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RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the phones and we\u2019re gonna start in New York City with Bob. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Yeah, I feel Chris Christie would be a great candidate. I saw his speech —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Better than Obama! Don\u2019t anybody misunderstand me here, now. Any one of these people over Obama any day with no thought..<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Okay. But I saw his speech.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: And he said exactly why Obama has to be eliminated in 2012, and for all the reasons sane Americans know he has to be. And, well, to get aggravated — and I must be a masochist — I turned on The View and of course Whoopi Goldberg said Christie did nothing for New Jersey, which is wrong. Then they got into a big discussion about how he might be too fat to hold the office; and Joy Behar, of course, had to mention that if he got into the White House he could get plenty of Krispy Kremes. Well, I guess the bottom line to me is, as with Sarah Palin, he will be crucified should he get into the race by the liberal media; and really the other thing I was going to ask you, too, Rush, is that if you would explain your earlier comment about if he does get in. I was confused when you said you might be concerned that he would become John McCain.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, all it is talk of “compromise.” I\u2019m sorry. You know what Reagan\u2019s definition of compromise was?<\/p>\n

CALLER: What?<\/p>\n

RUSH: “We win; they lose.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Reagan\u2019s definition of compromise was not we all end up getting along at the end of the day, and I just heard way too much talk of bipartisanship and compromise last night to make me comfortable. I don\u2019t want to compromise with them! What is there? Somebody tell me, give me one issue: Obamacare, spending, debt, taxes, tell me where is the compromise with the Democrats on any of those? When I hear people on our side talk about “compromise,” I also hear \u2019em say (McCain impression), “I\u2019m the guy I can across the aisle! I can work with the other side! I\u2019m the only one who can! I can make the media love me!” I\u2019m sorry, we\u2019ve been there and done that.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jan in Palm Desert, California. Hi, Jan. Great to have you on the be a EIB. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush! I\u2019m a longtime listener and you asked to see what we thought of the speech last night<\/a>?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, I turned it on and I got in a little late and the first word I heard out of his mouth was the word “compromise,” and I thought, “He\u2019s out, and there\u2019s no point in listening to one other word he says.” That was it and we went back to Wheel of Fortune.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Yeah, he was on at six o\u2019clock out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we\u2019re on the East Coast. We have DirecTV so we can get it any time.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, that\u2019s right. Okay. I\u2019m sorry so steal your thunder, \u2019cause that basically was my monologue prior to your calling. I\u2019m the same way. I don\u2019t see what there is or who there is to compromise with. Now, I\u2019m not talking about grinding these people into the dust and stomping on \u2019em with the heel I have a boot. I\u2019m talking about electoral defeat at the ballot box and then after you win, after you beat \u2019em, you start implementing what it is that you ran on. This is not complicated. I\u2019m not talking about being mean. I\u2019m not talking about being rigid. Look, they want to compromise with us, I am more than happy to welcome \u2019em.<\/p>\n

But to me gone are the days where the liberals and socialism is what\u2019s normal in this country and you and I are the oddballs and we\u2019re the ones that have to make the adjustment. These are the people that are in the minority, these are the people that are doing things harmful to this nation. They, if they want to be in the ball game, are the ones that are gonna have to moderate. Not us. We\u2019ve been moderating for years and years and years, and we\u2019ve elected… I take it back. We have NOMINATED people who promised that they would do all these things. They get up there and they start moderating and compromising, and he end up with jack… Jack. (pause) That\u2019s why I say: When we win, there\u2019s no reason to compromise with the losers, pure and simple. I appreciate the call, Jan. Suzanne in Blounts Creek, North Carolina. Hi, great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you so much. What an honor it is. I think the Chris Christie speech was just a tease. Why did they go to all this pomp and circumstance just to announce that he is not running? And I hope someone gave Ann Coulter a heads-up before all this. Somewhere she\u2019s crying. But, anyway —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what about this as a possibility.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You think he is running, that\u2019s what this all means?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t… I\u2019m saying why did he go to all of this trouble?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He thanked Nancy Reagan for inviting him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He went to all of — it took money and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — time to set all this up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And this just to say he\u2019s not running.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you gotta go kiss the ring.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you want to matter in Republican politics down the road. Look, how about this, as a possibility.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How about…? I\u2019ll just throw it out there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He just likes the attention. He likes people saying, “Please run.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He likes the hero notion, maybe. You know, I have found that if somebody\u2019s not gonna run, in large part, it\u2019s because they don\u2019t think that the time is right or that they can\u2019t win at that moment.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I think maybe he\u2019s just surveyed the land and says, “I can\u2019t win it this year. This is not my year to win it, but I\u2019m gonna put my toe in here and I\u2019m gonna drop an anchor. I\u2019m gonna be a factor in this from now on out \u2019cause in future years I might want to run.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: You? (giggling) Would you run?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Would I?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. No, no. Pay cut. No way. We\u2019ve been through this. No way. Folks… (scoffs) I\u2019m the guy that invented the word feminazi, the first campaign ad. <\/line><\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who\u2019s next? Jim in Boston. Audio you called, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush, to the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-feeling, all-sensing Maha Rushie.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I want to cite the Buckley Rule as a preface to my question, and I\u2019m a little embarrassed to ask because you have probably already answered it. Will Christie jump in or out?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t have any idea. I can only guess, and I don\u2019t think so. I don\u2019t think he\u2019s gonna run.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re supposed to know. (laughs) That\u2019s why I\u2019m calling you. You\u2019re the only one who knows.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My gut tells me that he\u2019s not going to run. Same thing with Sarah Palin, by the way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think either of them are going to run this cycle.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think he would sharpen Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Um… (sigh) If he ran, it would be to take out Perry and Bachmann and Cain and Santorum. That would be the purpose. Thanks for the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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