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RUSH: Here\u2019s Laurie in White Plains in New York. Hi, Laurie. Glad you waited and welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos from myself, and I know my Uncle Bob is sending them out to you as well.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: First of all, I know you have your nicknames for our president, and I like to call him MacBama and Lady MacBama along with the three weird sisters: Rahm Emanuel, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. But my point is, I think to move the conservative party forward, we need to be problem solvers rather than ideologues, without compromising our ideals. For example: the stem cell research controversy. We\u2019ve got one side saying nothing at all, and the other side saying, ‘Dead embryos,\u2019 or ‘thrown out embryos.\u2019 But cord blood, harvested cord blood is so rich in stem cells that… I haven\u2019t heard anyone put that on the table as an option. I mean I had two kids, I just had one again back in September, and, you know, that cord blood went nowhere. And people spend, you know, thousands of dollars, to have it harvested for future use and whatever. So why couldn\u2019t somebody have given me a piece of paper and I could have signed away my cord blood so that it could have been used for scientific research?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Where was…? You\u2019re asking, ‘Why didn\u2019t somebody at the hospital do this?\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m just saying: Why hasn\u2019t that been on the table?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well… (sigh)<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s as if embryos or nothing. Just like it\u2019s either you\u2019re either pro-abortion or you\u2019re pro-life and there\u2019s nothing about it. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait. Don\u2019t throw abortion in there. Don\u2019t, don\u2019t —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no, no. That\u2019s a different — that\u2019s a totally different topic.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no but see, it\u2019s really not. See, it\u2019s really not. You\u2019re upset with absolutes because a lot of people don\u2019t like clear-cut right and wrong. It makes \u2019em uncomfortable. But I guaran-damn-tee you life is filled with absolutes, very clear right and wrong. Now, you start talking about cord blood. I\u2019m sorry. I don\u2019t mean to be offended, but I am, \u2019cause we talk about cord blood, adult stem cells, alternative to embryonic stem cells on this program all the time. The reason why you weren\u2019t presented it is because there are people who do believe in absolutes, who only want embryonic stem cells used, even though there is no record of any success! They want embryonic used because it\u2019s a political issue. So we have to fight absolutes, and you don\u2019t fight absolutes with lukewarm water. <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t fight efforts to destroy the American culture and the American political system and the Constitution with lukewarm water. Now, granted, absolutes may offend people. They may make \u2019em feel uncomfortable and so forth. Well, damn it, it\u2019s about time left-wing absolutes made \u2019em feel uncomfortable! It\u2019s about time destroying the US economy and nationalizing it made \u2019em feel uncomfortable instead of comfortable. Now, as to why hospitals didn\u2019t tell you about cord blood and so forth? Guess who\u2019s running the health care system for the most part? The US government! And Barack Obama and the US government are big believers in embryonic stem cells, primarily because they get mucho bucks — bucco bucks and contributions — from people who believe in it. The embryonic stem cell argument has as its unspoken purpose to further the issue of abortion. <\/p>\n

You have to abort kids to get embryos! There are successful stem cell applications from, like you say, cord blood — and adult stem cells. Do you know what a bone marrow transplant is? A bone marrow transplant is adult stem cells. Bone marrow transplants are working miracles in prolonging the life people who come down with various forms of the blood cancers. Not embryonic. Adult stem cells, via bone marrow transplants. So absolutes exist for a reason. How do you negotiate between victory and defeat? Where do you go? Where\u2019s the middle ground with victory and defeat? Where\u2019s the middle ground with good and evil? Where\u2019s the middle ground with right and wrong? Where is it? Right and wrong are pretty absolute and they\u2019re pretty well defined. Ideology is education. Ideology is rooted in solving problems. <\/p>\n

Ideology — well, conservative ideology — is rooted in freedom and prosperity for the maximum number of people possible. And therefore conservatism as an ideology is about solving problems. It is about fighting people who want to do just the opposite: take away your freedom. What you were basically were encountering was a lack of freedom, because a bunch of absolutists don\u2019t want you being informed about cord blood or adult stem cells. You were dealing with absolutists when they insisted on embryonic stem cells. You think the absolutists can be persuaded. You think the absolutists on the left could be persuaded if we just weren\u2019t so absolute. This is like saying, ‘Well, Rush, if we just closed down Guantanamo Bay, the terrorists won\u2019t attack us anymore.\u2019 Wrong, if we closed Guantanamo Bay and start beating ourselves up over what we do to catch people that killed 3,000 of us they\u2019re going to laugh at us and kill 3,000 more of us thinking it\u2019s going to be easier. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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