Rush was asked, "If you could send us 400 words on your hope for the Obama presidency, - - - "

"Okay, I'll send you a response, but I don't need 400 words, I need four: I hope he fails." (interruption) What are you laughing at? See, here's the point. Everybody thinks it's outrageous to say. Look, even my staff, "Oh, you can't do that." Why not? Why is it any different, what's new, what is unfair about my saying I hope liberalism fails? Liberalism is our problem. Liberalism is what's gotten us dangerously close to the precipice here. Why do I want more of it? I don't care what the Drive-By story is. I would be honored if the Drive-By Media headlined me all day long: "Limbaugh: I Hope Obama Fails." Somebody's gotta say it."

Now please notice what has become the Conservative mantra - it is liberals who are responsible for the last eight years, the collapse of the financial system, the depression.

How they can believe that is beyond me. Seems like "The Big Lie", if they tell it often enough, among themselves, and then tell it some more they'll come to believe it.

Frankly, it seems just plain irrational to the point of insanity.

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