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RUSH: To the phones, Sue in Irvine, California, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s a privilege to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve admired you for years, but I have to admit, I\u2019ve got a little problem, a little question. I\u2019m afraid that your Operation Chaos is affecting the Republican Party in a negative way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How so?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I realize that John McCain wasn\u2019t your candidate, and he wasn\u2019t my candidate. But he\u2019s our candidate, and I think you spend too much time criticizing him and making fun of his voice, and I\u2019m afraid you are maybe affecting Republicans who may be on the fence. You\u2019re making him sound like he\u2019s just like Obama, just like Hillary, and when it comes time to vote, there are going to be too many people who are gonna say, ‘Why should I bother to vote? They\u2019re all alike.\u2019 <\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, if that happens to be the case, there will be one person responsible for that, and that will be Senator McCain, not me. Senator McCain is the one actively seeking Democrat votes. Can I give you the headline to a story here? This is a story from Politico.com, and it\u2019s from March 27th, ‘GOP Looks to McCain Democrats.\u2019 The Republican Party is looking to attract Democrats, Sue, in order to elect Senator McCain. Senator McCain gives a speech at Annapolis today, and he basically tells the achievers of this country, the people who are working, that they are cynical and lazy, and that they have had wealth come to them too easy and they need to go out and do public service. He needs to give that speech to the people in the entitlement industry in this country who are sitting around waiting for handouts from their fellow citizens. I wish someone… You know, the Republican Party is the home of people who believe in American exceptionalism, and Senator McCain\u2019s speech is not about American exceptionalism. He\u2019s clearly targeting liberal Democrats as his support base.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I understand he says some of the things that we don\u2019t approve of, but doesn\u2019t he ever do anything that you do approve of, that is positive? Because there\u2019s going to come a time when we all have to make a choice at the polls, and you keep tearing him down and pointing out all the bad things that he does, and which you disagree with.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, I\u2019m ‘tearing him down\u2019 by pointing out what you just called the bad things that he does. Am I supposed to ignore those? You know, I made a speech over the weekend at a super-secret location, to a super-secret bunch of people. The speech is off the record. Since I gave the speech, I can talk a little bit about it. During the speech itself, I spoke up for conservatism, and I said to the group like I\u2019ve said on this program, ‘I am befuddled. The Republican Party has three recent examples of how to win huge landslides and change the direction of this country: two landslides in \u201980 and \u201984 and taking over the House in 1994, and the party has abandoned it for whatever reason, and now we\u2019re seeking to expand our party by becoming like liberals and Democrats.\u2019 I said, ‘I\u2019m an American first, a conservative second, and a Republican third.\u2019 <\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And I gave some of the criticisms to go to group of Mr. McCain that you\u2019ve heard me give on this program. Then we all sat down and had dinner. After dinner during the Q&amp;A some voice in the crowd when I was answering a previous question, said, ‘Get over it,\u2019 which is essentially what you are asking me to do in a politer way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. No. No, no, no, I\u2019m not. Not at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there\u2019s a… I want to finish the story. This guy said, ‘Get over it,\u2019 and I came as close to losing it as I have in a speech to a friendly crowd. I said, ‘Get over it? You\u2019re asking me to get over my principles! You\u2019re asking me to get over what I think is best for this country. You\u2019re asking me to get over what I think needs to be done, and that is liberals need to be defeated and not joined and not appeased,\u2019 and I had my napkin in my hand and I threw it on the floor, and I sort of didn\u2019t shout, but I was pretty loud and muttering an obscenity, and I kept going. It\u2019s frustrating.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s frustrating as hell!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Do you think that he is going to change because these things that you say?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No! He\u2019s 70 years old. He\u2019s not going to change anything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s John McCain. He\u2019s smarter than everybody. He\u2019s not going to change anything. I\u2019m not trying to get him to change.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You think that the Republicans are going to go for all of this, and rush to the polls to vote for him because of all this?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because of all what?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because of the way you\u2019re talking about him?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. I think if he doesn\u2019t get Republican votes, it\u2019s because of the way he\u2019s talking.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I thought we wanted to win.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We do.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. And you say that all this is helping him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uhhhh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You said it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I hope it is, in a roundabout way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, let me put it to you the other way, Sue. If I were to come out and endorse Senator McCain, if I just threw my principles to the wind and came on this show tomorrow and said, ‘You know, I\u2019ve rethought this, folks, overnight. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything better we can do. Senator McCain, he\u2019s my guy,\u2019 and I started singing his praises, A, I\u2019d lose my audience, but B, all the liberal Democrats, independents who are going to vote for him would scram, if they think that I all of a sudden like him. The worst thing I could do is come out and endorse the guy. In fact I got an audio sound bite saying so. You want to hear it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want you to hear it. Let\u2019s start with 24. This is Alexandria, Virginia.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fox 5 Washington correspondent Patrick McGrath spoke with Edward Pritchard, a McCain classmate in high school, and Pritchard, the friend of McCain, said this about McCain.<\/p>\n

