{"id":383322,"date":"2021-02-25T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=383322"},"modified":"2021-02-26T17:03:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T22:03:18","slug":"the-greatest-cpac-speech-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/02\/25\/the-greatest-cpac-speech-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest CPAC Speech of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

KEN: This weekend is CPAC. I believe it\u2019s already started, but this is outstanding. Rush will be honored at CPAC. He will be inducted into the Conservative Hall of Fame. There\u2019s going to be some great, great celebrations of Rush, his life, his speeches. So it\u2019s gonna be a great opportunity. So if you can see it somewhere, by all means try to tap into that.<\/p>\n

I want to go to this next clip, and this gives you an idea of the power of Rush at the podium. Here it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I must tell you: I\u2019m a little queasy about doing this. A couple of years ago during CPAC, I had some people call and say, “Why don\u2019t you play some excerpts of your great speech?” In fact, I\u2019ve had people say, “Rush, why do they even do CPAC anymore? I mean, what\u2019s left to be said after your speech?” I can understand that. But the kids still need a place to party. In Washington in March, what else are you gonna do?<\/p>\n

So I\u2019ve always felt queasy because people accuse me of trying to upstage the speakers. We even had calls from people, “What are you doing? I mean, you just have to get in. Even though you\u2019re not there, you just have to pretend you\u2019re there. You just have to act like you\u2019re headlining it.” No, no, no. I was requested. Well, in this instance, this year, CNN did it. CNN went back to their archives and played sound bites of my CPAC speech four years ago. It was their infobabe Brooke Baldwin actually late yesterday afternoon, and this is how she introduced it…<\/p>\n

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BALDWIN: Here\u2019s an image you may remember. This takes you back a couple of years. This was CPAC 2009, Rush Limbaugh. Remember this speech? He fired them up.<\/a> What you get at CPAC, is you get a lot of talk about conservative principles, lower taxes, faith to the Constitution, never bending to the winds of change.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? “Never bending to the winds of change,” which is a crock. But that\u2019s the agenda. So let\u2019s go back. It was an hour I was scheduled to finish, and it was going so well, the guy on stage came up and asked, “Can you keep going for a while?” They had another half hour to fill. I said, “Sure, no problem.”<\/p>\n

BEGIN CPAC CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me tell you who we conservatives are: We love people.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

\"\"RUSH: 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 — 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.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: 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.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Liberty, Freedom!<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: And the pursuit of happiness.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Those of you watching at home may wonder why this is being applauded. We conservatives think all three are under assault.<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (applause)<\/p>\n

END CPAC CLIP<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I see that Cookie has not edited the applause here. I\u2019ll tell you a little truth. As is the case in all of my speeches, I had barely thought about it. That\u2019s why I don\u2019t like speeches. I don\u2019t plan them, I don\u2019t write them, and I live in perpetual fear that when it\u2019s time I\u2019m gonna have a brain freeze. But I can\u2019t write a speech. My mind doesn\u2019t work that way. It\u2019s not nearly as fluid, fluent, when I do. So I have to ad-lib these things.<\/p>\n