Normally I would not post an analysis developed by Limbaugh on this site, simply because of how long winded Limbaugh tends to be. However, this analysis is of a JFK speech from 1961 and how Limbaugh believes that it applies to modern day democrats. I'm just curious to hear a Democrat's take on JFK's speech and on Limbaugh's analysis.
Sorry it's so LOOOooooooooong
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Now, to this JFK speech. Again, this is November 18th of 1961. It's called the Conspiracy Theory speech. And I just want to read what he said to you, what he said in this speech, I want to read it to you. And remember that JFK was a Democrat in 1961, but I want you, as you hear this: who is he, if he were giving this speech today, if this speech were words written today and delivered today, about whom would these words refer, or to whom would they refer?

Joined in progress, the speech says, "Now we are face-to-face once again with a period of heightened peril. The risks are great, the burdens heavy, the problems incapable of swift or lasting solution. And under the strains and frustrations imposed by constant tension and harassment, the discordant voices of extremism are heard once again in the land. Men who are unwilling to face up to the danger from without are convinced that the real danger comes from within."

Do I need to translate this as I go, or is this all right? If this speech were given today -- President Kennedy here is talking about today's Democrats when he says "men who are unwilling to face up to the danger from without…" -- i.e., the terrorists, and the threat from this worldwide network, which includes Iraq -- "…are convinced the real danger comes from within." George W. Bush. "They look suspiciously at their neighbors and their leaders. They call for a man on horseback because they do not trust the people."

Where is somebody to get rid of Bush? We need Kerry. We need somebody, because we can't trust the people to do the right thing in this country. "They find treason in our finest churches." Treason in our finest churches? Well, I can translate this by saying, can you name one Christian organization the left in this country respects and loves and does not fear and has not tried to malign from the Boy Scouts to the Catholic Church, to any other denomination? Everything traditional in this country is under assault by the left. Anything that has anything to do with God is not to be trusted, and is to be winnowed and separated out from the mainstream of American political culture. They find treason in our finest churches; they find treason in our highest court. Florida 2000, Scalia, he gave this election to Bush.

"And even in the treatment of our water." Now, this is probably the arsenic. Yep, yep, this is arsenic. This is arsenic when Bush took over. They said Bush didn't do anything to enforce Clinton's new arsenic rules. "They object, quite rightly, to politics intruding on the military, but they are anxious for the military to engage in politics. But you and I and most Americans take a different view of our peril. We know that it comes from without, not from within. It must be met by quiet preparedness, not provocative speeches. And the steps taken this year to bolster our defenses, to increase our missile forces, to put more planes on alert, to provide more airlift and sea lift and ready divisions, to make more certain than ever before that this nation has the power, all the power it'll need to deter any attack of any kind, those steps constitute the most effective answer that can be made to those who would sow the seeds of doubt and hate."

Here is John Kennedy speaking for the need for a powerful military to deal with the forces outside the country that threaten us; and warning about the people in this country who see no threat from outside, only from within, and do not want to build up a military at all to deal with it. Who's he talking about? Once again, just as he was talking about liberal Democrats and opposing tax cuts when he made that speech in 1962, so again in 1961, in a speech on conspiracy theories, he more identifies with today's left and Democrats than with anyone else.

He continues, "So let us not heed these counsels of fear and suspicion. Let us concentrate more on keeping enemy bombers and missiles away from our shores." Can I translate this for you? We don't need to sit here and start increasing port security. Oh, we can do that, but that's not going to stop this. We've got to go where these people are and stop them. We need to keep enemy bombers and missiles away from our shores, we need to go wherever we need to go to make sure these terrorists do not infiltrate this country and destroy us from within.

"Let us devote more energy to organize the free and friendly nations of the world with common trade and strategic goals." Senator Kennedy - Senator Kerry, rather, is out there saying this NAFTA is a bad idea. He's siding with the unions - we can't have free trade. He wants to side with the nations who are not our friends. He wants to side with the nations who indeed opposed us in the nation's defense. The exact things that President Kennedy warned against in 1961, today's Democrats are in favor of.

"Let us devote less energy to organizing armed bands of civilian guerillas that are most likely to supply local vigilantes than national vigilance, and let our patriotism be reflected in the creation of confidence rather than crusades of suspicion. Let us prove that we think our country great by striving to make it greater, and, above all, let us remember that however serious the outlook, the one great irreversible trend in world history is on the side of liberty. And so for all time to come are we."

Hello, Iraq. Hello, Afghanistan. Hello, George Bush's foreign policy, endorsed here by President Kennedy forty-three years ago, as he in that speech warns us against the very ideas and personages that exist today on the American Democrat left.

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Where was that woman from, that woman was from Sacramento, wasn't she? Yeah, Karen from Sacramento, she told me I was not -- it was a caller not long ago -- who told me I was not entitled to quote JFK because he was a Democrat and I'm a Republican, and I can't quote what he said.

This speech, by the way, I think was aimed at the John Birch Society. It's interesting how the country's done a total 180 since Kennedy gave this speech, because, I'm telling you, folks. You read this. We're going to post this on the website so you can see it. JFK in '61 is talking dead on about today's liberal Democrats. It's uncanny.