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RUSH: Say, folks, I have a question for you, very simple question. If you turn on the Drive-By Media each and every day and each and every night and if you read the newspaper each and every day and each and every night, you\u2019d be forced to come to the conclusion that the Republican Party is dead, that the conservative movement is dead, unless it moves to the center and becomes more like liberals and Democrats. So the question is this. If conservatives — Republican Party is a different animal — but if conservatives are as dead as the left says we are, why in hell do they spend so much time dancing on our graves? Greetings, and great to have you here, another three hours of broadcast excellence, the telephone number is 800-282-2882, the e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

I want to thank the folks at the Heritage Foundation. I addressed over a thousand people last night at the Reagan Center, the Reagan building in Washington, DC, and it\u2019s pretty much the subject that I discussed with them. Why are we laying down, why we playing dead? Why we rolling over? Why are we accepting every premise that the left advances, including that we have to be like them in order to grow our party? I pointed out that the the left in 2000, 2004, they didn\u2019t try to become like us. They didn\u2019t try to become like Republicans. They drew contrasts. They went far left and they did what they had to do to draw contrasts and they energized their far-left fringe kook base. Now, true, in 2006, in order to take back Congress, they had to run some conservative Democrats in few conservative districts, where they beat conservative Republicans who had sort of wandered off the trail. But the overall identity of the Democrat Party was to move as far left anti-Bush, in the case of the Iraq war, anti-America as they could, and they kept up the drumbeat and they had the Drive-By Media with them. <\/p>\n

Now, they have won big, they think they\u2019ve won a huge landslide here with Obama, they control the House, they control the Senate, and yet, you turn on their House organ cable networks or read their newspapers and they\u2019re obsessed with us. They\u2019re obsessed with what we\u2019re doing. They\u2019re obsessed with what I\u2019m doing. They\u2019re obsessed with what I say. Why is that? If we\u2019re dead, we shouldn\u2019t matter to them. They ought to be laughing at us; they ought to be ignoring us. But if you follow the news topics, you\u2019d think that the Republican Party is the most powerful political party in the country and that the conservative wing of the Republican Party is in near total control of this country, if you believe what you\u2019re watching. If somebody from Mars landed in this country, turned on our television, they\u2019d think I run the country, they would think that my party runs the country and that we pose the greatest threat to humankind ever, we gotta be stamped out even though we already have been stamped out. They wiped us out in the last election. I mean, for all intents and purposes. That\u2019s actually not true, but I mean in the electoral sense, given our lack of power, it is true. <\/p>\n

So many columns they write, so many editorials. Even today we got more conservative columnists writing about this or that and how we gotta get back to being more moderate, big-tent party and all that. It\u2019s just mind-boggling. People on the left, the Democrat Party and the media obviously, some people on our side, writing so many columns, so many editorials, so many op-eds, hell-bent on trying to diminish the influence of conservatism in the Republican Party. Why? If we\u2019re dead, as they say we are, why are they continuing to try to kill us? I mean of course in a political sense. It\u2019s \u2019cause we\u2019re not dead. It\u2019s because we still threaten them, and we threaten them precisely because they are a collection of lies and deceit and phony ideas and ours are ideas of substance that, properly articulated, connect with a majority of the American people. So they\u2019re going after anybody on the right who can articulate these things and setting out to try to destroy them. Me, Sarah Palin, you name it, whoever it is, they\u2019re trying to destroy the people who could and can articulate the beliefs and the principles that the left actually fears. <\/p>\n

