Posted on 02/22/2012 12:23:15 PM PST by Kaslin
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RUSH: You know, there I am up there on MSNBC. One little tiny comment about Santorum and Satan, and the media went nuts. And we got the audio sound bites to prove it. The media went nuts over this. By the way, we found a speech by Ronaldus Magnus in 1983, also to an evangelical group, that sounds eerily similar to the speech given by Santorum at Ave Maria University, which is Tom Monaghan's university, founder of Domino's Pizza. That was the famous Evil Empire speech. That was the speech that Reagan called the Soviet Union the Evil Empire and the media went just as nuts back in 1983 as they are going over Santorum and his speech at Ave Maria back in 2008.
Interestingly, nobody cared about Santorum's speech in 2008 since he wasn't doing anything. Now he's running for president and there's a reason why the press and the White House and everybody is going nuts over this and it has to do with the fact that Santorum isn't backing down from it, which means essentially that he's fighting back and the media and the left are not used to this. The media, the left, they're used to cowering Republicans. The Republicans do something and the media reacts, "How dare you?" "Opps, sorry, sorry, won't do it again," and they slink away in the corner and the media and the Democrats chalk another one up, but Santorum's not giving them that.
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RUSH: As I said yesterday, Drudge posted excerpts from a speech that Santorum gave at this university, Santorum said, "Satan set his sights on America," and the media went predictably apoplectic. I also said yesterday, Santorum is gonna have to answer the media on this.
The subject of good and evil is not a new one in this country. I thought his comments were pretty innocuous, given who he is; he's a devout Catholic. This is what they believe. And we're told in this country that we have religious freedom. "That's right, Mr. Limbaugh, but people do not run for the office of president of the United States speaking this kind of stuff. It just isn't done, Mr. Limbaugh, it scares people." Maybe so. But I thought the comments were rather innocuous. He was speaking to a Catholic audience, Ave Maria University. But for some reason, my offhand comment about Santorum having to answer was picked up by any number of media outlets and pundits, which I guess I should now realize and come to expect, The Big Voice on the Right, this is going to happen. I will have to answer for it.
Santorum, by the way, did explain his comments. He's not backed down. He told CNN, "I'm a person of faith. I believe in good in evil. If somehow or another because you're a person of faith and you believe in good and evil is a disqualifier for president, we're going to have a very small pool of candidates who can run for president," which I think is a pretty good answer. But to be honest, I have to laugh about the idea of candidates believing in good and evil when I think about some of the recent Democrats for office, John Edwards, the Clintons, the Kennedys. But I digress. Isn't Rick Santorum really being attacked for having and expressing Catholic beliefs?
I mean who is the better Catholic example, Ted Kennedy or Rick Santorum? And who has been lionized by our media, and who is being castigated, laughed at, made fun of and destroyed, or the attempt to destroy being made? It would be Santorum. Aren't we constantly told that we must always respect people for their religious beliefs? Or does that only apply to Democrats and Muslims? And nobody else's religious beliefs, Christian beliefs, they're gonna come down hard on you if you express yours. Nobody ever attacks Obama for his religious beliefs when he trots 'em out for political purposes, like saying Jesus would agree with my tax increases on the rich.
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RUSH: There's only one that is a threat to religious liberty. Who do you think that is? Think it's Santorum? Do you think Santorum is a threat to your religious liberty? If you do, you are wrong. Barack Obama has already shown that he is a threat to religious liberty. He has already indicated he doesn't believe in it. By mandating that Catholic institutions give away things related to abortion, things they morally abhor and disagree with, or better stated, after they raised objections, "Okay, okay, I hear you. I hear you. We'll make the insurance companies do it." It doesn't matter in the end, religious liberty dies when Barack Obama rules.
Now, you can sit there and you can get all agitated over Santorum talking about Satan, which is essentially a discussion of good versus evil and we all know that there is evil. But in terms of somebody that's going to actually encroach upon your religious liberty, it isn't Rick Santorum, it's Barack Obama. And it's not just Barack Obama. It is the left. There's no question, they do it each and every day. And they are willing to impugn those religions that either frighten them or with whom they disagree, all while claiming allegiance and loyalty to the First Amendment. It doesn't matter to them. Just to put this in perspective, talking about religious liberty, we already have a president of the United States who doesn't care about yours. Rick Santorum would no more do what Barack Obama has done already than you would do if you were president.
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RUSH: Here is Santorum. We've got two Santorums, and then we're gonna take a break after the two Santorums, and come back and we're gonna visit Ronaldus Magnus, his speech to an evangelical group, March 8th, 1983. This was the speech where Reagan called out the Soviet Union as an Evil Empire, called them the focus of evil in the world, and the media back then had the same conniption fit that it's having today over Santorum. Last night in Phoenix after a speech at a campaign event Santorum spoke with reporters. A political correspondent, one of them from CNN, Jim Acosta, said to Santorum, "Is there any chance you can respond to this headline that was splashed across the Drudge Report today about the speech you made in Florida?"
