some of you<\/a> what you think, because when I say what there is to be said, there\u2019s generally nothing left to be said. I don\u2019t want to influence what some of you might think by telling you right off the bat what I think. Now, we don\u2019t do this much. It\u2019s very rare that I reserve my comments in deference to you, but this time I\u2019m a little fascinated because there\u2019s a lot of stuff rolled into this. <\/p>\nFor example, the media would love the perception out there that there\u2019s genuine widespread unhappiness with the Republican field, and that\u2019s what Christie and the reaction he\u2019s getting represents. And depending on where you go, there probably is unhappiness with the field. If you go to the Republican establishment, if you go to the people in the establishment who are really singing Christie\u2019s praises today, you can conclude that the Republican establishment is not happy with the field, think it\u2019s weak. The media of course would love for that perception to be furthered. <\/p>\n
Byron York has a piece today in the Washington Examiner where he talked to a bunch of pollsters who were talking to Republican primary voters and he\u2019s not finding much sentiment among voters for unhappiness with the field. This whole notion that the field is weak, in other words, is not something that the voting public thinks; the Republican establishment thinks it according to Byron York\u2019s piece. He talked to pollsters who have come to this conclusion. The reaction that some people are having to Christie is, “Oh, God, please get in,” and then that does indicate an unhappiness with everybody else that\u2019s in the field. It boils down I think to people wanting somebody they think can win, and it boils down to people wanting somebody that talks tough, and talks straight, from the gut. <\/p>\n
But, gee, I almost started telling you moments ago what I thought of Christie\u2019s speech, and I\u2019m gonna withhold that \u2019til I hear from some of you. We\u2019ll play some highlights from it and see what you all think about it. I think I got a pretty good idea the reaction we\u2019re gonna get, but we\u2019ll see. I don\u2019t want to taint it in any way by prejudging it, i.e., caller reaction to Christie\u2019s appearance at the Reagan library.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Janet in Shiloh, Illinois. Go ahead and tell the audience what it says here you were gonna tell me.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, first I want to say hello “last son-of-a-bitch standing.” (giggling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: I am so delighted they haven\u2019t taken you out. (giggling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) Ah, that\u2019s… Look at how the Democrats are corrupting even this program!<\/p>\n
CALLER: (giggling) Yes, but they haven\u2019t corrupted you and that\u2019s what we must celebrate today. Rush, you\u2019ve been right. I did not listen to Chris Christie last night because I didn\u2019t need to. I\u2019ve listened to you long enough to know that you are the one who has accurately, honestly, forthrightly carried on conservatism since Reagan and Buckley stopped — and it was only age that stopped them; it wasn\u2019t a fault of conservatism — and what we are watching with the Republican GOP nomination process is we\u2019re watching conservatism be reframed properly in this time period. Tina Brown said you were wrong to say you hoped that Obama failed? Well, what we don\u2019t get yet — what this country kinda gets; you\u2019re right — is Obama didn\u2019t fail. He got everything he wanted. He got it all, and now the country\u2019s failing. That\u2019s called “nuanced thinking.” That\u2019s the kind of thinking that you give out every day. I\u2019m one of your best students. I know this.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay, so what she\u2019s leading up to here, folks, is that you\u2019re waiting for my take.<\/line><\/p>\n
CALLER: Exactly!<\/p>\n
RUSH: You don\u2019t want to hear what everybody else thinks of Christie\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n
CALLER: No!<\/p>\n
RUSH: You want to know what I think of Christie\u2019s speech.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah!<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. And you want to know something else?<\/p>\n
RUSH: What?<\/p>\n
CALLER: If you had been in your desk Friday instead of off having fun, Rick Perry would have been doing better, but you know what? You did Herman Cain an enormous favor by not being there.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I wish to heck I was having fun Friday.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019d give anything to have been having fun Friday.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (giggling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Anyway, so, are you gonna beg me to run?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No.<\/p>\n
RUSH: ‘Cause I gotta tell you something: I\u2019m sitting here, my feelings are a little hurt. Everybody is out there begging Christie to run and nobody\u2019s begged me to run. And you just said it: I\u2019m Mr. Conservative, I\u2019m Mister Big, and nobody\u2019s begging me to run. I have to sit here and listen to all these other schlubs get begged? <\/p>\n
