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RUSH: Patrick in Grosse Pointe, Michigan<\/a>. You\u2019re next. Hello, sir.<\/line>CALLER: Mega dittos with a qualification here. I think we need to bite the bullet here on Miers and go ahead and drop the hostility and get behind her, because we can\u2019t beat that Gang of Seven on this. I don\u2019t see us getting a better nominee even if we withdraw her.<\/line>RUSH: So you\u2019re saying that this is John McCain\u2019s fault?<\/line>CALLER: Yeah. I\u2019m saying Chafee and Snowe, McCain and Specters are just not going to let us get someone with a paper trail through.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m glad you called, Patrick. I appreciate your point of view, but I want you to keep your radio on. His point is: The GOP is ripping itself to shreds over this. There\u2019s internal strife. <\/emphasize>There\u2019s division. We ought to just unify behind Miers and get the best we can get. We should settle.<\/emphasize> Now, many of you believe that this probably is something very bad. You\u2019re watching this. I would like to take you back to something I said yesterday. It\u2019s very important that you people make an effort to listen to this program every day, because I couldn\u2019t disagree, with all due respect, Patrick, any more with you than I do. I don\u2019t think that when we are the majority <\/emphasize>in the House and Senate and we have the White House, we settle. I don\u2019t think we settle. I don\u2019t think we need to settle for anything, and I\u2019m going to tell you: All of you who think that this dissension in the ranks is going to lead to the destruction of the so-called conservative movement or the Republican Party? Unh-uh. I want to remind you that what\u2019s happening right now is that conservatives who have held their nose for a number of years over a lot of things, finally have reached a tipping point. The last time the conservative movement unified like this, and the last time that it insisted and the last time it said, “Okay, you know, we\u2019ve been doormats and we\u2019ve been nice guys. We\u2019ve been getting you elected, but then you turn around and turn into your old country club blue-blooder self.”<\/line>The last time this happened was 1976, with the attempt to get Ronald Reagan<\/a> nominated to the Republican presidential nomination, at the convention in Detroit in — or not Detroit, where was it? It was Detroit in \u201980, but in 1976, he failed to Gerald Ford, but that led to 1980. I said yesterday that if any of the liberals in this audience are sitting out there all giddy and rubbing your hands together in glee thinking that this rift means the end of your opposition, think again, because the last time this happened it led to two landslides:<\/emphasize> 1980 and 1984. The fact of the matter is that it\u2019s conservatives who elect Republicans in this country, and when the conservatives get plastered enough, mad enough, they get in gear, and things change for the better. So I totally reject the notion. The Republican Party may be damaging itself, but I don\u2019t look at that as the conservative movement, which is not a party, damaging it<\/emphasize>self. I think there are some Republicans here who are doing things they really don\u2019t want to do, saying things they really don\u2019t want to say, saying things they regret having to say. But they have to say them. It\u2019s their job. But I think what\u2019s going to happen here is a stronger movement when this is all said and done. Conservatism is about a set of principles and a core set of beliefs, and you don\u2019t settle. You don\u2019t sell them out, and if at times you do, then the day is going to come when you say, “Not anymore. I\u2019m not doing it anymore,” and we may be close to one of those moments now.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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