PRITCHARD: I am more of a Democrat than I am a Republican. So if John were what Rush Limbaugh wanted him to be, I couldn\u2019t be for him. I mean, I just can\u2019t be for a extreme right-wing Republican, but we all know John is not. I think it makes him a much stronger candidate, his ability to get middle-of-the-road voters.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There you have it. So, this guy who wants to vote for McCain. He\u2019s is a Democrat.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If I came out supporting McCain, this guy might think about it and go the other way.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no. That guy probably will stay home or vote for a Democrat. He might not vote at all.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Maybe so, but the point is he won\u2019t vote for McCain if I turn around. If this guy thinks I\u2019m supporting McCain, this guy is not, because he thinks I\u2019m a far right-winger. See, this is what bugs me. We gotta go out and we win with the middle-of-the-roaders? Do you know what happens to people in the middle of the road? They get run over. You know, this whole thing is mind-boggling to me! The recipe is there for how to win with (sigh).<\/p>\n

CALLER: We need another candidate and we\u2019re not going to get one, so…<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. That\u2019s so very true.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But you want to hear…? I\u2019ll throw you a bone out there, Sue.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I also told this group this Saturday night, the super-secret in the super-secret location. It\u2019s going to be tough, because McCain\u2019s who he is. Nobody tells him anything. Which is fine. I, by the way, have no problem with that. I don\u2019t like all these people got advisors with 15,000 pieces of advice every day. I like a guy who knows what he\u2019s going to do regardless of if I disagree with it or not. But he\u2019s promised to extend the Bush tax cuts. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s promised not to raise taxes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Promised to keep the capital gains rate where it is. We need to get that in a blood oath, no matter what. I don\u2019t care what the calamity. Mars —<\/p>\n

CALLER: He has to have a little help from Congress.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see? See?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now you\u2019ve opened a new can of worms.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well… (chuckles)<\/p>\n

RUSH: But —<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s the way it goes. You can make all the promises in the world, but if Congress —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, promises. No, no, no, no, no. I\u2019m running out of time. Let me clarify this after we come back after the break.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: If you can\u2019t handle the truth, you\u2019re going to go nuts here. Look at this headline: ‘GOP Looks to McCain Democrats,\u2019 and, of course, the Republican Party is just thrilled pink here because ‘recent polling data in March suggests that McCain\u2019s cross-party support surpasses that of either Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton,\u2019 and the Republican Party thinks that is great news, and that just makes me outraged. It just makes me livid. The Republican Party thinks it\u2019s great we\u2019re attracting so many Democrats. <\/p>\n

‘Rush, are you against Democrats voting for Republicans?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yes, if they\u2019re coming over and voting for us because our guy makes \u2019em think he\u2019s one of them. If Democrats are voting for a guy who thinks he\u2019s voting for a Democrat who calls himself a Republican, yes!\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘But, Mr. Limbaugh, Ronald Reagan, your hero, he had lots of support from Democrats.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yeah, but they came across as conservatives. They joined the Republican Party because they were conservatives, Mr. New Castrati.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘I don\u2019t like that name that you call us, Mr. Limbaugh.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Well, then start saying your S\u2019s right and maybe I will stop calling you the New Castrati.\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘You\u2019re making fun of the way I speak now?\u2019 <\/p>\n

