<\/p>\n

RUSH AT CPAC: Let me tell you who we conservatives are: We love people. (applause) When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere — when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere — we see Americans. We see human beings. We don\u2019t see groups. We don\u2019t see victims. We don\u2019t see people we want to exploit. What we see — (applause) what we see is potential. We do not look out across the country and see the average American — the person that makes this country work — we do not see that person with contempt. We don\u2019t think that person doesn\u2019t have what it takes. We believe that person can be the best he or she wants to be if certain things are just removed from their path like onerous taxes, regulations and too much government. (applause) We want every American to be the best he or she chooses to be. We recognize that we are all individuals. We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. (applause) We believe that the preamble to the Constitution [sic] contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, (applause) liberty, freedom, (applause) and the pursuit of happiness. (applause) Now, those of you watching at home may wonder why this is being applauded. We conservatives think all three are under assault.<\/p>\n

CROWD: (wild, sustained applause) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, the reason that they\u2019re under assault — by the way, I misspoke. It was a rhetorical error. That\u2019s obviously from the preamble to the Declaration of Independence. The reason that we believe life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are under assault, let me go through each one. Life. We are all endowed by our Creator certain inalienable rights. Life. There is a political party and a psychological, slash, ideological movement which is hell-bent on defining its political success by counting the number of abortions that happen. I don\u2019t want to get into discussion of abortion here, Snerdley. I don\u2019t take any phone calls about that. But the point that we conservatives all understand is, is that we all are created, we have one life that\u2019s God-given, and it is a blessing that too many people take for granted by getting caught up in the day-to-day minutia of the difficulties of life. But it is the most precious thing. And to see it under assault under the guise of, well, you know, it\u2019s a disease or the convenience or inconvenience to the living will be caused by birth or we\u2019ve heard arguments that we don\u2019t want people born into poverty. Why, who would want to be born into that? <\/p>\n

Some of the greatest people in the world were born in poverty. Most people are in fact born in poverty around the world. So life is under assault, both in the womb and when you get toward the end of life. The Democrats, the left always come up with new organizations, assisted suicide, placing the power of determining who lives and who dies outside the family. Liberty, freedom. There\u2019s no question that liberty and freedom are under assault straight from Washington, DC, and your state governments. And the assault on freedom and liberty being led by the Obama administration to this day, virtually every aspect of Obama\u2019s plan results in less individual liberty, the growth of government equals less liberty, more laws, more regulations. We\u2019re going to get to the point where we\u2019re going to have to ask ourselves what we can say and can\u2019t say, where we can say it, where we can\u2019t say it, what we can drive, what we can\u2019t drive, what kind of lightbulbs we can have and what kind of lightbulbs we can\u2019t have, what kind of toilet paper can we use, how can we feel and energize our homes. All these decisions will not be ours. <\/p>\n

And the pursuit of happiness. Interesting to find that in the Declaration of Independence. Of all things, here these people, Founding Fathers are trying to construct a reason to declare independence from the tyranny of King George. Pursuit of happiness. You see, tyranny, living under tyranny does not promote happiness. It doesn\u2019t even promote contentment. Its hallmark is fear. Our Founding Fathers did not want any fear among the people aimed at government. They wanted government afraid of the people. That\u2019s why there were accountabilities; that\u2019s why the Bill of Rights; the first ten amendments to the Constitution; that\u2019s why there are elections; that\u2019s why there are checks and balances. But they look out across the country, and just use the last eight years for those of you who are tuning in now, maybe for the first time, ask yourselves, when\u2019s the last time you saw a happy Democrat, a happy liberal? They\u2019re not happy. Even liberal comedians are enraged and angry. Their jokes are rooted in a rage and anger. These are the people that wrote books and made movies about the assassination of George W. Bush and called them great literary and film works that even if we didn\u2019t agree with the premise we must understand the art that went into it, the art that was behind it. But we don\u2019t find happiness on the left, and we don\u2019t have anybody on the left encouraging anybody else to be happy. <\/p>\n

