The Common Sense of Rush Limbaugh

For all those critics on the right who find it so fashionable to oppose Rush Limbaugh, they would be hard pressed to challenge his political analysis which, day in and day out, is as sound and thoughtful as any conservative writing today.

In 2005, I had the pleasure of giving Rush Limbaugh the Claremont Institute’s Statesmanship Award. We gave him a bust of Sir Winston Churchill, somewhat more handsome than the one Mr. Obama strangely sent back to the British government recently.

The negative media onslaught Rush is getting right now is almost unprecedented. Thankfully, he is more than up to the task of dealing with the elite media.

For all the talk by James Carville and others over Rush’s negatives among voters–almost certainly Democratic voters–they misunderstand Rush’s essential app

eal: he presents a tremendous amount of common sense to the American people. He does so with candor and good cheer. This is what drives the left crazy.

Today on his show he stated rather simply what must be the guide for conservatives this year, next year, and always, “If we remember our first principles, good policies will write themselves.” For Rush, as for the Claremont Institute, those principles are to be found in the Declaration of Independence and the writings of our Founding Fathers.

To be sure, there is not unanimity among conservatives on these first principles and almost complete rejection on the political left. But in these dark times it is only with these principles that we will recover our way.