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RUSH: This is Doug in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Doug, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. How you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittoes from snowy west Michigan here.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Good deal. Hey, this wasn\u2019t the reason I called, but I want to touch on it since you\u2019ve been yakking about it for so long here, but I think Huckabee showed great restraint in responding to Mitt Romney\u2019s attacks so I wanted to voice my opinion on that. If this is all he can do, that little jab right there —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. <\/p>\n

CALLER: No! No!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. Wait.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (interrupting)<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, wait a minute. You can\u2019t — Huckabee showed restraint? Have you heard what Ed Rollins said the other day?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah. Yeah. But —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, tell me what Ed Rollins said. Tell me what Ed Rollins said.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, go ahead. Just go ahead. What I was going to say…<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no, no. I\u2019ll let you get to what you want to say. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But I can\u2019t accept the premise of what you said that Huckabee showed great restraint. Tell me what Ed Rollins is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I didn\u2019t hear. I didn\u2019t hear. I didn\u2019t hear what Ed Rollins said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He said, ‘I would love to punch Romney\u2019s teeth out.\u2019 <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughs)<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Huckabee\u2019s campaign advisor! He said, ‘I would love to get down low and aim at the groin of Mitt Romney.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, maybe he can\u2019t take him in a fair fight, I don\u2019t know. Who knows.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I\u2019m not commenting either way, but you said that the Huckabee people are showing great restraint —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I — I — he — he didn\u2019t — he didn\u2019t ball up his fist and make the first punch. He was trying to run an above-the-board, clean campaign, and Mitt started to get creamed in Iowa by — by a guy who can\u2019t possibly outspend him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Welcome to the real world.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is politics.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know that. I know that. But, anyway, I\u2019m just saying that Huckabee\u2019s response — you know, as compared to other politicians — I think they showed quite a bit of restraint —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there you have it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: by not turning immediately and going right after Mitt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My theory confirmed: Huckabee goes and produces a negative ad; announces he\u2019s not going to run it and shows the ad, and you believe he showed great restraint. I told you!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I told you this is how the Huckabee people are going to look at it. Thank you. (applauding) You have confirmed once again my instincts extraordinaire.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, anyway, here\u2019s the gig. The reason — the reason I actually called, I think — I think that Huck is getting held to a fairly high standard compared to the other candidates out there. I started paying attention to Huckabee, oh, back in November, as I\u2019m looking at the field and trying to figure out what am I going to do? I mean, my guy was going to be Fred Thompson and he came in with a big flop, and so I started looking around, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I read — read an article by Dick Morris. Go ahead.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a second. Thompson may come in third in Iowa tomorrow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He may. He may ultimately, but he\u2019s <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s not flopping. <\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In fact, Thompson\u2019s running around saying, you know, ‘I hate campaigning. I want to be president, but I hate campaigning and I\u2019m not going to do it the way everybody else is doing it,\u2019 and he\u2019s trying to appeal to people on the substance of issues with 17-minute videos. He\u2019s trying to appeal to people in a way that is different. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s going to work, but he may show up in third place, which is not a flop.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. No, I haven\u2019t written Fred Thompson off by any means, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, you have! You\u2019re a Huckabee guy. You can admit it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughter) Well, I like Huck. I have to admit I like Huck. What I\u2019m saying is that compared to the other candidates out there, I mean you excoriated McCain a little bit ago. I enjoy that. But who else is there that has the conservative bona fides that you can look for? You have to mean conservative. I\u2019m sitting here trying to pick this thing apart. Who else is there?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you really want me to answer this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m just looking at it. Fill in the blank.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you asking this rhetorically? Do you really want me to answer the question: ‘Who else is there that has the conservative bona fides that you can look for?\u2019 Do you really want me to answer that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, if you want to go out on a limb and stake out a position.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You asked. Do you really want an answer or is it just a rhetorical question?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it\u2019s kind of a reject because I was going to fill in the blank myself here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right, because you don\u2019t want the answer.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, go ahead. Go ahead. <\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughs)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Go ahead. I don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t care. I\u2019m looking at Rudy. I\u2019ll just jump in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m looking at Rudy, and it\u2019s like — it\u2019s like — it\u2019s like, great. Rudy\u2019s got some conservative things that I like about him. He\u2019s strong. I\u2019d like to shoot the bad guys in the head, all that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Shoot the bad guys. (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, the thing that — it\u2019s like abortion —<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laugh) <\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s like the abortion and gun control issues, it\u2019s like, well, a wink and a nod. It\u2019s like I\u2019m a vegetarian except I like beef and chicken. You can\u2019t have it that way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Doug, I love you. We have just had conservatism reduced to shoot the bad guys. (laughing) Don\u2019t point the gun at yourself, sir. (laughter) Just kidding, folks! Now, lighten up out there. This question: ‘Who else is there?\u2019 He\u2019s talking about Huckabee when he asks me this question. Who else is there with conservative bona fides? Let me ask the question again I just asked about Senator McCain. If somebody told you that a conservative was someone who supported amnesty for illegal aliens, who supported limiting free political speech (McCain-Feingold) who embraced the ACLU\u2019s brief for terrorist detainees getting US constitutional rights. If someone told you that a conservative is someone who opposed tax cuts during the Bush administration, and has recently confirmed he would do it again, what would you say? Most likely you would say, ‘Hell no! That\u2019s not a conservative.\u2019 Yet I just described to you several of Senator McCain\u2019s positions over the years. Now, the idea that he\u2019s a great conservative in this race is an affront to conservatives. The media is pushing McCain hard now, particularly the local New Hampshire media. They are just going overboard with this love that they have for McCain. In fact, let\u2019s go back to December 3rd, I just want to show you what it means to be listening to this program and being on the cutting edge of societal evolution. I predicted that the Drive-Bys had switched from McCain to Huckabee and that they would move back to McCain. I said this on December 3rd a month ago. Listen.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Right now it is obvious the media wants Huckabee, and the reason the media wants Huckabee is because they know they\u2019re going to, down the road, be able to portray him as a nutcase, Bible-thumping evangelical who\u2019s going to take his religion and God into the Oval Office — and they\u2019ll use that to incite fear among liberals and progressives and so forth. […] They built McCain up. McCain loved it when they built him up. They tripped him up over the war, and now they\u2019re trying to revive his campaign again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are they not doing so? Did I not tell you? Yes, I did! They\u2019re pushing McCain hard now. They were waiting to see what happened. Now they\u2019re pushing. They are willing, the Drive-Bys are willing to tolerate his position on Iraq in exchange for all of his other views: opposition to tax cuts, limiting free speech, siding up with the ACLU. These are things they\u2019re willing to tolerate in McCain as they overlook his position on Iraq — and, really, they don\u2019t have to overlook much because his position on Iraq isn\u2019t all that different from Rudy or Thompson. So it doesn\u2019t matter to the Drive-Bys, anyway. It would mean that in November, there is no conservative — quote, ‘real thoroughbred conservative\u2019 — running, and if we don\u2019t have anybody on the ballot on the Republican side who is a conservative and who is willing to say he\u2019s a conservative and espouse those principles, we are going to lose. The Democrats are going to win and win big. If our nominee is either not conservative and is pandering to the left to try to get some of their votes, or if our nominee is so afraid of his record that he\u2019s relying on identity politics to get votes or if our nominee decides that the only way he can win is to go out and pick off some libs in the Northeast and out in the West, it\u2019s going to be a bloodbath. <\/p>\n

