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RUSH: All right, this question about independents. I\u2019ll tell, I don\u2019t think anybody cared about independents \u2019til Ronaldus Magnus came around. Everybody says that outright conservatism scares away independents. But I don\u2019t recall — this is just me, I could be proven wrong on this, obviously, because this is something I\u2019m just calling up from memory. <\/p>\n
But that\u2019s when they first started getting noticed. And it\u2019s like everything else. It\u2019s like somehow the Republicans stood in the way of the Civil Rights Act. No, no, no, no. It was the Democrats that stood in the way of the Civil Rights Act. Now, it was a Democrat president, LBJ, that proposed it, but it was Bill Clinton\u2019s buddies in the Senate, J. William Fulbright and Herman Talmadge and a bunch of these guys down there that stood in the way of it. A greater percentage of Republicans in the Senate voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats. But today, conventional wisdom has it that the Republicans are the racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes. Just like conventional wisdom has it that the independents always vote Democrat. And when the majority of them goes for Republicans, “Uh oh, there\u2019s an aberration.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RUSH: All right, this question about independents. I\u2019ll tell, I don\u2019t think anybody cared about independents \u2019til Ronaldus Magnus came around. Everybody says that outright conservatism scares away independents. But I don\u2019t recall — this is just me, I could be proven wrong on this, obviously, because this is something I\u2019m just calling up from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n