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RUSH: Robert, Lynchburg, Virginia. Thank you for waiting, sir. You\u2019re up next. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Goodness Rush. That Conservative Action Pack is just what people need. The problem is Republican, slash, conservative brand has been redefined by the Democrats. President Obama when he first started running said he wanted to be as effective as Reagan was at changing our political culture, and unfortunately they\u2019ve done that. They\u2019ve done to us what Reagan did to the word “liberal” in the eighties. Everybody had to run away from “liberal” and say, “No, I\u2019m not a liberal. I\u2019m a progressive. I\u2019m a something else, anything.” Liberal was a dirty word, and now, like you said in the last hour, people love the ideas, but as soon as you say the word “Republican” it\u2019s like saying the word “liberal” in \u201985. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Right. It\u2019s not so much — I haven\u2019t seen the research. I haven\u2019t seen that people run away from the word “conservative” or “conservatism.” It\u2019s Republican that they run away from. But regardless, you\u2019re right. They have demonized our label.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. When you\u2019ve got a guy like Mitt Romney is evil, bad, wicked, horrible. I mean, he\u2019s not a conservative, but he\u2019s about the nicest guy in the world, their demonization machine, we\u2019re gonna need a new word other than Republican.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What would you suggest? Lapdog?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean to me, conservatism, I would just use the word “normal.” I mean, getting back to your discussion of families and feminism. I mean, conservative ideas are timeless because they\u2019re just not radical. They\u2019re just normal. I mean, not spending money that you don\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know what? Now, this is very interesting. I can tell you from experience, I have, in describing certain liberal behaviors, I have used the term “normal” as a way of explaining my opposition, and I have been descended on as though I have uttered the biggest obscenity on the face of the earth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they only —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, let me tell you because you\u2019ve really hit on something. What much of liberalism is is a recognition by many that they aren\u2019t normal and they don\u2019t like it and they don\u2019t want to become normal so what they want to do is change the definition of normal so that it encompasses what they do and who they are and how they go about it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All kinds of liberal behavior.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Don\u2019t say you\u2019re wrong, if you do something wrong, then you\u2019ve got to redefine right and wrong so that I\u2019m okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s a touchy thing. Because, you know, I agree with you. It\u2019s like what\u2019s happening with this newly discovered, quote, unquote, feminism. I still have to laugh, folks, I\u2019m sorry to keep bringing this up, but it works here. These women who were hell-bent on becoming like men, career track, to hell with relationships, to hell with marriage, to hell with kids, that\u2019s a prison, I\u2019m going to work. I\u2019m not gonna let anybody dictate to me and I\u2019m not gonna have some relationship be the reason I\u2019m happy, blah, blah. All that goes by the wayside. <\/p>\n

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What is happening is that nature is simply asserting itself, but there again, you run into big problems, because nature is natural, and that means other things aren\u2019t, and that\u2019s an insult. So nature, normal. I\u2019ve tried both these things. But what is happening? I mean, you say tradition, standards. I know exactly what you mean by saying, “Look, we\u2019re not conservative, we\u2019re just normal.” I\u2019m telling you, people on the left know full-fledged they\u2019re not, and that\u2019s what this is all about. It really is. In practically every liberal pursuit, it\u2019s about the fact that they want to expand the definition or acceptance of what is normal. ‘Cause they know they\u2019re not, in the traditional sense. <\/p>\n

I mean, you could almost see how they feel. Who wants to be abnormal? Who wants to be thought of as abnormal? But I still get your overall point. The label is the turnoff, so a new label is needed, or a new branding or marketing campaign to overcome the objection to the label. But here again, it boils down to something else. Why is conservative or Republican a bad name? It\u2019s not because of who the conservative or Republicans are. It\u2019s because of what is said about them. And I think that\u2019s a crucially important distinction, and particularly when Republicans start thinking they have to adjust who they are and what they believe and watering down their principles so that those who are saying things about them which aren\u2019t true will stop saying them. They\u2019re defeating their own purpose. <\/p>\n

If Republicans were genuinely falling off the right path, then they could be maybe blamed for some of these things. But people who aren\u2019t, who are just falsely accused, falsely impugned, mischaracterized, make the mistake assuming it\u2019s who they are that\u2019s the problem and what they believe that\u2019s the problem, when it isn\u2019t at all the problem. The problem is what is said about them that is lies and untruths and goes unrefuted. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me take a stab at something. You know the Limbaugh Theorem<\/a>. I think it could be expanded to the Republican establishment in parts, in this sense. The Republican establishment sometimes acts as if they\u2019ve never managed anything. They act as if they don\u2019t control the Republican Party today. They rail against straw men of their own creation. Andy Card was on Martha MacCallum\u2019s show on Fox this morning and was talking about Republican Party has to be “inclusive, not exclusive.”<\/p>\n

Well, who\u2019s been running the Republican Party? It certainly isn\u2019t conservatives. I mean, who\u2019s excluding who? He didn\u2019t name names. She didn\u2019t ask him, “Well, who\u2019s being excluded?” But all I know is, it\u2019s not conservatives excluding anybody. If anybody\u2019s being excluded, it is the conservatives. Yet these establishment guys are coming along and trying to act like whatever this party has become, they haven\u2019t been running it.<\/line><\/p>\n

Just like whatever\u2019s happening to the country, Obama\u2019s not running it. It\u2019s an amazing phenomenon! These guys attack policies that they have contributed to: Amnesty, debt, growth of government. I mean, let\u2019s admit it. The Republicans have done their own big spending. They don\u2019t seem to be pushing much of spending cuts. They\u2019re letting Obama have what he wants here, but they claim all the while to oppose all of this. Now, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not saying these guys are the same as Democrats.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not the same as the radical left.<\/p>\n

But I am saying that, in many parts, they\u2019re not taking responsibility for what\u2019s happened. They go out, they lose elections, and they blame everybody else! They\u2019re running the party. We\u2019re not. Safe to say? I mean, they\u2019re getting the nominees they want and they\u2019re losing, and somehow it\u2019s our fault for being “exclusive”? We\u2019re not excluding anybody! You know, the Republican elites are the same as the Democrat elites, and they set up these straw men, and they try to act like everything they\u2019re doing is not their doing and not their responsibility.<\/p>\n

So when we as conservatives say, “Enough is enough! There has to be at least one political party that represents liberty and property rights and the rule of law,” the establishment in the party lashes out and calls us extremists and then starts complaining that the party isn\u2019t a big tent. All we\u2019re talking about is constitutionalism! Now, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m not accusing them of being Obama, but there are similar traits here as applicable to the Limbaugh Theorem. I will expand on this tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I have my little notes I jotted here off to the side, and I\u2019ll expand on \u2019em.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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