We Should All Want Him To Fail
I want him to fail too. How could we not want President Obama to fail? It’s this simple: If President Obama succeeds at the implementation of his socialist economic policies, the country will fail, and if President Obama fails at said implementation, the country will succeed. With that established, we should all want him to fail. Only the ultra-pragmatists amongst the Conservative movement are upset about Limbaugh’s comments, and not because they disagree, but because they don’t want to see us painted as obstructionists and hate-mongers in the press. I’m here to say that it really shouldn’t matter. Hot Air has all the video from Limbaugh’s CPAC address but I want to focus on a few particular excerpts that are extremely relevant to the economic turmoil. First off, his defense of the “I want him to fail” comment that has received so much publicity:
For those of you just tuning in on the Fox News Channel or C-SPAN, I’m Rush Limbaugh and I want everyone in this room and every one of you around the country to succeed. 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. [Applause]…
… This notion that I want the President to fail, folks, this shows you a sign of the problem we’ve got. That’s nothing more than common sense and to not be able to say it, why in the world do I want what we just described, rampant government growth indebtedness, wealth that’s not even being created yet that is being spent, what is in this? What possibly is in this that anybody of us wants to succeed?
Now, those two bits are just part of his very long and strung-out defense of his comments. He spoke about why he wants President Obama to fail often in the speech, and even mentioned the (unfortunate) Steelers Super Bowl win to explain it. He is absolutely right, we shouldn’t cheer for rampant government growth to succeed, and we shouldn’t cheer for socialist policies to succeed. If we believe, as we should, that this is the wrong path, and that America will succeed if we take the exact opposite road from this one, then it only makes sense to want the President to fail. The question is now, how do we fight the media on this issue? How do we not allow them to paint us as unpatriotic for cheering for the failure of a socialist? Here’s an example of the garbage attacks on Limbaugh and those of us who want America to succeed:
First off, let me make this very clear, Rush Limbaugh was anything but angry. Sure, he talked about the battle that is going to be fought and must be won by the Conservative movement if we want this Republic to endure, but the theme of his speech was the antithesis of anger, it was love. The theme of his speech was that Conservatives love people, that we want to empower people, and that we need to share our principles of small government, strong defense, and a respect for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to build a movement that can empower this nation. He said we needed to stop getting into the nitty gritty of policies and processes and talk about principles. He said we need to use simple messages, like the fact that the 1980s recession was ended with tax cuts. Let’s talk taxes in a simple way…
I’ve put together a very basic chart to the right which shows what we Conservatives believe about taxes and the economy as opposed to the Obama-Pelosi liberal methodology. The simple principle is, we want to remove government barriers like taxes to grow the pie, and take a smaller chunk, while liberals just want their half of the pie. What’s amazing about these two pies? The government chunk is about the same size (the Conservative side might even be bigger) but on the right side, your take home cut of the wealth is much larger! Conservative economic policy is about growing the pie so that not only can the government take their share, but you can grow wealthier. Let real small government Conservatives shrink the chunk needed and you’ll be surprised just how much “red wealth” you could see out of one of these pies.
So there, we don’t need to talk specifics about tax policies to win hearts and minds. Sure, we might believe a flat 18 or 23% sales tax is better than the income tax. We might also want to cut the estate tax, sin taxes, and the federal gas tax. We can fight that debate in the halls of Congress, but we need to fight the debate over our general approach to the pie first. Rush made that very clear, it’s about principle, it’s about ideas. We believe our principles and ideas will grow this country, and we believe President Obama’s ideas will destroy this country as we’ve known it. We want him to fail for that reason.
Well,I’ve been a conservative since I worked for Ronald Reagan’s campaign back in 1968…including a run as the GOP nominee for Congress here in Houston and a stint as a conservative call in talk show host…and you can damn well bet I want Obozo to fail….I hope he stumbles and falls and busts his funky lying black ass
“It’s this simple: If President Obama succeeds at the implementation of his socialist economic policies, the country will fail . . .”
Huh?
No it won’t.
Brilliant graphic, Justin. Congratulations.
[...] I’ve already sided with Limbaugh vs. the policies of the United States so I might as well throw my entire lot into this thing and say that I support Rush Limbaugh more than I support the Chairman of the Republican National Committee throwing him under the bus. I’m a Conservative first and a Republican second, so I thought a video message would be the best way to send my thoughts to the Chairman: [...]
hello,
right on,
I have hope for this country
when I see that a 19 years old can articulate
his ideas in this clear way,
in a way, lots of grown up liberals,
don’t seem to able to do…
about Rush,
he is very good at defining conservative principles,
he is getting a little bit too
egocentric for me,
and yes, he did not seem angry to me
while giving his speech at the CPAC,
he seemed very enthusiastic and passionate,
and that is good,
I see a lots of apathy, and passivism
around, they could use a little bit of his energy…
[...] however, we won’t be talking about the 1983 recession, because as Rush Limbaugh made clear in his CPAC speech, that recession was ended with tax cuts. As further evidence of the economic damage, the chart [...]
I feel as though it is necessary to clarify one of Higgins’s statements. Seemingly taking Limbaugh’s words to be the gospel he didn’t even bother to check the facts before he posted them. “He said we need to use simple messages, like the fact that the 1980s recession was ended with tax cuts.” Haha, gotta love it… The 1980’s recession started in July of 1981 and ended in November of 1982. In my search for the tax cuts that supposedly ended the recession, I found some interesting info. Regan did just the opposite! The 1982 Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act (TEFRA) effectively counter acted the 1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act, which cut taxes significantly. After seeing that his tax cuts were not helping the economy recover, the 1982 Bill was enacted. TEFRA was the largest tax increase seen since WWII, a $100 billion increase. He didn’t stop there, Social Security benefits became taxable in 1983 and in 1984 the Deficit Reduction Act increased taxes another $50 billion. Surprise, the economy still recovered, with an increase in taxes, wow!
you’re actively lying. reagan cut windfall profits taxes and other taxes that were never repealed. do your research first.
Thank you for bringing my lack of research to my attention, after all you probably know exactly what I did before I posted the above comment. I’ll make you a deal. I will keep using my AP US History book and American History textbook and you can keep using wikipeida as your source. What is Obama thinking?!?! Clearly, he should be lowering the taxes on oil companies. After all that’s what Regan did to get us out of the recession. Oh wait, silly me. TERFA actually had the largest net increase in peacetime taxes. Yet, again, we still got out of the recession. Huh. So let me make sure I have your claim straight. The tax cut that Limbaugh was referring to was the windfall tax cut, as well as these other mysterious taxes you say exist.
some liberal history book… of course. give me a break. the sludge is too deep for you to even breathe huh?
Yeah, that was a good retort marco… I mean my supposedly liberal textbook and AP US History textbook just made up those Bills, right… Just for you, I check on wikipedia, since apparently you think that is credible, and OH MY, it has the same stuff my textbook does. Since you provided no explanation for the factual points I made above, then my point that the 1980s recession was not ended through tax cuts as Limbaugh said and Justin just assumed was right without checking is false. I can’t wait for your response to this one. Let me guess, wait, I’m not good at making up responses that have no factual basis.