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RUSH: Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, as you know, we discussed in some detail or some length a piece that appeared Sunday in the Washington Post. The essence of the piece was that I am now irrelevant, that Senator McCain beat me in the South Carolina primary — even though I was not on the ballot. I\u2019ve been rendered irrelevant. No longer do conservatives and Republicans follow my advice. You heard all this yesterday. I\u2019m not going to relive it, but that was the essence of it. I also said during the program yesterday, during a heartfelt moment with a caller who was asking me a series of questions, I said, ‘It\u2019s possible that I might not even vote for the Republican nominee this year.\u2019 It\u2019s ‘possible.\u2019 Today, I\u2019m hearing from all over the fruited plain a Los Angeles Times blog has done an entire post on that and how frustrated I am and what it might mean. Other radio hosts all across the fruited plain are focusing on what I said about this yesterday. Fred Barnes in the Wall Street Journal today has a piece, the title of which is: ‘Now McCain Must Convince the Right.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, I\u2019m confused by all of this. I thought yesterday I was irrelevant and should just shut up. So why is what I said yesterday worth beans to anything? Why is it that I\u2019m the one being discussed? Why is it that I\u2019m the one being written about, when Sunday in the Washington Post and a couple other talk show hosts proclaimed me dead, irrelevant and in fact a problem? And, of course, there were the demands that I just shut up and stop talking about this. Here\u2019s Fred Barnes today: ‘John McCain has a problem. After winning South Carolina\u2019s primary last Saturday, he should be the overwhelming favorite to capture the Republican presidential nomination. He\u2019s not, at least not yet, and the reason is that he\u2019s alienated so many conservatives over the past eight years. Mr. McCain may become the Republican nominee anyway — in spite of thunderous opposition by conservatives including radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, former Sen. Rick Santorum, and American Conservative Union (ACU) head David Keene. Even then, to win the general election, he must find a way to reconcile with conservatives and unify the Republican Party.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Really? I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what his game is. I don\u2019t think unifying the Republican Party is the game here. I think going out and getting Democrats and independents and moderates is his game. But anyway, Mr. Barnes says, ‘Mr. McCain will have to take the initiative to repair the relationship, and he appears ready to do just that.\u2019 Then you jump to the last couple paragraphs of this piece that\u2019s in the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Barnes is advising Mr. McCain on reaching out to conservatives to ‘unify\u2019 the Republican Party, and he says this: ‘Spotlighting his conservative positions\u2019 would be a ‘start\u2019 for McCain. ‘A few gestures bound to gain national attention would help. Appearing at today\u2019s March for Life demonstration in Washington would underscore his anti-abortion voting record.\u2019 More on that as the program unfolds — and then Barnes writes this: ‘As Mr. McCain campaigns in Florida before next Tuesday\u2019s primary, a visit to Rush Limbaugh\u2019s home in Palm Beach to discuss conservative issues makes sense.\u2019 <\/p>\n

How can this be, Brian? Yesterday, I\u2019m irrelevant. I\u2019ve been told to shut up. I\u2019m being blamed for the problem. I\u2019m told that no longer do people follow my influence; I\u2019ve become the Republican establishment. The Republican establishment is dead! ‘They don\u2019t care about you anymore, Limbaugh. They\u2019re doing the exact opposite of what you say, Limbaugh. You\u2019ve lost it, Limbaugh,\u2019 they said, and they\u2019ve been saying this since 1988. Now today, Fred Barnes is suggesting that McCain look me up here in Palm Beach before the Florida primary. I have a similar idea. Why shouldn\u2019t Mr. Barnes call up Mitt Romney or Fred Thompson and ask to go by their house to discuss conservatism? Why do I have to sit around and talk to McCain about conservatism? What\u2019s going to happen there? You notice how this is working? Even though I\u2019m irrelevant, somehow these guys have got to get my stamp of approval. I, and perhaps others at talk radio, remain the holdouts here.<\/p>\n