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RUSH: There\u2019s not enough time to do the Christie sound bites in this segment. I want to move the Christie speech sound bites to the top of the next segment, \u2019cause there\u2019s not enough time. I want to be able to do \u2019em all rat-tat-tat. I got five of them here and I don\u2019t want to have to separate \u2019em by the top-of-the-hour break. So just couple of other things here. All of these people begging Christie to run, who are they? Now, I know you\u2019ve got voters like the woman during the Q&A last night, begged Christie to run. I think that\u2019s the exception. The people who are begging Christie to run were the same people begging Mitch Daniels to run. Republican establishment. The same people begging Paul Ryan to run. But why? <\/line><\/p>\n
My friends, do not doubt me. I know this is going to shock many of you, and maybe disappoint a lot of you. But when you talk about the Republican establishment — and you\u2019ve read their pieces today — you know what I\u2019m talking about: The columnists, the magazine directors, editors, publishers, whatever, they are reaching and searching for a counter to the conservatives. They don\u2019t want Herman Cain getting the nomination; they don\u2019t want Perry getting the nomination; they don\u2019t want Bachmann getting the nomination. The Republican establishment does not want a conservative getting the nomination. If Chris Christie can come along, catch fire, see to it that Palin, Bachmann — Palin not in, she might get in, who knows, doubt it, but still too soon to say — if they can co-opt any conservative getting the nomination, they will do it. <\/p>\n
Nothing\u2019s changed. “But, Rush, but, Rush, Christie\u2019s a big conservative.” I will reserve my comments for later on in the program. I\u2019ll just give you one little hint. I heard a lot of John McCain in that speech. Well, maybe not a lot, but I heard enough to send up a red flag or two.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Here\u2019s Governor Christie on American exceptionalism last night.<\/p>\n
CHRISTIE: A lot is being said in this election season about American exceptionalism. But for American exceptionalism to truly deliver hope and a sterling example to the rest of the world, it must be demonstrated, not just asserted. They will be more likely to follow our example and lead if they see what we\u2019re doing and are allowed to emulate it. Unfortunately, through our own domestic political conduct of late, we have failed to live up to our own tradition of exceptionalism. Today, our role and ability to affect change has been diminished because of our own problems and our inability to effectively deal with them.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, folks, there\u2019s a lot there. I mean there\u2019s a whole lot there in that 42-second sound bite. You want to hear what I think about this or not? That\u2019s a foreign policy comment. And everybody says, “Foreign policy, wait a second here. You\u2019re the governor of New Jersey. The only reason you would bring up foreign policy is if you are setting the stage for a presidential run or maybe being selected as a veep. Because as governor of New Jersey you really haven\u2019t spoken out much on foreign policy. It\u2019s not required.” But he spent a lot of time on things that could be construed as foreign policy last night, and this bite contains a lot foreign policy.<\/p>\n
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Also in this bite, coupled with other things I heard in the speech, Christie\u2019s unhappy with the partisanship that exists in the country today. That\u2019s what this all means here. There isn\u2019t any American exceptionalism going on because we\u2019re not demonstrating any. There\u2019s nothing for anybody out there to emulate because we\u2019re not doing anything very well. “Our domestic political conduct, we\u2019ve failed to live up to our own tradition of exceptionalism.” I\u2019m sorry, folks, but my definition of American exceptionalism has nothing to do with how the Republicans and Democrats get along with each other in Congress or in Washington. I have a whole different concept of American exceptionalism which I have explained and defined on this program countless times previously. Here\u2019s the next bite on what Ronaldus Magnus would do.<\/line><\/p>\n
CHRISTIE: If Ronald Reagan faced today\u2019s challenges, we know exactly what he would do. He would face our domestic problems directly, with leadership, and without political calculation. He would take an honest and tough approach to solving our long-term debt and deficit problem through reforming our entitlement programs and our tax code. We would confront our unemployment crisis by giving certainty to business about our tax and regulatory future. We would unleash American entrepreneurship through long-term tax reform, not short-term tax gimmickry. (applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right on. Oh. I can tell Cookie is for Christie. She left in more applause than she usually does. You can\u2019t fool me, Cookie. Cookie is the producer of the audio sound bites, and, you know, there\u2019s several dictates under which she operates from me. One is no bite can be longer than 60 seconds unless I approve it, and cut the applause just for the sake of brevity. Now, normally we get a second and a half of applause, maybe a second if we are lucky. This we get three seconds of applause. He-he. I know Cookie lives in New Jersey or grew up there. (laughing) She\u2019s responding now on instant message: “Damn right, love him, he\u2019ll smash the Democrats, love him,” it\u2019s in all caps. Okay, so that\u2019s a pretty good bite there, what Ronaldus Magnus would do. Here Christie calls Obama a bystander in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n
