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RUSH: We go to Houston. This is Pete. You\u2019re next, sir. Thank you for waiting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure. I\u2019m a long-term — longtime Dittohead. And my point is that you\u2019ve become an ineffectual wimp. I believe you\u2019re ineffectual in that since Ronald Reagan and the Contract of America [sic] under Newt Gingrich, conservatism has been in retreat. You\u2019re a wimp because you have the biggest microphone, and you\u2019re not standing up to reverse the destruction of conservative principles. And, you know, I think the result is that I don\u2019t know which way to vote. I either can vote for a Democrat, who I know will cause a very significant —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, now. Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute. I\u2019m going to give you a chance to take that back. Do you really want to say as a member of this audience that you don\u2019t know which way to vote until I give you guidance?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No. What I\u2019m saying is that I\u2019m in a quandary about how to vote because I can either vote for the Democrat — who I think will cause very severe, almost unrecoverable damage to this country — or I can vote for a Republican, who will cause significant damage to this country; and frankly, in a lot of ways, I\u2019d rather see the Democrats do the damage.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, this is a theory we\u2019ve discussed numerous times on the program. I mean, it is a perplexing question. If you do think, as you just said, that the country is going to go down the tubes either way — and a lot of people think so because of the large majorities that the Democrats are going to have in the House and Senate — then who would you rather get the blame for it when it happens, the Democrats or the Republicans?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you asking me which way you should vote?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well… (laughing) That\u2019s a personal decision.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because I\u2019m an ineffectual wimp.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Well, no. I think I\u2019m going to make up my own mind and but for the Supreme Court selections, I think I would have gone with the Democrat, frankly. But I still can\u2019t quite… I keep coming back to Supreme Court. I hate it because I feel like this triangulation that\u2019s going on that the Republicans have been using, they learned it from the Democrats, and they take us for granted and they keep trying to go to the middle and compromise just like I guess Bill Clinton started, and therefore they\u2019re void of their original principles. And I don\u2019t know how to stop it, and if we don\u2019t stand up and show \u2019em and let them lose their offices, but that\u2019s all they\u2019re interested in doing is retaining their positions. I don\u2019t know how else to get their attention.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you would think back to 2006 and the loss would have gotten their attention.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It hasn\u2019t, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It doesn\u2019t appear that it has. It may take even more failure for their attention to be focused. I want to go back in our limited amount of time here, Pete, I want to go back. You said I\u2019m an ineffectual wimp because I\u2019m not doing what I could be doing to, what, revive or promote conservatism. What am I supposed to do? What would you like me to do? What do you see me doing?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, one thing would be to articulate a strategy to get the elected Republican officials to see the error of their ways. If I vote for Obama, that\u2019s going to be a vote of protest. Now, if I do it myself, which I still may do, it\u2019s not doing a whole lot unless I\u2019m joined with a whole bunch of other people who feel the same way I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so you are suggesting — and correct me if I\u2019m wrong — that I just come out with it and as we get closer to the election just urge conservatives to vote for Obama, because it\u2019s the only way to send a message to the Republicans and conservatives who are not listening to us? Is it a step like that that you…? Is that what you think would be non-wimpy, would be more of a leadership course of action?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I look to you for guidance. I do. I think that you\u2019re a lot smarter on these issues than I, and therefore I would like for you to help me with the quandary I\u2019m in, and I\u2019d like to get some guidance from you, and hopefully you can think of or develop a strategy that would solve this very significant problem that we\u2019re facing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let\u2019s cut to the chase here. The strategy is: How in the hell do we turn the Republican Party back to conservatism? That\u2019s essentially what you\u2019re asking?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When you strip away all this other BS, that\u2019s it. How do we do it, and you think I\u2019m a wimp because I have not come up with a strategy to cause that to happen?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you put yourself out front and if you\u2019re going to be a leader, lead. Don\u2019t follow. I think you should be the point guy to lead us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you think I need to do something besides this radio show is what you\u2019re saying, beyond the Golden EIB Microphone and do some other thing. Because what I\u2019m doing here does not constitute leadership, even though I\u2019ll make you a prediction. Regardless what happens in this election. When we get to December, January, when the postmortems are written and conceived, you know there is one place that everybody is going to point to and say: ‘You know, the one guy that didn\u2019t waver from principles, the one guy that didn\u2019t care what they said about him — the one place where you could constantly be assured that you were going to hear what you believe articulated, represented, and promoted — was the EIB Network.\u2019 It was right here. You won\u2019t find that in the Republican Party; you won\u2019t find it in the McCain campaign. Now, I don\u2019t know if that constitutes leadership to you — and I\u2019m not trying to be argumentative with you, don\u2019t misunderstand; nor confrontational, nor contentious. I don\u2019t know if that constitutes leadership to you or not, but what we do here on the radio has confines, and it has boundaries. The countryside is strewn with the carcasses of media people who thought they could take their so-called popularity and either get elected or start having impact in the actual area of policy, hands-on policy. There\u2019s a theory I\u2019ve always lived by: You have to know who you are. You have to love what you do, know what it is, be satisfied with it, and you also have to know what it\u2019s not cut out for, what you\u2019re not made for, what you\u2019re not cut out for — and in my case I\u2019ve just always followed my instincts, and my instincts have not told me to leave the radio show and run for office anywhere or become somebody\u2019s spokesman or buy television time in the millions of dollars on the networks at night and make speeches to America.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Then find that shining knight that can do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But that\u2019s the closest I\u2019ve come. I have considered doing that. In the little, bitty neurons of thought, I have had these little ideas that spring up now and then and I\u2019ll be watching the news — or a program like today — and I\u2019ll say to myself, ‘Somebody needs to have some national TV time here buy a half hour every now and then and just address the American people.\u2019 I don\u2019t know if they would sell it to me. (laughing) I don\u2019t know, but sometimes I think about that, but that\u2019s as far as I go beyond the radio show. <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: People say, ‘Why don\u2019t you do a television show?\u2019 I have no desire to do a television show!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, can you identify the political leader that will take us forward?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Then that\u2019s what\u2019s missing. Let\u2019s find that person or that group of people.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, his name is being bandied about a little bit too frequently these days, and I don\u2019t want to be constantly talking about this because it will put pressure on him. Bobby Jindal is a name I want you to remember. Thirty-six-year-old governor of Louisiana. Mike Pence, congressman from Indiana in the House of Representatives. Look, I gotta run here, Pete. There\u2019s a farm team out there, but time is what it\u2019s going to take for this team to get to the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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