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RUSH: The Politico has a story out of Iowa: “Republican Sounds Alarm over American Decline — Republican activists in this key presidential state have a dark, foreboding feeling that America is in decline. They believe the nation is hurtling in the wrong direction and, worse, on the brink of losing its unique place in the world. That sentiment is hardly new to American politics, but it\u2019s one that&rsquo;s been reanimated by the presidency of Barack Obama. Some see him as hostile to the notion of American exceptionalism. Others simply don&rsquo;t believe he\u2019s an American at all. <\/p>\n

“Together, it&rsquo;s fueling the rise of an emerging debate on the right that could overshadow the traditional focus on social and fiscal issues and create an opening for a candidate who can speak to a still inchoate but clearly volatile element that is roiling the conservative grassroots. It&rsquo;s not that culture wars and tax revolts are about to be displaced in GOP presidential politics … Rather, the very issues that have typically energized GOP primary voters — such as abortion, faith, gay marriage, debt, military power — are being subsumed into a larger debate about a country in decline.” They\u2019re not separable! This is Jonathan Martin writing the story. <\/p>\n

I would submit that all of these… This is another attack on the “social issues.” Republicans have gotta just forget this social stuff. Oh! Speaking of that — speaking of that — let me proffer a theorem. I have shared with you on some occasions one of my first ever big-time dinner parties in the Hamptons in the early nineties when, after dinner, I was approached by a well-known, wealthy moderate Republican financier, fundraiser, big time contributor. On the deck of this large house in the Hamptons after dinner, he comes up and pokes me in the chest and says, “What are you going to do about the Christians? They\u2019re killing us! This abortion business is killing us. We\u2019re never gonna be able to win elections.” <\/p>\n

I said, “What do you want me to do about it?” <\/p>\n

“Well, yeah, they listen to you. That\u2019s who listens to you, isn\u2019t it? The Christians, the pro-lifers?” <\/p>\n

I said, “Well, I don\u2019t know that all of them do, but I\u2019ll tell you, I don\u2019t think you guys can win elections without \u2019em. They\u2019re 24 million votes.” <\/p>\n

“Well, you gotta do something about it.” <\/p>\n

“Well, what?”<\/p>\n

“Well, we just can\u2019t keep it up! I mean, my wife is nagging me. All of our wives are nagging us about this. They don\u2019t want to go conventions with these hayseeds that show up from the South who are part of this belief system.” <\/p>\n

I\u2019m listening to this — and, now, you understand, I\u2019m into maybe the third or fourth year of my show here; Clinton has just been elected; and I\u2019m being told the Christians are the problem! And these guys think I have a pipeline to \u2019em. Well, it got me to thinking last night. You know, I raised the question yesterday<\/a>: What is it these same people, the intellectuals hate about Sarah Palin?<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Yesterday\u2019s discussion that we had on this program where I finally had to ask you, “What is it that all of the conservative intellectuals hate about Sarah Palin?” and these guys at The Politico, “Rush, was really, really puzzled by this.”<\/p>\n

MARTIN: I was struck by the transcript of Limbaugh, I actually read it last night, and he seemed to be genuinely struggling to figure out why exactly these conservatives were criticizing Sarah Palin. But he thought about a lot of ulterior motives, but I don\u2019t think he ever considered the fact that maybe some of them do genuinely have concerns over her practice of identity politics. Some of these folks, there is some conviction here. They genuinely do think what separates the right from the left, Chuck, is the practice of identity politics. That\u2019s what they do on the left. And I think seeing Palin on the class card, that the left has done in their eyes for the last 40 years, I think there is some genuine concern about her doing that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, Jonathan, you know I love you and I respect you, but is that an idea you put in their heads? Is that an idea you had for a story and then you went and asked them? Or did somebody call you and say, “You know what, the reason we don\u2019t like Palin is \u2019cause all this victim stuff she\u2019s getting into”? Of all the things I\u2019ve heard to explain why they don\u2019t like Palin the fact she\u2019s running around making herself out to be a victim and that\u2019s what\u2019s separates us from the left? For crying out loud, what separates us from the left, gee, freedom! Spending! Rein it in, Rush. Victimology? I don\u2019t even look at her as trying to make herself out to be a victim. My problem with this is, you talk about Palin and her identity, what is the woman supposed to do, Jonathan? I\u2019m really at a loss here. And I\u2019m at a loss for two reasons. Why do conservatives not like a conservative? That\u2019s what she is to me. She articulates conservatism as well as anybody else out there is doing it. She has the ability to reach people like Reagan does. What the hell\u2019s wrong with this? I can understand having this kind of vitriol for a liberal. <\/p>\n

