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RUSH: Rick in Charlotte, North Carolina — I want to grab a phone call quickly. Great to have you with us, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, my friend, Rush. My friend, Rush, you have really picked a pretty interesting way to fight this situation regarding Huckabee. About two weeks ago, starting on the Monday that you left, Mike Huckabee has been subjected to the biggest… job you could imagine among all of these candidates, among Republicans. He\u2019s going to go in bloodied, beaten, brutalized, and hobbled because you and other guys — and your big pulpit here over the microphone — have just been running him through the mill.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rick? Now, Rick, be very careful here. Do not rewrite history to the man with the perfect memory: me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I was sitting here minding my own business bothering nobody, not endorsing anyone, when somebody on Huckabee\u2019s staff lashed out in such a way that I was unable to ignore it and avoid it, because it had seminal meaning as to who Huckabee is and what his campaign is, and what they are. I simply responded to it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, if you responded, that\u2019s okay. I can understand you defending yourself and they have to defend themselves, too, but what I\u2019m trying to say is that he\u2019s been held up to a standard that no other Republican candidate has been subjected to, namely his words have been parsed just… If you remember, of course, with your Donovan McNabb myth that they tried to… They parsed your words and wrongly did to you, and same thing with —<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: — Michael J. Fox —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s the big leagues. I don\u2019t know who you\u2019re talking about parsing Huckabee\u2019s words. While he was in the lead, the Drive-By Media was promoting this guy left and right. Now they\u2019ve moved off of Huckabee. They wanted Huckabee to win Iowa. They want Huckabee (or wanted Huckabee) to get the nomination, for reasons not in any way related to the fact that they love Huckabee. The reason that the Drive-Bys and Democrats are so excited about Huckabee is because — and I\u2019m telling you this from their perspective, folks. This is not my opinion. It is my opinion of what liberals think and the Drive-By Media. But they hate the religious right. They despise activist evangelical Christians, because activist evangelical Christians frighten the bejeezus out of liberals — and, of course, there\u2019s no bejeezus in liberals, and so they\u2019re empty after they\u2019re frightened. So here comes Huckabee, and they\u2019ve been looking for ways, folks, to get rid of the influence of the Christian right for years in the Democrat Party and in the Drive-By Media. So here comes Huckabee. He\u2019s running as an evangelical. He is running using identity politics.<\/p>\n

Identity politics is: ‘Vote for me, I\u2019m an evangelical! Forget everything else you know about me. Forget what my issue stands are. Forget my record. Forget my past. I\u2019m a Christian!\u2019 That\u2019s identity politics, and usually the left does that: ‘Vote for me, I\u2019m the black guy!\u2019 ‘Vote for me, I\u2019m the gay guy!\u2019 ‘Vote for me, I\u2019m the lesbo!\u2019 ‘Vote for me, I\u2019m the woman!\u2019 Mrs. Clinton has tried identity politics in playing the gender card, for example. Now, we Republicans and conservatives generally don\u2019t do that, but Huckabee did. So the Drive-Bys, the media said, ‘Whoa! Here\u2019s a chance. We build this guy up; we get him the nomination, and then in the general election we destroy him, and in the process of destroying Huckabee…\u2019 See, they were not parsing his words. They were ignoring his words, Rick. They weren\u2019t paying attention to his record or anything. They were helping him along with the identity politics business. Their intention was to destroy him — and, in their minds, the entire Christian right once and for all if they could get him the nomination. Now they\u2019re promoting McCain. <\/p>\n

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