[rabscuttle385]

Wow, that was really intelligent.

Now, how about trying to use some type of logically argument to back up your empty assertions.

Lurker is correct. Limbaugh appears to be...a statist.

"We'll take back our government. It's going to be a bigger, more powerful, stronger government and we're going to turn it against the left in ways they could have never imagined."
—Rush Limbaugh, 2009-02-11

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2183501/posts

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

What Rush is pointing out is that liberals, in charge now, are going to create a “bigger, more powerful, stronger government” and that government will be in place when the pendulum swings and the people elect a conservative government.

Then the liberals will have to face the monster that they are building with this “stimulus package”.

[djsherin]

I don’t listen to Limbaugh much and this quote reminds me why.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"We'll take back our government. It's going to be a bigger, more powerful, stronger government and we're going to turn it against the left in ways they could have never imagined." —Rush Limbaugh, 2009-02-11

I didn't like or agree with that as a prediction, either - but more than a call for action it was a warning of how terrible the Obama Administration is going to be, and a warning to the Democrats that the Obama Administration will be so egregious in its deprivation of the rights of Americans that by the time it is removed from power - as eventually it will - the reaction against it will not be contained within the bounds of the Constitution.

I don't agree with it - but I fear the possibility that he might be correct. People are already saying that it will be a long 4 years, but I greatly fear that four years hence we will see the destruction of the Republican Party - or, if they don't have a care, at a minimum that the Republican Party will fail even to place in 2012 as it did a century ago in 1912 when it trailed not only Wilson but Teddy Roosevelt and his Bull Moose Party. That is IMHO baked in the cake unless the McCain faction wakes up and smells the coffee, because so many conservatives will refuse to support another McCain-style candidacy that such a candidacy would reduce the Republicans to at least temporary irrelevance.

[SoConPubbie]

Lurker is correct. Limbaugh appears to be...a statist.

Quit cherry-picking things that Limbaugh, possibly outside the context of what he meant and trying to apply them as if they represent is ideology.

Anyone who has spent anytime at all listening to Rush absolutely knows he is a small-government conservative.

[uncommonsense]

I think Limbaugh meant “more effective government” versus larger. Perhaps he was misquoted, intending to say larger conservative representation, or was simply caught up in a moment. I don’t listen a whole lot to him, but he quotes Reagan all the time “government is the problem” and advocates minimal government - railing against the “nanny state”.

[Eagle Eye]

One quote with no context turns Rush into a statist?

Funny, I’ve listened to him off and on for maybe 15 years and never got that impression of him.