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RUSH: Michelle in Cincinnati, I\u2019m glad you called, Open Line Friday. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My pleasure.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This call is about four years overdue, but after your monologue this afternoon I actually said a prayer that I would get through. My father was a high school journalism and English teacher, and under his guidance, his students put together an award-winning newspaper and yearbook. In fact, it won national awards for several years in a row. He never missed your show. He so respected you as a journalist because he himself believed in responsible journalism, the who, what, where, when, why, and how of a story. And he would actually tape-record your show on Wednesdays because his bridge game conflicted with your broadcast. He could be seen in the summertime pulling weeds with his little transistor radio next to him listening to your show. On behalf of my father, I want to thank you for your dedication and your devotion to responsible journalism and your excellence in broadcasting. Rush, we need people like you, especially in light of everything that\u2019s going on. And after the election, the day after the election, I think we were all kind of shocked, but I heard something in your voice that really scared me. I actually heard just a tinge of despair. And it made me realize how much people like you who speak the truth are needed today in the media. And thank you for that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: You heard despair?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, despair is… I guess that\u2019s kind of a strong word. But I could tell you were disappointed, as we all were.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Scared.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Scared. Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Scared is the best way to describe it, and I still am. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I am, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: However, I have a mounting confidence at the same time. By the way, thank you so much. I\u2019m very touched and moved by what you\u2019ve said and the description of your father, and I really appreciate that more than I can express to you. I really do. I thank you very much. All these stories about the Republicans — and it\u2019s clear what their strategy is. The Republicans are basically gonna close up shop for a while. That\u2019s what they\u2019ve decided to do. And even with that, I\u2019ve got this tinge of optimism going through me.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s always dangerous to talk about optimism because some people interpret optimism sometimes as a false sense, or actually as a denial of reality, and I\u2019m not doing that.<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

No, no. No, no. Snerdley is wanting to know why I didn\u2019t object to the previous caller praising my talents as a journalist. I think what happens here on this show is closer to real journalism than anything we\u2019re getting from so-called journalists. I have said for the longest time, “We do here what the mainstream journalists used to do.” We\u2019re doing their job for them. We do look at both sides of everything here. We tell you the pluses and minus of both sides.<\/p>\n

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I think liberals can find out more about what their belief system is about listening to this program than by watching any cable network, and certainly no cable network explains conservatism. We explain both here. But no, this optimism thing… I\u2019ve noticed two things. The Republicans do seem to just be packing it in when it comes to trying to stop Obama on the theory that, “Okay, look, he won the election.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s not even been immaculated yet for his second term, and he\u2019s already on the march. We\u2019re just the House and we lost, and so there\u2019s not really a whole lot of we can do,” and I don\u2019t sense that they\u2019ve got a whole lot of fight in them at the leadership level, anyway. There certainly isn\u2019t a lot of unity in the Republican Party right now. There are elements of the Republican establishment who are just as eager to discredit conservatives as the Democrat Party is.<\/p>\n

I saw (impression) “the Krauthammer column,” as Dr. Kissinger refers to it — the Krauthammer column — and the latest Krauthammer column basically says the best thing the Republicans can do right now is sort of just wave the white flag and move on. I just get the sense that that\u2019s gonna happen. So how in the world I have this little tingling optimism? And I do.<\/p>\n

I have a sense that it\u2019s gonna be okay. I can\u2019t get specific, and I know it flies in the face of reality. I don\u2019t know anymore than that. I\u2019m not a soothsayer, nor am I a seer. I can\u2019t predict the future. But I\u2019m fairly confident — and it\u2019s not because of the second term tradition that happens to every president. Some scandal or something comes along and distracts them and takes down the president. I\u2019m not putting faith in anything like that. I\u2019m just…<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

What?<\/p>\n

(interruption)<\/p>\n

Overreach? No. I think Obama\u2019s overreached for four years and gotten away with it. Snerdley just said, “What about overreach that Obama…?” What you\u2019re really saying is that somebody\u2019s gonna go too far and the country\u2019s gonna wake up and say, “Oh, my God, what did we do?” I don\u2019t think that. I\u2019d love for that to happen. I mean, I could sit around and fantasize, but what I\u2019m thinking is a strain of that, a variety of that.<\/p>\n

I just think that it is going to be an event or series of events that reorients people in the way they\u2019re looking at Obama. I do think that\u2019s gonna happen, and it\u2019s not gonna happen because I sit here and tell people who he is and what he\u2019s like. I\u2019ve been doing that for four years, and so have a lot of other people. Now, I\u2019m not saying the four years have been wasted. We\u2019ve built the foundation.<\/p>\n

When the event or events happen that bring about this reality that I think is gonna occur, having this foundation, people saying, “Oh, yeah! You know what? Maybe they were right” is gonna happen. “You know, I should have listened to what Limbaugh or somebody else was saying.” Maybe it is a little overreaching, going too far. It\u2019s rooted in a belief that a lot of people — and I don\u2019t know how many and I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a majority.<\/p>\n

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But certainly a lot of people voted for Obama having no idea what was really going to happen. Now, that could be blind faith. I try never to tell myself stories. Constantly. I never tell myself feel-good stories. I try to remain grounded in Realville where I\u2019m the mayor every day. But I do believe that a lot of people will see this. We saw the first wave of this, by the way, when the paychecks went out and the take-home pay was smaller because the tax cut on payroll taxes was restored.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s gonna be more as Obamacare implements. At some point, all of these economic policies are going to hit. At some point the government, the Federal Reserve or somebody, is gonna run out of tricks to delay what\u2019s coming. What\u2019s coming is gonna eventually happen. Reality will eventually triumph here, and when it does I think it\u2019s what\u2019s gonna constitute this.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not saying sit back and ignore everything else and don\u2019t oppose Obama. I\u2019m saying nothing like that. I don\u2019t want anybody to get nervous here. I\u2019m not gonna do that. I\u2019m not waving the white flag and I\u2019m not surrendering. I think the Republicans are. I think you better get used to the fact there isn\u2019t going to be any serious legislative opposition to Obama for the next year. If there is and I\u2019m pleasantly surprised, cool. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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