Rush Limbaugh, are you the White Rabbit?

Rush, you chose to share in a limited fashion your experiences as a guest at the White House on your Friday, August 3rd radio broadcast. While en route a dentist appointment, I felt compelled to pull over and take notes. Some of what I was hearing did not ring with the pure tone of your lead crystal I’m accustomed to hearing. It sounded and felt more like a cavity being drilled prior to an unavoidable filling. Now, freely using many of your own words, with the disclaimer that I am a simple man who feels unconstrained by who said what to whom, what follows is the average man’s reply. Please accept my comments as a personal viewpoint counter to those you expressed.

For those of you who did not have the opportunity to listen to several hours of broadcast excellence on August 3rd, Rush proudly stated that he had been a visitor to the White House on three separate occasions, and said with obvious affection, “Bush loves the country. He is the most confident man. He is a barrel of laughs. He is at ease. He is unfazed by any of the criticism that he gets. He doesn’t care about it.”

Well Rush, I am here to tell you and most Americans will tell you, President Bush should care more about it and most importantly, you should know the difference. Thinking poorly of fellow Americans, thinking them ignorant, serves no constructive purpose other than to highlight the arrogance of elitism. Maybe – just maybe – Americans recognize the risks to this nation and our economy better than their pompous critics. It is not surprising that a majority of Americans understand President Bush perfectly. Why otherwise would his support polls be so low? And of course you will hear him say that he does not care about the polls. Most Americans correctly take this to mean that he also does not care about our opinions, what we think, what we want, or what we say.

Rush, does that include you? Your comments gave me cause to worry for the first time in a decade. The ice under both you and the President is getting incredibly thin and cracks are evident everywhere. Please be very, very careful. Do you realize where you are standing?

The problem of illegal aliens, and their associated crime wave, will continue only as long as the Federal Government and state governors want it to – and they want it to continue. We have more than enough tools in the shed to secure the border, instantly if necessary. The United States can send astronauts to the moon, build structures that reach far into the sky, and array an incredible assortment of modern weapons on the battlefield. But the President refuses to allow the building of a simple fence, the total cost of which would be not much more than a single year’s budget of the Border Patrol. President Bush has flatly refused to secure United States’ borders, arguably in violation of his Oath of Office. The President has personally obstructed the efforts of others to preserve national sovereignty, entered into international agreements that would someday result in dissolution of the United States into some form of a North American Union, and has publicly denigrated anyone trying to enforce existing immigration laws. That much is an uncontested fact.

There is one short and simple reason: greed. The border is making too much money for too many people just the way that it is.

What is the character of a man, in Congress or the Presidency, who permits personal greed to trump national sovereignty? What is the character of a man who would abandon the U.S. Constitution and hundreds of thousands of men and women who have given their mortal existence to create and preserve the United States of America? What is the character of a man who would sell out his fellow citizens for short sighted business and political reasons? The reality is simple. The President is acting in self interest, one way or another. The President is either profiting from the transgressions taking place on the border, or supporting those who are – or both. It is as simple as that. There are no other options; there is no other justification for not closing the border when it is obviously needed to protect fellow American citizens from victimization and to defend our nation’s society and culture from being ravaged. Arguably, every death of an American citizen at the hands of an illegal alien will forever be blood on the hands of George W. Bush, the man you so admire. If you were talking hypothetically, off the record, what phrase would you use to describe any President of the United States, at any time in history, who would willingly sell out his United States birthright and his own nation’s sovereignty?

Most Americans prefer to believe the president is supposed to govern, not to rule. When the Administration and Congress both blatantly and defiantly ignore the Rule of Law, they've unilaterally chosen to rule America, not govern the United States. Is this really what you support?

One way of looking at our nation’s domestic reality, whether you agree with the president’s policies or not, is that President Bush has lost every single political race of substance in which he has been entered, on every single track, for almost seven years. Who but an ideologue would bet on such a nag, an almost certain loser by the end of the race? That doesn’t sound like you, regardless of how much you may like the horse. The horse has proven itself woefully lacking, and wishful thinking about what could have been doesn’t change that.

Maybe the classic story of the Wizard of Oz has some applicability. If President Bush had any courage what-so-ever, anything resembling a brain, or the faintest trace of a Christian heart, he would have long since closed the borders and ended the carnage to United States citizens who are experiencing more than 3,000 annual deaths at the hands of illegal aliens. When one adds the violent crime, property damage, drugs and fraud being inflicted on American society, who is it that you believe truly matters to President Bush? The facts are irrefutable. Apparently not United States citizens! If not United States citizens, then what about United States soldiers? It is totally illogical to claim to care about the soldiers and not your fellow citizens.

Rush, you often claim with some apparent semblance of accuracy to be running this country. May I conclude that “open borders” and refusing to enforce existing immigration laws has become your choice of domestic immigration policy? If not immigration laws, which federal and state laws would you personally choose to enforce? Which laws do you suggest Americans simply ignore? Or is it strictly a matter of personal choice?

If open borders and national lawlessness is not a central feature of the Limbaugh Institute of Conservative Studies, do you have the personal and broadcast integrity to take an unambiguous position, and by doing so, send a strong message to the President of the United States? Or, will you continue to equivocate while hiding behind the skirts of being an entertainer?

Rush, please stand up and be counted. United States citizens by the millions, many of them dittoheads, are standing up across this great country, in communities large and small, many risking their mortal existence to protect our way of life and their fellow citizens. Why not liberals? Because to them, the "one" is more important than the "whole;" but why not you?

If you are implicitly refusing to be a United States citizen first and foremost, maybe we shouldn’t be listening to you. While it would be easy to say, “lead, follow or get out of the way (off the air), I choose to believe you are eminently qualified and destined to lead. So, for all that is precious in America, lead - but not blindly following the White Rabbit into a rabbit hole leading to Wonderland.

Until dittoheads have evidence to the contrary, we must consider the possibility that you view yourself as the White Rabbit and think of the White House as Wonderland.

Red State Patriot

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Posted August 5, 2007 07:16 AM
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