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RUSH: We have more on Joe Wilson, then we\u2019ll get to Patrick Fitzgerald in just a moment, but I want to mix your phone calls in here because I don\u2019t want to have people waiting for an hour and a half or two hours here before they get to go on the program. We\u2019ll start in Fredericksburg, Virginia, with Susan. Great to have you. Nice to have you on the EIB Network, Susan.<\/line> CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I have always had a desire to be involved in public service, always thought that I would run for office, maybe the board of education, maybe something like that just to get involved with public service.<\/line>RUSH: Yes?<\/line>CALLER: But I will tell you that when that verdict came in yesterday, I literally felt sick to my stomach, and I\u2019m thinking — and people like me are watching, people like me who are just… I\u2019m a stay-at-home mom, husband is in the military, and very active in my kids\u2019 school, and I would love to run for office. Why would I? Why would I put myself out there? They\u2019re going to go through my taxes. If they can\u2019t find anything on me, they\u2019ll make it up, just like they did on Scooter Libby, just like they did with you when you landed from another country and Customs was waiting for you. I can\u2019t imagine what your life is like, looking over your back. Even though you\u2019re not doing anything wrong, you know they\u2019re waiting for you. Why would anyone want to go into public service?<\/line>RUSH: Let me explain this to you. Actually this is a good question, and I\u2019d like for you to change the term. Get rid of “public service.” That\u2019s one of these Civics 101 terms. You hear a lot of people in public service, ?Yeah, I want to do public service. I want to give back to my community.? That\u2019s all BS. This is activism, Susan. When liberals join the government, when they join bureaucracies, it is activism. <\/emphasize>It\u2019s not public service. They\u2019re not out there doing anything to serve the public. They\u2019re doing things out there to control the public. They are attempting to amass power. The reason why I am so upset over people like Scooter Libby (the list is long) is because there are courageous people on our side who are trying to stop them. Ronald Reagan tried to stop them, and he did. Richard Nixon tried. There are any number of them that tried to stop them, and they\u2019re willing to take the risks because they, too, believe. <\/line>It\u2019s not public service. It\u2019s about activism on both sides. It\u2019s about believing with passion what you think is best for the country and going to the places necessary to make those things possible. In addition to people like Scooter Libby and Cheney and Rumsfeld and all these other people, Condoleezza Rice, who are now public enemy number one, they are there precisely because they are doing what they think is best for the country, and they are trying to stop this encroachment by the left in all these institutions that are out of reach of elections: the courts, the bureaucracies, the agencies, institutions of higher learning. That\u2019s why this is serious stuff. That\u2019s why Republicans and conservatives are being criminalized simply for being Republicans and conservatives. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, this is going to require a little bit more sophisticated behavior on the part of Republicans and conservatives who go into all this, as you call it, “public service.” They have to know they\u2019re targets, and you can\u2019t make friends with these people. As Clarice Feldman<\/a> wrote in the American Thinker today, you cannot deal with them by taking the high road and going down the road of probity. You can\u2019t sit there and say as president, ?Okay, anybody in my administration found guilty of leaking is out.? You can\u2019t say that. Bill Clinton would never say that. If somebody in an agency tried to undercut the Clinton administration, that person was sought out, found, dispatched and gotten out of there. <\/line>Republicans are just not ruthless. Conservatives are not ruthless in many cases. So long we have been in the minority, so long we\u2019ve been on the defensive, that we think that we can forge a new way by getting along, by showing these people we intend them no harm or all of this garbage. But people like Libby and others who engage this to fight the fight are not doing it for public service. They\u2019re doing it because they believe in ideas, passionately so. They are, if anything, serving the country and what their ideals for the country are. You might want to say they\u2019re serving the public, but it\u2019s a whole misnomer. If you want to join the school board, the reason for doing it is not for “public service.” The reason is because your school board is screwed up and needs to be fixed and somebody needs to stand up and say it\u2019s screwed up and fix it who is willing to take the arrows that come your way. <\/line>If you don\u2019t want to do it, then don\u2019t. I\u2019m sorry to be yelling at you. I\u2019m not yelling at you. But if you don\u2019t want to do it, get out. I have a great life. I never imagined I\u2019d have a life like this. Yeah, I\u2019m a target. I have to make modifications in the way I live, but I understand that I\u2019m a target in many ways. But as I\u2019ve said, Susan, countless times after the incident you described and many others: I\u2019m still here because you\u2019re still there. <\/emphasize> I\u2019m still here because my audience — who listen to me daily and know who I am and what I am — know that all the garbage said about me is untrue, and you\u2019ve stood there and defended me. This is what doesn\u2019t happen enough in Washington with other public officials who get in trouble. Conservatives run for the tall grass and don\u2019t want the prosecutor coming after them. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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