The Northeast liberal Republican elites are going to be loving the whole campaign because they think that their ideas have regained prominence and power in the Republican Party all before it goes down to defeat in a massive landslide. So the question that you ask is: ‘What do we want?\u2019 Now, this notion — getting back to the question asked by the guy from Grand Rapids, Michigan — who else has conservative bona fides? Ladies and gentlemen (sigh), Governor Huckabee — who might be a fine man, and is a great Christian — is not a conservative. He\u2019s just not. If you look at his record, as governor, he\u2019s got some conservative tendencies on things, but he\u2019s certainly not the most conservative of the candidates running on the Republican side. There are other aspects, too, which, if I wanted to, I could spend time getting into. But I didn\u2019t start this program today on Huckabee because I didn\u2019t want people to think that the whole point here was to focus on Huckabee, and I\u2019m going to keep some of the powder dry here because I don\u2019t want to be accused of piling on. But if people are going to ask me questions, I\u2019m not going to shirk from them and try to hem-haw around. So there you have it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back to the call, Rick from Kansas City. I want to play 55 seconds of his call because I did not have time to respond. Had I known more of what he was going to say, I would have delayed taking his call, because I only gave him about a minute or a minute and a half. But let me now respond to it. Here again, 55 seconds of what he had to say, just a moment ago. <\/p>\n

(replaying of phone call)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, well, first of all, I want to ask you, priority-wise, which is a more important issue to you, the abortion issue or the tax issue? <\/p>\n

RUSH: See, I don\u2019t separate \u2019em.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019ve got these people, ‘Well, I\u2019m a fiscal conservative but I\u2019m a social liberal.\u2019 You\u2019ve just described for me a northeastern Republican.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A moderate Republican. Conservatism is what it is. You don\u2019t pick and choose and say this aspect is more important, it\u2019s a whole package.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. Just real briefly, Rush, you know, I agree with you that if you give people the fruit of their labors, that technically this country should prosper, but I\u2019m not a single-issue voter, but I am a priority issue voter. And to me, as someone who believes in God, I believe that if this nation allows the unfettered, wholesale slaughter of most innocent —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, right.<\/p>\n

(end phone call)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, that\u2019s it. We had to interrupt the call. We\u2019ve talked about abortion on this program countless times, the sanctity of life and how it is the root of many things. But in terms of electing a president, there are a couple things the president can do about abortion, one of them substantive, the other is somewhat ephemeral. The substantive thing that a president can do about abortion is to nominate judges, primarily Supreme Court justices. That\u2019s it. Now, a president can lead, a president can try to inspire and motivate, change hearts and so forth, but, in a substantive way, there\u2019s not much a president can do about abortion. Rick from Kansas City is a good illustration, a good example of what I mean when I describe Governor Huckabee as campaigning on identity politics. There are some people who will overlook every aspect of Governor Huckabee that is really something in total opposition to most of their beliefs, because all they will see is the Christian characteristic, particularly if it fits right with the abortion issue. <\/p>\n

