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RUSH: Elizabeth in Louisville, great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. How are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Very well, thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just want to say that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hold it just a second. Obama\u2019s talking about the survivors. He\u2019s now talking about the survives, women survivors in this country, the survivors of violence against women. I\u2019m sorry to interrupt you out there, Elizabeth, but I couldn\u2019t let this go by. He\u2019s now praising the survivors, women who have survived all of this hideous violence that\u2019s committed against and on them every day in this country. Okay, I had to get that in. Back to you now, Elizabeth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I agree with you. I thought there were laws about that before this was signed. But anyway, I just want to tell you that I\u2019m a lifelong Democrat, and I\u2019m very proud to say that in the future I\u2019m gonna be voting for Rand Paul.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Interesting. You\u2019re in Louisville, and so you obviously were impressed with what he did. What stood out last night for you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Everything he had to say for those 13 hours was substantive. He was not just reciting the alphabet. He wasn\u2019t reading a poem. He was fighting for civil liberties in this country, something that I thought Democrats were supposed to be doing every day, standing up and defending our basic American civil liberties<\/a>. And if Rand Paul is the only voice out there whose not running for cover and not waiting to see what everyone else thinks about it, I\u2019m voting for him. He didn\u2019t take a poll before he did this, I assume, he just went out there and did it the way traditional civil libertarians are supposed to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is civil liberty, is that pretty high up in your rank of issues that matter most to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

\"original\"CALLER: As an American, we have to defend our Constitution, and that\u2019s what I saw him doing for 13 hours last night. And for most of the time he was out there alone on that floor. They all rallied around at the end, but I know there are a great many Democrats out there who feel exactly the way I do.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, who are some of the Democrats that you like that are noteworthy in your mind for standing up for civil liberties?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve always admired the Clintons and did vote for Bill Clinton twice. If you don\u2019t tell anybody, I\u2019ll let you know that I did vote for Mitt Romney this time around.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You did. Really? My next question to you… and you didn\u2019t bargain for this, and if you don\u2019t want to answer my question, feel free, you don\u2019t have to, but I don\u2019t get very many acknowledged, admitted Democrats that call me, and so you are one, and I\u2019m very curious about Democrats today. Particularly the ones that did vote for Obama and continue to support him. Which is not you. You voted for Romney. But what I was gonna ask you was, having acknowledged your position and the importance you place on civil liberties, I was gonna ask you what your opinion of Obama\u2019s economic policies are and whether you support them. But you voted for Romney, so I know what your answer would be there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: But I\u2019m really curious. I think the Democrats are made up of two different kinds people. In fact, not just Democrats, but I mentioned yesterday, I was talking to two 25-year-old people over the weekend about the things that matter most to them, and it\u2019s gay marriage and gay rights and a number of things like that. And they asked me what I thought about it, and I told \u2019em, and I said, “Here\u2019s the problem with all this. People your age, you\u2019re obsessed with the notion that there\u2019s nothing wrong with it, why should it matter who you love? It\u2019s a beautiful thing, love is, and why should it be anybody\u2019s business?” <\/p>\n

But I said, “But marriage means something. Marriage is a man and a woman.” I said, “Republicans did not invent it. It\u2019s something that derives from tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of years of human civilization. It\u2019s been shown to be the best way to have children and raise children. The human being is the only mammal that is entirely helpless for two decades, and maybe little bit less,” but I said, “You know, a dog or a horse, a horse is born standing. A dog or cat is on its own in six weeks. They wean it from its mother and it\u2019s off and it\u2019s self-sufficient. A human being doesn\u2019t know right from wrong, doesn\u2019t know morality \u2019til it\u2019s taught. And it\u2019s an institution that\u2019s been perfected for this, and I think it\u2019s under assault, it\u2019s being corrupted, because people want financial benefits.” <\/p>\n

Anyway, explained all this to them, and I said, “The liberals have leaders who are radicals, who are trying to corrupt as much of the tradition and institution that has defined the country, and the followers, they glom onto something that makes \u2019em feel good, compassion, love, and whatever, and have no clue what they\u2019re really doing. They think they\u2019re being fair and open-minded, and they\u2019re actually being hoodwinked into following policies and ideas that end up corrupting really good things.” And it\u2019s not just gay marriage. There\u2019s an all-out assault. Right now the economy is under assault. The whole concept of where prosperity comes from is under assault. I don\u2019t get a chance to talk to many Democrats, and when I do, I love to pick their brains. But you voted for Romney, so you don\u2019t really qualify as a subject.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I did. But as far as gay rights is concerned, I\u2019m married with children, and I\u2019ve never heard a compelling reason to deny rights to part of the population because of a sexual orientation or preference. I\u2019ve never heard a compelling reason. So for me it\u2019s kind of a nonissue.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s the most important issue to young people today, and I\u2019m talking about 18 to 30, in that demographic. It\u2019s really college kids, but even when you get into the conservative bar scene babes and guys in their 30s, it is the issue that will define whether they remain conservative or not. It really is. It\u2019s amazing the way it\u2019s evolved. I guess it is a civil liberty issue to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It is. But the thing that did it for me was Barack Obama with Benghazi<\/a>. We\u2019re still not getting answers about that, and it\u2019s tragic. We don\u2019t know what happened exactly. They\u2019re not answering for it. For the first time last night I saw a senator, at least somebody in Washington, standing there demanding an answer about something. I think it\u2019s gonna be a huge catalyst for the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I\u2019ve had a lot of people say the same thing. This may end up having legs, more so than people realize.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Might.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: You may be onto something here. Again, you don\u2019t have to answer these, and there\u2019s no wrong answer. I\u2019m not trying to pick a fight. I literally am trying to learn when I ask you these questions. Were you born a Democrat? Is this something you\u2019ve always been, or was being a Democrat something that you studied and chose? They happened to best represent your desires and beliefs over the Republicans, or did you not become a Republican because they\u2019re a bunch of racists, sexists, bigots and so forth? What was it that made you or kept you a Democrat?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve never been anti-Republican. Maybe it was tradition. Kentucky was traditionally a very Democratic state. My parents were Democrats, the whole family. You know, perhaps that\u2019s why I registered as a Democrat at a young age.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, now. You know that Ashley Judd is gonna run for the Senate against Mitch McConnell. What\u2019s your opinion of her?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She\u2019s an unknown politically. We all know her as… I think she\u2019s an honors program graduate from UK, Harvard MBA. You know, she\u2019s very well educated. She should be up on the issues, but politically we don\u2019t really know a thing about her other than she\u2019s a registered Democrat. I\u2019m waiting to see what happens with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It won\u2019t be long before you find out. I\u2019m not gonna be the one to tell you. I\u2019ll let you figure it out on your own. But all those things you said, they haven\u2019t worked. Harvard MBA? You\u2019ll never know it, is my point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Anyway, Elizabeth, I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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