The leader of the Democrat Party, Barack Obama every day makes statements that are designed to engage people in feelings of negativism and in some cases even panic. Panic. There\u2019s no inspiration. There\u2019s no uplifting. There is no hope. It\u2019s just the opposite. So that\u2019s why, in a very brief explanation, we fear. And that\u2019s why I was applauded when I defined conservatism as standing for life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. People were applauding it because it\u2019s under assault from the Democrat Party, from the White House on down. We\u2019re not supposed to be happy until as much of our lives as possible are controlled by these people in Washington who ostensibly have our best interests at heart. Yeah, maybe their intentions are good, but their results are abysmal. Every government program designed to elevate achievement, happiness, prosperity for the poor and the downtrodden has only increased the numbers of poor, feelings of misery, and, by the way, anger. How many Democrat voters are angry? Some have been angry for 50 years over the same things, and for 50 years the Democrats have been promising to fix it. ‘We\u2019re going to get even with those Republicans that are stealing your money. We\u2019re going to make sure the Republicans get outta your way. We\u2019re going to make sure there\u2019s no discrimination,\u2019 and yet, nothing changes. Their grievances have not changed in 50 years. <\/p>\n

The Democrat Party has utterly failed to deliver on their promises to people. The Democrat Party has succeeded in expanding misery, trying to spread as much possible. The Democrat Party is doing everything it can to create crisis mentality on a daily basis: angst, anger, and frustration. So there is no pursuit of happiness with these people. Life, leave it up to them and it\u2019s a crapshoot. Liberty? They\u2019re trying to stamp out as much of it as possible. Just examine your daily life and you\u2019ll understand it. And, by the way, your freedom, as far as you\u2019re concerned, might not be directly impacted, although it is, but you may not really feel it. But I\u2019m sure you can notice people in your neighborhood — ah — sorry, ‘community\u2019 is the preferred word now — in your state or around the country. Property owners are told what they can and can\u2019t do with their land because of a tiny little snail darter or some such thing. Just imagine it happening to you one day because if nobody stops it when it\u2019s happening to others, it\u2019s eventually going to get to everybody. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to the CPAC speech Saturday afternoon, the Omni Shoreham hotel, my first nationally televised address to the nation.<\/p>\n

RUSH AT CPAC: For those of you just tuning in on the Fox News Channel or C-SPAN, I am Rush Limbaugh and I want everyone in this room and every one of you around the country to succeed. (applause) I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed. <\/p>\n

CROWD: (wild applause) <\/p>\n

RUSH AT CPAC: Also, for those of you in the Drive-By Media watching, I have not needed a teleprompter for anything I\u2019ve said. (applause) And nor do any of us need a teleprompter, because our beliefs are not the result of calculations and contrivances. Our beliefs are not the result of a deranged psychology. (laughter) Our beliefs are our core. Our beliefs are our hearts. We don\u2019t have to make notes about what we believe. We don\u2019t have to write down, ‘Oh, gee, do I believe this? Do I believe that?\u2019 We can tell people what we believe off the top of our heads and we can do it with passion and we can do it with clarity, and we can do it persuasively. Some of us just haven\u2019t had the inspiration or motivation to do so in a number of years, but that\u2019s about to change. (applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: It will change, ladies and gentlemen. There\u2019s a lot of fear at the RNC, there\u2019s a lot of fear within the Republican Party, but that will change. We keep saying that the American people need leadership. I keep saying the conservative Republicans, ‘Just get some leadership.\u2019 You know what? You know who needs leadership? The Republican National Committee and Michael Steele need a little leadership. The Republicans in the Senate, the elected Republicans around the country, they\u2019re the ones who need leadership. We\u2019ve been looking in the wrong areas for leadership. Turns out we are the leaders. We\u2019re going to have to drag them kicking and screaming back to our core. They\u2019re caught up in so much fear because of where they live and work in Washington, DC. That\u2019s why I say it will change. This fear that paralyzes the Republican Party will change. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I got three more speech sound bites. Let\u2019s get to one and I\u2019ll get a couple phone calls and get another bite, and then a couple of phone calls.<\/p>\n

