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RUSH: Schenectady, New York. This is Mike. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I think Newt\u2019s problem is the same problem we\u2019ve seen with a lot of other Republicans that have almost been forced to call your program to make right in the immediate aftermath of their remarks, and that problem is, they want to curry favor more with the press than they do with Republicans. They\u2019re more concerned about what the DC villagers are thinking and saying about them than they are about holding true to Republican ideals. Now, I\u2019m a liberal, and I remember 2008 when you had another candidate like that, John McCain, who you just absolutely refused to endorse.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think part of the problem was, back in 2008, you refused to endorse any other candidate, either. So McCain snuck in there without — I mean honestly I think you probably lead the Republican Party. And you could crown, you could play kingmaker here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Shhh! We don\u2019t want everybody to know that, but, yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I really wish you would because, as a liberal, I want Obama to feel threatened. Listen, if the Republicans go out there and compete for that mostly middle, they\u2019re competing on Obama\u2019s turf.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: And Obama\u2019s going to continue working in that mostly middle, calling for more drilling and not closing Guantanamo and starting new wars in Libya and all the rest. What I want is a hard-core conservative so that Obama can, you know, kinda highlight the differences between the parties. I want him to make an appeal to his base.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I have to take a break because of time. This is amazing, you listen to this kind of stuff. I\u2019m not buying that. This is crazy. I mean, he means it, but this is crazy. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: With all due respect to our last caller, Obama is going to run as a conservative. He would love a squishy moderate Republican so he can own the conservative stuff in the campaign. That\u2019s the only way he can win reelection. He can\u2019t win election as a full-fledged liberal, and he knows it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s go back to the previous caller we had, a liberal who said he wants me — (interruption) what? Yeah, I\u2019m gonna get to the Bachmann, hang in. — wants me to actually go out and name a candidate, that I\u2019m the leader, pick somebody conservative \u2019cause this guy doesn\u2019t like the way Obama\u2019s moving. This is a hard-core liberal. I question how hard-core \u2019cause he was really nice. We had him on for a full minute, he didn\u2019t call me a name once. Could have fooled me. If he hadn\u2019t said he was a liberal, I wouldn\u2019thavebelieved it. But he wants me to pick the candidate because he\u2019s worried that Obama\u2019s moving too far to the right here. He doesn\u2019t like the fact that Obama\u2019s gonna go drill now. He doesn\u2019t like that Obama\u2019s ratcheting up in Libya. He doesn\u2019t like all the stuff that Obama\u2019s doing. Guantanamo is still open. <\/p>\n

Look, for all that we say about our side, you have to say when Obama does his flip-flop on drilling for oil, you gotta know the people on the left are going bonkers. You just know they are. And so the proposition was put forth that if I would name somebody, just really rock-ribbed conservative, and that person would thus get the nomination, this would free Obama to go back to being full-fledged Marxist socialist, and win with ease. What\u2019s the point? This guy is saying that Obama is gonna lose by moving to the right. He wants Obama to not even try to occupy the right because I will pick somebody who owns it. Again, for all of you people on the left, the last thing Obama wants is to run against a real conservative. Obama hopes to hell he gets a squishy moderate, middle of the road McCain type. He wants somebody who is afraid to occupy conservative positions. He wants a Republican who has been convinced that that is the wrong way to go. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, they will do anything. They will tell us what they fear. They\u2019ll tell us who they fear. They will do anything to keep a demonstrable, genuine conservative from getting the Republican nomination, because they know that they will lose and lose big. And Obama, forget labels for a second here, you leftists. Forget whether it\u2019s conservative or liberal for Obama to flip-flop on drilling for oil. Why is he doing it? You know Obama does not want to be a conservative, he isn\u2019t one, but he does want to be reelected. I have postulated and theorized for the last week or so that the internal polling in the White House on Obama reelect is disastrous. I think drill, baby, drill, his flip-flop on drilling, I think going after Bin Laden, I think all of that is evidence of how bad it is inside the polling data, deep inside the internal polling of the White House on Obama\u2019s reelection. I think it looks horrible. There\u2019s no other explanation. <\/p>\n

But look, this country, for all the talk in the media, for all of the pop culture, this country is not a center left country. It\u2019s not a liberal country. It\u2019s not a socialist country. If it were, folks, Obama would be proudly running on his record. He would be promising 10% unemployment instead of trying to reduce it. If Obama\u2019s proscriptions were the genuine solution to problems he\u2019d be doubling down and running on them instead of trying to make people think that he is for things he\u2019s not. The real Barack Obama does not want to drill for oil. But the real Barack Obama realizes he\u2019s got to say he\u2019s interested in it or will look at it if he has a chance of being reelected. If he is reelected, it will be easy within a day or two or a month or two to say, “You know what, I worked as hard as I could,” but he\u2019d change his mind within a week after the election and throw it away. His left and base would be extremely happy. <\/p>\n

This idea here that conservatism is a loser, that\u2019s folly because Obama is trying to angle so that he has perception of being anything but a liberal as we head here toward the presidential campaign. It\u2019s fascinating to watch, and it happens every time. The left always has to move to the center at election time. They didn\u2019t have to so much in \u201908 because they weren\u2019t challenged on the right. Obama was not challenged on the right. He was challenged from the middle. He was challenged from somebody who really didn\u2019t even want to challenge him, per se, which is McCain.<\/p>\n

END TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

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