Limbaugh has his place, but I'd go back 30 more years when Bill Buckley launched National Review with the goal of "standing athwart history and yelling 'Stop!'" Shortly after that Ronald Reagan was giving his speech at the RNC in 1964.
You're the only one that pointed this out, and yet Rush thanks all the time William f. Buckley and Barry Goldwater. They were the founding fathers of the new conservatives. Remember "extremism in defense of liberty is no vice." I was there when Goldwater said it.