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RUSH: Cave Junction, Oregon. This is Diane. Great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I want to tell you that Newt Gingrich is not a conservative. I\u2019m an ultraconservative, and Newt Gingrich is not a conservative. He supports illegal immigration, and he supports global warming, and he took TARP money; and it was maybe while he was lobbying, but none of those are conservative issues.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What you mean took TARP money? You talking about when he worked at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And he was lobbying, and a conservative —<\/p>\n
RUSH: He says he was a historian there, not lobbying.<\/p>\n
RUSH: By the way, since you mention that, I have a story here from TheHill.com. You might find this interesting, Diane: “House minority leader Nancy Pelosi is holding back some information on Republican Newt Gingrich that could detract from his presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday. ‘One of these days we\u00c2\u2019ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,\u2019 Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. ‘When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.'” So Pelosi plans to reveal the goods on Gingrich when the time is right. It\u2019s just posted at the Hill\u2019s blog called The Briefing Room. What do you think of that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: That may be that she has more information on him, but I also know he came out and did a commercial in support and you don\u2019t come out with a commercial if you\u2019re not in support of something. If that\u2019s the case and he\u2019s on one side and the other then he\u2019s a turncoat, isn\u2019t he?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, he says. And, by the way, I\u2019m not defending him. I don\u2019t want you to misunderstand. I\u2019m not arguing with you. I\u2019m just telling you: He says that was one of the biggest political mistakes he\u2019s ever made. He\u2019s tried to walk that back.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, that\u2019s nice, but how about the illegal immigration? He\u2019s not walking that back? His thing of 25 years, well, that\u2019s like being… You know, you can\u2019t do a little bit of immigration and then have the rest of his policies. You can\u2019t be a little bit pregnant. You\u2019re either for immigration or you\u2019re against it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I don\u2019t know. I think the feminazi have done a lot on that score. I think you can be a little bit pregnant. It depends on when you end it. At any rate, I get your point, but I think I say funny. Okay, so Pelosi apparently threatening to expose privileged information here. That\u2019s what these threatening to do. This is not public stuff, and she\u2019s threatening to expose privileged information. So much for ethics. Diane, look. Everybody knows what you say is true. Everybody knows it. And right now Newt\u2019s leading in the polls. What are you shaking your head at? (interruption) Everybody knows it. Everybody knows it. I\u2019m gonna tell you something. Everybody knows, everything you said about Newt is true. And a lot of these people think that Newt is salvageable. A lot of people supporting Newt think that he\u2019s salvageable, that once you embarrass him on this stuff, he\u2019ll walk it back. The problem is he still comes up with it. The problem with Newt is that he has a gazillion thoughts every day and he verbalizes every one of them. It\u2019s a discipline thing. But on the other side of this is Obama. On the other side of it\u2019s Obama who is not salvageable. From our point of view, Obama isn\u2019t salvageable.<\/p>\n
BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, I\u2019ll tell you something else that\u2019s coming. Tom Coburn, a Senator from Oklahoma, was in the House of Representatives when Newt was Speaker. Coburn was on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace yesterday. I don\u2019t know that I\u2019ve got the bite. Let Doesn\u2019t matter. So Coburn basically said, “Look, Newt was a lousy leader.” Chris Wallace said, “Well, why? How?” “Well, I\u2019m not gonna go there. I\u2019m just gonna tell you he was a lousy leader. He did a horrible leader but I\u2019m not gonna go say how.” “Well, come on, you can\u2019t just leave it there!” “I\u2019m not going there. He\u2019s a lousy leader;” and Wallace said, “Okay, well, that\u2019s it, we\u2019re out of time.” That\u2019s how the show ended, or the interview. There are apparently (so goes the story) a lot of other Republicans who served in the House at the same time who, we are told, feel the same way about Newt. That he\u2019s a lousy leader and that they\u2019re waiting in the wings to come out and say so. <\/p>\n