So until McCain does this he\u2019s going to have problems unifying the Republican Party. Now, this doesn\u2019t jibe with the fact that I have no power anymore and that people are rejecting me. But it also presumes that McCain is the nominee. It also presumes that I\u2019m the one that needs to get my mind right, and McCain can come and do that. (McCain impression) ‘That\u2019s right, Limbaugh! It wouldn\u2019t take ten minutes because I will dazzle you, like I dazzled the North Vietnamese!\u2019 Okay, so I gotta sit here and be dazzled. Why should these other media guys not have to go talk to Romney or Fred Thompson or Rudy, in their homes to find out about conservatism? Fascinating! I mean, this is some position to be in, folks, as someone who\u2019s finished; who\u2019s been written off as irrelevant. This is not about me. Don\u2019t misunderstand. My ego is not hurt here. I\u2019m fascinated by the ebb and flow of this. I should be shut up; now they want me to talk to the guy, or him to talk to me.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We now move to the Los Angeles Times blog, where once again the irrelevant Rush Limbaugh is the sole focus. I don\u2019t want you misunderstanding this, folks. This does not hurt my feelings and I\u2019m not lashing back here. I\u2019m having fun with this. They\u2019re the ones who make all these points. Do you remember me running around (crying) ‘I don\u2019t matter anymore.\u2019 That\u2019s not what this is. I\u2019m amazed at what ‘irrelevant\u2019 has come to mean in the Drive-By Media. Anyway, this is Andrew Malcolm, who is one of the political bloggers at the LA Times and their blog called Top of the Ticket. Here\u2019s an excerpt: ‘Monday on-the-air he\u2019d had enough of these impure candidates and enough of all these questions about his endorsement and when it would come and how he\u2019d make his decision and he just blurted out to Jim in Kansas City and a few million others listening in: ‘I can see possibly not supporting a Republican nominee.\u2019 WHAT?! Across the country, people were dropping their coffee cups, choking on sandwiches, fainting and driving off the road. The king of conservative talk-radio not supporting the Republican nominee? Was Rush Limbaugh pulling &hellip; a James Dobson on his now nervous fans? ‘And I never thought that I would say that in my life. This stuff is very tough.\u2019 No kidding. Who\u2019d a thought? It\u2019s tough enough just listening to him go through this, let alone live it like he is. What\u2019s a genuine broadcast conservative icon to do? ‘You don\u2019t have a genuine down-the-list conservative,\u2019 he noted. So, he advised, a Republican voter must look at ‘variables.” He quotes me accurately throughout this thing. <\/p>\n

Now, my reaction, which is what makes this interesting after all, true? Not only was I said, on Sunday in the Washington Post and echoed by some inconsequential talk show hosts, to be without clout now, the clout\u2019s gone, the conservative South Carolina gave me the bird, is what they wanted to suggest. They also used to say I was in the tank for the GOP. Remember those days? Whatever the GOP did, I was right there. Limbaugh was nothing but a cheerleader. Now yesterday I mentioned the possibility that I can see not voting for the Republican nominee this year. It\u2019s just clear these people do not understand. I\u2019m in my 20th year and they still don\u2019t understand this show. They still look at this show through their clich&eacute;d prism. They do not understand it\u2019s so simple. I am a conservative who puts the country first, not a political party or a particular nominee. I didn\u2019t say I would not vote for the Republican nominee. I said I might not. Now, for all this talk about conservatism being dead, may I ask you people, you lovely, adorable, wonderful people in this audience, a question. Why are all the Republican candidates pretending to be Ronald Reagan, if the era of Reagan is over? If conservatism is over, why are they all trying to be Reagan, including McCain? How come McCain\u2019s not running on his amnesty record? Why is McCain not running on several aspects of his record that are not conservative? Why is he not doing this? Why has Romney become pro-life? Why does Huckabee pretend he never raised taxes and has always wanted border endorsement? Why does he do these things? Does that sound like conservatism is dead? <\/p>\n

You should have seen the Democrat debate last night. Ronald Reagan was a star. Hillary and Obama got into an argument over whether Reagan was praised by Obama, and all Obama said was he was a transformational figure. Reagan is captivating everything and who brought Reagan into all of this in this campaign — me, the guy who\u2019s lost all the clout. I start talking about Reagan, Reaganism, and conservatism, and a bunch of people, ‘Ah, the era of Reagan is over.\u2019 And yet every one of our nominees on the Republican side is doing their damnedest to fit into the Reagan mold. Does this sound like conservatism is dead to you? It sure doesn\u2019t to me. So these are fascinating things to watch. <\/p>\n