RUSH AT CPAC: This notion that I want the president to fail, folks, this shows you a sign of the problem we\u2019ve got. That\u2019s nothing more than common sense, and to not be able to say it? Why in the world do I want what we\u2019ve just described, rampant government growth, indebtedness that has — wealth that\u2019s not even been created yet is being spent. What is in this? What possibly is in this that any of us want to succeed? Did the Democrats want the war in Iraq to fail? Well, they certainly did. And they not only wanted the war in Iraq to fail, they proclaimed it a failure. There\u2019s Dingy Harry Reid waving the white flag, ‘This war is lost.\u2019 (cheers and applause) They called General Petraeus a liar before he even testified. (crowd booing) Mrs. Clinton (crowd booing) said she had to suspend, willingly suspend disbelief or whatever to listen to Petraeus. We\u2019re in the process of winning the war. The last thing they wanted was to win. They hoped George Bush failed. So where is it, what is so strange about being honest and saying I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation? Why would I want that to succeed? (Cheers and applause.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Indeed. Indeed. It\u2019s like I also told the group I\u2019m a Steelers fan. The Steelers with a miracle two-minute drive to go up by four points, last two minutes of the game, fifteen seconds left, Kurt Warner with the ball for the Cardinals near midfield. I wanted Kurt Warner to fail. I\u2019m pointing out that people root for other people to fail all the time. This is far more serious than just the Super Bowl winner and loser, except for the gamblers. This is far more important. The country is failing in front of your face. Our economy is failing, our jobs are being lost. A year ago, where was the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 11,000, 13? Its peak was 13. We are at 6,882, down 3,000 since Obama was elected. And what\u2019s the solution? Oh, health care. I forgot. That\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do, health care, I forgot, we\u2019re going to do health care. We\u2019re going to speed up universal health care. That will save so much money that we\u2019ll inspire the economy to rebound. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, there\u2019s another sound bite we have here. It is number 22, Mister Broadcast Engineer.<\/p>\n

RUSH AT CPAC: My friends, I know what\u2019s going on. I know what\u2019s going on. We\u2019re in the aspects here of an historic presidency. I know that. But let me be honest again. I got over the historical aspects of this in November. President Obama is our president. President Obama stands for certain things. I don\u2019t care, he could be a Martian. He could be from Michigan. I\u2019m just kidding. It doesn\u2019t matter to me what his race is, it doesn\u2019t matter. He\u2019s liberal, is what matters to me, and his articulated, his articulated plans scare me. Now, I understand, okay, ‘We can\u2019t say we want the president to fail, Mr. Limbaugh, that\u2019s like saying –‘ this is the voice of the New Castrati, by the way, guys that have lost their guts. ‘You can\u2019t say, Mr. Limbaugh, that you want the president to fail, because that\u2019s like saying you want the country to fail.\u2019 No, it\u2019s the opposite! I want the country to survive! I want the country to succeed! (cheers and applause) <\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on, right on, right on. Now, when you listen to that…<\/p>\n

CROWD: (chanting) USA! USA! <\/p>\n

RUSH: When you listen to that and then you turn on your Drive-By Media later and you hear them saying, ‘Rush wants Obama to fail, ‘you have to ask yourself, ‘How in the world can they get that from what I said?\u2019 And they all watched it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s part of the parting message from my speech Saturday at CPAC at the Omni Shoreham in Washington.<\/p>\n

RUSH AT CPAC: So as you leave here, as you leave here, optimism, confidence, not guilt, it\u2019s not worth it, there\u2019s nothing to be guilty about. Don\u2019t treat people as children. Respect their intelligence. Realize that there is a way to persuade people. Sometimes the worst way is get in their face and point a finger. Set up a set of circumstances where the conclusion is obvious, let \u2019em think they came up with the idea themselves, then they\u2019ll think they\u2019re smart that they figured it out. Who cares how you persuade them, the fact that they can be persuaded is factually correct, it\u2019s possible. The main thing to do here: stop thinking that we are a minority. Stop thinking that it is being in the minority that liberates you. It is your beliefs, it is your core principles, it is your confidence that liberates you. It is not being in the minority. In fact, for those of you watching my first national address, if you\u2019re still hanging in there, we\u2019re really not that happy about being in minority and we\u2019re out to change it. Now —<\/p>\n

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