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RUSH: Now, another thing, before we go to the break, this was last night, I was finishing show prep, and a dear, dear friend of mine in New York, is very, very much worried about me. ‘Rush, you\u2019re going to endorse McCain at some point, aren\u2019t you? You know, he\u2019s probably going to lose anyway, but if you don\u2019t endorse him you\u2019re going to get the blame. The whole Republican Party is going to blame you.\u2019 I wrote back, ‘How? I\u2019m irrelevant. I have been defeated. I have been relegated to the ash heap of the past.\u2019 ‘No, no, no, you know that\u2019s not true. They wish you were there, but you\u2019re never going to go there,\u2019 she wrote back. ‘You are going to get blamed for it.\u2019 And I said, ‘No, I\u2019m not.\u2019 I mean, some people will. But I laid down the marker on this last week. Let me lay it down again. <\/p>\n

A lot of people, not just my friend in New York, have been writing, expressing this sentiment to me. This is the big point. The failure of establishment Republicans, whether they be members of Congress, Washington and New York editorial writers, even some talk show hosts who live and work and socialize in that community, the failure of those people to uphold conservative principles during the last decade or more has resulted in the mess that they are now complaining about. This mess, this supposed fracture in the Republican Party, where everybody else has seen the light, but the talk show hosts are now Maoists, Trotskyites, Stalinists. We\u2019ve been isolated over here and we\u2019re being blamed for the problems they created. But this mess that exists is a reaction to them and their failures and their false promises. Now, these very same people are now demanding that the people they took for granted continue to follow them, continue to be swayed by their demeaning and condescending lectures. It wasn\u2019t that long ago when these people were on board, but in the past ten years they have sought a new definition of conservatism. They\u2019ve sought to put themselves at the head of it. It is a new definition of conservatism that is not conservative. <\/p>\n

This new definition of conservatism cannot be conservative because it requires, it relies on an expanding government to accomplish the so-called big ideas, when in fact, do you know what\u2019s really wrong with this campaign? Bob Herbert, of all people I\u2019m going to agree with, Bob Herbert in the New York Times, he\u2019s a liberal who writes for liberals in the New York Times. We have some conservatives who write for liberals in that party, but he\u2019s a liberal who writes for liberals, and he\u2019s asking basically about the Obama camp. He says, ‘Where\u2019s the big idea?\u2019 But you can ask that about anybody running: Where is the big idea? What is the big idea? Is anybody running on a big idea? Obama clearly isn\u2019t. Hillary clearly isn\u2019t. What\u2019s the big idea? It\u2019s out there. It\u2019s waiting to be grasped, embraced, and turned into a huge majority landslide victory. But nobody wants to embrace it, and that is Reaganism, constitutional conservatism. Instead, people are abandoning that and now blaming people like me for not abandoning it, too. But it isn\u2019t going to be my fault if things go to hell in a handbasket this November, and I have no idea how they\u2019re going to go. <\/p>\n

But the truth of the matter is, this isn\u2019t about Rush Limbaugh. It isn\u2019t about any single person. The same people in Washington and New York who like to write op-eds and editorials to themselves to show how smart they are and how in touch they are, are missing what\u2019s going on. I don\u2019t control the real disaffection conservatives are feeling for the Republican Party and for Washington generally. This isn\u2019t some manufactured view that\u2019s turned on and off by me among my audience. This is the result of years of contempt for the grassroots, years of neglect, false promises, pseudoconservatism. McCain became the presumptive winner after Super Tuesday. There have been four primaries since. And other than the state of Washington where the party got involved there, he\u2019s not — you would think, wouldn\u2019t you, that a party excited about the nominee in coming debates, coming votes, coming primaries, would rally behind that candidate to send a signal to the Democrats, to send a signal to the country. That\u2019s not happening. It\u2019s not happening, and it\u2019s not because of me. <\/p>\n

Everybody knows these conservatives in our base, they\u2019re independent thinkers. This idea here that those of us on talk radio become isolated, a bunch of Maoists, Trotskyites, Stalinists or whatever, and we\u2019ve abandoned the reservation, the reservation\u2019s abandoned us. So I\u2019m just laying down the marker. Because if McCain loses, the first thing that\u2019s going to happen is that these people who are — and, by the way, I\u2019m going to tell you something else. I\u2019m going to have to go to a break here pretty quick because I\u2019m going way long here. But I don\u2019t even think for these people it\u2019s about McCain. That\u2019s why four weeks ago their favorite candidate was Huckabee. What it\u2019s about is whatever can win that takes us away from Reaganism, and if they think McCain is the best guy to do that, then they\u2019re going to get behind McCain. But these people that I\u2019m talking about are actually supporting McCain because he\u2019s the vessel for them to redefine conservatism the way they want to. If it had been Huckabee, they\u2019d had gotten behind Huckabee as they did four weeks ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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