By the way, the Florida primary is Tuesday. Remember when McCain went into Michigan, and he was given great credit here by the Drive-Bys, straight talk, straight shooter, hit people right between the eyes, being really honest with them. He said, (paraphrasing) ‘Hey, you people in Michigan, some of these jobs you\u2019ve lost are not coming back.\u2019 Romney said, ‘What do you mean? We\u2019ll get \u2019em back.\u2019 The correct answer, they might not come back in the form in which they were lost, but the idea we can\u2019t modernize the Michigan economy, the idea we can\u2019t bring new kinds of jobs there is silly. For somebody to see these jobs are not coming back implies they\u2019re not going to try anything to get \u2019em back. Okay, and then the Drive-Bys, ‘Wow, that\u2019s the kind of straight talk we need. We need to tell people their future sucks. We need to tell people there\u2019s no hope. That\u2019s honest.\u2019 That\u2019s the kind of thing he gets praised for. He has done it again in the Florida primary. McCain told local reporters in a hurricane strike zone that he did not support national catastrophe insurance, a position certain to rankle some Floridians and perhaps draw fire from his opponents, namely Rudy. McCain said, ‘I believe that this nation and federal government has an obligation to help out in any tragedy or natural disaster. Very badly, we need to fix our ability to bring relief, help and assistance, both short term and long term, to the victims of disaster. I do not support a national catastrophic insurance policy. That insurance policy is there, and it\u2019s called FEMA, and it\u2019s called disaster preparedness and it\u2019s called addressing disasters.\u2019<\/p>\n

Now, if some of McCain\u2019s opponents are on the ball, they could say, ‘Well, John McCain said if you lose your home in a hurricane, it\u2019s not coming back. We\u2019re just not going to get those homes back.\u2019 Is FEMA going to rebuild your house? They may give you a trailer that will never get there. How conservative is this? (doing McCain impression) ‘Limbaugh, we\u2019ve got insurance, it\u2019s called FEMA. I\u2019m going to be in charge. It\u2019s going to work!\u2019 Okay, so the trailers are going to come in, the bottled water is going to come in, but can\u2019t buy catastrophe insurance, so got a hurricane that hits, it\u2019s going to happen again, and those homes that are lost won\u2019t be coming back. I don\u2019t know if any of our guys running against McCain have the ability to put it that way. Guidance from me, of course, irrelevant, since I have lost my clout. We lose homes in Florida, they\u2019re not coming back. Just like the jobs in Michigan. Quick call here before we go to the break. This is Joe in Dallas. Nice to have you, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Lifelong conservative, and what I wanted to say today was, you know, I\u2019ve been watching this battle with Hillary and Bill and Obama, and I have a great deal of admiration for Obama. I mean, he\u2019s taken the high road, and he seems to be just an honest young man, and when you\u2019re running against a couple of patent liars like he is, it\u2019s really different, and I\u2019m certainly not going to vote for him. I think just listening to the dialogue that you just had, instead of calling McCain McCain, I would call him a hurricane, because no one\u2019s going to shove McCain down the throat of us conservative Republicans. It\u2019s not going to happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not the throat that\u2019s the orifice I\u2019m concerned with.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, that, too. But, you know, we\u2019re just sitting here, we\u2019ve all pulled back our — most of us have pulled back our funding for the Republicans. They used to just put their hand out and get it. They don\u2019t get it anymore, and it\u2019s driving them crazy. And we\u2019re just waiting in the bushes. But McCain is not going to pass the litmus test for conservatives this time around, and we do have a choice. I think Romney, with all of his flaws, is certainly not Ronald Reagan, and I have a portrait of Reagan hanging over my door in my entryway to my house —<\/p>\n

RUSH: There is no Reagan. Reagan was just an expert at implementing the basic philosophies and foundation of conservatism, and he combined it with just a hugely charismatic, likable personality. Personalities are unique to each individual. But the conservatism survives. With Reagan, we\u2019re not talking about a cult of personality here, we\u2019re talking about fealty to things that we know work: the Constitution, future of the country, so forth and so on. Joe, I appreciate it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so Senator McCain\u2019s position is no disaster insurance for citizens, no catastrophe insurance for citizens. Fine. Good. Cool. But McCain says yes to Social Security and health care and in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants. So you see, ladies and gentlemen, there\u2019s nothing logical or conservative about holding these two positions. If we\u2019re not going to have catastrophic insurance for hurricanes in Florida or elsewhere, because it would be budget busting or whatever but we are going to provide Soc. Security and health care and in-state tuition benefits for illegals, why, how do you reconcile those two? McCain, by the way, is running around saying he\u2019s against Big Government spending. He\u2019s going to rein it in. We\u2019re going to get serious about this. Well, if that\u2019s true, he should never have been leading the biggest budget busting new program of all. You know what that is? What was the biggest budget busting new program of all, recently? No! Amnesty for illegals. Do you realize how much that would have cost? An enormous amount of federal tax dollars, that amnesty bill would have cost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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