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RUSH: We\u2019re gonna start in upstate New York with Tim. I\u2019m glad you called, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

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

RUSH: Very fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My name is Tim. I just wanted to say “thank you” for changing the way I look at these politics. I stuck my head in the sand for so many years. I\u2019m a Democrat and I just watched years and years go by without really getting into what the politics were about. And after my kids were born, I realized I need to start getting really into this to find out what\u2019s going on more and more. Just seeing the way this country has taken such a turn, it\u2019s just ridiculous. I said, “Okay, if I\u2019m gonna be a Democrat, I\u2019m gonna start listening to the other side and consider the other side.” I said, “Okay, you know what? I\u2019m gonna turn on something that I probably never thought I\u2019d turn on.”<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Me!<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that was your show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That is right, and I know what happened. You were hooked inside of six weeks.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wouldn\u2019t say six weeks. It took a little longer than six weeks, because I try to keep an open mind.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, that means you were resisting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, you\u2019re right about that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you were resisting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But regardless, I just had to agree. I found myself agreeing more and more and more. And I have very limited time to listen to your show. I try to put it on when I can, and I just want to say thank you, because you really did change the way I look at what\u2019s going on in politics.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are more than welcome, and I appreciate it. Thank you very much. I think, folks, that Tim here in upstate New York is exactly what I\u2019m talking about. When I say Tim was “a low-information voter,” I don\u2019t mean that Tim\u2019s dumb, stupid, or any of that. He was a Democrat, and that\u2019s all it took. That\u2019s all that mattered. He\u2019s a Democrat. He was loyal as a Democrat. He didn\u2019t even care to find out why. He just was. And then, for some reason, some of it stopped making sense.<\/p>\n

And look what happened.<\/p>\n

He, on his own, found a way to expose himself to something other than what he had been traditionally devoted to. And it made a difference. This is the golden opportunity I\u2019m speaking of that\u2019s out there, that\u2019s sitting there on a silver platter. But I got to tell you something, Tim. While I\u2019m flattered, and while you think you are agreeing with me, what you\u2019re really agreeing with is reality. You finally have found reality. My ideas are nothing unique. I just live in the real world. I\u2019m the mayor of Realville.<\/p>\n

And you haven\u2019t heard my ideas before, because you were a Democrat. Folks, it\u2019s what I was talking about yesterday. That show yesterday was so far ahead of its time. I guarantee you that show, six months from now, people are gonna look back on. One of the things was when we were talking about the partisan divide<\/a> and how it\u2019s not about policy. It\u2019s not about issues. I created this mythical Silicon Valley CEO who\u2019s bright, obviously.<\/p>\n

This CEO has no policy reason, no intellectual reason whatsoever to be fundraising for Obama, bundling for Obama, and donating to Obama. Much less supporting Obama. None! But why does that CEO do so? Well, if it isn\u2019t policy, what is it? Obama\u2019s policies are gonna kill her company, unless she ends up being a crony of Obama\u2019s and ends up getting government support like GE got. Maybe she\u2019s angling for that, or may be she just gets off on being part of the elite circle.<\/line><\/p>\n

“I know the president! The president comes to my house. I fund-raise for him.” It could be any of those things, but it ain\u2019t policy. So if it isn\u2019t policy, how do you reach those people? Well, you find out what they think of us. We\u2019re unhip, we\u2019re uncool, we\u2019re stupid! They think we\u2019re absolute idiots. It\u2019s so uncool to say you\u2019re a conservative, to these people. To these people. I\u2019ll give you an example. You know, I read a lot of tech blogs because I am fascinated by tech. I love it. I actively, physically love high-tech and reading about it. So I read a bunch of these blogs. That\u2019s what I do for relaxation.<\/p>\n

At the Values Voter Summit over the weekend Rick Santorum got up and said, among other things, (paraphrasing) “The smart people and the elites are never gonna support us. The smart people and the elites are never going to like us.” That\u2019s not in context. Now, you and I know what he meant. He\u2019s talking to other people who know what he meant. “The smart people,” that\u2019s in quotes. The elites, the smart people, the people who think they\u2019re smarter than everybody else, the arrogant, cocky, think they\u2019re smarter. <\/p>\n

You would not believe how many tech blogs posted: For the first time Santorum ever made sense. That\u2019s right, smart people are never gonna like him. Smart people are never gonna like conservatives. It\u2019s about time some conservative figured it out was the point on all these tech blogs, where you\u2019ve got young people who think that they\u2019re progressives, who think they\u2019re ahead of their time, who think they\u2019re the smartest people in the room, and to them conservatism, they don\u2019t want any part of it \u2019cause it\u2019s embarrassingly dumb and stupid.<\/p>\n

<\/a>So here they come along praising Santorum for finally getting it right, realizing, “Yeah, bud, you are weird. You are a nerd and a kook, and we are never gonna want anything to do with you,” and they praised him for finally getting it. ‘Cause what they heard him say was, “We\u2019re dumb and we\u2019re not cool and the smart people are never gonna like us.” They didn\u2019t understand that he meant “smart people” in quotes. They didn\u2019t understand that what he was talking about was closed-minded bigots, arrogant, cocky SOBs who think they are the cat\u2019s meow. Santorum was telling these people, “Don\u2019t worry, don\u2019t worry, they\u2019re not the smart people. They\u2019re not the elites. They\u2019re self-appointed. They are not with us culturally,” and he\u2019s right. <\/p>\n

You know, it used to be cool to face reality like a man. Now it\u2019s not. Being cool has nothing to do with reality. Reality\u2019s too hard. Reality\u2019s too painful. Reality requires too much. I\u2019d rather live in my self-created cocoon where everything\u2019s fine and dandy, and everybody loves everybody, and those who don\u2019t are a bunch of idiots who we don\u2019t have to spend any time with anyway. Living in a fantasy world is the cool thing to do. Avoiding reality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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