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RUSH: Now, I want to remind all my Republican friends that there are many states after Iowa and New Hampshire where the Republican populations are far more indicative of the conservative base, and to get caught up in what happened in Iowa, to get caught up in what\u2019s going to happen in New Hampshire as though they\u2019re the only two states that matter and that they\u2019re going to determine the fallout on both parties is a little bit over the top. <\/p>\n

Iowa is a caucus; it\u2019s a weird setup. New Hampshire allows independents to vote in the Republican primary, which is why McCain is doing as well as he is doing, and it\u2019s why the media want this to be a bellwether against Romney. I mean, Pat Buchanan came in second. He came in a very strong second in New Hampshire in 1992. Now, I\u2019m not saying that these contests are not to be taken seriously here, and that they\u2019re not to be fought and to be won, but we don\u2019t want to get ahead of ourselves. New Hampshire is no longer the conservative barometer it used to be. The state has changed, it is now quite liberal. A lot of people who used to live in Massachusetts have moved into New Hampshire to escape New Hampshire\u2019s high taxation and other problems. New England generally the northern states, states like Iowa, is not where the conservative base resides in large numbers. The Drive-By Media would love to destroy the conservative coalition. They would love to destroy the conservative base to the Republican Party. That\u2019s why they are promoting Huckabee; it is why they are promoting McCain. <\/p>\n

The Drive-By Media, ladies and gentlemen, will tell us each and every day who the true conservatives in the Republican primary are, and they will tell us by virtue of who they attack and also by virtue of who they prop up. They are propping up McCain; they are propping up Huckabee. The Drive-By Media hate conservatives. They want to destroy conservatism. It is the bulwark standing in their way of power and monopolistic control of all the apparatus of the country, government, media, and everything else. It\u2019s one of the best indicators I can offer you. If you\u2019re asking who is the genuine conservative out there or who is most conservative, who is most liberal on the Republican side, just take a look at who the Drive-Bys are enamored of and you will be able to answer the question yourself without me having to tell you. Why do you think that Senator McCain is making his big stand in New Hampshire? Because he did well there in 2000 and because he knows he runs really well with independents. He knows that New Hampshire is not a big conservative state. <\/p>\n

If McCain were running on a genuine conservative agenda he\u2019d be focusing on South Carolina for example, but he\u2019s not. He\u2019s focusing in New Hampshire because he thinks conservatives can be outnumbered there by this new influx of independents. You know, he\u2019s up there in New Hampshire, if you listen to McCain, touting his left-wing environmental agenda with Joe Lieberman, for crying out loud. Now, recently there has been an endorsement that have people scratching their heads. ‘Jack Kemp, supply-sider, endorsing McCain? What\u2019s this all about?\u2019 I\u2019ll give you two reasons, and I\u2019m just hazarding my own guess here, but I think it\u2019s the old boys club in Washington, the inside the Beltway establishment apparatus, and the dirty little secret: Congressman Kemp is an open borders guy. So is Senator McCain. Have you noticed that in these forums and debates, McCain doesn\u2019t want to talk about immigration; he doesn\u2019t want to talk about campaign finance reform; he doesn\u2019t want to talk about the things that genuinely rile conservatives? He wants to sweep those issues under the rug, and try to redefine what those issues were all about and what his position was on both of them. <\/p>\n

Now they\u2019re saying if Romney finishes second, he\u2019s finished. How can that be? How can coming in second in the first two states finish somebody? If he comes in second, it may disappoint some people, but it also means that in these two states he\u2019s the only Republican to win high spots in both. The idea that anybody\u2019s finished after New Hampshire and Iowa is absurd. It\u2019s Drive-By Media spin designed to dispirit and depress people. They\u2019re out there saying, ‘Where does Romney go after New Hampshire?\u2019 Where do any of them go? It\u2019s wide open! They go on to the next primary! South Carolina and Michigan. That\u2019s where they go. For the Beltway crowd — not just the media, but for people that live and work inside the Beltway — to make conclusive statements about who\u2019s going to win and who won\u2019t based on all this — two states — is nuts, at least as far as the Republicans are concerned. There is no one candidate that has any front-runner momentum right now at all on the Republican side.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I know it\u2019s easy to get caught up in the spin of the Drive-By Media — and not just the Drive-Bys, but the whole inside-the-Beltway crowd — making conclusive statements about who\u2019s going to win and who won\u2019t based on Iowa and New Hampshire, at least as far as the Republican Party is concerned — no one candidate has any front-runner momentum right now. Listen to this. Rasmussen Reports Daily Presidential Tracking Poll for yesterday shows McCain and Huckabee tied at 19%, Giuliani at 17%, Romney at 15%, and Fred Thompson at 13%. At some point, we\u2019re going to get past these states that work for Huckabee and McCain. But there\u2019s no clear front-runner on the Republican side. The only thing that you could say that might happen to somebody on the Republican side after two states is that expectations weren\u2019t met. Now, it\u2019s different on the Democrat side. You can see the panic in Hillary\u2019s camp. You can see a big slide in her national polling. Obama has overtaken her nationally. He\u2019s up double digits in two polls, in New Hampshire for tomorrow night. Unlike Romney, Romney has never led in the national polls, even though they talk about him as the front-runner, he never has led in the national polls. <\/p>\n

