From Rush Limbaugh:

Among the Republicans inside-the-Beltway, there’s no desire to fight for a smaller government. There’s an acceptance of what is, and they claim it’s rooted in this is what the American people are voting for. “We’re silly if we try to oppose this, Mr. Limbaugh,” they tell me. “You’re never gonna win an election running on small government. Look, way too many people need it. Too many people depend on it. Too many people want it.

“We cannot just wish that away. We wish it weren’t the case, but it is. So our strategy has to be that we’re smarter and that we’re better and we’ll be less intrusive as we.” Well, that’s not a choice. That’s not really a choice, because a Big Government can’t be run efficiently. A Big Government can’t be run smarter. That’s the old argument modern day liberals make to explain away the failures of Gorbachev and Stalin and Lenin and Mao.

“Well, you know what? They weren’t the right people to really close the deal. We are the ones you’ve been waiting for! We’re the ones to make it happen. We are the ones smart enough to run big. We’re the ones that really are now on the scene. We’re the ones can make socialism work.” That’s the leftist argument. The Republicans have modified that.

“We’re the ones who can run a Big Government better!”

Why does the left never abandon their…? ‘Cause they’re committed to it. I’ll tell you why the left never abandons their ideology is because public opinion’s irrelevant to them. Public opinion is meant to be manipulated, bent and shaped, fooled. They’re into fooling the people. If you listen to Republicans, the American people are voting for Big Government.

“I mean, they say they want it. We can’t change that!” When people vote against Democrats, do the Democrats change? Do the Democrats say, “Wow, you know what? The American people don’t want a Big Government. We better come out for a smaller one.” Do they ever do that? They never do. It’s more complex than saying the Republicans listen to the people and the Democrats don’t, but there is some truth to that.

The Democrats have their agenda, their ideology, and it’s their religion. So just as you’re not going to be able to talk a Christian out of Christianity, you’re not gonna be able to talk a liberal out of liberalism.

Sadly, we have a lot of those here in South Dakota, too, and a majority of Republican voters were convinced in the primary that we should send one of them to Washington D.C. next year.

Rush is right about something else in this clip, too: these same “Republicans” are the type of people who are obsessed with what people think of them. Instead of being concerned with doing the right thing, they’re worried that what they perceive as the “in crowd” won’t like them, and become shamelessly sycophantic in their efforts to be liked by the hip and trendy herd.

Is someone like that who you want representing you in Washington D.C.? Is that good enough for you?

It isn’t good enough for me.

*** Bob Ellis *** Is a conservative writer and Life and Liberty News contributor

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