Newsgroups: bit.listserv.christia
Date:         Wed, 11 Nov 1992 13:33:43 EST
From:         "Michael A. Kline" <MKLINE@VDH.BITNET>
Subject:      Rush's Advice

    I think, despite it is Rush, that this portion of his program offers
hope to those not happy with Clinton, but also offers EXCELLENT advice to
Christians as a whole, even though he was not speaking specifically to
them. It starts about 9 paragraphs down and I marked it with "***".

    Rush - Comments and GOOD Instructions(around line 45 or so) --------

    ... but Clinton and Gore had to masquerade. Once again, I keep saying
this, but it's important. Liberalism is what doesn't win presidential
elections, that's what they have to hide.

    As I showed you last night with these massive voter expressed
sentiments opposed to tax increases, there's clearly reason to be
confident as a conservative. People still live their lives as
conservatives. You can see in some of the exit polling data that we've
also showed you and told you about on radio and tv all this week.

    Now, as to the future of the conservative movement, there's no
question that the conservative's home is the Republican Party, and
there's going to be a huge battle for the soul of the Republican Party. I
would make this contention: I would say to you that the moderate
patrician wing just demonstrated why we don't want to let them run the
party anymore. (MUCH, MUCH APPLAUSE. Hey, I try to "put you there" but
words on a screen can only do so much.) The conservatives are going to
have to move in and take over. And this is nothing against them.

    By the way, I don't want to get involved in a big brouhaha, but it's
clear that conservatives are going to have to stand up because the
conventional wisdom charge is that's it's conservativism and the right
wing which lost the election for President Bush and it is the exact
opposite. Don't you agree?

    Caller: Does that mean that we just hold on tight and pray pray for
camp in '96 or do we go out there and take them down?" (must be a
redneck, I guess.)

    What do you mean "chase them down?"

    Caller: Do we have to go after liberalism now or can we let it take
it's course?

    Look, you're going to have a chance to vote in '94.

*** The best thing you can do, the best thing any conservative can do is
just live your life. You come in contact with people, your family,
friends, live your life the way you think life should be lived. Make sure
you don't FORCE it on people. Don't try to drum it down their throats, or
point in their face and say "You're doing this wrong or whatever." Just
live your life and let your life be the example.

    That's the best way to persuade, and it's the most realistic
approach, too. You can only control so much. You can only persuade so
many people. You're only going to be able to influence a certain number,
and the best way to do it is live life the way you think it ought to be.
Practice the values you preach, and if they work people see it. People
always want to identify winners, people want to identify with happy
people. They want to identify with people who seem to always be
interested in substance, and taking life seriously and doing the right
thing. That's the best thing you can do.

    In the party, I know, I've talked to Bill Bennant and I've talked to
Jack Kemp, and believe me meetings are already going on about how the
conservative movement can revitalize itself and become the dominant force
of the Republican Party again, and I think it's interesting to watch
that, too. I think that will happen. I think we can be pretty confident
in both things.

    We also have another glorious opportunity. Think of this. Liberals
now run everything. They've got the White House, they've got Congress,
they've got the Senate. They can't blame it on Republicans anymore, and
they surely can't blame it on conservatives anymore, when it doesn't
work.

    Liberalism, socialism, what ever you want to call it has failed
everywhere it's been tried around the world. We're going to give it one
more shot here, and I would think that we've got the greatest chance yet
to demonstrate to the people, because we've got a one party government
now, and they're liberals and that's pretty close to socialist, certainly
it's centralized authority. We have got a very, very good chance to prove
what we have been saying by letting them do it for us.

    And so I think we have a golden opportunity to that's why.... SMILE!
Be positive! Conservatives didn't lose and there's no reason to run
around and mope. You're only going to make them happy.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
   There, I know there are some flaws in it, but I can't see any "hate"
in this, only comments and the distrust of a style in government that
he, and I, believe won't work. I found it quite well as he seems to
peacefully protest what has happened.

Maks.
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