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Who\u2019s next? Tina in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. It\u2019s an honor always. Before I get to my point, I can\u2019t agree with you more. My husband\u2019s in a small business in charge of several — it\u2019s an LLC of, you know, Hilton\u2019s, and they would love to be hiring, and when they extended the tax rates, my husband says, “Yeah, great, except we make five- to ten-year plans, not two-year plans.” They\u2019d love to be hiring, but they\u2019re not. But my point was that I called about is that I\u2019m really sick of these kind of Krauthammer and Karl Rove — I have to put him in there, too, because as much as I like him, I\u2019m sorry — holier-than-thou Washington crowd who are just so quick to diss people who aren\u2019t Washington or aren\u2019t them like Sarah Palin. And I hate it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do you think they do it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because she\u2019s not from their ilk. That\u2019s the only thing I can think of. But they do have an air about them that they think, you know, “We\u2019ve been in politics our whole life, and she\u2019s only done this,” or, “Just because she\u2019s right on every damn issue doesn\u2019t give her enough credibility.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, not to do an “I told you so” here, I really don\u2019t like doing those, but I think I\u2019ve been pretty clear for the last two years of the internecine battles in the Republican Party. There\u2019s a struggle there. In the midst of Obama and the Democrats imploding, there is not unity on the Republican side for the answer to it. Conservatism in the Republican Party is still considered an outsider no matter who you are. If you\u2019re a conservative you\u2019re an outsider — I mean a genuine conservative. Yeah, there\u2019s some class aspects here. I think that\u2019s what you\u2019re talking about — you know, being “of” Washington, being “of” the political elites and so forth. No question that that\u2019s true. This comes as a surprise to people because a lot of people thought for many years the Republican Party is conservative and it\u2019s united behind conservative candidates. I think the way Palin has been treated has really been a shock and an eye-opener for a lot of Republicans, because it really has been vicious. It is breathtakingly mean-spirited from the Republican side what\u2019s been done to Palin, not just the Democrats where you would expect it to come from.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know what, though, Rush? A lot of people when she drew the crowd she drew with McCain? I think people who actually voted for McCain were voting more for Palin than they were for him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know I was.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think so. Yeah, there\u2019s no question. She\u2019s in Massachusetts today and there\u2019s a story (I just read it in the Boston Herald) that she is drawing mobs of people, and not one protester. She is drawing mobs. It is hilarious, folks, to read some of the press about Palin. They just are bugged to no end, accusing her of creating traffic dangers with her bus convoy! You know, she snuck out of the hotel in Gettysburg. She snuck out the back door to head up to New York, I think maybe to meet Trump or something. She beat the media out and they\u2019re livid that she gave them the slip. They just can\u2019t believe that she got away with that. They can\u2019t believe she gave \u2019em the slip. They can\u2019t believe that she would even try to give \u2019em the slip.<\/p>\n

They can\u2019t believe she succeeded in giving them the slip because she\u2019s not that smart — and then she goes these places, and she\u2019s loved and adored. Throngs of people show up, and they all want autographs and pictures and they all want to be close to her. There aren\u2019t any protest signs. There aren\u2019t any anti-Palin people showing up. They just are beside themselves. She really has them running in circles. She has got them so discombobulated, folks, it\u2019s hilarious to watch. I\u2019m looking for something here. There\u2019s a piece by Martin Bashir who, I guess, works at PMSNBC in the afternoon. Yeah. Get this. I found this at Real Clear Politics. Martin Bashir: “It\u2019s time now to Clear the Air and to ask a question: what is the purpose behind Sarah Palin\u2019s current bus tour? <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s difficult to ask that question directly because Sarah Palin specializes in checkbook journalism. That is, she only gives interviews to a network that pays her in excess of $1 million a year. So we\u2019re forced to make judgements [sic] from the outside and it all looks like the precursor to a presidential campaign.” Then he goes on to say that her bus tour might be in breach of federal law! The bus tour “could be in breach of a federal law because the United States Flag Code establishes important rules for the use and display of the stars and stripes, the flag of the United States. Under standards of respect and etiquette, it\u2019s made clear that the flag of the United States should never be used for any advertising purpose whatsoever. <\/p>\n

“Yet that\u2019s precisely what Sarah Palin is doing. She\u2019s using the flag of the United States for her own financial purposes. She drapes herself in the stars and stripes and makes millions of dollars in the process.” When was the last time any of us heard anybody in the Drive-Bys worried at all about the flag? (interruption) That\u2019s even a better question: When was the first time the Drive-Bys were worried about the flag? You know what else they\u2019re ticked off? Palin and Trump had a meal, had pizza, and she ate hers with a knife and fork, and they are saying (snorts), it\u2019s unsophisticated, it\u2019s un-American, it proves that she\u2019s not in touch with anybody. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re ragging on her for eating pizza with knife and fork, and Trump, too. Trump is being ripped for eating pizza with a knife and fork. That story at Yahoo or somewhere, it\u2019s the top story of the day at some websites aggregation. I was flying back from my super-secret meeting yesterday and, you know, I hadn\u2019t eaten all day. It was middle of the afternoon, late afternoon getting back, and there was a miniature little pizza there. So I grabbed that and I ate it with a knife and fork. I never pick up a pizza and eat it with my hands. I always use a knife and fork. They\u2019re ticked off at her about that. This guy, Martin Bashir, is dead serious. She\u2019s in violation of flag law! <\/p>\n

She is driving them insane. In fact, this story in the Boston Herald makes mention of the fact that Romney\u2019s not too happy about this because this is his big coming out day, his big announcement. She\u2019s up there stealing his thunder in a different part of the state. He\u2019s in New Hampshire announcing. She\u2019s drawing all the crowds; says that she\u2019s not concerned about the party; she\u2019s not concerned about delegates and this, that, and the other thing. You know, I have never met Sarah Palin. I\u2019ve spoken to her twice in interviews. I don\u2019t know her. People ask me for insight. I couldn\u2019t tell you. So I don\u2019t know. People ask me, “Is she doing this stuff because she has a score to settle with the Republicans, too? <\/p>\n

“Does she think they were unkind to her during the campaign with some of the stuff they put out or let get out about the wardrobe?” and I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know the answer to that. I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s settling scores. I don\u2019t know if what she\u2019s doing is, quote, unquote, “establishing the brand” and making money. I don\u2019t know if what she\u2019s doing is having fun tweaking the media. Well, yeah, I do know she\u2019s having fun doing that — and I think that represents a stunning reversal. That she\u2019s able to is a stunning reversal. She has them on the run, she has them on defensive, she has them making themselves look like utter high school gossip-mongering fools. It actually is hilarious to look at the dander these people have been worked into.<\/p>\n

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