I can understand this kind of vitriol for a Democrat. But she\u2019s a conservative. Okay, so what, then, is really happening here? Well, it could be this. This is not my theorem, by the way. It could be this. It could be what I was saying earlier, they really are scared to death, everybody in Washington is, of the Tea Party. And there isn\u2019t a Tea Party leader. There is not a single person you can destroy and take the Tea Party with it. Maybe they\u2019re trying to make her to be the leader of the Tea Party, or me, or their favorite person of the week, because the objective is to take out the Tea Party. Well, you can\u2019t take out the Tea Party \u2019cause there isn\u2019t a Tea Party leader. The Tea Party is like the NFL. Your starting tackle goes down, it\u2019s the next man up. This candidate takes it in the shorts, okay, next man up. We\u2019re not gonna be determined here by single individuals because we\u2019re a movement of ideas, genuine grassroots. <\/p>\n

So it is a genuine intellectual disconnect for me to think that the real problem these conservative intellectuals have with Palin is rooted in the fact she\u2019s defending herself and claiming, “I didn\u2019t pull the trigger in Arizona.” She\u2019s supposed to sit there and smile? I don\u2019t know if there is a one of them who could take one week of the media anal this woman\u2019s had and shut up, not say anything, and remain of good cheer like she has. So, another theorem. I don\u2019t really have enough time here to get into detail, but remember when these guys told me that their wives were nagging \u2019em about pro-life, pro-choice? Well, what if these guys happen to dig Sarah Palin? Well, look, I have talked to people with actual experience. She first shows up, she makes that speech at McCain\u2019s coming-out party, VP, bunch of guys are raving about her, I had a bunch of them tell me their girlfriends and their wives gave \u2019em static, “Oh, you love Palin, huh?” Don\u2019t discount this outta hand.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question. Jonathan Martin, Politico, does this story that the conservative intellectuals don\u2019t like this identity politics that Palin\u2019s playing. Victimology and all that. May I ask you, what is her identity? No, no, somebody tell me. Snerdley, if somebody asks you to tell \u2019em who Sarah Palin is, what\u2019s her identity? In fact, if she were playing upon identity politics, if people really meant what they said, wouldn\u2019t the NAGs love this woman? She\u2019s got it all. The only thing she did not do was have an abortion, and that\u2019s maybe a big problem. But she\u2019s got it all. I mean she is the epitome of having it all, in a way. <\/p>\n

We were talking yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, about how the media and even some conservatives mocked Ronald Reagan. They didn\u2019t like Ronald Reagan. In fact, one of the nicest things that Reagan was called was an amiable dunce, and that was by Tip O\u2019Neill. Well, ask yourself. Is there anybody on the political scene today who has proved to be an amiable dunce? Is there? I give you Obama, if there is a genuine amiable dunce. I mean here\u2019s a guy playing golf every day, recording his NCAA picks for ESPN broadcast tomorrow, if there is somebody walking and wandering through the motions here, and I would question even the amiability on this. But let\u2019s not leave him out of it. <\/p>\n