You know who has led in the national polls has been Giuliani. But they speak of Romney as the front-runner; they attack him as the front-runner. Mrs. Clinton has always been the big front-runner in the Democrat Party, and she\u2019s lost that status now in these national polls. And she\u2019s losing to somebody, Barack Obama, who has absolutely no experience or qualifications to be president — and that is astounding, and it goes directly to her lack of likability. Now, I\u2019m not sure she can\u2019t recover someplace. She may be finished. I don\u2019t know. The point is, nobody knows what\u2019s going to happen. Even after tomorrow night, nobody knows, and it\u2019s silly for anybody to start saying that they do. I wouldn\u2019t be completely certain of her being finished. You know, she still has the support of the party machine. Now, that could be threatened. The stories are out there that Mrs. Clinton\u2019s money is drying up. I thought she\u2019d raised a hundred million bucks! I thought she\u2019d raised all this money. Now we\u2019re getting stories, that her donations are drying up; staffers are becoming dispirited. Maybe so. We\u2019ll just have to see how it plays out. There\u2019s no doubt she\u2019s in deep trouble. Make no mistake about that. But to say that she\u2019s finished, at this stage, is a bit premature. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you, there\u2019s so much conventional wisdom out there. I, for one, just want to repeat this: I don\u2019t think McCain\u2019s a lock in New Hampshire tomorrow night. I believe these debates matter. I believe people in New Hampshire watch \u2019em. In both the Saturday night debate and the Sunday night forum, McCain did not do well. I don\u2019t care what anybody tells you. You can look at the focus groups and see for yourself: He did not do well. He came off as sinister, mean, and strident on Saturday night. Sunday, he came across as tired and out of it, as though somebody had said, ‘Look, you\u2019re a little too strident last night on Romney. Back off,\u2019 which he did — and then for McCain to sit there and whine and moan about attack ads? Come on! This ain\u2019t beanbag! Politics is a blood sport. You know, McCain has run his share of attack ads. But these guys have been in politics all their lives. They\u2019ve had attack ads run against them. They act like big babies, they can\u2019t deal with attack ads. And, by the way, what\u2019s an ‘attack ad\u2019? You know, McCain is just like the Democrats in this regard. If you run an ad that\u2019s truthful about their record, all of a sudden you\u2019re ‘attacking\u2019 them. There have been some truthful commercials about McCain. <\/p>\n

McCain has been the author of the first official intervention in the First Amendment in this nation\u2019s history: McCain-Feingold. He has opposed tax cuts, the Bush tax cuts. So to put that out there in an ad is not an attack ad. It happens to be true. You have all this sensitivity about these attack ads. You don\u2019t see Romney whining and moaning about these things. You don\u2019t see Fred Thompson whining and moaning about these things. You don\u2019t see Rudy whining and moaning. But you do see Huckabee and McCain whining and moaning about this. It\u2019s unbecoming, because this is what it is. Politics is what it is. I\u2019ll tell you what I actually think. This is based on truth, and it is in fact truth: the media are out to break up conservatives. I was instant messaging with F. Lee last night, and to me, there is no question. I spent this weekend in intense study of what\u2019s going on up there. I watched more political TV this weekend than I have watched probably in the last six months. My instincts were confirmed: Media are out to break up conservatives, dispirit us, destroy us, destroy the Republican coalition of the evangelicals; the social and fiscal conservatives; they\u2019re out to destroy that.<\/p>\n

They want to destroy that by getting McCain or Huckabee nominated. That\u2019s how they intend to do it, and we have pundits, including some who are conservative, who are falling all over themselves to be the first to announce permanent realignments, permanent trends; the end of this era, the beginning of that era. In truth, all they have to be making such sweeping predictions is the results of the Iowa caucuses, where a couple hundred thousand people voted, 10% of those eligible, in a very odd format. Now New Hampshire is coming where the more liberal or populist candidate in the Republican Party now benefits from the flood of independents who vote in the GOP primary and skews the results, which means that you cannot draw conclusions about the Republican Party based on New Hampshire but they will anyway, and you\u2019ve got to keep this in mind. Whatever happens in New Hampshire tomorrow night, the Drive-Bys are going to try to spin this as the end of conservatism as it\u2019s known. Now, let me be blunt about some things here. Governor Huckabee does evangelicals a disservice when he uses faith to promote what is a liberal, populist agenda — an agenda that includes large tax increases, which were not offset by tax cuts. <\/p>\n

I hope you saw the question from Romney last night to Governor Huckabee about taxes. He wouldn\u2019t answer the question. He got very testy, and said, ‘I\u2019m not talking to you, Mitt! I\u2019m talking to the moderator, Chris Wallace.\u2019 So Wallace simply repeated Mitt Romney\u2019s question. <\/p>\n

‘Well, did you raise taxes, a net increase, after all your cuts and increases?\u2019 <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t want to answer the question. When he finally got around to answering, he said, ‘Well, the courts made me do it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Court orders were not responsible for $500 billion of tax increases, folks. I hate to tell you. There\u2019s no governor that can say a court made him raise taxes that many times. It was a bit sad. The Huckabee agenda is large tax increases, not offset by tax cuts; open borders; amnesty for illegals, particularly their kids. He was also nailed on that last night. <\/p>\n

