Rush Limbaugh Speaks Out: Moderates Dominate GOP Debate; Only Fred Sounded Conservative

Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show: It was fascinating to me, as I said, to watch this because it hit me upside the head -- even though, as I say, I instinctively knew this -- that all of the top-tier candidates . . . There was one candidate who did not display any moderateness or liberalism or have any of his past forays into those areas displayed, and that candidate was Fred Thompson. Now, this is not an endorsement. You know, I don't endorse during primaries. I just point out: These are things I noticed, and I've told you during the course of this one campaign year that one of the things that's bothering me, is I'm a Reagan conservative, and I believe in conservatism. It's in my soul and it's in my heart, and I know it is the best way for us to manage our affairs to ensure the most prosperity for the most, to continue our freedom, to protect our country.

Conservatism sees people and sees potential. Liberalism looks at people and sees victims. Liberalism looks at people and sees incompetence, and, "We gotta help 'em out and keep 'em forever dependent so we'll always have power." Conservatives don't want to use the government to empower themselves. They want to get government out of the way to empower other people. So, to me it matters, and we have a campaign now where most of the candidates are not genuine conservatives. They may be saying they are, but in their past they have done some things that are not conservative in any way, shape, manner, or form -- and I think a lot of those things are being overlooked even by friends of mine in the conservative media because the obsession is Hillary. . . . I don't like seeing "conservatism" being watered down as the way it's defined. I don't want people who are not conservative being said to be representatives of the "new conservatism." There is no "new" conservatism. There is conservatism, and you either are or you aren't.

You can be 80%, but it depends on what the other 20% are, and I'm just telling you that last night, it was Huckabee and Rudy and Mitt Romney, because of these questions, who were all faced with the reality -- and everybody watching saw it -- that they've got some governance in their pasts that is not conservative, . . . You know, one of the arguments about Fred Thompson is, "Well, I can't see the fire in his belly." Well, he's got a different personality than the others. We'll just have to see how all this shakes out . . . [Read More or Listen To It! WMP RealPlayer]
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