{"id":286059,"date":"2018-09-26T16:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=286059"},"modified":"2018-09-27T17:00:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T21:00:49","slug":"we-hear-from-a-transmogrified-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/09\/26\/we-hear-from-a-transmogrified-conservative\/","title":{"rendered":"We Hear from a Transmogrified Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is Diane. Thank you for waiting. It\u2019s your turn.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: So I am a converted-by-my-husband conservative. So I\u2019ve been paying attention to this Kavanaugh business. I\u2019m listening, reading, and just looking at this woman, the new accuser and her accusations, the first thing that popped into my head — which you may have already answered in your last segment — was, “If she\u2019s truly seeking justice,” which is what we have to assume they would be doing, “why wouldn\u2019t she have named the man who actually raped her or held her down or any of that, but possibly a couple of guys who were standing in line in maybe another room, if that\u2019s how she described it all? Doesn\u2019t she see that this is just making such a mockery of women who actually have valid…?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. I\u2019m convinced that there\u2019s not… People give lip service to that aspect of this, but obviously that\u2019s not a factor or none of this would be happening at all. If people were worried about the effect this is having on women who really, really have been abused and raped and mistreated, that\u2019s nothing but words. I don\u2019t think… It sounds good and it makes you look like you\u2019re thoughtful and so forth, but I don\u2019t think that enters into anybody\u2019s minds on the Democrat side in this. That\u2019s out the window.<\/p>\n

Your question, however, she is at these “rape train” parties and after the tenth one it happens to her but she only remembers the guy standing around. She only remembers the guy who spiked the punch but she doesn\u2019t remember the guy who did the nasty. Now, maybe because she was scared, panicked, traumatized, drunk, drugged, or what have you. It was dark. There could be any number of explanations for that. But you still do remember two other people.<\/p>\n

How do you do that? How do you so easily remember the two people that weren\u2019t actually doing that? They just were in the setup phase like the grounds crew, you know, getting the playing field ready to go, and they go to the dugout while the action happens. You remember those guys. But you don\u2019t remember the perp. That\u2019s a good question, Diane. Do you have an answer yourself for it? Can you put yourself in her shoes and how would that be?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, other than stating the obvious, that it seems to be a possible witch hunt and that she\u2019s just being used. Like you said, you had a caller yesterday who they\u2019ve been looking for people to do this all summer. So she just happens to be somebody willing to step up and put herself out there. But to me it\u2019s just unbelievable because she\u2019s a woman and if she had a valid complaint, you would think she would have come forward long before this.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, she had to make sure her coming forward made a difference, mattered.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It had to be after everything else had bombed out. You have an interesting pedigree. You said you were a relatively new conservative. You used to be a liberal; is that right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That is correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. How long ago was it that your transmogrification occurred?<\/p>\n

