{"id":22268,"date":"2004-11-12T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:00:35","slug":"michael_barone_salutes_el_rushbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2004\/11\/12\/michael_barone_salutes_el_rushbo\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Barone Salutes El Rushbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>BARONE: Well, let me just say this has been very enjoyable for me. I\u2019ve been a listener for a long time and a fan, as you know. I mean, I wrote in \u201993 in US News, I said, you were going to be the voice of the Republican Party for a while, and for the not &#8212; but I think you have made a very important contribution to American politics and American life, not just as an advocate but as a definer of conservatism. I mean, in the period when Clinton was in office, one avenue the Republican Party might have taken is the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wnd.com\/news\/archives.asp?AUTHOR_ID=185\">Patrick Buchanan<\/a> avenue: Isolationism, negativism, dislike of other people who are different from you, protectionism. And you spoke out consistently against those things to the core audience that Buchanan was aiming at, and he failed completely, and you defined things in what I think is &#8212; you know, is the sort of the &#8212; the conservatism that I think can positively serve the country, and I think that you played a great role in shaping opinion in the 1990s. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve thought about it in that way, but to me whenever my liberal friends start complaining about Rush Limbaugh, I make that argument, and a lot of them say, &#8220;Well, you know, maybe you got a point there.&#8221; (Laughter) <\/line><BR\/>RUSH ON TAPE: (Laughter) Well, you\u2019re very kind. You\u2019ve made my day. Coming from you, that\u2019s a true compliment and I thank you very much for that. I sincerely appreciate it.<\/line><BR\/> <\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/michael_barone.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"124\" height=\"172\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>RUSH: You can understand why I\u2019m reluctant to play this, ladies and gentlemen, but as I say, I bowed to pressure and let you hear it. Normally we don\u2019t play audio from our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/\/home\/eibessential\/from_the_limbaugh_letter.member.html\">newsletter interviews<\/a>. Obviously we keep it. (studio interruption) Well, yeah, that\u2019s kind of tough. I was telling some people about this comment last night that Barone made and I had totally forgotten this, and he\u2019s right. I had forgotten. This was after the \u201992 race and Buchanan, and this has come up. People have asked me about it since and I have to tell you, I like Pat Buchanan. <\/line><BR\/>He\u2019s still somebody I consider a friend and an associate, and I don\u2019t think Buchanan &#8220;doesn\u2019t like people differently from him.&#8221; That\u2019s not something that\u2019s applicable to Pat Buchanan. But when he ran for president again, you know, he toured these textile mills and other places against NAFTA, thought we were losing our manufacturing jobs, and he did get he very protectionist. He wanted to kill NAFTA and roll back the progress there and not maybe build a wall around the country, but he clearly thought we don\u2019t need to be going around the world being policemen. We don\u2019t need to be worrying about freedom and democracy anywhere else because once the Soviet Union fell, that to him was the end of it. <\/line><BR\/> I mean, that was our big enemy and once we defeated them, that was it. He wanted to just pull back and focus almost entirely on domestic issues, and I just disagreed with that, and I disagreed with all of the protectionism because I don\u2019t think it\u2019s realistic in the world as it exists today. But at any rate, the whole interview will come up in the <emphasize>next <\/emphasize>issue of the Limbaugh Letter and I wish we had time to play more. We talked to him for an hour, and it\u2019s going to be a masterful editing job to get all this in. It\u2019s just fascinating. We may. We\u2019ll put what we don\u2019t get of it on the website. 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