Now, my friends, I\u2019m sorry here. I haven\u2019t spent a lifetime, and particularly the last 23 years on radio, advocating conservative principles only to throw them away to embrace some candidate. I don\u2019t support open borders and amnesty, as does Governor Huckabee. I don\u2019t support the release of hundreds of criminals. I don\u2019t support repeated increases in taxes. I don\u2019t support national health care. I don\u2019t care what you call it, whether it\u2019s in the name of the children or not. I don\u2019t support anti-war rhetoric that sounds as if it was written by Nancy Pelosi. And yet I\u2019m being asked to put all that aside in the midst of a Republican primary. As I\u2019ve tried to point out countless times, a primary is a time to sort these things out. Now, I, speaking for myself, am not going to put aside my principles to accommodate a single politician or campaign operative, period. Too much is at stake here. And being asked to do this, to put all this aside for any single issue is not the point.<\/p>\n

Now, I don\u2019t want somebody in the White House who has no problem with abortion. I don\u2019t want anybody in the White House who thinks that it\u2019s okay and that we ought not do anything about it. Don\u2019t misunderstand. But I also don\u2019t want anybody to misunderstand what a president can actually do about it and how far a president can actually take the issue. It\u2019s about judges, if your concern is overturning Roe vs. Wade. If it\u2019s not, if you realize that\u2019s going to be a ways down the line and yet we want to do something about abortion prior to that then it\u2019s about changing minds and hearts. There are several ways of going about doing that, and one of the ways is not wagging your finger in people\u2019s faces and telling them they\u2019re sinning or telling them they\u2019re wrong, you\u2019re just going to seal their resolve against you. I think we\u2019re in the process of changing minds and hearts. I think abortion figures are falling. I think as generations grow and change, there\u2019s a greater repugnance attached to the whole practice. It is not an 80% majority issue, pro-choice isn\u2019t. It\u2019s not even 50% now. Progress is being made on this. But I\u2019m not going to sit here and put aside all of these things that I believe in and have worked for and that I know work. <\/p>\n

One of the most frustrating things to me about this entire Republican primary is sitting out there right in front of us for all of us to see. I don\u2019t care how far you want to go back, if you want to go back to Buckley and Russell Kirk, if you want to go back to Edmund Burke, if you want to go back to Goldwater, you can do that and you can find how conservatism has positively influenced change in this country. But all you have to do, if you don\u2019t want to go that far back, all you gotta do is go back to 1980. Now, I realize a lot of people get sick and tired of hearing about Ronald Reagan because there isn\u2019t another Reagan out there, Reagan was a unique individual and so forth. I\u2019m not pining away for somebody to be Ronald Reagan. What I am asking some Republican to see is that Ronald Reagan won two landslides coming off of a Jimmy Carter four years of malaise. Following Ronald Reagan, in 1994 we took back the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years, and we did this with conservative principles. What frustrates me is why the latest current crop of Republicans wants to ignore that and think that there\u2019s a better way, when the evidence that shows progress, both economic, social, you name it, national security, defeating the Soviets in the Cold War, it\u2019s all there. And why it is eschewed, why it is ignored, is something I\u2019ve long told you this, in different ways, starting in the early days of this primary campaign. I\u2019ve warned you that one of the things that concerns me most about all this is how conservatism is going to be redefined so as to fit whatever the current crop of candidates said it is. There\u2019s a bunch of these guys running around saying they\u2019re Reagan. None of them are. There\u2019s not one Reagan conservative — well, I can\u2019t say there\u2019s not one, there may be one. <\/p>\n

But the bottom line, the point is that the lessons are clear on whatever issue you want to raise: national security, taxes, economics, individual prosperity, domestic security. It\u2019s all there: How to beat liberals; how to beat Democrats; how to take power from them. It\u2019s all there. The frustrating thing to me is it\u2019s being ignored. Or, some people are trying to redefine it. And I think I understand why, given some of the candidates here, based on the geography of their lives and where they live, it\u2019s embarrassing to admit they\u2019re a conservative because it causes them to be identified with a bunch of people they don\u2019t want to be identified with when they go to parties or engage in their social life or what have you, all of which is profoundly frustrating to me, which is when I\u2019m called an elite, I have to just chuckle. So that\u2019s what\u2019s frustrating to me. But I\u2019ll tell you something else that\u2019s frustrating to me. I\u2019ve been behind this microphone 19-and-a-half years, behind a microphone during this type of show for 23 years, going back to 1984. And yet, identity politics, which is that politics practiced by the left, still is not seen through. Single-issue can cause people to end up choosing or supporting somebody, something, some candidate that is truly anathema to the rest of the lives that they lead. But we keep plugging away. But just don\u2019t ask me to compromise my principles. You want to compromise yours, fine, but don\u2019t ask me to make you feel better by joining you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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