{"id":34628,"date":"2010-02-10T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:25:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:25:03","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:25:03","slug":"where_would_we_be_if_the_last_man_standing_had_backed_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/02\/10\/where_would_we_be_if_the_last_man_standing_had_backed_down\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Would We Be if the Last Man Standing Had Backed Down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Now, I want to remind you people of something. As you know, I very rarely talk about myself, and when people want to talk about me, I discourage it. But this is February the 10th. I\u2019d like to take you back one year and remind you what was going on in this country one year ago. One year ago and probably starting 13 months ago, it was January 16th when I said I hope Obama fails. <\/line><BR\/><a href=\"\/\/home\/menu\/fathers.guest.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"251\" height=\"165\" class=\"alignright\"\/><\/a>That started it basically a year ago. Everybody, everybody was gunning for me. Obama and his minions in the White House had targeted me as the leader of the Republican Party. And, by the way, I made the CPAC speech as well. I don\u2019t know if it happened yet, CPAC\u2019s coming up this weekend, I believe, CPAC speech combined with &#8216;I hope he fails\u2019 and so forth, and they were coming after me, they were blaming me for everything, urging Republicans not to listen to me. James Carville came out and they were running polls that I\u2019m the leader of the Republican Party. They were doing everything they could as they\u2019ve done for 20 years to destroy me. And it was me. The Republicans were nowhere to be seen, they were scared to death, they were not criticizing Obama, they didn\u2019t want to be called racist and, you know, they were having meetings with him and they didn\u2019t understand what radicals we faced in Obama. It was just one year ago. <\/line><\/p>\n<p>Now, I know this sounds like an ego thing, it\u2019s not. I\u2019m trying to make a point here. Imagine if I had gone with the flow and said, &#8216;Okay, he\u2019s a new president, deserves a honeymoon, we gotta give him a chance,\u2019 that was the Republican call to arms, that was the conservative intellectual call to arms. We\u2019ve gotta give him a chance. He\u2019s a centrist, he\u2019s well spoken, we gotta give this guy\u2019s ideas a chance. I was the most public opponent to all this. What if I had gone along? If I had gone along, I don\u2019t know where we would be. Would we have gotten health care in August? Well, that\u2019s arguable, Snerdley. I don\u2019t know that we would have. We might have had cap and trade. Would there have been a Scott Brown? The grassroots from which came the tea party, they were out there, too. They weren\u2019t buying any of this. They weren\u2019t going to give Obama a pass and look where we are now. I consider myself a grassroots person. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not a political aficionado in some media capital. I\u2019m a guy on the radio who has closer ties with the people who make this country work than I have with politicos, politicians, intellectuals and effete snobs in Washington and New York. And it\u2019s this bunch of people that stopped this. It\u2019s not any leadership people. They\u2019ve gotten on board, they got on board late in the game, but I mention this because it\u2019s never appropriate to give up your principles. It is never appropriate to silence yourself, if that means silencing your principles. A year ago the era of Reagan was over. A year ago there was one person, &#8216;The era of Reagan is over? No.\u2019 Yesterday I said the era of McCain is over with that letter the Republicans sent to Obama. All of those things, it was just a year ago, and what if we had all caved? What if we had all just gone silent because a new president and he\u2019s a centrist and can\u2019t get any worse, Rush. Oh, I heard that, too, from Democrats. Can\u2019t get any worse than Bush. Well, here we are. It is so much worse that the country as we know it is hanging in the balance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, I want to remind you people of something. As you know, I very rarely talk about myself, and when people want to talk about me, I discourage it. But this is February the 10th. 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