{"id":17634,"date":"2011-10-25T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:15:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-10-25T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T16:15:42","slug":"a_few_words_on_the_accuracy_of_the_conservative_intelligentsia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/10\/25\/a_few_words_on_the_accuracy_of_the_conservative_intelligentsia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Words on the Accuracy of the Conservative Intelligentsia"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I want to talk about the conservative Republican media intelligentsia. These are the people who were dead wrong when the Arab Spring popped up. These are the people who could not have been more incorrect. They told us what was happening in Egypt was marvelous, wonderful, it\u2019s an outbreak of democracy, and we need to get behind it, and we need to support it. All the while, Obama was trying to get out in front of it and make it look like what was happening in Tahrir Square was just an extension of his campaign from 2008. The conservative intelligentsia on our side is doing much the same thing, claiming that the Arab Spring was this wonderful breakout of democracy that we should support, and they\u2019re dead wrong. They\u2019re dead wrong about what the Arab Spring was. Now we\u2019ve got Sharia law<\/a> that\u2019s gonna be enforced in Libya. Sharia law is probably gonna become the law of the land in Egypt. The enemies of Israel are lining up and joining forces. <\/line><\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

Now, my point is our conservative intelligentsia was as wrong as they could be, and yet they continue to pass judgment on all of these candidates: Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry — and specifically when talking about Herman Cain. They\u2019re claiming now Herman Cain doesn\u2019t have the slightest idea what he\u2019s talking about with foreign policy, and Herman Cain is an embarrassment, and, “Herman Cain is not qualified to be president! All he did was run a company, but he\u2019s never been in politics,” which is a business, “and his qualifications on foreign policy are very, very dubious.” Who\u2019s saying this? The people who totally missed what this Arab spring is all about. The so-called experts on our side who told us, “Get behind it. It\u2019s an outbreak of democracy over there! This is a wonderful thing, an extension of the Bush policy. It\u2019s Iraq: The flowering in democracy in Egypt and so forth!”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not. It\u2019s the outbreak of Sharia law throughout that region. So our intelligentsia — and not to drum it home. I don\u2019t want to be redundant here to the point of boredom. But these are the people set themselves up as lofty experts claiming Herman Cain doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s talking about, he\u2019s not qualified. Not Romney. They\u2019re not criticizing Romney. Cain, Santorum, Perry, Bachmann, they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about, and neither do the people who are criticizing them — and I think it\u2019s an important point to make. These are the same people who were wrong about the debt ceiling. They told us we ought go along with the debt ceiling. They told Boehner, “No, no, no! Don\u2019t fight Obama on this. We\u2019ve gotta raise the debt ceiling. We have to do it.”<\/p>\n

The same people who attacked the Tea Party, talk radio, conservatives. They said, “We gotta go along. You know, let Obama and Boehner come to an agreement here on the debt deal.” Okay, so where did that take us? We\u2019ve got this super committee which has as part of its task either raising $500 billion in revenue or cutting $500 billion in defense, which is a disastrous choice and a huge trap and this is what our own experts gave us — and they tell us… After a series of blunders that they\u2019ve made, misjudgments that they\u2019ve made, they sit there and pass judgment on these candidates who are actually presenting some pretty good ideas, compared to what we\u2019re dealing with, compared to what we\u2019ve got in the White House? What they ought to be talking about is the poor judgment of Obama, the lack of qualification of Obama, the lack of competence of Obama, instead of ripping our own people.<\/line><\/p>\n

But they\u2019re ripping our own people \u2019cause they\u2019re ripping conservatives — and they\u2019re not conservative even though they want everybody to think that they are. I mean, fine. If you want to question Herman Cain\u2019s foreign policy qualifications and credentials, cool. But let\u2019s talk about yours at the same time. Arab spring an outbreak of democracy? Where is it? Didn\u2019t quite happen that way. Sharia law now looks like it\u2019s gonna end up being the law of the land in Libya. Now we have some really good proposals coming from Herman Cain and now Rick Perry, pushing forward a flat tax<\/a>. In either case, both of them are talking about serious tax reform, limited federal intrusion via the IRS — and the same crowd is attacking this stuff on the basis that it\u2019s too “simplistic” or joining critics of the left when they say that certain people who don\u2019t pay taxes will continue not to pay taxes, and on and on and on.<\/p>\n

What it really boils down to is that certain elements of our own intelligentsia are making the case, defending big chunks of the status quo, \u2019cause they like big government, and they like “an active executive,” quote, unquote; and they like their turn in charge of the money. We have some conservatives running for president who are proposing serious, substantive, compelling ideas for addressing big problems, and they are, of course, set upon by the usual liberal suspects. But they also are hit on by Republican operatives, so-called conservative strategists and so forth on the basis that, “Weeeell, they don\u2019t know who… They\u2019re inexperienced, lack qualifications, really don\u2019t know what they\u2019re talking about,” and of course they\u2019re not infallible themselves. I can continue to point out areas in analysis where they themselves have been wrong, and yet they continue to occupy these lofty perches of wise men.<\/p>\n

