First they came for Joe the plumber

Now they're after Rush. And his baby brother isn't letting it go unnoticed.

This Is Way Bigger Than Rush

The Democrats, along with those on the right who seem more worried about incurring the disdain of the wrongheaded left than of their fellow patriots, are feverishly promoting their Saul Alinsky-inspired scheme to demonize and divide their most effective political opponents.

What would be amusing, were matters not so gravely serious today, is the utter juvenile transparency in the liberals' efforts to vilify Rush Limbaugh.

They've been doing it for 20 years, but this time, they're better-organized and have a broader purpose. So those who haven't had the courage to stand by him should understand that Rush is not the ultimate target here. We all are -- those, that is, who oppose their Marxist agenda and Stalinist tactics.

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Rush is the target because he represents the real opposition. He's the leading voice for those who are really standing up for America and its founding ideals. Too much of our opposition is nominal only. Too much of our opposition is unaware we're in a war for the very survival of those precious principles.

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Rush wants Obama to fail in his unabashed efforts to permanently turn this center-right nation radically toward the left. He does not want America to fail. Rush is unabashedly rooting for America. And anyone with the slightest ability or moral clarity to make mental distinctions understands this.

Yet many have deliberately twisted Rush's meaning to suggest that he wants America, under Obama's presidency, to fail.

The dirty little secret is that many of the liberals making this specious argument are the very people who truly were rooting for America to fail when George W. Bush was president. They were rooting for us to lose the war in Iraq. Harry Reid declared the war lost, you may recall. And they were talking down the economy, even when it was humming.

These liberals are simply projecting their deplorable mindset onto Rush and other conservatives. Because they wanted America to fail under Bush, they just assume Rush and other conservatives want America to fail under Obama. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

So those of you on the right who are refusing to defend Rush by making this obvious distinction better wake up. The people on the left making this point are the same ones who slandered President Bush by saying he started the Iraq war for oil or that he intentionally delayed federal aid to New Orleans' Katrina victims because a disproportionate number of them were African-Americans. Destructive, libelous rubbish!

It's time for you sycophants to understand who is trying to stand up for the America we believe in and that your sycophancy only enables those whose agenda cannot succeed without silencing the effective opposition.

Remember: To liberals, this isn't just about Rush -- not even close. It's about you, me and anyone else who loves and defends those things -- the Constitution, family values, the unique American culture, etc. -- that make America unique.

It's time you represented the opposition, too, and directed your outrage at those who would use the full power of government to target individuals, whether they be Rush Limbaugh or Joe the Plumber.

Well said, Mr. Limbaugh. And I suspect you would have said the same even if he wasn't your big brother.

Re: America's last president?

Call me irrational, but I still think Frank Marshall Davis was more to The One than just a mentor. You've likely seen it before, but in case you forgot...

The resemblance is striking. Especially when you factor in the mousy looking thing that was his mother...hard to see how the combination of old Stanley Ann and Barack Sr. resulted in Little Frank.

But, putting that bit of cattiness aside, his biography is not complete without throwing in Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. The Obama campaign was absolutely textbook Alinsky...in the words of Alinsky's son, L. David Alinsky:

“I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.”

I read Rules for Radicals during the campaign, and was astonished at how many of the "rules" were being applied, right before our very noses, while we remained completely unaware. And it continues today. Take, for example, Obama's recent fear-mongering warnings that if we wait, we will go from "crisis" to "catastrophe." Textbook Alinsky. Discussing how important it is to work within the system, as opposed to taking radical, revolutionary action (as Ayers' Weather Underground did), Alinsky writes:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families - more than seventy million people - whose incomes range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default."

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"A revolutionary organizer must shake up the prevailing patterns of their lives - agitate, create disenchantment and discontent with the current values, to produce, if not a passion for change, at least a passive, affirmative, non-challenging climate."

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"A reformation means that masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don't know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustating and hopeless. They won't act for change but won't strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution."

We are being groomed then...being told that everything we once held dear about free markets and capitalism is doomed, that the very fabric of our nation is pulling apart and that only a dramatic reversal of past policies can save us. There is no hope save that granted us by the benevolent Messiah. He, and He alone, has the knowledge and strength to pull us from the abyss.

The goal, of course, is to take us so far down the road to socialism that, by the time we stir from our reverie and realize how far we have strayed, we will be so dependent on the generosity of our leaders and so cowed by cries that we are racists and bigots, that we will lack the conviction to right the ship of state. With each new government handout the ranks of the submissive will grow. With each small loss of freedom we allow them to inflict upon us we become less resilient.

The answer to the question, then, is in our hands today. Not tomorrow, next week or next year, for then it may be too late. We must rail against each infringement of our rights as if it were a life or death matter. We are too near the tipping point to do otherwise.