To me, this is an opportunity. It\u2019s what I told the people at Heritage last night. It\u2019s an opportunity. We have a great opportunity to contrast ourselves with the most liberal, quasi-socialist administration in history. We\u2019ve got the country more afraid of this administration I have ever seen. We\u2019ve got people that I know more afraid of their government than they have ever been. This is not our country. This is not the country we were raised in. This is not the country we want our kids and grandkids to inherit and continue to keep great. The opportunity is just ripe. Almost every news network, every cable news channel, TV commentary seems to open and close with criticism of conservatism, conservatives, or potential conservative leaders. It\u2019s like I had some things yesterday to say about this listening touring and how they left out Sarah Palin. The Drive-Bys are all over this today. Wait \u2019til you hear these sound bites. I didn\u2019t even know this was happening last night because I was of course making a speech at the Heritage Foundation, but I\u2019m getting notes, ‘It looks like you forced the Republicans to include Palin in their listening tour.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I told the people at Heritage last night, ‘We don\u2019t need to listen. Our people are already on board. We need to teach. We need somebody to provide them leadership.\u2019 We don\u2019t need to go out and learn and listen. That\u2019s pandering. And when you end up pandering, it\u2019s what I told \u2019em last night, when you end up pandering and you give people what they want, what if what they want is wrong, what if what they want is bad for themselves? It\u2019s not that voters are like children, but at some point those who understand what we\u2019re talking about, the principles of conservatism and so forth, and how to make this country the best for the most, which has been demonstrated that it happens, you just need to go out and tell people this. You know, I went through the story, people say, ‘Rush, why don\u2019t you run for office?\u2019 And I say I can\u2019t take the pay cut. ‘What would you say anyway?\u2019 I would say something that I wouldn\u2019t last one day as a political candidate. Getting an audience is different than getting votes. I\u2019d stand up and I\u2019d say, ‘I\u2019m the antithesis of President Obama. Don\u2019t look to me to solve your problems. Look to you to solve your problems. I\u2019m going to get myself and this government outta your way. You are what makes the country work. I\u2019m not. I\u2019m just here to ride steward on the Constitution and make sure that this government does not get in your way and punish your achievement. But it\u2019s up to you, folks, you\u2019re far better than you know you can be.\u2019 <\/p>\n

But Obama is doing just the opposite. Every day Obama goes out and he presents a crisis and a problem and himself as the solution. ‘Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ve got it under control, I can handle it,\u2019 making people waifs, wards of the state, if you will. Why are they still kneecapping Sarah Palin? Hmm? I know I\u2019m fair game. I\u2019m out there. But why are they still kneecapping Sarah Palin? They\u2019re out there kneecapping Bobby Jindal. They\u2019re still kneecapping, the Drive-Bys, the Democrats, Rick Santorum. They\u2019re still jumping on Joe the Plumber, a private citizen, for heaven\u2019s sake, all he did was ask Obama a question. Why are they continuing to try to destroy virtually anyone and everyone who can articulate conservatism? It\u2019s \u2019cause they are afraid of us. If you think that they think conservatism is dead, why did they spend so much time trying to discredit the tea parties? Why did they spend so much time trying to destroy the concept and the thoughts, the impetus behind the tea parties? Why did they have to do that? If we\u2019re dead, and if we\u2019re just a small pocket of renegades, let us run around and make fools of ourselves, get out of the way. They say, the old standard rule of thumb in whatever business, if your opponent\u2019s committing suicide, get out of the way, let it happen. Well, if we\u2019re supposedly so wrong, so bad, so horribly out of step, let us go on about our way and make fools of ourselves. <\/p>\n

Why do they continually have to attack us? Why are they so vicious? Why are they so ugly? Why are they so demeaning? ‘Cause they\u2019re not journalists, number one, they are liberals. But the point of all this is, all this criticism of us and our side, so much TV commentary hell-bent on trying to diminish the influence of the conservative movement and the Republican Party. It doesn\u2019t compute in the template or the prism in which all of this criticism is taking place. What they in fact know is that they\u2019ve built a house of cards. They have as their, I think, part and parcel their existence is to stamp out opposition, to wipe it out. They are afraid of opposition. Liberals have been for the longest time. Political correctness is about silencing opposition. My only point in bringing all this up is, rather than have this stuff depress you and dispirit you, it ought to fire you up, it ought to let you know that there\u2019s still a lot of fear out there. I love being feared, by the way. I love the fact that these people are afraid of me. It doesn\u2019t bother me at all. (interruption) What do you mean I should explain? Now, why do I have to explain that? People don\u2019t understand liking to be feared? (interruption) No, it\u2019s not being mean-spirited. I\u2019m stumped. <\/p>\n

