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RUSH: Morton Kondracke. ‘Apoplectic,\u2019 he says I was, after McCain\u2019s speech. Beltway Boys, Fox News Channel. He was with Bill Sammon filling in for Fred Barnes. This was Saturday, and Bill Sammon says, ‘No matter who gets to be president in November, I think there\u2019s going to be at least a slight cooling of US-Russia relations, but if it\u2019s McCain I think we\u2019re in for a deep chill.\u2019<\/p>\n

KONDRACKE: Yeah. Well, your friend Rush Limbaugh, who I — I heard talking about the speech, was apoplectic. He said that, uh, McCain is now sliding with our enemies. Guess who our enemies are? The Europeans, you know, that we fought all these wars alongside. Uh, look it, I liked the speech, and it — it indicated that McCain plans to be different in tone, at least, from the Bush first term where Cheney and Rumsfeld were basically, ummm, sticking their elbow in — in — in every country\u2019s eye and — and pretending that we could rule the world by ourselves, which — which we can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is scary, because Mort Kondracke is a moderate lib, and he\u2019s articulating here what he wants the Republican Party to be. Can we go back to the first term? What happened to Bush\u2019s first term? Somebody, just off the top of your head. What\u2019s the first thing…? (interruption) No, that\u2019s not what happened. What happened in Bush\u2019s first term? Come on! 9\/11. Right. I wonder how many of you out there, that was the first thing that came to your mind was 9\/11 when I said name something that happened in Bush\u2019s first term. Now, the reason that\u2019s relevant is because we had been attacked, Mort! We were not trying to bully the rest of the world into doing our work for us, and we were not going to go ask their permission. We had to defend ourselves. And, by the way, Mort, we spent 17 months at the United Nations trying every which way to bully the world into going along with us while they were violating their own resolutions and not enforcing them.<\/p>\n

My goodness how history is forgotten, even by the smartest journalists in the world. We tried everything we could to get them to go along — and we learned later that many of the politicians in the UK and in Germany and in France, had side deals with Saddam with the oil-for-food program. What are we supposed to do, go get permission to defend ourselves? Is that the new paradigm? John Kerry has finally triumphed, the global test? And this is what he heard McCain say? This is how we\u2019re going to now go do things? When I said enemies, I\u2019m talking about the people, Mort, in France — like de Villepin and Jacques Chirac — who clearly were not our allies and friends during this whole thing — and we\u2019ve now learned why. They had financial deals under the table with Saddam. Schroeder was not our friend! Don\u2019t tell me about World War II. What are we supposed to do, sit here and lose 3,000 of our citizens in less than an hour and a half and sit around and worry about whether the world thinks we\u2019re being bullies, when we strike out against those who killed our citizens? <\/p>\n

But yet this is what moderates see as the greatness of America down the road. Yes. ‘McCain plans to be different in tone, at least, from the Bush first term where Cheney and Rumsfeld were basically sticking their elbow in every country\u2019s eye, pretending we can rule the world by ourselves\u2019? Uh, what have I missed? What were we trying to rule? I thought all of this was a preemptive operation to keep additional attacks from coming, or happening, and to find out — to do our best — to track down those who\u2019d perpetrated the first series of attacks on 9\/11 and orchestrated them, masterminded them, and I think we succeeded, did we not? We got Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. We got Ramzi Binalshibh. We got all kinds of terrorists. We didn\u2019t get bin Laden, but so what? We got a lot of the people that were heads up in this. (sigh) Boy, what a disconnect. Mort continued here, saying this about Senator McCain.<\/p>\n

KONDRACKE: Two new McCain veep ideas. First, he should offer the vice presidency to Colin Powell, who may well not take it. If not Powell, then Christie Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey. Rush Limbaugh will go Krakatoa, but independents will like it, women will like it, and so will African-Americans, the whole — the whole package.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, so let\u2019s not pick somebody for their quality and their qualifications and how decent they are and what kind of president they might make, Mort. No, no, no, no! Let\u2019s pick somebody that reshapes the Republican Party as just a bunch of milquetoasts. Let\u2019s do that. This is where the Republican Party is headed. Mort\u2019s not a conservative, but he\u2019s no different than a lot of the conservative media inside the Beltway; this is exactly the way they\u2019re thinking, too. This is what I meant, long ago, when you guys got mad at me way, way back during the Republican primaries when it was still ongoing, I said, ‘We\u2019re looking at the death of the Republican Party as we know it today, if certain things unfold, and this is the kind of thing I\u2019m talking about.\u2019 The Republican Party will go back to being a Rockefeller, blue-blood, country club Republican Party again, only this time — and this was my point in the first hour — I think McCain can easily beat Obama, snapshot as of today. <\/line>It can happen, but if the election were today, McCain would easily beat Obama. And how\u2019s he going to do it? He\u2019s going to do it with a bunch of upset Democrats mad that Hillary didn\u2019t get it. He\u2019s going to get it with some independents, liberals, and moderates who like McCain on the basis that he, too, is a liberal independent moderate on a lot of things — and so the Republican Party, let\u2019s say they beat Obama. By the way, beating Obama, that\u2019s going to be heralded as a huge deal because Obama people faint, largest crowds ever in the history of politics! Why, people are talking. They\u2019re just enamored with Obama, and yet McCain beat him. How did he do it? Not with conservatives. He did it with liberals and moderates and independents. So the Mort Kondrackes of the world, they\u2019re going to throw the biggest party because they say, ‘See? Reagan was an aberration. Reagan wasn\u2019t even all that conservative. There aren\u2019t any real conservatives. This is the new Republican Party. This is how the Republican Party makes itself a majority party: by appealing to liberals and moderates and independents, not converting them to Republicans, just bringing them in to the party.\u2019<\/line><\/p>\n

So the lesson will be, this is what we will be told, and the elite analysts (the smartest guys in the room) will tell us that from here on out, if the Republicans want to remain the majority party — not just in the White House, but in the House of Representatives and the Senate — we must get candidates who can reach across the aisle and get Democrat votes. That will be the lesson. So the Republican Party has gotta become Democrat Party Lite. Whereas these kind of guys look at the Democrats as moderate leftists — or centrists, moderate, whatever, centrists with a little tilt to the left — they look at the Republican Party as centrists with a little tilt to the right. So, I warned you people — many, many weeks, months, maybe it\u2019s been a year ago now — that they\u2019re not just liberals who are trying to eliminate conservatism from majority status, but so were many Republicans. You\u2019re seeing that play out right before your very eyes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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