CHRISTIE: We continue to wait and hope that our president will finally stop being a bystander in the Oval Office. We hope that he will shake off the paralysis that has made it impossible for him to take on the really big things that are so obvious to all Americans and to a watching and anxious world. Each and every time the president lets a moment to act pass him by his failure is our failure, too. The rule for effective governance is simple. It\u2019s the one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. It\u2019s the one he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That\u2019s the job we\u2019ve been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, now, this bite\u2019s interesting to me. I myself have referred to Democrats and Obama specifically as a spectator. And what I\u2019ve meant is here\u2019s Obama, I\u2019ll give you a great recent example. Obama with Porkulus and TARP and all the spending has added $4 trillion to the national debt, and then goes out and makes a speech about how we need to get our financial house in order as though he\u2019s just been a spectator. Same thing with Katrina. The Democrats were in charge in New Orleans, in Louisiana, in Washington, and it was they who were supposed to fix the levees. Money was appropriated to fix the levees. The levees didn\u2019t hold after Katrina. The Democrats get to act like spectators, demand hearings, demand investigations. They want Bush strung up. They want Mike Brown of FEMA strung up. They\u2019re the ones who were to blame. They\u2019re the ones who didn\u2019t get the job done. They get to act like spectators, demand all these investigations, hearings, everything else, when they were the architects of all the problems.<\/p>\n
Now, that\u2019s what I mean by spectator. Maybe Christie doesn\u2019t mean that when he says bystander, but I think he does. I think Obama\u2019s basically trying to make it look like none of this that\u2019s happened has anything to do with what he\u2019s done, and now he wants to set himself up as the repairman who wants to bring a little sanity to this, he wants to be the adult in the room. But paralysis, Obama… I\u2019m sorry. Obama\u2019s not paralyzed. This guy has been on steroids attacking the private sector. Obama has been on human growth hormone in attacking the private sector and destroying job opportunity. Obama\u2019s been taking steroids and shooting up HGH when he goes out and does everything he can to grow government, take money and capital out of the private sector.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t see him as a bystander in that sense. He\u2019s got all these czars. Who knows what the hell\u2019s going on that we are not being told by all these czars who are not accountable, they don\u2019t have to be confirmed by the Senate. He\u2019s a grandstander, there\u2019s no question about that. Was FDR a bystander? Was LBJ a bystander with the Great Society and all that? This guy has been pretty active as far as I\u2019m concerned. Here\u2019s one more bite. This is Christie saying that Obama came to divide.<\/p>\n
CHRISTIE: President Obama prepares to divide our nation to achieve reelection, telling those who are scared and struggling that the only way their lives can get better is to diminish the success of others, trying to cynically convince those who are suffering that the American economic pie is no longer a growing one that can provide more prosperity for all who work hard, insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American dream. That may turn out to be good reelection strategy, Mr. President, but it is a demoralizing message for America. What happened to state Senator Obama? When did he decide to become one of the dividers he spoke so eloquently of in 2004?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right on with this. We all know that Obama came to divide. He didn\u2019t just start dividing with this latest iteration of his campaign. Obama showed up dividing. Obama\u2019s intention has been to divide. But that\u2019s just me. I don\u2019t think Obama\u2019s divisive character is recent or new. I think he\u2019s just doubling down on it. He\u2019s doubling down on it because he\u2019s in trouble, and again it goes back to the fact… I had somebody tell me that life never escapes high school, that we all never escape high school. You know, I was analyzing why Tina Brown\u2019s mad. The theory is as expressed to me, “Look, Obama came along and made all these people — the most popular kids in New York, the most popular kids in Washington — happy. He comes around and wins and they\u2019re the big clique again, and now he\u2019s destroyed that. Nobody wants to be in the clique, everybody\u2019s running to get the hell out of the big clique.” Clinton did the same thing, but Clinton was able to hold on for eight years. Clinton still has the ability to do that. Obama has squandered it. He\u2019s making their side look bad. Now to the Q&A. This is the woman who begged Christie to run.<\/p>\n
WOMAN: We can\u2019t wait another four years \u2019til 2016. I really implore you as a citizen of this country to please, sir, to reconsider. Don\u2019t even say anything tonight. Of course you wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n