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CALLER: (giggles) Well, it wasn\u2019t that recent. When I started dating my husband, he listened to you daily. We probably still have boxes of cassette tapes of your show in your garage somewhere.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You need to send those to Legacybox<\/a>. You need to save those! Can you still listen to those? You still have a cassette player?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, sure, we have cassette players. (giggles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, okay. All right. Okay. Well, the reason I\u2019m asking is because, as former liberal, that\u2019s what you were born as, and so you probably still have certain things that tug at the suppressed or defeated overcome liberalism within your being. Does this tempt you to go back to liberalism? Does this sour you on conservatism or conservatives, that it\u2019s only — not only, but these are the guys being accused, other than Weinstein and the hollered people? Does it worry you or do you think it\u2019s all bogus?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, it doesn\u2019t worry me in the least bit. It only gives me a stronger conviction of what the Democrat Party is capable of, and the sad thing is, Rush, that they would… You know, I have very good friends, very good friends, family members — very liberal, very snowflakish — and you can\u2019t say a word around them. But the problem is, they don\u2019t actually listen. So the way that I was able to actually continue dating my husband was I started listening to your program because if I didn\u2019t, I had no ammunition to, you know, fight back with. But, you know, strangely enough the transformation happened after I started listening because you start realizing that you\u2019re missing out on a big portion of the story of what\u2019s actually happening. So, no, not at all. This does just the opposite to me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good. I\u2019m glad to hear that, because as a transmogrified conservative, there\u2019s always a temptation to… I have a theory. It\u2019s actually not mine. It\u2019s John O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s, who was an aide to Margaret Thatcher, an editor at National Review. It\u2019s called the Sullivan law, theorem, doctrine, or whatever. It basically says that any person or group that is not actively, daily conservative will become liberal. Because it\u2019s the most gutless choice you can make. It doesn\u2019t take any intellect commitment at all. All you have to do is feel. Conservatism is… Even though it\u2019s just flat-out nothing more than common sense, given the pop culture dominance of liberalism, conservatism is a fight. It\u2019s an active, daily pursuit. And the fact that you\u2019re able to hold on to your conservatism in the midst of all this? This is heartening to me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, it shouldn\u2019t be that difficult actually. Like you say, it\u2019s common sense, and the information\u2019s out there for everyone, but it\u2019s totally easier to be liberal and just to feel good about, you know, everything that\u2019s going on and that you want to do, but —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, wait. See, that\u2019s very… They don\u2019t. They feel. It\u2019s easy to be a liberal because you look at suffering, “Oh, my gosh, I hate that.” That makes you a good person. Doesn\u2019t take much to be a good person in liberalism. All you have to do is suffer. See suffering and suffer. You don\u2019t have to fix it, you don\u2019t have to solve it, you don\u2019t have to do anything but find out somebody to blame for it. — and it makes you a good person. But I didn\u2019t say you\u2019re happy.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not happy. There isn\u2019t a one of them that\u2019s happen. They don\u2019t even laugh! They are in constant state of rage or anger. As discussed yesterday, liberalism is really… It\u2019s encroached on our politics, but it\u2019s a psychological disorder. And they have various psychological maladies and distorted which they have entered the political process in an attempt to get even, fix, punish whoever is responsible for what\u2019s ever happened to people. And in that sense…<\/p>\n

I just saw Jeff Flake speaking from the floor of the Senate talking about how our politics has just become so debased. Our politics is so low and we\u2019ve got to stop it. This isn\u2019t gonna stop. The debasement of our politics, the debasement of our system is not gonna stop until the psychological disorders that are liberalism are kept out of politics and solved and fixed and addressed somewhere else. But as long as psychological disorders become embraced by the Democrat Party with promises of government solutions…<\/p>\n

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The reason they\u2019re never happy is \u2019cause they never get any of these problems solved. They never get anything fixed, and when they do get what they want, it\u2019s never enough. So as long as… I\u2019m being literal here. It\u2019s a theory Jim Geraghty had at National Review,<\/a> and I happen to understand it and I agree with it. As long as psychological disorders become evidence of political bias, discrimination, and unfairness, we don\u2019t have any hope. When the political system is blamed for and then responsible for addressing and fixing what are psychological disorders, there\u2019s no hope. That\u2019s not what politics is. But it is what it\u2019s become.<\/p>\n

And that is why, you know, decent or normal people, however you… I think most people know what decency and normalcy is, versus indecency and abnormal. But as long as the indecent and abnormal can overwhelm the system with their disorders and demand that the purpose of government and politics is to address these disorders… Remember these disorders result from these people are victims because somebody\u2019s done something to \u2019em. Somebody was mean to \u2019em, mistreated them or whatever.<\/p>\n

“The political system has to fix that!” (sigh) That can\u2019t happen. We\u2019ve been trying. We\u2019ve had the Great Society. We have had you name it. We\u2019ve had government programs to address every freaking liberal problem there is, and all they\u2019ve done is become more widespread. They\u2019ve not become fixed or repaired because it can\u2019t be done. So liberalism now proceeds on the basis that there are people responsible for the unhappiness, the misery, the inequality, the injustice that the psychologically disordered are feeling.<\/p>\n

That happens to be us, folks. We conservatives, Christians, are largely responsible for the unhappiness and misery because we\u2019re racist, sexist, bigot… You know the drill. So we have to be erased. We have to be eliminated, because we\u2019re mean-spirited and all that, and the political system then has to accommodate. And since the political system can\u2019t fix any of these disorders, they have to be treated or accommodated — which usually is money and punishment aimed at people who are said to be responsible for the unhappiness.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s how you get Black Lives Matter hating cops. That\u2019s how you get militant activists on the left hating religion, and any of the other institutions that have defined America and its greatness. It\u2019s why the Constitution is not safe. They believe the Constitution in it has it inbred unfairness and discrimination and so forth. So that pretty much sums it up. But you wouldn\u2019t even find a lot of agreement with the principles I\u2019ve just stated, the concepts. But I think they\u2019re undeniable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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