{"id":17198,"date":"2011-12-06T18:51:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T18:51:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-06T18:51:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T18:51:10","slug":"ron_paul_ain_t_the_tea_party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/12\/06\/ron_paul_ain_t_the_tea_party\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul Ain\u2019t the Tea Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: This is Will in Amanda, Ohio, as we stay on the phones. Hi, Will. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush? Hey, Rush, at best you don\u2019t understand the Tea Party movement, and at worst you\u2019re trying to co-opt the Tea Party — and I hate to say that because I\u2019ve listened to you for a lot of years — but the Tea Party movement is about trust, justice, and constitutional leadership; and Newt Gingrich <\/a>is the RINO\u2019s RINO. He\u2019s taken several hills from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, he plays both sides of the aisle, he\u2019s well known for his progressivism. If his multiple wives don\u2019t trust him, don\u2019t expect me to trust him as a president for this country. The Tea Party\u2019s not about Republican[s] and Democrats. The Tea Party is about, like I said — trust, justice, and constitutional leadership — and at this point we\u2019re down to three candidates, in my opinion. We got Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum — and I\u2019m leaning towards Ron Paul because at least in Congress, for all his years, both sides call him Dr. No because he\u2019ll at least stick to the Constitution, what it requires.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And we\u2019ve gotten into this mess, Rush, because we\u2019ve always chosen the worst of the two choices. And this is probably our last chance. This country is going down fast.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you telling me … that the Tea Party … is gonna end up rallying around Ron Paul?<\/p>\n

CALLER: One of the three. I think in the end, one of the three.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where is that reflected in the…?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (crosstalk) chance for Iowa, and I hope he wins because —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where is it reflected….?<\/p>\n

CALLER: — if he does I think you\u2019re gonna see people rally to him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where is it reflected in the polling data?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (silence) Well… Right now he\u2019s running second from what I understand in Iowa.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s probably gonna win Iowa. I would be surprised if Ron Paul wins Iowa, by the way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think you\u2019re gonna see people break away from this two party madness. That\u2019s how we got in this position, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we\u2019ll see, we\u2019ll see. But you misunderstand where I am in all this. But that\u2019s okay. That\u2019s okay. I am shaken, but not stirred.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, once again, let me bring some reason and sanity to all this. We just heard that the Tea Party is gonna support Ron Paul, Santorum, Bachmann, or bust. And this guy is not a Tea Party caller. This guy\u2019s a Ron Paul caller. I just went to the Gallup poll, dug deep inside the Gallup poll, the one I just told you that shows Gingrich over Romney 37-22. Ron Paul is at 7% among Tea Party supporters. But there\u2019s more than that. The Tea Party is not the Ron Paul campaign. Ron Paul has nothing to do with the Tea Party, zilch, zero, nada. There is no way that you can back Ron Paul and also back Bachmann and Santorum. The reason is that Ron Paul\u2019s foreign policy has nothing in common with Tea Party foreign policy, nothing in common with Bachmann or Santorum foreign policy. Ron Paul did not start the Tea Party. Ron Paul is not the Tea Party.<\/p>\n

Now, that caller also said — and all this is so predictable, it happens every four years. “That two-party system, two party madness, we\u2019re not gonna put up with anymore, Rush, and you\u2019re part of it. You\u2019re part of the two party establishment, we know you.” Let me tell you something. If two party madness is the issue, why did Ron Paul leave the Libertarian party to run as a Republican? Ron Paul\u2019s not running as a third party; he\u2019s not running as a Libertarian; he\u2019s running as a Republican. He\u2019s involved himself in the two-party system. And Ron Paul has led the way with tens of millions of dollars in earmarks. Ron Paul blames America for 9\/11. That\u2019s not what the Tea Party thinks. It\u2019s not what conservatives think.<\/p>\n

Now, there\u2019s some Tea Party activists that support Ron Paul, but most don\u2019t, as is evidenced by the Gallup polls at 7%. But Ron Paul\u2019s foreign policy, there\u2019s nobody, no other Republican running on that nomination dais up there in any of these debates that has a foreign policy that\u2019s anywhere near Ron Paul\u2019s. Bachmann, Santorum, Gingrich, Romney, none of them blame the United States for Iran nuking up. None of them blame the United States for 9\/11. I love the way these Ron Paul supporters try to tell us who is or who isn\u2019t conservative, when Paul is a Libertarian. Ron Paul\u2019s a Libertarian, used to belong to that party but knows he can\u2019t win as a Libertarian so he comes over and joins the Republican Party. He says he could relate to and understand the Occupiers. The Tea Party doesn\u2019t think that.<\/p>\n

“Boy, Rush, now you\u2019ve really done it. Now you\u2019ve run around and attacked Ron Paul.” I didn\u2019t attack Ron Paul. I\u2019m simply telling you what is. There\u2019s a big difference here. I was the one who was attacked. My callers are gunning for me today, folks. I am a shaken host here. Not stirred, but shaken. Hanging tough. But none of the GOP, apart from Ron Paul, blames Wall Street for the recession. Ron Paul does. Where is this common ground between Ron Paul and Rick Santorum and Bachmann? Have you seen Santorum\u2019s face when Ron Paul\u2019s describing his foreign policy? Santorum\u2019s waving his arms trying to get in there and respond to it. Who\u2019s next? I can\u2019t believe what Snerdley is finding out there today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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