‘Yes! You keep interrupting me.\u2019 <\/p>\n

McCain is reaching out. Look, Sue in Irvine, I know you\u2019re there. McCain is reaching out to liberals and Democrats. And it\u2019s a damn good thing that he can win over a few of them, because every time he does that — every time he opens his mouth in a way to attract liberals and Democrats — he loses more of the Republican base. It\u2019s not \u2019cause I\u2019m saying anything. It\u2019s because he is. If he wants to campaign on global warming to where he\u2019s indistinguishable from Obama and Hillary, or Algore; if he wants to campaign on closing Guantanamo Bay, if he wants to campaign on punishing the oil companies, and then if he loses the presidential election if he wants to, that will be why. I assure you that if McCain wins, he will say it was because of him and his agenda. You can\u2019t say if he wins it\u2019s because of him but if he loses it\u2019s because of me. (sigh) In fact, James Taranto at the Best of the Web had an analysis yesterday. It\u2019s right on. It\u2019s what I\u2019ve been saying here. The way this is headed… (sigh) This is why I said going into the break, I\u2019m depressed. Because McCain has said he\u2019s going to hold the line on taxes. He\u2019s gonna extend the Bush tax cuts. He\u2019s not going to raise taxes. We need that in a blood oath, to us, to his supporters, to his base, Republicans. <\/p>\n

But, there is this problem. Democrats may expand their majorities in the House and the Senate. Presidents like to get things done. Getting things done these days is defined by passing legislation. The Democrats are going to set the agenda on legislation, because they\u2019ve got the majority. You got a Republican president who likes working with them. (laughter) So then we\u2019d have to rely on a veto of any tax increase. I know that for those of you who are worried about the prices at the gas pump and the grocery store, capital gains and taxes, they don\u2019t relate to you right now. You\u2019re not interested in that. Capital gains tax cuts and I\u2019m interested in it because it represents economic growth. It represents the way out of this economic malaise that people think that we\u2019re in. But if he\u2019s not going to veto some of their legislation… Oh, jeez, we\u2019re screwed. It\u2019s just not necessary. I mentioned also at this speech on Saturday night, and I\u2019ve mentioned on this program. McCain almost quit the Republican Party in 2001. He was fed up over what happened at the South Carolina primary in 2000. He\u2019s the one that approached John Kerry (the haughty John Kerry) about being his VP candidate in 2004. And, of course, when I say this, some people say, ‘Prove it!\u2019 Prove it? It\u2019s everywhere, but okay. Sidney Blumenthal may not be the best of sources for people, big Clinton operative, loyalist. Sidney Blumenthal, this guy is… Let\u2019s just call him grassy knoll. This guy… It\u2019s indescribable. Anyway, he was at Barnes &amp; Noble bookstore somewhere, and said this. This is web audio. He said this about McCain.<\/p>\n

BLUMENTHAL: Although he doesn\u2019t want to talk to reporters about it now, there was a time — and I was privy to some of those who were, uh, involved, um, — did conduct, uh, negotiations through third parties about whether or not he would leave the Republican Party and become an independent more or less aligned in the Senate with the Democrats.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was happening about the time Jim Jeffords jumped — then you have 2001, 2002 — and then Blumenthal continued with this.<\/p>\n

BLUMENTHAL: I think where Republicans as a whole, even those that are suspicious, many of them, of McCain, uh, and have been angry at him in the past, uh, are much more disciplined as party members than Democrats are. So, uh, I think Republicans, uh, will rally behind their candidate, uh, to a greater degree than people might recognize, uh, right now. So I do not think, uh, this will hurt him. And, uh, if I were advising McCain right now, I would say, uh, he\u2019s slightly overreacting to his conservative base. I — I don\u2019t think he needs to do that so much. I think they don\u2019t have any choice right now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s for damn sure. There is no choice. Take your pick of the three. <\/p>\n

(playing of McCain spoof) <\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s ‘white comedian,\u2019 well known ‘white comedian\u2019 Paul Shanklin, as John McCain and Should I Stay or Should I Go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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