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RUSH: Here\u2019s Joseph in Charleston, South Carolina. He\u2019s been waiting a long time. I appreciate your patience. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, good afternoon, Rush. I wanted to call back to something you talked about in the first hour when you said Steve Schmidt was joining up with the ACLU —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, that\u2019s back when I was in a good mood.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — to help promote gay marriage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s the ACLU story. This was back when I was in a good mood, the first hour.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The thing I wanted to say about that is it always baffles me why the Republicans go in for something like this. Because it\u2019s not like if every Republican in the entire country decided that they were gonna support gay marriage at the state level, the gate vote would shift over to the Republicans. The Democrats would still get credit for it anyway, and I think the Democrats enjoy watching the Republican Party self-destruct over trying to liberalize itself even more than they enjoy destroying it themselves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, of course. Good point. Grab sound bite number 15. You want to know why this is happening. I have a sound bite here, Dana Perino was on The Five yesterday afternoon on Fox, and they were having a discussion about the Supreme Court rulings on DOMA and Prop 8. This doesn\u2019t take long, it\u2019s 16 seconds, but this is what she said…<\/p>\n

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PERINO: Politically, I think that in some ways this begins the long road to having gay marriage no longer be a political weapon used by either side and gives people a chance to maybe then focus on other important issues that we have in the country.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, that way of thinking, Joseph, is probably pretty reflective of the Republican Party establishment. So what she\u2019s saying there is, “Look, we\u2019re losing on this. We\u2019re losing bad. We gotta get this behind us. So let\u2019s agree to it! Let\u2019s just say, ‘Okay, fine. Gay marriage? Fine. Go do it. We\u2019ll get that behind us,” and same thing with immigration! “We\u2019ll get that behind with us,” and then those are no longer issues, they think. That\u2019s what you\u2019re saying: They\u2019re blowing it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what makes me mad about the party. You have low-information voters; you have an anti-information media. The party gets out and as soon as they hear anything that sounds liberal, certain members of our side go chomping after it, and what they do is they just spiral downward. Like what is it, 76% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck? That means 76% of Americans are broke. There\u2019s your demographic; there\u2019s your brass ring. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sure there\u2019s some gay people and Latinos and African-Americans and that demographic (unintelligible), too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is exactly my point again from the first hour, and again when I was in a good mood. The economy, jobs, those are the things that matter to the vast majority of the people no matter what their sexual orientation or their nationality, their gender, or any of that happen to be, and it\u2019s being ignored.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think —<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Republicans are living in abject fear. So when Dana Perino says, “Okay, this is no longer gonna be a political issue,” what she means is, “This can no longer hurt us.” But what\u2019s gonna happen is, this is gonna keep coming back until they get this constitutionally recognized nationwide. If the Republicans continue to oppose it, they\u2019re gonna be scared to death that the party establishment is gonna lose votes from the gay community, lose money. You hit the nail on the head. When all this stuff happens, the Republicans aren\u2019t gonna get a dime\u2019s worth of credit for it. They\u2019re not gonna get a dime\u2019s worth of campaign donations from this group.<\/p>\n

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CALLER: Oh, and, Rush? They\u2019re doing this, by the way, in my opinion, for the youth vote. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The number one concern of young voters this last election was the economy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the economy is terrible still. So they have climate change now on the docket, gay marriage, immigration, and student loans. They will not fault the economy. They want the American people to accept that the economy is going to be this bad in perpetuity. So here\u2019s the things that tug at your heartstring; and the younger voters, the crowd that has only seen Clinton and Bush and Obama as president, will see the Democrat Party as the party that\u2019s really fighting for the issues that touch them deep down in our chewy, nougaty center. They\u2019ll vote for them even when they should have shifted to a conservative voting pattern. They will continue to vote for liberalism and do it for themselves, and the Democrats will be even happier about that than they are about losing the Republicans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think that\u2019s disputable. This thinking is really not yours. The thinking that we can get this behind us is really unfortunate. Because the truth of the matter is that nothing that can be used against Republicans will ever be taken off the table, even if they have to make it up! There\u2019s nothing that they can use against Republicans that will ever be taken off the table. So the Republican Party establishment is trying to make all these things go away because they think that\u2019s the source of opposition. <\/p>\n

What they\u2019re gonna end up doing is imploding. <\/p>\n

They are driving their base away — and when they drive their base away, they\u2019re not gonna remain viable with gnat\u2019s eyelash chance of winning elections. They think they\u2019ll join the ACLU, join a project with the ACLU — Republican campaign consultants — to go now work on the states to get the Republicans in the 50 states to agree to gay marriage to get the issue behind us. “We\u2019re being killed by it, Mr. Limbaugh! They\u2019re killing us. They\u2019re killing us with immigration. We got to get it behind us! We can move on to things that really matter.”<\/p>\n

Why don\u2019t you stand for things that really matter?<\/p>\n

Come up with an agenda about things that really matters? To hell with that stuff! Stop letting the Democrats stet the agenda. We haven\u2019t put slavery behind us and it was 150 years ago, right? Slavery, for all intents and purposes, as far as a lot of people think, still exists. The Republican Party still wants it! We haven\u2019t even put that behind us, and it\u2019s been 150 years. So gay marriage we\u2019re gonna put behind us, immigration we\u2019re gonna put behind, and all of this is designed to make those who hate us love us, by putting it behind us? <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no putting it behind you, and there\u2019s no taking it off the table. It really is dumbfounding, folks. It\u2019s dumbfounding to watch this. I had friend of mine say, “You know what you\u2019re having trouble coming to grips with is that the Republican Party hates its base and they\u2019re really trying to drive \u2019em away.” I said, “I think there are things that are more important to them than that. I know they\u2019re embarrassed by the base, the pro-lifers and the gun people and so forth. <\/p>\n

<\/a>“But there\u2019s also the financial component here, money, in terms of illegal immigration. The corporatists and the crony capitalists want the cheap labor. To hell with anything else that happens as a result of it.” But the guy still said, “No, no, no, Rush. They don\u2019t like their base, and they\u2019re hoping to drive it away with this stuff.” They can\u2019t be that shortsighted. What are they gonna end up with? What are they going to be left with if they drive their base away?” <\/p>\n

The guy said, “They\u2019re going to be happy as a permanent minority because they won\u2019t be embarrassed by anybody else in their party.” I said, “You gotta be kidding. You really think that\u2019s what\u2019s going on?” He said, this friend of mine, “I do. I do. I think they so hate their base — I think they so dislike us, I think they\u2019re so embarrassed about some of us — that they\u2019d be happy to go back to the mode of Bob Michel<\/a> with 125 members of the House and 30 senators and occasionally win the presidency and be liked by everybody.<\/p>\n

“Because, Rush, they\u2019re not like us. They think the reason liberals hate them is because of their base.” So there\u2019s that theory. There\u2019s all kinds of theories. But regardless, to listen to the rationale for not fighting on these cultural issues — “Well, we gotta get it behind us! Just get these issues over with and make \u2019em no longer viable as political weapons” — see, the problem with that, sadly, is that anything that can be used against the Republicans will never be taken off the table. Slavery, I offer as an example. A hundred fifty years ago, and it may as well still be what Republicans want, in the minds of low-information people, \u2019cause who tells \u2019em this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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