Now, I get Internet spam out the wazoo. Sometimes I have to really guard my temper \u2019cause my friends send me this stuff. “Hey, Rush, wait \u2019til you see this,” and I\u2019ve only seen a thousand copies of it by the time they send it to me. So not only does it clutter my e-mail box from spammers, my friends send this stuff to me. One of these things they sent was from February 27 called: “‘Open letter to Sarah Palin\u2019 — Sarah, you chose to keep and raise your Down syndrome child and that is CHOICE that the left and probably a lot of women HATE to be reminded of what choice they might have to face in their own lives. They don&rsquo;t want to be exposed to the site of a competent, happy mother dealing with all of the complexities of those circumstances. It demonstrates an internal strength and SOLID MORAL COMPASS that many of them cannot bear to witness. They suspect that in their own hearts they don&rsquo;t have that level of moral strength within them. We know that Clinton&rsquo;s moral compass was prone to pointing towards the best female target in the room at the time.”<\/p>\nNow, this next paragraph I really think is right. “We [as a culture] seem to be more in tune and sympathetic to weakness and moral failure. We want to help weaklings all we can, after all it&rsquo;s ‘not their fault\u2019, and it\u2019s easier to watch someone as bad or weaker than ourselves. We see it in all the Hollywood coverage of the failed icons of stage, screen and TV who have all the advantages life offers repeatedly failing. They use the proceeds of their profession to abuse themselves and control their entourage. How many of the odd ball papers in the super marker checkout line exist purely on this appetite for details about failed lives? The very fact that yo, Sarah, are successfully dealing with you&rsquo;re child Trig while stiff arming all of your political enemies, that appear to be legion, shows that you are very much feared by the progressives, and have the right stuff for true conservatives. You are more than qualified to fend off attacks by the progressives. If you decide to run and are successful in a presidential campaign it will be because you are a strait shooter, unlike what we have now.”<\/p>\nSo the point is that this business here about her being a threat to people, in the conservative intellectual sense, I think she\u2019s a threat because she got where she is without seeking their counsel, she has not sought their advice, she doesn\u2019t pal around with them. She has direct access to the Tea Party, by virtue of her ideas. They don\u2019t. And I think trying to take her out is an attempt to take out the Tea Party as well. To try to impugn her is to impugn the Tea Party as well. But this business here of we want to help weaklings, we\u2019re sympathetic to weakness and moral failure. And this is true not just in the entertainment media. This is true throughout the media. I could give you a couple one-name examples but I\u2019m not gonna revisit this at this time. But this is, believe me, right on the money. People who have failed, people that just don\u2019t quite measure up, it\u2019s cause of our country, it\u2019s because of our culture, it\u2019s because of some form of discrimination, some form of racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia, what have you. So we identify with these victims. That\u2019s what I don\u2019t get. She doesn\u2019t play this card. She doesn\u2019t play that kind of victimology card. She doesn\u2019t portray herself as weak like the others who do and get away with it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: RUSH: Here is Angela in Dumfries, Virginia. Nice to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I want to say — well, I guess I shouldn\u2019t say mega dittos with what I\u2019m gonna say. I really wish you would stop acting as if everyone who doesn\u2019t support Sarah Palin has somehow or another been convinced by liberals that she\u2019s not worthy to run. Sarah Palin and I have a lot in common. We\u2019re the same age. We both have five children, and I wouldn\u2019t support her for president, I\u2019m a conservative mother, and I simply believe that she did some things during the campaign in 2008 that I, as a mother, would never do — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine and dandy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — to my children. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, but wait a minute.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And same thing with Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A lot of people act like Mitt Romney, if you don\u2019t support him, it\u2019s because he\u2019s a Mormon. It\u2019s because he has five sons and not one serves in the military. So stop acting as if someone doesn\u2019t want to support Sarah Palin that they\u2019re —<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, hold it just a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — against her. I\u2019m not against her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: First place, I didn\u2019t say that people like you don\u2019t like her because of the liberals.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh. Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Number two, what did she do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just wanted to make sure because that\u2019s what it sounds like to me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m sorry. <\/p>\n

