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<\/p>\nRUSH: Here\u2019s Sean in New Bern, North Carolina. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, dittos from barely 40-degree, manmade -global-warmed North Carolina, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you very much. You know, I fly over New Bern. Well, I used to when I would go to New York. The route was always right over New Bern, North Carolina.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I got my truck revved up to kind of help with the carbon monoxide so we can warm it up here. It\u2019s freezing in North Carolina.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Is that right? I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, listen. I wanted to just get to the point about what you were talking about with Christie. I think if the Republicans were smart, they would realize this business with Christie and how fast they take him out and how he\u2019s the model candidate, to me, it\u2019s really proof positive that you gotta stick to your conservative guns. You gotta secure your base and look to Ronald Reagan as the model for doing all that. I mean, Ronald Reagan had the personality.<\/p>\n
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He stuck to his guns, his conservative principles, and he didn\u2019t let them define him; he defined them — and the American people responded to it like nobody\u2019s business. Not since have we had the American people respond to a presidential candidate like that, and you look at it and you\u2019re exactly right. When we allow them to define our candidates, that means they hold all the cards and they build them up — as they did McCain over the years — and take \u2019em out.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I knew if I stuck with you long enough you\u2019d swerve into the truth. If you let the media make you, the media can destroy you. If you let \u2019em make you, they can break you — and if you\u2019re a Republican and you try to cultivate media love and support, they\u2019re eventually gonna turn on you because you are not them. You are not a Democrat. You are not a leftist. No matter what you say, no matter what you do, you\u2019ve got an (R) next to your name on a ballot.<\/p>\n
You are going down.<\/p>\n
It doesn\u2019t matter what you\u2019ve said and what you believe and whether or not you\u2019ve made them like you. You are going down. Now, as to why don\u2019t the Republicans learn from the Reagan example? You should know, if you don\u2019t — we\u2019ve mentioned it numerous times here, so I\u2019m sorry to be redundant — even during the Reagan era, the Republican Party establishment was not supportive. Privately, they were not happy with what was going on, and the first moment they had after Reagan left office to start sweeping all that away, they took it.<\/p>\n
They are not conservative.<\/p>\n
They haven\u2019t been conservative, the Republican establishment, for a long time, and they don\u2019t intend to be — and that\u2019s that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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