SANTORUM: It's absurd. You know, if a person -- I'm a person of faith. I believe in good and evil. I think if somehow or another because you're a person and faith and you believe in good evil is a disqualifier for president, we're gonna have a very small pool of candidates who can run for president. Ronald Reagan talked very much in terms of good and evil and the fact of the matter is good and evil exists. Ronald Reagan recognized it. I think, again, vast, vast majority of Americans recognize it.
RUSH: He's exactly right. In a political sense, the Democrats or the regime here, if you're gonna try to make an issue out of this good and evil business, you're gonna be in the minority. This is a classic example of the good old silent majority that Richard Nixon talked about, vast majority of Americans believed in the concept of good and evil. No question about it. And if the regime wants to act like that's something odd, if the media and the Democrats want to act like that's some kook premise, let 'em go ahead. They're gonna find themselves once again thinking they live in a foreign country, they'll be so out of touch with the vast majority of Americans. Santorum wasn't finished. He continued with his answer.
SANTORUM: Guys, these are questions that are not relevant to what's being discussed in America today. What we're talking about in America today is trying to get America growing. That's what my speeches are about. That's what we're gonna talk about in this campaign. And if they want to dig up old speeches, you know, talking to a religious group, they can go right ahead and do so, but I'm gonna stay on message, and I'm gonna talk about things that Americans want to talk about.
RUSH: And his point was, look, I made this speech in 2008, it's four years ago. I'll be glad to talk to you about it, but I'm not going to be taken off message either.
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It is one thing to talk about good and evil, but that is not what Santorum was talking about. He said Satan has infiltrated the mainline protestant churches. That just sounds like tinfoil hat stuff.
Santorum speaks truth!
What a freaking joke. This election WAS the Republicans to lose - and that is exactly what they are do.
The odds continue to increase that Obama will once again win another four years. God help this country.
No, it isn’t “tinfoil hat stuff”. When I was born in ‘56, mainline churches thrived. Catholic churches were overflowing. But, on one social issue after another, some Catholics and most mainline churches caved. Whether it was affirmative action, welfare, high taxes, abortion, homosexual relationships, liberals within these churches were huffing and puffing to keep up with each new societal trend.
Schisms developed over each issue when church elders favored government solutions over individual ones. Today, it sickens the heart to find so many beautiful edifices to Christ closed or demolished. More tragic is what has occurred within the human hearts responsible for the collapse. Bob
Black people can talk about the Devil and it’s ok, whitey...eh, not so much....
Excellent response, if tragic in its truth.
I don’t agree. With Rick as our unapologetic nominee, Obama and his Marxist policies will be the focus of his campaign every day. Believe me, this is ALL they have against Rick, and people will quickly become bored with this type of side issue. Bob
Jesus said that Satan would infiltrate the Church in the Latter Days and that false teachers would be numerous. Like Rick Warren and Joel Osteen.
Liberal/progressive/leftist/marxist fools shall laugh at folks like Santorum and their correct identification of evil...but they shall mourn.
Rick is spot on. Evil is targeting America...it has since the founding because of whta its pricniples represetn and what they are based on.
That evil has taken root deeply in the progressive/liberal/leftist/marxist movement that is trying to destroy America.
Just look at what they openly stand for.
Killing unborn children, right up to the moment they would otherwise be delivered...and killing them in the most gruesome, bloody, awful manner imaginable and with no pain medications.
Perverse life styles and living arrangements, and attempting to make them accepted in law as marriage, when they are not in the least that, and when all statistics point to those lifestyles being absolutely unwholesome and dangerous to the physical and mental health of anyone participating in them.
Making people absolutely dependent on them for almost everything from cradle to grave...noot in an attempt to help those people, because the statistics again point to the rampant crime, destruction of the family, health issues, illiteracy and lack of education and unemployment rampant in all such communities and grous that become attached to it. They do it simply toi garner votes, while locking people into a very destructive life.
Tax cheats being placed in charge of the revenue and taxing arm of our government.
Not drilling for or exploiting America’s rich energy reserves and resources because a President wants to “punish” the American people and their freedoms and life styles.
Complaining and name calling Americans because they hold their 2nd amendment rights and religious rights sacrosanct as the unalienable rights they are.
Pervertss and anti-Americans being placed in charge of critical agencies in the land, like Homeland Security and being named Education and other “Czars.”
Examples of abject corruption, cronyism, and lack of virtue all the way up to their individuals in public office up to and including the Presidency (think of Bill clinton in the Oval Office gratifying himself while US soldiers went in harms way).
We could go on and on.
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
He's absolutely right, and it is just how Jesus said it would be. And it is going to get much worse.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Is this the best they have? They are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
The media are out of touch with Americans on this. Most people know that a pull from evil on humanity exists. Conservatives know it is called liberalism, based on the pack of lies called political correctness.
It’s ruling structure is centralized power and total control under the rule of people who embrace systematic population reductioin through resource denial, abortion and health care death committees. It sexually molests everyone at the airport as it despises human dignity and runs around screeching about global warming and how the constitution is outdated and must be dissolved for a global utopia under Agenda 21. It talks dirty to the children in the schools and culture because it despises their intellegence, innocence and goodness. It smells like watermelon after the body has processed it.
Good for Santorum. He has my vote.
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