CALLER: You give me Mitch Daniels and Allen West any day, and I\u2019ll support that ticket. But the people that you all keep pushing, Mitt Romney, Gingrich, Palin, those —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I haven\u2019t —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — are tired names.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second here. Now you\u2019re starting to make me suspicious, madam.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What? What?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I haven\u2019t pushed anybody. I\u2019ve talked about the how weak the field is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — (crosstalk) conservatives, and even on Fox News the same names, same people. We\u2019re sick and tired of that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I am not on Fox News.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The establishment Republican is the problem. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Angela.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Even though Sarah Palin isn\u2019t establishment —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Angela.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I just wouldn\u2019t vote for her for my own reasons.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did I tell you, folks? My theory is being proven — <\/p>\n

CALLER: What is your theory?<\/p>\n

RUSH: — big time right here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you missed that. You\u2019ve heard all this other stuff I haven\u2019t said, and you missed what I did say.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What did you say? I apologize. What?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m not pushing anybody. In fact, I don\u2019t see how you can lump Mitch Daniels with Allen West. But that\u2019s another subject, what I want to know is —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s how I see it. See, now, how I see you, because you can\u2019t understand it, that\u2019s how I see it. I think that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Would you stop being contentious? I have not insulted you once here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I haven\u2019t said that you believe something \u2019cause somebody made you feel it at all.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I\u2019m just having fun, Rush. I like being on the phone with you. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I want you to tell me, what did Sarah Palin do during the campaign that you didn\u2019t like?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it was more than once, whenever she was doing a speech or something and she had her children at the end, you know, the families come out —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and she would walk away with her handlers or whoever they were, and her little girl, her little girl, in a crowd of strangers — a mother, my instinct — and I was waiting for her to do it, I so wanted her to just reach her hand back and take her daughter\u2019s hand. She never did that. And that may seem small to a lot of people, but I am a mother of five girls, and I would have never done it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We gotta make a —<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that made me think, I mean just the motherly instinct wasn\u2019t there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We gotta make a note to hire you again. You\u2019re one of the best paid actors we\u2019ve ever had on this program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can\u2019t believe you\u2019re saying that! I am not! That is not true! I mean everyone who\u2019s listened to me in Dumfries, Virginia, know that I worked with the Prince William County Republican Party. I am a true conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. I\u2019ve not disputing it. I just gotta tell you something here. <\/p>\n

CALLER: What? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Most women complain — I\u2019m just telling you the truth here — most women complain that Sarah Palin is trotting around her Down syndrome baby like an accessory and it makes them feel guilty, and they don\u2019t like it. Now you\u2019re saying she\u2019s abandoning the kids in these things.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m not saying — I just think that it takes a lot of time to do what she does. It really does. It takes a lot of time. And I just —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Is this really why you wouldn\u2019t vote for her? This is not even an issue thing. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I can\u2019t see how she can be an effective mother, and again I am a conservative mother, I choose to stay home with my children, that\u2019s just something that we believe. Our country is not so desperate for leadership that we should take women away from their children at that point in their lives.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You gotta be kidding. Now you\u2019re telling me that you wouldn\u2019t support her for president because she\u2019d have to abandon her kids and would be a bad mother?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m just saying there are other people that I would support. I would not support her simply because I don\u2019t think that she — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Yes. Now we get to it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — that I felt just was — I couldn\u2019t support her.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so Sarah Palin\u2019s not allowed to go to work? Because she\u2019s got five kids and she\u2019s not allowed to go to work?<\/p>\n