What Coburn said — this is Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma — was, “There\u2019s all types of leaders, leaders that instill confidence, leaders that are somewhat abrupt and brisk, leaders that have one standard for the people that they\u2019re leading and a different standard for themselves. I just found his leadership lacking,” and he wouldn\u2019t explain further — and for Chris Wallace it was like pulling pork. He tried to get it all out of Coburn. Coburn wouldn\u2019t go any further, which he really didn\u2019t have to. That said enough. By the way… (interruption) What? (interruption) Well, yes, people change. Yeah. Change is hard because it\u2019s uncomfortable. Change is hard \u2019cause it\u2019s uncomfortable; \u201994 was big change. People can change. Newt\u2019s saying his changed. Snerdley is asking me, “Can people change?”<\/p>\n
Yeah. Newt\u2019s saying that he\u2019s matured. He\u2019s seen the error of his ways back then and so forth. I mean, he can\u2019t deny his past. He has to acknowledge it and explain it somehow. Look, folks, I\u2019m not recommending or endorsing. I don\u2019t want you to misunderstand. I\u2019m just telling you what\u2019s going on. In one sense… (chuckle) I never thought I\u2019d hear myself saying this, but in one sense all this chaos is kind of entertaining, and it is serving a purpose. It really is serving a purpose. The sad thing is we\u2019re not getting this, and we never get this on the left — or very rarely. We have had circuses. I take that back. We have had then. We haven\u2019t had it with Obama. If there is a walking circus, it is Obama and this regime, but it\u2019s not being explored. All right, who\u2019s next?<\/p>\n
Chris in Camus, Washington, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you today?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Eh. Eh.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckles)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Eh, okay. How are you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, we got sun up here in Camus, which is just on the good side of Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, good.<\/p>\n
CALLER: So I think we\u2019re fantastic.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Good, good, good.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, the question I have is, a while back Newt said some disparaging things about the Tea Party, and then here he is rising up in the ranks on the polls.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I know. He said some disparaging things about the beloved Paul Ryan. He said Ryan\u2019s Medicare plan was nothing but “right-wing social engineering.” You know that was, by the way? Can I be honest? They\u2019re gonna hate me for this. That is pure jealousy. Ryan was getting accolades for that and I think that\u2019s why Newt disparaged it a bit.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, the question I have is: Does Newt have to recognize standpoint the influence of the Tea Party?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: And if he does, you know, will that compel him to move to the right in the same way that Bill Clinton did back in \u201994 and \u201995 with the balanced budget?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Does it disturb you at all that be it we\u2019re talking about Romney or Newt, that we have to push them to the right? Does that bother you at all? Does it bother you that they\u2019re just not there on their own?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, if I\u2019m waiting for the perfect candidate, it\u2019s not gonna happen.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: But you always —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Except for Obama. Obama\u2019s Mr. Perfect everything.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing) And he\u2019s not doing me any good, either. But the question I always have is, if you look to the person are they able to move the ball forward with your agenda. Is Newt capable of that, and if he\u2019s not, then, you know, this process will eliminate him; and if he is, then he may stay up on top.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, one thing that I think we all need to acknowledge here is that this is nowhere near over. Not one vote has been cast yet. All we\u2019re going on is polling data. Pure and simple. I\u2019ll never forget this, folks. In 2004, if you\u2019ll recall, Howard Dean had it wrapped up six months before the Hawkeye Cauci. All the polling data gave it to Howard Dean. There weren\u2019t a whole lot of other named Democrats even running. Howard Dean was it, and then the Hawkeye Cauci happened, and Howard Dean came in fourth, or third or seventh, whatever. He lost it sizeably. There was abject panic in the Democrat Party. This is when Howard Dean went out there and screamed, as you\u2019ll recall, after losing. At some appearance after the Hawkeye Cauci, he went “Graaaah!” and they knew it was over, and then who did they choose? They chose Kerry, and for one reason. Because of those left, the Democrats, they all said, “Well, that\u2019s the only guy that can win.” They went the electability route, which is the mistake our side has also made.<\/p>\n
“Weeeeell, I can\u2019t support X! X can\u2019t win.” <\/p>\n
We don\u2019t know that! Last time Huckabee was among the top tier, and what happened to that? So it\u2019s really kind of futile to start proclaiming things over with here and not a single vote\u2019s been cast yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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