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Steve in Schenectady, New York, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/line>CALLER: Hey, how you doing, Rush?<\/line>RUSH: Hey.<\/line>CALLER: I\u2019d like to hear more about Sam Brownback, Senator Sam Brownback. Right now it seems like he\u2019s the only person I could possibly vote for and I just don\u2019t hear enough about him.<\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m confused, if you don\u2019t know enough about him, how do you know enough to vote for him?<\/line>CALLER: Well, I know that he stands for all the important things that I care about, particularly being pro-life, and I\u2019m from New York, and definitely you need to quarantine, politically quarantine New York, and maybe even the northeast from the presidential process. We don\u2019t have anything good to offer.<\/line>RUSH: (Laughing.) You know what, that reminds me of Barry Goldwater, said pretty much the same thing, and Lyndon Johnson ran a commercial of a saw sawing the eastern seaboard of the United States off, floating out in the Atlantic Ocean. (Laughing.)<\/line>CALLER: I think he was right.<\/line>RUSH: Look, as to Senator Brownback, and about all of these candidates, because I get e-mails, and I haven\u2019t taken too many calls here — this is one of the first, ?Rush, how come you haven\u2019t told us which one of these people you like?? Folks, let me answer this for you as cogently, coherently, and briefly, as I can. A, it\u2019s too soon. B, I don\u2019t know. C, it\u2019s ten months before the first primary! I wrote a chapter in my book<\/a>, My Success Is Not Determined By Who Wins Elections. You people who have been with me since the get-go understand that I don\u2019t get involved this early in primaries. We get down to two people in the primary circumstance, if there are two viable candidates left, and I have a preference, at that point I will say so. <\/line>But this far out, I\u2019m not going to tie myself to a candidate. I\u2019m not under the illusion I can cause a candidate to win or make a candidate win, and I certainly am not going to tie myself to somebody that may end up doing something stupid down the road and lose. What\u2019s that going to do for me? Well, I don\u2019t know. Snerdley says I can make them lose. Maybe. But I don\u2019t look at it that way. This is way too soon. I don\u2019t tie myself to somebody in the primaries as I say until we get down to the last two, like when Bush-McCain 2000, I obviously made a choice there. But those were the two viable candidates. We have a field of what, six and maybe seven here? And lurking out there is Newt Gingrich, who\u2019s thinking about getting into this in the fall if circumstances meet whatever his criteria are. <\/line><\/p>\n

As far as your question about Senator Brownback, I have another theory about this, folks. It\u2019s not my job to tell you about these people. It\u2019s not my job to promote them, and it\u2019s not my job to sit here and go through a long list. How boring would this be? “All right, today, ladies and gentlemen, I have the position list for Senator Blowhorn and Senator Blowhorn on abortion thinks?” you would be bored out of your mind! You wouldn\u2019t remember half of what I told you anyway. I don\u2019t look at this as my job to educate you on who these people are. It?s their job. They\u2019re the candidates; they\u2019re the ones going out and getting votes. It\u2019s their job to get noticed. <\/line>I\u2019m sorry to say, sir, if you don\u2019t know much about Sam Brownback, then Sam Brownback\u2019s got some work to do. I don\u2019t. I mean, I can read about Sam Brownback. He\u2019s done some things that I like. I don\u2019t like the fact that he defected on aspects of the Iraq war and the surge, joining Democrats in this. I was a little perplexed about that. Yeah, he\u2019s a little weak on immigration for my tastes. So anyway, it\u2019s ten months before the first primary starts. I can\u2019t tell you right now who I hope gets the nomination. In fact, last time I made news on this is when I said none of these people rev me up. This is about three months ago. None of them rev me up. Oh, the Drive-Bys loved taking that sound bite and broadcasting it all over their networks. I said none of them rev me up and why should I say someone does if they don\u2019t?<\/line>Now, I\u2019m not saying that what is happening now is unimportant, because this is the time where the polling data comes out, candidates make themselves known, fund-raising competitions are underway and so forth. I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s not important now. This is the political market at work. I?m just telling you that of the people that are out there right now, I do not have a preference. I don\u2019t. How else can I say? What else do you want me to say, Snerdley? Because he\u2019s giving me this look like he doesn\u2019t believe what I\u2019m saying. I know what you people are thinking. You know there are people I don\u2019t want to get there, right? Yeah, there are those people, but I have made no secret of that. But at the same time, let\u2019s say that there is a Republican candidate A, that there is no way right now I\u2019m going to come out and extol the virtues on the basis that he\u2019s a conservative because if he\u2019s not, he\u2019s not, and I\u2019m not going to say he is. I\u2019m not going to sit here and take a candidate who\u2019s 70% conservative and say, ?Okay, that\u2019s conservative,? when there\u2019s 30% out there that isn\u2019t. <\/line>Now, if that candidate who is 60 or 70% conservative happens to get the nomination and is up against Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, well, you know, that\u2019s a different story. At that point, you make an informed choice. So if I come out here today and say there is no way candidate X I\u2019m ever going to support, I may end up having to down the line. I\u2019m not going to sit out in the name of purity. I am not going to say, ?Republicans need to learn a lesson. We need to lose again.? I\u2019m not. I never have been one of those. There\u2019s no such thing as sitting out in the name of purity. You know, only a bunch of idealist moderates, people that don\u2019t understand the realities of politics do that.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve in Schenectady, New York, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey, how you doing, Rush?RUSH: Hey.CALLER: I\u2019d like to hear more about Sam Brownback, Senator Sam Brownback. 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