CALLER: She can work if she chooses to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, not if it\u2019s for president because you\u2019re not gonna vote for her because that\u2019s irresponsible and you think that she\u2019s not meeting her motherhood requirements if she goes to work.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If the conservatives put Sarah Palin up against Barack Obama I would vote for Sarah Palin, I certainly would. But it would be the same thing in 2008 having to vote for McCain, as far as I\u2019m concerned.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, Good Lord, Angela. Now I know you\u2019re putting me on. Now you\u2019re just — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, everyone has their reason — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now you\u2019re just trying to send me into orbit here. I know what you\u2019re doing now.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and Mitt Romney, same thing. Five sons, no one serves, I wouldn\u2019t vote for him, either.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Would you get off of this Romney business? When\u2019s the last time I pumped Romney or Gingrich or any of these people you\u2019re talking about?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m just hoping that the people out there hear what I\u2019m saying, I wouldn\u2019t vote for \u2019em.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We got it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: For that reason.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We got it. You have not given me a sensible reason yet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it may not be sensible to a lot of people, Rush, but that\u2019s my reason.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, fine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And it\u2019s not because I\u2019m a liberal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, but it has nothing to do with issues, and this is my theorem, it\u2019s got nothing to do with issues. It all has to do with emotion or women stuff.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, well, whatever, that\u2019s my reason, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sorry to disappoint you, but that\u2019s my reason.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re not disappointing me. You\u2019re just a sexist.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Am I? Well, that could be it, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A little sexism going on here, but that\u2019s fine, everybody has, you know, boundaries to allow some of that stuff to happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for allowing me to talk.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who would you vote for in the Republican field?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Say it again?<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the current Republican field, who would you vote for?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mitch Daniels.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s got kids.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, his kids have a mother.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So it\u2019s okay for a father to have all kinds of kids and abandon \u2019em and leave them —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, he wouldn\u2019t be abandoning them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — with the mother.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right. I\u2019m a traditionalist, Rush, and I think a lot of conservatives are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Sarah Palin\u2019s kids have a father.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s a father, what\u2019s that have to do with being a mother? Because he\u2019s a father?<\/p>\n

RUSH: The strange thing about what you\u2019re saying is I think she\u2019s balancing all this quite well.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t agree with that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, what evidence?<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know what, I don\u2019t want to get into the Sarah Palin bashing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, now it\u2019s a good time to say it —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I\u2019ve done enough of that — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

RUSH: — at the end of the phone call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — other reasons that I think because I like her enough to not go there, okay?<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, point out to me one of her kids that\u2019s an abject ne\u2019er-do-well failure?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t want to go there, Rush. I really don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. You don\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, thanks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re a woman. I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right, thanks, Rush, bye.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Angela, it was. That is Angela in Dumfries, Virginia. You do have her number, right? You got her number? Okay, call her agent.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I was really struck here by Angela. Was that her name? Yeah, Angela. Mitch Daniels and Allen West? Folks, Mitch Daniels is the one candidate out there saying the Republicans are gonna have to abandon social issues to win. There was a piece yesterday in National Review by Michael Cannon. Daniels and Obamacare. Listen to what this guy writes: “Indiana governor Mitch Daniels\u2019s policy director, Lawren Mills, Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, and Bob Goldberg of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest take exception to my NRO article ‘Mitch Daniels&rsquo;s Obamacare Problem.\u2019 <\/p>\n

“In brief, the trio believes that Daniels&rsquo;s expansion of government-run health care is a conservative triumph. I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re even having this conversation. To recap, the Healthy Indiana Plan, which Daniels signed into law in 2007, bears the following similarities to Obamacare,” and there are six of them. So we have a guy writing at National Review (I don\u2019t know how he got published here, by the way) claiming that Mitch Daniels\u2019 health care plan in Indiana has a lot of similarities to Obamacare, and he can\u2019t believe that we\u2019re even having the conversation that says Daniels\u2019 health care plan is conservative, when there are so many similarities to Obamacare. <\/p>\n

Now, clearly… I don\u2019t know if you know much about Allen West, but there\u2019s no common ground here. I mean, they\u2019re both Republicans, but that\u2019s about it, when it comes to Allen West and Mitch Daniels. Well, I think there\u2019s fiscal discipline things that they probably have in common, but they\u2019re really… The way she said it… (sigh) You just wouldn\u2019t say, of all the people running, your two favorites — if you\u2019re looking at policy — are Mitch Daniels and Allen West. Now, if you\u2019re looking at other things, you never know. Could well be. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It seems to me all this hating going on on Sarah Palin, for whatever reason, there are a lot of people who just don\u2019t like the idea of a strong woman. Well, isn\u2019t that what we heard in explaining the criticism of Hillary? We did.<\/p>\n

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