Limbaugh: US Should Not “Commit National Suicide” By Accepting Immigrants, Refugees To Prove American Values

Rush Limbaugh: “The Constitution's Not A Suicide Pact ... We Do Not Have To Commit National Suicide In Order To Show The World Our Values”

From the January 4 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

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RUSH LIMBAUGH: Now I mentioned Bill Clinton earlier. He made his first solo campaign appearance for Hillary in New Hampshire today. Now I mentioned I wasn't able to listen to the whole thing. It was rambling. It was -- it was not compelling. The idea that Bill Clinton has this magic and this charisma so -- and I guess to Democrats he probably always will. But this was not vintage Bill Clinton. Now granted I didn't hear it from the beginning and I didn't listen to the whole thing. That's the point, I couldn't. I had the chance to, it was before the program started. I'd listen to a couple minutes of -- I don't even know what this is about or where this is going so I would turn it off and focus on show prep, other things. Then I'd decide to check back in with it later, some few minutes later. And again, I could not tell what he was talking about, even by listening to a two-minute segment. One thing I did notice. He did not lash out at Trump per se. He took an indirect swipe at Trump. And he did something that has become a popular technique, that is employed by Obama all the time and -- predominantly Obama, but Democrats as well.

But Clinton essentially said how great it is that we have always been an open country and that we should not do anything to compromise our values and that we must always stand up for our values. You know, Obama's always talking about this. His line is, “that's not who we are.” Well whatever he's talking about Republicans want to do, “that's not who we are. We have got to show our values.” And it always seems to manifest itself -- in order for us to show our values, we must compromise them. We must abandoned them in order to show the world -- we don't have to prove ourselves to the world anymore.

This is another thing that kind of burns me up. The world already knows what are. That's why they all want to live here. We don't have anything to prove to anybody. We don't have to prove freedom or liberty. We are it. That's why people want to come here. We're not some new country trying something that's never been done before and we got to go out of our way to show it and prove it and live it by example. We've done that for over 200 years. We're not a mystery. And yet to listen to Obama and Hillary and now Bill Clinton today, somehow it is a mystery and the rest of the world can't figure us out. We've got to show constantly our values. We cannot succumb to whatever it is the Republicans in this case might be proposing, or Trump, be it on immigration or refugees coming into the country or spending or whatever. And folks it frosts me. We do not have to commit suicide in order to demonstrate that we're an open country or a nation of immigrants or whatever. And that's what they're trying to get us to do. There continues to be a record number of undocumented children that now have to be housed and fed and that's more spending and no effort's made to stop it because that would be, that would be violating our values. Being an open country. Just as it's said the Constitution's not a suicide pact, well neither is any of the rest of this. We do not have to commit national suicide in order to show the world our values. We're not in a contest with Iran or Saudi Arabia when it comes to liberty and freedom. That's already been decided. The rest of the world knows where they'd rather live. This idea that we have to keep proving ourselves, even if it means watering ourselves down and deluding ourselves and there's Bill Clinton talking about it. How we ought to remain an open country.

Previously:

Limbaugh: Trump Didn't Go “Far Enough” With Immigration Proposal Invoking Plan That Media Called “Unabashedly Racist”

Limbaugh: “Western Civilizations Are ... Erasing Themselves” Through “Illegal Immigration, Normal Immigration”

Limbaugh: “Illegal Immigration” Proponents Want To “Erase America” And “Western Civilization”