Rick Santorum<\/a> is much better a man, much more Christian man, and he can\u2019t buy the presidency. I\u2019d like to see South Carolina support him. I\u2019m really disappointed there hasn\u2019t been more support already in the polls.<\/line><\/p>\nRUSH: He\u2019s at 15% pre-debate. I haven\u2019t seen if there\u2019s been a flash poll since the debate.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I haven\u2019t heard, either, and I listen continually. I\u2019m in a hospital bed and not going anywhere.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, no! What happened?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, I have multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, gee!<\/p>\n
CALLER: But, you know, I get a lot of religion and I get a lot of politics this way. (chuckles)<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) My gosh, I\u2019m sorry to hear that. I mean, that you\u2019re in the hospital.<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, I\u2019m in a hospital bed.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, you\u2019re at home in a hospital bed?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, I\u2019m very happily at home.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, good. Well, that\u2019s better than being in the hospital in a hospital bed. Yeah, Santorum right now is at 13% nationally. You know, you go back to the campaign of 1992. This is kind of interesting. It is. In 1992, the whole character thing on our side of the aisle was number one. It was that and Clinton\u2019s liberalism and Hillary with HillaryCare at the time. But Clinton was so known for the mistresses and the alleged rape of Juanita Broaddrick — so known for it — that we were scratching our heads wondering, “Why do the American people not care?” and the Clinton campaign was all about how rotten the George H. W. Bush economy was, and the so-called recession, “worst economy in the last 50 years,” that we were lied to about. So we were scratching our heads. Now, jump ahead to now.<\/p>\n
My point is, as Daniel Moynihan said, the longer this stuff goes on, the more you “define deviancy down.” When you can\u2019t stop it, you simply say, “Let\u2019s stop trying, and we\u2019ll declare it normal,” and that\u2019s how you define deviancy down, and you legitimize what used to be a crime or you legitimize what used to be immoral. So now the same people, in many cases — and this is not a criticism; it\u2019s an observation. The same people who wanted to roast Clinton are now saying, “Hey, Newt has paid his dues. We believe in forgiveness,” this kind of thing, and what is on the other side of it? We think the country\u2019s being destroyed, and we really believe that it doesn\u2019t matter; the only thing that matters is stopping Obama, that we can\u2019t afford four more years of this kind of radical, of this kind of anti-Americanism, somebody wants to drastically transform and change the country in ways that we won\u2019t recognize it. So a lot of people who in \u201992 staked their entire vote on character and morality, now subordinate to further down the list — and this has you scratching your head, correct?<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s what television\u2019s done for us. It\u2019s destroyed, decayed our morality and our culture. All this stuff, all this crap on television.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You actually think it\u2019s television?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I think it is! I don\u2019t even watch it anymore. I have nothing to do with it. We don\u2019t have cable. My husband wants to get it, but he works nights, and I said, “I don\u2019t need it. I don\u2019t need to see blood and guts and sexual immorality continually all night.”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, she might have a point. You look around at… Kathryn and I will be watching TV, network TV, and somebody uses a word that 20 years ago? No way, not thinkable. Ten years ago, not thinkable. “Bastard” and “bitch” are common on primetime TV now. “Pissed off” is common in primetime TV.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, vulgar language.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yet with all that, you don\u2019t see the Morality Police worried but let there be a divorced candidate in the race with a ex-wife that\u2019s talking about open marriages, and you will find it\u2019s a giant scandal. So as always, there seems to be a missing sense of proportion in all this. But I don\u2019t disagree with you that our culture is coarsening, that morality is being redefined and so forth. I just say, as a cultural observer, it is interesting to take note of it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, I think so.<\/p>\n
RUSH: So you\u2019re wondering. Your experience is we stand for character and morality. The Founding Fathers demanded it.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, they did.<\/p>\n
RUSH: If you look at the Federalist Papers and the qualifications of the chief executive, morality and character is number one above all else. You got a guy, you think, Santorum who passes that test and he can\u2019t get past first base. It\u2019s gotta frustrate you. I understand.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: By the way, John Adams, just to back up my point, the Federalist Papers and the Founders, when discussing the qualities, qualifications of a chief executive, president, John Adams, October 11th, 1798, “Our Constitution…” this is not Federalist Papers. This is in addition, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” And his point is being illustrated. We\u2019ve got people running this country that couldn\u2019t care less about the Constitution in any moral or religious sense, none whatsoever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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