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RUSH: I\u2019m probably going to make a mistake trying this because there\u2019s not a whole lot of time in this segment. Sometimes even I am amazed. Yesterday I said on this program, in response to a question, ‘How are you feeling?\u2019 this was not something I worked on the night before, a big monologue. ‘Okay, folks, I have a major announcement.\u2019 I got a bunch of questions from people in the e-mail telling me how they felt. They were depressed and so they asked, ‘How do you feel, Rush?\u2019 The first thought that came to my mind: I feel liberated. ‘What do you mean by that?\u2019I said, ‘I\u2019m tired of carrying the water for people who don\u2019t deserve having their water carried,\u2019 and from that, hell has broken loose. I was lying! I\u2019m abandoning the GOP! I somehow admitted that I\u2019m no longer going to read the White House talking points when I never, ever get the White House talking points. Some twerp on television last night said, ‘A-ha! See? The White House had this big meeting with conservative talk show hosts. They got in there and they got their marching orders and they went…\u2019 I wasn\u2019t invited to that! I wasn\u2019t invited because they knew I wouldn\u2019t go. I don\u2019t do group things, number one.Number two: they know they can\u2019t influence me that way, and now this. This is from Hampton Roads.com, our radio station in the Hampton Roads area is WNIS 790 and they\u2019re running a contest there, a little survey today on, ‘What did Rush really mean? Is he leaving the GOP? Is he angry with President Bush? What do you think he meant? What effect, if any, could his comments have on the Republican Party?\u2019 So I got an e-mail from a friend last night who totally understood it. ‘Rush, I loved your water carrying comment. It\u2019s so true. I was thinking about just how awful presidential debates have been, well, forever. Not one minute of those debates would make for good talk radio. The fact is the best candidates the parties offer up can\u2019t present their cases very well or don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

‘They\u2019re desperate for help in making their arguments, neither side looks very good right now without the media. I was scared every time Bush had a debate, the Democrats were scared every time Kerry had a debate. I was scared when Ford had a debate. I was scared once when Reagan had a debate,\u2019 and this is exactly right. What do they have after debates? They got zillions of people in, what? The Spin Room, and what does The Spin Room do? The Spin Room tells you what the candidates were trying to say but didn\u2019t or couldn\u2019t or botched, in the case of Kerry. In my case, this is probably as good a way as any to define this for you. I can\u2019t think of any examples off the top of my head, but as you know, I\u2019m a conservative. Conservatism\u2019s home is the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

I believe that conservatism triumphing over liberalism is the best thing for the country. Okay, so we may have some Republicans who are not conservatives, are not very good at articulating it, and they get slammed and they get criticized all over the place — and guess who rides to the rescue? Those of us on talk radio. We defend \u2019em, we say what they really think when they can\u2019t say it or don\u2019t want to say it or don\u2019t have the guts to say it, and bail \u2019em out. Then it comes election time, and they still won\u2019t say what they are. They still won\u2019t be conservative because they\u2019re afraid of it, and so I\u2019m simply — if they\u2019re not going to go out and articulate their conservatism, I\u2019m not going to let \u2019em depend on me to get them over the hump.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re the ones running for office. I\u2019m not. I\u2019m a radio guy. If they can\u2019t make the case, if they can\u2019t carry the banner, then it\u2019s their problem — and I\u2019m not abandoning the Republican Party and I\u2019m not joining the Democrat Party. I\u2019m not doing anything of the sort. (sigh) Sighs of frustration. Carry the water. How complicated can something like that be made? Far more complicated than I ever thought. I actually believe, folks, that when you utter as many words as I do — I don\u2019t have guests; I take some phone calls — it might be impossible to be taken accurately and in context, because so few people want to make the effort.<\/p>\n

Do you realize how many words I utter in a ten-minute monologue? Probably three chapters of a book, or one. Whatever, it\u2019s huge. Five hours of discussion on the Michael J. Fox issue, and one sentence and one four-second bit of video looped to make it look like it was 12 seconds or 15 becomes the story. All I\u2019m telling you is if a conservative wants to be conservative and is a conservative and says he\u2019s conservative, he\u2019s going to have to be on his own from now on. I am not going to make sure it is understood that these people are what they are. If they can\u2019t learn to express it, if they can\u2019t overcome the fear and be who they are, then it\u2019s their problem, not mine. It\u2019s all I\u2019m saying.<\/p>\n

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