They and only they know — and yet they\u2019re not right, either. I just wish that people on our side could get unified and understand that the problem is not Herman Cain, the problem is not Rick Perry, the problem is not Rick Santorum, the problem is not any of our people. The problem is Barack Obama and what he has done so far to this country and what he will continue to do if given the chance. So a brief time-out. We\u2019ll come back and… (interruption) What? What? (interruption) No, I haven\u2019t. I\u2019m not gonna go to Washington any time soon, and if I… (interruption) I don\u2019t see these people when I go there anyway — and, by the way, have I mentioned any names? How do you even know who I\u2019m talking about? Yeah, you might think you know who I\u2019m talking about.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I do. I think the focus ought to never leave Barack Obama. But our inside-the-Beltway intelligentsia sees fit to have to go out and attack Perry or Cain, Santorum, Bachmann as “unqualified, unprepared, don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing,” when any of them would be a 2,000% improvement over Obama — who is what? Barack Obama is the least experienced president we\u2019ve ever had — even after two-and-a-half years in office, \u2019cause he learns nothing. His ideas are unworkable. His policies are stupid. His ideas are naive and dangerous. His record is a disaster. He is the most unqualified, irresponsible, disastrous candidate. Not the conservatives! Not the people on our side running for office! They are such a step and cut above Obama, it\u2019s laughable. Let\u2019s take a look Santorum, Rick Santorum, just as an example.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s way down in the polls, but other than the liberals and the inside-the-Beltway conservative intelligencia, most of us know full well he\u2019d be a very good president, far superior to Obama. His views on economics and the judiciary are very sound. Yet he\u2019s attacked. Michele Bachmann. She\u2019s trailing in the polls, but she\u2019s solid. She was among the first to build opposition against Obamacare in the House. She was a leader at the Tea Party rallies. She\u2019s articulate, and she was right about virtually everything she said respecting domestic and foreign policy. She\u2019d be a very good president, especially compared to what we\u2019ve got now. Newt. Successful Speaker of the House; big, solid ideas, would be a very good president. Rick Perry just came out with what I think is a really good tax reform plan. It\u2019s not unlike Steve Forbes plan in the past.<\/line><\/p>\n

He\u2019s got an energy plan that would unleash our own vast resources. He would make a very good president. Herman Cain is not just an experienced businessman; he\u2019s a brilliant businessman. He turned around failing franchises and companies. He is both intuitively and substantively conservative and would be a very good president, and Herman Cain has also begun the great debate about tax reform with his 9-9-9 plan — which, to me, is not something to sneer at and laugh at. It\u2019s refreshing. It\u2019s necessary. It\u2019s long overdue, if we\u2019re serious about all of this — and we are. There\u2019s so much to like about all this. Nevertheless, this group of people that I have just highlighted here — these people — we\u2019re told that they are the inexperienced, uninformed, inarticulate, weak conservative candidates.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re repeatedly attacked by the liberals, repeatedly attacked by the media — and, in some cases, attacked by the Republican establishment. But at the end of the day I would trust any of these conservatives serving as president of the United States. I would trust any of them. I would be confident with any of them. I would be happy with any of them. Furthermore, I am certain that this country would be reinvigorated if any one of these were president. Major reinvigorated — and I have no doubt, by the way, folks, that the liberals, the media, and even some in the Republican establishment would despise their presidencies. But that\u2019s good! That\u2019s not a bad thing. That\u2019s not a disqualifying fact.<\/p>\n

Just because the Washington establishment, I don\u2019t care what party they\u2019re in, oppose this and just because they wouldn\u2019t be happy? Who cares. Any one of these people would be such a vast improvement over what we have now. And they\u2019ve all thrown their hat in the ring, they\u2019ve all taken the plunge, they\u2019ve all been willing to take the media anal exam. They all think that there is a desperate need for what they have to offer, and the people criticizing them are no better than they are. The people criticizing them don\u2019t have any better records when it comes to foreign policy or domestic policy than these candidates do. The difference is the candidates have accountability. The critics don\u2019t. Nobody holds them accountable. Nobody even remembers when their criticisms have been incorrect or erroneous or what have you. Now, I\u2019ve not mentioned Romney in this; I don\u2019t want anybody to get upset.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t mentioned Romney because he\u2019s not being attacked. Romney\u2019s not being attacked as an inexperienced conservative ideological, et cetera, et cetera. All these other people are. Newt, Perry, Cain, Bachmann, Santorum, they\u2019re all being attacked as inexperienced or unqualified. They “come up short” in one area or another. Foreign policy, domestic policy, or what have you. But I didn\u2019t mention Romney, and I didn\u2019t leave him out on purpose. I just didn\u2019t mention him because he\u2019s not a target. Nobody\u2019s attacking Romney. But this constant refrain that the Republican field is “weak” compared to the “brilliant and vibrant” Obama-Biden team? I can\u2019t sit by while that takes hold. That\u2019s something that needs to be constantly, vigorously challenged. We\u2019ve got the most incompetent, dangerous group of people running this country in my lifetime and beyond, and anybody on our side seeking to displace them would be a 2,000% improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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