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RUSH: Debbie in Appleton, Wisconsin, nice to have you on the EIB Network.<\/section>\n
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CALLER: Hi, Rush. You said you were up here?<\/section>\n
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RUSH: I was up there, yes.CALLER: How come I didn\u2019t know about it? I never heard about that.RUSH: Well, it wasn\u2019t public. It was not a public appearance. I went up there on business and I had dinner at Lombardi\u2019s Steakhouse in the Radisson.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure, sure. Well, I\u2019m nervous. My call is twofold, one to apologize and the other to thank you because I\u2019m kind of a reformed liberal and I absolutely used to despise you. I would listen to you. I\u2019m a sales rep. So I travel all the time. I would listen to you every so often and I would just scream at the radio and yell at you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Really? Most people that hate me, Debbie, don\u2019t listen. You are unique. You did listen and still hated me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I just had to yell at you because, you know, God forbid I am actually admitting, some people will be shocked, but I actually voted for Clinton twice and that kind of did it to me after that. Listening to you, you just made so much sense. So I have to thank you for that. But I\u2019m a big fan now and I can\u2019t even imagine. I look back now and think, ‘What?\u2019 Maybe I was possessed or something because I look back and think, ‘How could I have even thought these things. How could I have been a liberal?\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Were you talking back during the Clinton years, the Clinton administration?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. George W. was the first Republican I ever voted for and I\u2019m very happy I did. Still am.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I probably might be able to explain that, not psychologically in your case, but there might have been some things. If you\u2019ve been a liberal Democrat all your life, there were some things that really shook you guys up back then like losing the House in 1994 and then the attacks on Clinton for what he was. I mean, I think there was a cult of people that supported Clinton or just defended him, not because they loved him, but because who was attacking him. And one of those leading those attacks was, of course, me, El Rushbo. How do you go from such a passionate hatred or dislike to now becoming a fan?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, because what you\u2019re saying is absolutely the truth. You know, I\u2019m that typical person. You know, I started out where I was young and naive and, you know, when I was 40, basically when I was 40, you know, and my career started getting into full swing, I started, you know, with my daughter, I had a child, I\u2019m paying all these taxes, I started saying, ‘You know what, maybe we should start making people do something for the handouts we give them.\u2019 Nobody\u2019s given me anything. I\u2019ve had to work all my life for everything I\u2019ve ever gotten. And that\u2019s a good thing. That makes me proud to be who I am, but I have had it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I can explain what happened to you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m pretty sure, I could be wrong, of course, highly unlikely but I think you started thinking about things rather than just feeling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And when you started thinking about it, none of it made any sense.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re right. It doesn\u2019t. I mean, what it was was hatred. I have to tell you a little story that kind of brought me back. Last weekend in downtown Appleton, I went to the farmers market and there was a gentleman always handing out these little programs for the Packers schedule and he is running for state assembly, I guess. And he was handing these out. And I never asked him anything. There\u2019s a guy in front of me, he said, ‘Are you running Republican or Democrat?\u2019 And he said, ‘Oh, I\u2019m running Republican.\u2019 This man, it just shook me up. He took the program, crumpled it up, walked over in front of this man, threw it in the garbage and stomped off. So just as quick as I could be, I thought God put me there for a reason. So I said, ‘Well, now that I know you\u2019re not an idiot Democrat, I\u2019ll take one of those programs.\u2019 And I thought it was so funny, it was like I was put there for a purpose, like to finally pay back for all the probably crummy things I did as a liberal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, look. We all can look back at our past and find things about which to be embarrassed. But at the time you didn\u2019t think you were making the wrong decision. Nobody purposely thinks they are making a wrong decision. So don\u2019t beat yourself up over it. You have now seen the light. You are enlightened and it\u2019s great to know that you\u2019re out there. And again, I love Appleton, Wisconsin. I\u2019ll be up there again probably later this month sometime. But I\u2019ve got to run now. Thanks very much, Debbie. I\u2019m glad you waited.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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