Rush Limbaugh’s Legacy
Looking back on my childhood, I remember one voice narrating history as it happened. That voice was Rush Limbaugh. Being homeschooled meant that some days, Mom would turn on the radio because she just had to know what was happening in our nation. On those days, Rush became our teacher. We didn’t pay a lot of attention….we played, did math, completed chores, but his voice echoed in the background. Terri Schiavo, the 2000 Election and Bush v. Gore, the war in Iraq, the death of Pope John Paul, all narrated by the voice of Rush.
I remember many summer afternoons walking across the street to my grandma’s house, to find her windows open while she worked in the garden, and Rush’s voice coming from her stereo. Every day, from 11-2, you could hear Rush playing at Grandma’s house from KMOX.
When the the COVID lockdowns were so confusing and overreaching, I went to Rush’s website to make sense of it all. When the results of the 2020 Election were undetermined, I asked my dad, “What is Rush saying?” I knew there was one voice I could trust to have a balanced, conservative perspective.
But the biggest impact Rush made was on my grandparents, my dad, and vicariously on me. On Sunday afternoons and at all of our birthday parties, my grandparents would talk conservative politics at our kitchen table. Often at dinner, my dad would make a reference to Rush’s perspective on a recent event. Through these conversations, I gained a solid conservative perspective that has blessed my life as a mom, entrepreneur, and American.
I devoured history books as a kid and they showed me how heroes from the past bravely stood in their time. But Rush put today’s world and issues in context. He described recent events with a balanced, guided view of the heroes of the story and the causes that deserved to be championed.
Charlie Kirk said it will take a thousand voices to replace Rush. That his broad shoulders carried our movement and now we must take up his mantle. I am here, in some ways because of Rush, to join in this cause. To keep speaking truth, no matter the cost. To hopefully, in some small way, continue to remind America of who we are and who we can be.
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