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RUSH: All right. Let\u2019s go to the phones, and let\u2019s see what excitement is lurking out there behind those blinking lights. We go to Anaheim, California. Johnny, you\u2019re up first. Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good morning, Rush. It\u2019s a real thrill to speak with you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I really found the debates last night very interesting. But one of the most interesting things I found were their post-debate polls on who won.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah, postdebate polls.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. I feel that probably Ron Paul got a real boost from the Democrat listeners. They found a real soul-mate there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did Ron Paul sound like a Democrat to you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: He sure did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know… (Laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Pretty much.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve had a couple of people make that comment, saying there\u2019s not that much difference. I\u2019ll tell you what\u2019s happening out there. Let\u2019s play the bite just to bring it up to speed here. Five and six out there, Ed. This is the debate last night at University of South Carolina. Wendell Goler says to Ron Paul, ‘Are you suggesting we invited the 9\/11 attack, sir?\u2019<\/p>\n

PAUL: I\u2019m suggesting that we listen to the people who attacked us and the reason they did it, and they are delighted that we\u2019re over there because Osama bin Laden has said, ‘I am glad you\u2019re over on our sand because we can target you so much easier.\u2019 They\u2019ve already now (chime), since that time, have killed 3400 of our men, and I don\u2019t think it was necessary.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, these ridiculous chimes, too. I\u2019m getting so sick of these ‘time\u2019s up\u2019 zap little sound effects in what are supposed to be debates. Giuliani then responded to that.<\/p>\n

GIULIANI: That\u2019s really an extraordinary statement. It\u2019s an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of September 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever heard that before, and I\u2019ve heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11 (applause) and I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us that he didn\u2019t really mean that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And Ron Paul didn\u2019t do that. Here\u2019s what\u2019s happening out there, folks. Ron Paul has a lot of supporters. He\u2019s got supporters, and they are spamming polls on the Internet. They are spamming radio talk shows to try to defend Ron Paul against what happened. He\u2019s got a lot of energetic and passionate supporters. I\u2019ve been getting them on e-mail. I got a threatening e-mail from a Ron Paul supporter, and it was very cleverly done, by the way. ‘Rush, I was watching TV last night, and I\u2019ve been listening to the radio this morning, and every other talk show host has been predictable on this. I\u2019m looking for you to stand up and stand out from the crowd by being honest about what a great American Ron Paul was and what he did and didn\u2019t say last night,\u2019 and… (interruption) Where? This next one? Let\u2019s go there. Cory in Norfolk, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network. Nice to have you with us, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. I\u2019m 30 years old and I\u2019ve been listening to your show on and off for half my life for 15 years, so —<\/p>\n

RUSH: A Rush Baby! Great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, I\u2019m just wondering. You said that you consider yourself a conservative first rather than a Republican. Would that be correct?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, I\u2019ve said that many times on this program, behind this very microphone.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just don\u2019t understand. I consider myself a conservative, with, you know, admittedly Libertarian leanings. You know, you look at Ron Paul and you look at the other field out there this year, it seems to me that if you go down the issues, you know, Ron Paul is the only one who speaks strongly against, you know, larger government and other things. You know, he\u2019s very socially conservative. I don\u2019t understand why you don\u2019t support him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, well, I haven\u2019t made up my mind on any of these candidates yet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m going to be honest with you out there, Cory. It\u2019s not my job to support these guys and give them a boost. Their job is to go out and get the support. Their job is to go out — and they\u2019re the ones hunting for votes. I\u2019m just going to be honest with you. I don\u2019t think Congressman Paul has a snowball\u2019s chance.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think that, you know, I mean again, you said that your reasoning is not to promote a particular candidate, but if you were to decide that he was the candidate that most identified with your, you know, conservative nature and you supported him in that way, you have the power yourself to make him the Republican nominee. Enough of the base listens to your show that you could effectively change the balance, as it were. <\/p>\n

RUSH: That is very true. You do not know how right you are. That is why I must exercise this power responsibly, not as a cheerleader, not as somebody trying to demonstrate that awesome power. I have to do this responsibly, which is why I\u2019m not picking a name right now, because I understand exactly what you said. I alone have the power to move the base.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Can we talk for a second about the 9\/11 quote in the debate? Here\u2019s my concern —<\/p>\n

RUSH: He said what he said. Now, he said what he said, and you can — I\u2019ve gotten e-mails from Ron Paul supporters talking about, ‘Hey, he was totally misunderstood.\u2019 Okay, you guys have to understand: politics is perceptions. The perception of what he said was not good for him.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And you\u2019re not going to be able to clean this up with e-mails and polls and phone calls to talk shows. You\u2019re not going to be able to clean it up.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s the media\u2019s perception, though, and that\u2019s where you\u2019re good at pointing out where the media gets it wrong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It wasn\u2019t the media\u2019s perception. It was Rudy\u2019s perception, too. Every Republican on that stage last night wanted to take a swipe at this. It\u2019s just Rudy got in there first. Look, I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m doing this. The big flaw in what Congressman Paul said was that we\u2019ve been attacked long before we ever went to Iraq. We\u2019ve been attacked by terrorists — and he said they\u2019re not attacking us because they like our freedom and like our liberty and so forth. They\u2019re attacking us because we\u2019re over there. We listen to what they say! (Well, you can selectively listen.) I do listen to what they say, and they\u2019re promising to wipe us all out because we\u2019re infidels.<\/emphasize> His position on this is Libertarian: ‘We got no business going anywhere, and US national interests be damned.\u2019<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not realistic.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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