In the first half hour of his syndicated talk radio show today, Republican media personality Rush Limbaugh praised Mitt Romney’s performance in last night’s US presidential debate with Barack Obama and framed the upcoming Federal election as a choice between ‘central planning’ and ‘Yankee ingenuity.’Of course, in reality Obama and Romney support similar tax plans and both support heavy regulation of the economy. Neither has voiced support for eliminating or even curtailing the influence of the US central bank (the Federal Reserve) or numerous other regularly bodies which plan and intervene in the US economy. Their similarities do not end there. For those concerned about the rapid demographic transformation of the US into a Third World land, it’s also worth remembering that both Romney and Obama have expressed their commitment to more Third World immigration as well as amnesty for existing illegal immigrants.
The ‘Yankee ingenuity’ comment from Limbaugh was perhaps more telling than he intended it to be. Southern listeners might remember that Limbaugh has repeatedly expressed pride in past episodes of his show in his family’s opposotion to Southern self-determination in the 1860s, culturally identification with the North and strong support for the US war against the South which claimed half a million lives.
In this election Southern voters are faced with one candidate from Massachusetts and another from Chicago (by way of Hawaii and Malaysia). Both politicians have opposed traditional Southern values throughout their careers and favoured global liberal hegemony in slightly varying forms.
I doubt seriously that the Limbaugh family, if they lived in Cape Girardeau, Missouri at the time of the Yankee invasion of Missouri and the rest of the south, would have opposed the Confederacy. Virtually no one in that area sided with the Yankee butchers.
Perhaps not, Pat, but that is what he has claimed. Missouri, of course, is a border state with areas that are culturally and demographically Southern and Northern. Many Northern-aligned Germans settled in certain regions of the State and I believe his family comes from that stock. Certainly his identity and sympathies are not with the South.
What I find hilarious about Rush’s analogy, is that its wholly accurate.
Central planning is synonymous with yankee ingenuity. We’re being asked to choose between two of the same. Didn’t yankee ingenuity lead to the central leviathan we have now?
Romney sure did alot of “states rights” pandering last night, but we do remember his positions on such (particularly our flag) in 2008.
Here’s the deal, the “new-yankees” have discovered their error, and are trying to erase any historical southern political opinion that proves their error is as old as it is (and a hell of their own creation). If they can erase our history, then they can claim our rightful “anti-federalist” heritage as their own invention.
Watch anti-southron Glenn Beck debate Elliot Spitzer
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/watch-beck-face-off-with-elliot-spitzer-in-war-of-the-words-debate-that-was-nuts/
Beck goes so far as to tell Spitzer, (paraphrase) “The government should have never paid any money to any industry!” Hmm, doesn’t the CSA Constitution say that TWICE?!?! If I didn’t know better, Beck would have come off as a complete Copperhead following his opening remarks that referenced Mr. Duplicitous Lincoln. If not a copperhead, a really good anti-federalist.
Would Beck ever admit to the existence of CSA-Constitution Article I-8-1 “no bounties shall be granted from the Treasury; nor shall any duties or taxes on importations from foreign nations be laid to promote or foster any branch of industry;”?
How about, Article I-8-3, the Confederate Commerce Clause clarification, ” nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce;”?
Answer, NO – Beck would bend over backward till his ears were stuffed into his buttcheeks to avoid any such acknowlegement.
We’re being demonized and erased so these yankees can claim our blood-paid truths as their own – its that simple.
He has made many comments over the years that lead me to believe that he is a descendant of a carpetbagger. He talks about his family be republican back in the 40’s. After the brutal border terrorism, occupation, and the war itself, no true Missourian at that time would have been associated with the republican party.