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RUSH: Kathy in Napa, California, welcome to the EIB Network. It\u2019s great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, thank you so much, Rush!<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is a thrill! Okay, I have to tell you, you\u2019re the number fourth man in my life besides my husband, my son, and my dad. They\u2019re all dittoheads, and they love you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m honored to be on your list.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re on my list.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just have to say: Kathy is one of my top ten all-time favorite female names, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, you just made me love you more.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

Oh my gosh! Okay, I listened to President Bush in South Carolina, and I was cheering. My man is back! I love when he wants to hunt down the terrorists. I love when he calls them ‘killers.\u2019 I\u2019ve been waiting for this. I don\u2019t know why he hides out and doesn\u2019t come and speak to us, because every time he speaks to us, we get behind him. So what I did was I wrote a note with my RNC membership and said, ‘Finally,\u2019 and then I renewed my membership.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, they\u2019ll be happy to hear that, because you\u2019re one of few.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, now I\u2019m confused also because you\u2019re telling me that Newt went off on us Republicans, so…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh ho-ho-ho.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Now you confuse me, O\u2019Mighty One.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me get that, since you bring it up. Newt had a breakfast with the editors of the American Spectator, and the Examiner — Examiner.com, a web paper in Washington — wrote about it, and he called the Republican ‘presidential field as a ‘pathetic\u2019 bunch of ‘pygmies,\u2019 Newt Gingrich hinted Monday he might step in to beat Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama. ‘If, in mid-October, it\u2019s quite clear that one or more of the current candidates is strong enough to be a serious alternative to a Clinton-Obama ticket, you don\u2019t need me to run, [but] If it becomes patently obvious, as the morning paper points out, that the Democrats have raised a hundred million more than the Republicans, and at some point people decide we are going to get Hillary unless there\u2019s a radical change, then there\u2019s space for a candidate,\u2019 he added. ‘So you\u2019ll know by mid-October one of those two futures is real.\u2019 Asked by the Examiner if he was prepared to commit to a run, Gingrich said, ‘I\u2019m perfectly happy to do what I do,\u2019 he said. <\/p>\n

”Whether that leads to the presidency is the country\u2019s problem, not mine.\u2019 Gingrich mocked Republican presidential candidates for subjecting themselves to a May debate hosted by Chris Matthews of [PMSNBC]. ‘You\u2019re watching an utterly irrelevant, shallow television celebrity dominate everybody who claimed they want to lead the most powerful nation in the world,\u2019 he said. Gingrich ridiculed ‘the idea of 10 or 11 people standing passively at microphones,\u2019 and said he refused to ‘shrink to the level of 40-second answers, standing like a trained seal, waiting for someone to throw me a fish.\u2019 He added: ‘These are not debates, these are auditions. By definition, the psychology of an audition reduces the person auditioning and raises the status, for example, of Chris Matthews.\u2019 … ‘I have no interest in the current political process. I have no interest in trying to figure out how I can go out and raise money under John McCain\u2019s insane censorship rules so I can show up to do seven minutes and twenty seconds at some debate.” Now, about individuals, here\u2019s what he said about Fred Thompson. Are you still with me out there, Kathy?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, here\u2019s what he said about Fred Thompson. ‘I\u2019m excited to see whether Fred turns out to be as decisive a front-runner as John McCain…The guy who wasn\u2019t even in the race is now the exciting new name, having decided that he would leave television for the purpose of entering television.\u2019 That\u2019s what he said about Fred Thompson. Of McCain: ‘The guy who had spent the most on consultants is on the verge, I think, of dropping out of the race, right after he collects his FEC [Federal Elections Commission] money.\u2019 On Robert Novak: ‘Sometimes he\u2019s right and sometimes he\u2019s just venomous….He was once a good reporter, he\u2019s now just a personality.\u2019 On Algore: ‘[Not] in touch with reality. … The advertisement for his movie was the most viciously anti-animal advertising that I\u2019ve seen in a long time. They had these little penguins walking on sand. It was terrible.\u2019 Michael Moore. ‘I find Michael Moore so despicable I can\u2019t imagine looking at a movie by him. It would be like looking at a movie by Goebbels.\u2019 Chris Matthews: ‘An utterly irrelevant, shallow television celebriity [sic]… (who) doesn\u2019t know anything.\u2019 And he referred to the current Republican candidates, field of candidates as a bunch of pathetic pygmies. He unloaded. I see you\u2019re speechless out there, Kathy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am speechless. I\u2019m up for an October Surprise. If Newt gets in, it will just elevate everything. So, go for it, Newt! I don\u2019t know enough about Fred Thompson. I just want somebody. But when George W. Bush came out this morning, it gave me hope again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, he has been saying a lot about Iraq, but this was different. He came out and answered some specific charges have been leveled against him for four years that he has not responded to, such as, ‘Hey, there were terrorists killing Americans before we went into Iraq; there were terrorists killing Americans before 9\/11 happened.\u2019 These are the kind of things that we\u2019ve all been pointing out to the libs, but he has not made that point, at least not as forcefully as he did today. Kathy, thanks for the call. I appreciate it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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