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RUSH: It was fascinating to me, as I said, to watch this because it hit me upside the head — even though, as I say, I instinctively knew this — that all of the top-tier candidates, because of these questions… See, there\u2019s always a silver lining in everything. There\u2019s always an upside. Some of you might not think of this as an upside or a silver lining, but the genuine moderate as opposed to conservative aspects of three of the top-tier, four of the top-tier candidates were on full-fledged display last night. There was one candidate who did not display any moderateness or liberalism or have any of his past forays into those areas displayed, and that candidate was Fred Thompson. Now, this is not an endorsement. You know, I don\u2019t endorse during primaries. I just point out: These are things I noticed, and I\u2019ve told you during the course of this one campaign year that one of the things that\u2019s bothering me, is I\u2019m a Reagan conservative, and I believe in conservatism. It\u2019s in my soul and it\u2019s in my heart, and I know it is the best way for us to manage our affairs to ensure the most prosperity for the most, to continue our freedom, to protect our country. <\/p>\n

Conservatism sees people and sees potential. Liberalism looks at people and sees victims. Liberalism looks at people and sees incompetence, and, ‘We gotta help \u2019em out and keep \u2019em forever dependent so we\u2019ll always have power.\u2019 Conservatives don\u2019t want to use the government to empower themselves. They want to get government out of the way to empower other people. So, to me it matters, and we have a campaign now where most of the candidates are not genuine conservatives. They may be saying they are, but in their past they have done some things that are not conservative in any way, shape, manner, or form — and I think a lot of those things are being overlooked even by friends of mine in the conservative media because the obsession is Hillary. ‘Well, we gotta have somebody who can beat Hillary, and we can\u2019t have the perfect candidate,\u2019 and so we gotta make the choice here based on who\u2019s best equipped to win and beat Hillary. I understand that, and whoever the nominee is, I\u2019m going to support them. So don\u2019t misunderstand here. But I don\u2019t like seeing ‘conservatism\u2019 being watered down as the way it\u2019s defined. I don\u2019t want people who are not conservative being said to be representatives of the ‘new conservatism.\u2019 There is no ‘new\u2019 conservatism. There is conservatism, and you either are or you aren\u2019t. <\/p>\n

You can be 80%, but it depends on what the other 20% are, and I\u2019m just telling you that last night, it was Huckabee and Rudy and Mitt Romney, because of these questions, who were all faced with the reality — and everybody watching saw it — that they\u2019ve got some governance in their pasts that is not conservative, and this is something that just hit me. While everybody is talking about Fred Thompson, ‘He\u2019s too lazy. He\u2019s too lackadaisical. He doesn\u2019t seem to have whole lot of energy.\u2019 Fine and dandy. I\u2019m not going to argue with people about your perceptions of attitudes and so forth. I will say this. I don\u2019t think anybody would get into this mess running for the presidency, the media and all of these things. You can\u2019t imagine what these people go through. You wouldn\u2019t want to go through it, and I can\u2019t imagine somebody put themselves through it if they really don\u2019t want it. <\/p>\n

You know, one of the arguments about Fred Thompson is, ‘Well, I can\u2019t see the fire in his belly.\u2019 Well, he\u2019s got a different personality than the others. We\u2019ll just have to see how all this shakes out. But those are the high points that I took. Now, some of the other questions: We\u2019ve got audio sound bites of all this coming up after the next break. The abortion questioner, the YouTube question last night was a declared Edwards supporter, and also a slobbering Anderson Cooper fan. The Log Cabin Republican questioner (that was two questions on homosexuality last night), the Log Cabin Republican questioner is a declared supporter of Obama! We even had a question about the lead content of toys coming from the ChiComs. None of these questions would have ever been asked of the Democrats, but the toy questioner is a prominent union activist for the Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers. It was a series of plants, once again. Whether CNN knew it or not, that\u2019s what it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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