Rest In Peace - Rush Limbaugh passes at 70 - Granite Grok

Rest In Peace – Rush Limbaugh passes at 70

Word has come that THE Premiere Conservative radio talker in the United States has passed away – Rush Limbaugh of lung cancer. He will be sorely missed by those of us on the Right. However, I’m betting that the Left, once again, will be bouncing up and down in joy with all of the usual epithets just spilling forth from their mouths and fingertips. It just shows who they are.

GraniteGrok did make it onto the Rush show when Steve’s post about then NH State Rep Cynthia Chase dropped her mask in saying that the Democrats should make NH “freedom inhospitable” when she heard that movers in the Free State Project were moving into NH. And she didn’t care that in the process they’d be hurting those of us already in NH – they are just a vengeful lot of hateful people whose only purpose in life, so it seems, is to take retribution on those “not them”.

My connection to Rush Limbaugh first started when I was working at a small startup dealing with telephone network quality analysis (I built the software as the telephony gurus kept explaining how to get deeper and deeper into the quality of testing measurements. The premise was that if you don’t take care of your infrastructure, we could demonstrate how your revenues would suffer between the COs (Central Offices) and the COs to the demarc point at your building.

As I was in a large room (they ran out of quiet offices), I started wearing a radio headset to block out everything else. Seeing that there was a radio station next door, I started to listen to their AM station and in the afternoon a guy was talking about politics and culture. He was erudite, he was informed, he knew all the players – and best of all, he knew how to make it entertaining with huge dollops of humor along the way.  But the biggest thing?

He was articulating not just how I felt but what I couldn’t say (at the time) for myself. He made clear the foundational Principles of Conservatism, of Liberty and Freedom. He spoke from that center and discussed the events of the day from that center. He also had an amazing memory of being able to reach back in time and bring back events from that history and apply it to whatever was happening in the present.

No, there will not be another one like him, most likely, in my lifetime (and I am on that downward slope). However, he started the Revolution for talk radio and there are scads of folks willing to defend those foundational Principles of Conservatism – as well as we in the Right Blogosphere.

Without him, GraniteGrok would not exist – I wouldn’t have ever thought of doing this. No, I have never thought of myself as a “Rush Limbaugh” – trying to be a copycat is what the Left tried to do and went down in flames each and every time. What I did take to heart is that we on the Right MUST fight for those Principles each and every way in the fashion that suits us. I think I (and the Groksters AND commenters) do that each and every day.

Rest in Peace, Rush – your legacy will last for a long, long time. Thank you for being that beacon and showing that the Left isn’t as invincible as they think they are.

Rest easy – say hello to Andrew Brietbart!  Be Brietbart – Be Rush.

“Talent on loan from God” – now he can go thank Him in person.

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