Rush Limbaugh: ‘Conservatism Is What Happens When You’re a Good Citizen’

“Let me tell you the difference. I am a conservative. I have said, I don’t know how many times, conservatism is an intellectual pursuit. And by that, I mean liberalism is easy. Liberalism is the most gutless, easy choice — it’s not even a choice. Liberalism is just — you feel it. There’s nothing hard about it at all. You don’t even have to do anything, you just have to notice suffering and talk about how — and you’re a great, big-hearted, compassionate person. You haven’t done diddly squat about it. In fact, you may be even the cause of it, but you get all this credit for compassion and caring. But you don’t have to do anything. And you don’t ever have to propose solutions, no, just the acknowledgement of the suffering alone makes you a good person. But here’s the big difference: conservatism, I believe happens to be what happens when people behave according to a certain moral code, a certain sense of right and wrong. People that are accepting responsibility for themselves. Conservatism is what happens when you’re a good citizen.”