Rush Limbaugh at CPAC, Plus Dick Morris Says, "It's Obama Spreading Panic"

I was proud of what I heard of Rush Limbaugh's speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.  I was also proud of Fox for covering the entire speech.  I think it's particularly important that we let our President know that we do intend to listen to coservative talk show hosts.

If you're not usually inclined to listen to Rush, I hope you'll listen to at least part of his speech.  It's posted at YouTube in eleven parts.

You can forego the early part and start the video in the middle.  Limbaugh, knowing that he's being covered on Fox and on other news shows, acknowledges that many people have probably never heard his show.  He acknowledges that people have impressions about him and about conservatives that might be wrong, because the media and liberal politicians purposely misinform people about what a conservative is all about.

Then he explains a bit about conservatives:

That...

• We love people.
• We love all Americans, regardless of their race or religion.
• We don't see groups.  We see individuals.  We see potential. 
• We don't see people with contempt.  We think that all persons have the potential to be what he or she is meant to be if certain things are removed from his/her path - like too much taxes, too many regulations and too much government. 
• We want every American to be the best that he or she chooses to be. 
• We realize that we are all individuals. 
• We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.  We take the Preamble seriously - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  And we conservatives think these are under assault.

I think he did a good job explaining about conservatives.

 Part 1

In part 2, Rush continues about conservatives:

• We don’t want to tell anyone how to live.
• We resist the effort to group us and to think that we’re all the same as anybody else.
• We acknowledge that we are created equal, but we also realize that the effort we put into life affects the outcome.
• We’re not racists. Racism was fully evident in the Democratic party last year. The racism and sexism that we conservatives are accused of doesn’t exist.
• We want everyone to succeed and always have.
• We want the country to succeed. And for that to happen, every person needs to be pursuing success.
• We don’t tell people – like the Democratic Party does – that you cannot succeed because you’re a minority or because you’re a woman. We don’t say that. The Democratic Party is the one that discriminates against people. They say, “You need to depend on us. You cannot succeed.” Take a look at the constituency groups that have been depending on the Democratic Party to improve their lot for the past 50 years, and you tell me if you find any. They’re still complaining. They’re still griping. Their problems don’t get fixed by government. And those lives have been poisoned and cut short by false promises by the Democrats who said, “Don’t worry about it. We’ll take care of you. Just vote for us.”

Rush then explained that he wants everyone in the United States to succeed, anyone who believes in the founding documents and in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And he wants any organization or government that wants to keep you from succeeding to fail.

At the end of part 2, Rush said, "President Obama is one of the most gifted men that I have ever witnessed.  He has communications skills that hardly anyone can surpass.  It just breaks my heart that he does not use his extraordinary talents and skills to motivate and inspire the American people to be the best they can be.  He's doing just the opposite and it's such a shame."

Dick Morris expressed the same thoughts in an article on TheHill.com on February 24, 2009.

Morris said, "Ultimately, all recessions and depressions resolve themselves into crises of confidence. The instant, global, 24/7 communications of today make them ever more so. President Obama, in his pursuit of liberal big-government spending, has totally neglected the role of the president of the United States in reversing global panic. To the contrary, his every remark and the constant preoccupation of his Cabinet is to heighten the sense of crisis and to escalate the predictions of doom if we do not do as they tell us and raise spending now and taxes later."

Later in the article, Dick Morris added, "In addressing this panic, the president of the United States must truly be the leader of the world - showing the way back to confidence.

Instead, Obama has been instrumental in purveying fear and spreading doubt. It is his pronouncements, reinforced by the developments they kindle and catalyze, that are destroying good businesses, bankrupting responsible people and wiping out even conservative financial institutions. Every time he speaks, he sends the markets down and stocks crashing. He doesn't seem to realize that the rest of the world takes its cue from him. He forgets that he stands at the epicenter of power, not on the fringes campaigning for office. This ain't Iowa.

Why does Obama preach gloom and doom? Because he is so anxious to cram through every last spending bill, tax increase on the so-called rich, new government regulation, and expansion of healthcare entitlement that he must preserve the atmosphere of crisis as a political necessity. Only by keeping us in a state of panic can he induce us to vote for trillion-dollar deficits and spending packages that send our national debt soaring."

And Morris ended with these words, "So, having inherited a recession, his words are creating a depression. He entered office amid a disaster and he is transforming it into a catastrophe, all to pass every last bit of government spending and move us a bit further to the left before his political capital dwindles.

But the jig will be up soon. The crash of the stock market in the days since he took power (indeed, from the moment he won the election) can increasingly be attributed to his own failure to lead us in the right direction, his failed policies in addressing the recession and his own spreading of panic and fear. The market collapse makes it evident that it is Obama who is the problem, where he should, instead, be the solution."

To read all of the article, click here: It's Obama Spreading Panic

To see the rest of Rush Limbaugh's speech, look for parts 3-11 at YouTube.

President Obama talked about hope when he was running for office, but he offers no hope at all.

Conservatives offer hope.  They know that our country is great because its people are great.  And conservatives realize how important it is that we encourage each other, not discourage.