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RUSH: I don\u2019t see how I can do it. I\u2019m too famous. This business about moderating Republican debates. Did you see that out there? There\u2019s a suggestion that\u2019s been made, a lot of people have made the suggestion. Cal Thomas has made it, that me and Sean Hannity and Mark Levin would moderate Republican primary debates.<\/a> I think I\u2019d overshadow it. I think I\u2019m too famous. Be a tough call. It\u2019d be a real, real, real tough call. (interruption) Well, yeah, yeah, yeah. It could get ratings, I mean there\u2019s no question about that. It\u2019s an idea that\u2019s out there. <\/p>\n

Now, some people misunderstood and thought that it was moderating debates on mainstream TV networks. That would never happen. These would be debates that are strictly for a conservative Republican media and audience. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Jeff in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. It\u2019s great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

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CALLER. Yeah. Hi, Rush. You know, when you said you would overshadow any candidate if you were gonna moderate a Republican presidential debate, I could think of one, actually really only one possible candidate who you wouldn\u2019t overshadow, and that\u2019s Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For people that are just tuning in and didn\u2019t hear the opening of the program and are hearing you, they might be getting a little bit of a distorted idea of what I meant. So let me set the table again before we get further into your comment, okay?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a news story out there that says the RNC is considering having people like me or Sean Hannity or Mark Levin moderate Republican presidential primary debates for the 2016 election. And I simply opined at the beginning of the program, I was telling Mr. Snerdley, “I don\u2019t know that this would work. I might be too famous to do this.” And old Jeff here is assuming that what I meant was that I was going to overshadow and dominate. I would never say —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I meant too famous as well in the sense of a star based, having their own star base or at least new attention base, so I don\u2019t mean overshadow in that sense because frankly I think she has the facility, probably the only one that could match verbal jibes with you. I meant also the star base, the star attraction, you know, the everybody wants to see, that kind of thing. I can\u2019t think of anyone other than her that would be a counterbalance to you that people would want to see. Otherwise you\u2019re correct, you would kind of be more newsworthy than any candidate, except her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, the purpose of this would be to maybe change that. I think the thinking about this is that if you put these Republicans with, I don\u2019t want to say “like-minded,” but put them with people who are not automatically adversarial, who are not trying to defeat them, who aren\u2019t treating them as suspects out of the box, that they might blossom. We might get a little bit more out of who they really are rather than the defensive, don\u2019t want to offend anybody, don\u2019t want to upset anybody way they behave with Democrat moderators.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But your point was I would want to see you, that Rush Limbaugh is controversial. My only point is, yeah, it is true, but if one of the candidates at the debate was Sarah Palin, she\u2019s the only one that eyes would want to see, what she was saying, too. That\u2019s my only point when you were saying that, oh, yeah, everybody would want to see you out of interest. Well, I think she\u2019s the one —<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I didn\u2019t mean it as — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

CALLER: — to you as far as interest.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, I meant that I would be a distraction. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there again —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I didn\u2019t mean it that I would be overshadowing, because I\u2019m not running. Now, it may well be that after one of these debates people will say, “Well, why don\u2019t you run?” I\u2019m not running. I was simply saying that I might end up being a distraction.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, any way you want to see it, if you call it a distraction as well, you wouldn\u2019t distract from the only one I would think would be Sarah Palin, and she would probably be the only one that would distract from you. That\u2019s my only point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What about Trump?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He\u2019s not a real candidate. He doesn\u2019t really fire up people like — she\u2019s a serious, you know, she\u2019s a threat. Let me put it this way. She\u2019s a threat to the Democrats, not Trump. She\u2019s the only one that the Democrats were fearful of day one. And not only that, when you were talking about that Hillary Clinton would be immune as a woman from criticism, what do you think Sarah Palin — I mean, they attack her, but she remains, was, is, and will always be the one candidate the Democrats really fear is Sarah Palin. They would want anybody but her running.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t disagree that. Look, that\u2019s just common sense. The reaction, the irrational reaction the left has to Palin — seriously, now — if they really thought she was this just glittering jewel of sheer unbridled idiocy, they would want her out front. If they thought that Sarah Palin was so bad, so stupid, so ineffective that she would automatically lose, they would want her front and center. They\u2019d be trying to help her get the nomination, but it\u2019s the exact opposite. I\u2019ve always said that the left will always tell us who they fear, they will always tell us who they really are frightened of. To me, that\u2019s just slam dunk. It\u2019s not even arguable. <\/p>\n

Now, when I say that Democrats want Hillary \u2019cause we can\u2019t criticize a woman. We can\u2019t criticize a liberal woman. Obviously Sarah Palin, that War on Women thing goes out the window and all of a sudden then, if she were ever to be the nominee, the War on Women would become justified. The War on Women, they\u2019d reinstitute the draft in order to get soldiers to go to battle in the War on Women, to take her out. Bunch of punks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You would not believe the staff just jumping all over me here on what they think is my reluctance to accept the role of moderator of a debate. And I\u2019m having more fun toying with everybody on this. He-he-he-he-he. Anyway, I don\u2019t think that it\u2019d ever happen, which is one of the reason why I\u2019m toying, you know, having a little fun with it here. I fully understand the value in it. Look, there\u2019s a whole bunch of these people. When I say I\u2019d be a distraction, I\u2019m talking about the media reporting at the end of it more on me and trying to poke holes at me than what the candidates saying. That\u2019s all I mean. <\/p>\n

You know, it\u2019s a joke to say I\u2019m too famous. What I mean is that I\u2019m a route for these people to discredit everybody. But all that aside, it\u2019s not just Sarah Palin. There was all kinds of potential. We could have the first Hispanic president, Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. We could have the first female president, Sarah Palin. We\u2019re not short of potentially good candidates here. We just haven\u2019t had — who made this point. Conrad Black. He was on that Fareed Zakaria show from the front seat of his car using the GPS on CNN. Conrad Black made the point that <\/a>the candidates, the people who\u2019ve sought the office since Reagan have been on balance disappointing. And there\u2019s reason why.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Who wants the media anal? Who wants to be treated as a suspect and who wants to have everything about their lives destroyed by a media? I mean, it\u2019s a common sense thing. To run for office, particularly to run for president, you\u2019ve gotta have an ego that most people can\u2019t possibly relate to. You have to have a passionate desire, you have to believe this country can\u2019t survive without you. You have to have whatever it takes to put up with all that, and your family does, too. I\u2019m convinced that it\u2019s a roadblock to a lot of people from seeking the office. But I think, all that aside, the current roster has a lot of potential Republican candidates. <\/p>\n

The establishment side\u2019s trying to do everything they can to destroy the candidates you and I would look at as having great potential. Washington is Washington. Republican or Democrat, Washington is Washington. And they want people there who are going to maintain it and have it run as it is now. They don\u2019t want people coming in and upsetting the applecart. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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