WOMAN: Go home and really think about it. (laughter)<\/p>\n
AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n
WOMAN: Please. Do it for my daughter, do it for our grandchildren, do it for our sons. Please, sir. We need you. Your country needs you to run for president.<\/p>\n
AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ah! Three seconds of applause there. Cookie left it in, a little bit longer than the directive. Here\u2019s Christie\u2019s reply…<\/p>\n
CHRISTIE: I\u2019m just a kid from Jersey who feels like I\u2019m the luckiest guy in the world to have the opportunity that I have to be the governor of my state. People say to me all the time now, “Why don\u2019t they just leave you alone? You\u2019ve already given your answer. Isn\u2019t it a burden?” What I say to you tonight and say to everybody else who\u2019s nice enough to applaud what she said is that it isn\u2019t a burden. Anybody who has an ego large enough to say, “Oh, please! Please, please, stop asking me to be leader of the free world.”<\/p>\n
AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n
CHRISTIE: “It\u2019s such a burden. If you could please just stop!” It\u2019s extraordinarily flattering. But by the same token that heartfelt message you gave me is also not a reason for me to do it. That reason has to reside inside me. I know, without ever having met President Reagan, that he must have felt deeply in his heart that he was called to that moment to lead our country.<\/p>\n
RUSH: He was. Reagan was called to run for president. He really was. That\u2019s the famous Reagan kitchen cabinet, an arrangement that because of election law would be illegal today. However, you know, the thing about Christie saying, “I don\u2019t know. I just don\u2019t think I\u2019m ready, don\u2019t think I\u2019m qualified.” I\u2019ve never run for office, I\u2019ve never had the desire to. There\u2019s one thing about it that I think I do understand — and that is, you have to really want it; and if you don\u2019t, then don\u2019t even get close to it. This is not something you do without a full-fledged, 150% self-commitment. This is a life-changing, a forever life-changing event, to run for president. If you go and get the nomination, to actually to be your party\u2019s standard-bearer, it changes your life forever; and it\u2019s something that you have to have an ego that says, “Country and world cannot survive without me.” That\u2019s almost what it takes. It is so arduous, the media anal exam you\u2019re gonna get as a Republican. So if he really is being truthful when he says he\u2019s not into it yet, that he doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s ready, he ought to be listened to. Otherwise, he would know. The fire in the belly, you know whether you\u2019ve got it or not — and if you don\u2019t have it, this is not something you do on an, “Ah, let me give this a shot.” This is something that you have to be full-fledged, 150% committed to. Besides, the leader of the free world job is actually taken: I have it, titular or otherwise.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Sarah Palin last night was on Greta Van Susteren\u2019s show. And Greta said, “Well, it\u2019s sort of interesting, always the people who are not in the race. Sometimes they get a lot of encouragement from others, a lot of glowing reports, and Christie has certainly been pushed by many Republicans.”<\/p>\n
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PALIN: Many Republicans — but also just many in the media because, for many in the media, this is like a reality show. I think a Newsweek article that came out the other day really nailed it when they said that there are media outlets that kind of create this reality show; this intrigue and, “Who\u2019s gonna be the next flavor of the week?” and they prop somebody up — in order to crush the person, it seems, later on.<\/line><\/p>\n
RUSH: So Sarah Palin says the media is building up Christie just so they can crush him later on. I think there\u2019s something to that. But, again, I\u2019m gonna tell you: The Republican establishment… Now, you\u2019re gonna get mad at me at this. The Republican establishment is looking for anybody who can see to it that a conservative, a genuine conservative will not be nominated. “But, Rush! But, Rush! Are you saying that Christie is not a conservative?” As far as the Republican establishment\u2019s concerned, yes. Herman Cain is a conservative that worries \u2019em. Perry, he\u2019s a conservative that worries them. Bachmann is a conservative that worries them. Santorum is a conservative that worries them. Reagan was a conservative that worried the Republican establishment.<\/p>\n
Christie is not. Now, some people say that, “Well, Christie\u2019s more conservative than you think, Rush. He\u2019s just governor of New Jersey. He has to say certain things. I mean, look at who the voting base is there. A bunch of lib Democrats. He\u2019s gotta work with a Democrat legislature in that state. He\u2019s a governor of a liberal state. He\u2019s gotta say some things to appease those people. So if he ever broke out of that you\u2019d see the genuine full-fledged, 100% conservative Chris Christie.” Okay, that\u2019s fine if that\u2019s what we want to do, roll the dice that that\u2019s what we\u2019re gonna get when he breaks free of New Jersey. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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