Limbaugh: Our link to Reagan conservatism: Honoring radio host for helping survive at Harvard

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 7/26/08 | Ellis Washington

[JohnHuang2]

[T]here's no reason to be afraid of these people [the liberal establishment]. There's no reason to cower. Whenever somebody is coming at you with lies and a false premise, you don't accept the lie, you don't accept the false premise. You just laugh at them, and you fight back, and you ram it back down their throats. ~ Rush Limbaugh, Oct. 19, 2007, interview on FoxNews' "Hannity and Colmes"

Harvard University, circa 1988

My first memory of Rush Limbaugh was 20 years ago. I was an idealistic young man of 26 walking around the campus of what many consider liberal Mecca – Harvard University. I expected to have a drama-free, wonderful life backed by the stamp of approval of a big-name school. However, like with most pessimistic people, I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, so to speak. I didn't have to wait long.

The narrative below was in part cited in an earlier autobiographical column, In that piece, I cited the critical event that lead me to shift my intellectual allegiance from liberalism to conservatism during a fateful conversation I had with several Harvard graduate students at a party, when I had the unmitigated temerity to question the underlying suppositions of the modern feminist movement (here, think Michelle Obama before her makeover). The excerpt reads:

These three erudite, classy, intelligent black Harvard graduate students surrounded me and suddenly transformed themselves into Lady Macbeth, Nurse Ratchet and Hillary Rodham Clinton as they in unison went nuclear on me. They read me the riot act and essentially characterized me as a crazy, uninformed idiot. From another room, my buddy Leon heard all of the commotion and rushed in to my aid, but his altruism and intervention was all to no avail.

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Hear, hear!

[yoe]

The American public is not stupid. They would rather vote for an authentic FDR-liberal like a Hillary Clinton or a certified socialist like Barack Obama any day before they vote for a Neville Chamberlain-like opportunist that is John McCain. In other words, people prefer an authentic original rather than a moribund copy.

Is there a politician alive who is not an opportunist? Voting for Obama is voting for the United Nations, world law, socialism with heavy Marxist overtones.....McCain is many things, but he is American in thought and action - just keep his feet in the fire.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Well said, Ellis Washington! And a “Hear Hear!” to Rush as well.

[DeweyCA]

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