‘Well, governor, you\u2019ve said that you want the kids of illegals to stay and go to school.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, federal government hadn\u2019t done its job. Kids have to be educated.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yeah, but you said that you want to give college students in-state tuition, and federal government doesn\u2019t say anything about that.\u2019<\/p>\n

And then he said, ‘Well, what\u2019s really going to happen here is when we deport all these illegals, they\u2019re going to take their kids with them, if they go out of school, have to go back to Mexico, get in line, they come back, they\u2019ll go back and finish school.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Uh, but I thought it was great to have \u2019em here and stay in school?\u2019<\/p>\n

It was just all over the ballpark. And then McCain trying to defend his amnesty (laughing) by saying it wasn\u2019t amnesty because there was a $5,000 fine. Yeah, right. Let me say a couple of things about that $5,000 fine. Do you know who\u2019s going to pay the fine, if anybody? Their employers are going to pay the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill. But besides that, there\u2019s no enforcement in that bill, or there wasn\u2019t. Who\u2019s going to track these people down and collect the money? What if they don\u2019t have it? If the $5,000 is paid, then okay, there\u2019s no amnesty. There\u2019s a big penalty, right? No amnesty? It\u2019s an annuity! If you\u2019re going to get five grand from these people and that puts \u2019em on the Social Security rolls and on the welfare rolls, it\u2019s an annuity! It is amnesty! He\u2019s going out of his way to say it wasn\u2019t amnesty, but it is — and in New Hampshire, you know, they\u2019re not so concerned about it, the independents that have moved in there from Massachusetts, but this kind of stuff is not going to fly once we get out of New Hampshire. Once we get out of South Carolina, some of the border states, it ain\u2019t going to fly, folks. Amnesty is not amnesty because we\u2019re going to fine them $5,000? <\/p>\n

Everybody knows they\u2019re not going to be tracked down to be forced to pay the five grand in the first place! Our memories are not that short, here, Senator McCain. We remember this amnesty bill like it was yesterday. Our memories are not short on campaign finance reform, either. I mean you\u2019re out there complaining. I thought you got the money out of politics! I thought you got all the mean-spirited out of politics. Now you\u2019re out there complaining about ‘attack ads from Mitt Romney.\u2019 I guess we need some more campaign finance reform, don\u2019t we, Senator McCain? (Big sigh) Anyway, back to Huckabee. You start granting amnesty for illegal aliens, that\u2019s going to hurt the incomes and jobs of church-going, middle class Americans. And, by the way, this includes negotiating with Islamic fascists: The Golden Rule, treat them like we\u2019d like to be treated and so forth? These Islamic fascists, they murder American soldiers. They\u2019re set on destroying Israel. They\u2019re threatening to kill President Bush when he touches down Wednesday in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n

There just is nothing Christian about dealing with the enemy the way Governor Huckabee has proposed doing it. McCain is running away from his opposition to tax cuts. He did this last night. He never mentions McCain-Feingold, anymore — we do — even though he wouldn\u2019t stop talking about it for years before this election. Senator McCain\u2019s support for more rights for the detainees and the closing of Club Gitmo, to me illustrates a serious weakness in terms of securing this nation. You know, open borders and closing the borders is as much about national security as it is about the illegal immigration issue. Senator McCain has repeatedly joined with Feingold and Kennedy and other liberals to undermine one conservative issue after another, and this will be remembered once we get out of New Hampshire. We\u2019re finished with Iowa. Once we get out of these places and go to places where the Republican conservative base really is, then all these soothsayers and wise men inside the Beltway are going to be in for a huge shock. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Larry in Eugene, Oregon, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi Rush, I watched the Fox News forum last night. I thought Chris Wallace did an excellent job. I really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I haven\u2019t made a decision on a candidate. In fact, I\u2019d vote for any of them. They\u2019re all infinitely better than what the Democrats offer, that\u2019s my first point. But I\u2019m just a little disappointed you came out of the chute kind of focusing on some of the negatives of McCain and Huckabee, which I agree, that\u2019s valid constructive criticism I would hope, but I thought there was so much positive out of there, and if you don\u2019t mind, I\u2019ll give an example. I\u2019ll point out Rudy Giuliani, where he talked about going into poor neighborhoods and communicating to the people that Republican conservative programs help them to get out of poverty, it\u2019s a message that they don\u2019t hear enough of.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, now, wait, that\u2019s an excellent point. We\u2019ve got audio sound bites of all of this. I can\u2019t squeeze it all in, in the first hour. But I also — you know, I can\u2019t win. On Friday, everybody was upset with me because I won\u2019t lead and because I won\u2019t endorse, and because I won\u2019t tell you what I think. I come out today and say, ‘Okay, I\u2019ve intensely studied it this weekend, and here\u2019s what I saw, and here\u2019s what I think,\u2019 and now I\u2019m getting grief for that. Well, I will plug ahead using my instincts guided by intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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