Snerdley thinks I have to explain to you why I like being feared. Now, most people are probably hearing that, if you\u2019re right, and they hear me saying I like being disliked, and most people don\u2019t want to be disliked. I don\u2019t want to make people afraid of me, don\u2019t misunderstand. But the fact that some people are is simply a measure of success. I\u2019m a harmless, lovable little fuzzball. I\u2019m a guy on the radio. I can\u2019t raise anybody\u2019s taxes. I can\u2019t send anybody off to war. I can\u2019t do any of the things that Barney Frank, Chris Dodd or Barack Obama can, and they are scared of me? I\u2019m honored. There has to be a reason they\u2019re scared of Sarah Palin. They\u2019re not scared of Senator McCain. They are not afraid of Arlen Specter. Do you get this? There\u2019s a reason here. They pose no threat to them. We pose a threat to \u2019em, folks, and this is an opportunity that should not be squandered. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: The Drive-By Media freaking out over me and my listening tour. Same old template: infighting in the GOP. Here\u2019s a montage. Last night and this morning, of various people in the media.<\/p>\n

SUSTEREN: Rush Limbaugh was not impressed by the town hall meeting.<\/p>\n

COOPER: Infighting among Republicans including Rush Limbaugh…<\/p>\n

MADDOW: Mr. Limbaugh today blasted the whole rebranding the GOP idea.<\/p>\n

MATTHEWS: Is this sniping between the elite, Mitt Romney, and the cowboys out there like Rush Limbaugh? <\/p>\n

SCARBOROUGH: Rush Limbaugh said yesterday that the GOP shouldn\u2019t pander by going on a listening tour; they should go on a teaching tour.<\/p>\n

GUEST: Huh-huh-huh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So (laughing) and everything is laughing about this, saying they should go on a teaching tour. It is pandering to go listening. Let me tell you something. Let me bring it down to the personal. I have at any given moment six million people listening to this program. At any given moment, I\u2019m getting a thousand e-mails from people who tell me — including friends of mine — what I ought to be doing. What if I listened to every damn one of them? I would be wearing a straightjacket, and I would have been in an insane asylum for the last 18 years. After 20 years of being at the top, everybody still knows how to do it better. Everybody still knows when I\u2019ve screwed up! Everybody still knows what I\u2019ve got to do to do it right. <\/p>\n

What if I decided I needed to go on a listening tour? ‘You know what, folks? Instead of the Rush to Excellence Tour, we\u2019re going to go on a Rush to Listen Tour. I\u2019m going to show up in your town I\u2019m going to set up microphone that you use and I\u2019m begin sit there and say nothing and I\u2019m going to listen to you I\u2019m going to come back and I\u2019m going to put together a great radio program,\u2019 what do you think would happen? Not very many people would show up, and if I actually did listen it would be a disaster because you can\u2019t take the advice of 20 million people, or 5,000. Regardless whatever the number is — and if you\u2019re a politician you can\u2019t take the advice of 58 million people. This whole notion of listening, it\u2019s a scam. <\/p>\n

Maybe we\u2019ve gotten to the point where you have to scam the American people in order to get their votes. I hope not. See, I\u2019m enough of an idealist, probably a little naive, and hopefully a bit of a realist to understand that it really works out best if you respect your audience, respect their intelligence, approach them that way. You know full well people are going to disagree with you no matter what you do, but the minute you start pandering to everybody that disagrees with you, all you\u2019re doing is trying to shut \u2019em up and what you\u2019re doing, ‘Yeah, yeah.\u2019 Go back behind closed doors after the pander meeting, after the listening tour. ‘Ho-ho, we owned them out there! They think we\u2019re really listening to what we said, those idiots. They really think we listened!\u2019 They\u2019re just doing it for the show of it, I don\u2019t care which party does it. Let\u2019s see, we — Oh! Let\u2019s see, Jonathan Martin of The Politico, CNN this morning, the host, co-host Kiran Chetry, and they had this exchange about me.<\/p>\n

CHETRY: Rush Limbaugh is somebody who\u2019s smart, who wants to — <\/p>\n

MARTIN: Right.<\/p>\n

CHETRY: — advance the — the party, eh, eh, at least the conservative ideals. But w-w-why is he defending Sarah Palin the way he is?<\/p>\n

MARTIN: I think there are a couple reasons. I think first, Rush does see her as a truly charismatic figure who I think can speak the sort of old time religion in a fashion he doesn\u2019t see anybody else out there on the conservative landscape being able to do. But I do also think that there is something at play; whereas I think Rush, uh, likes Sarah Palin because, uh, he sees a bit of himself in her in this sense: liberals go over Sarah Palin. They can\u2019t stand her. Similarly, they can\u2019t stand Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, I know Jonathan Martin. I sometimes answer questions from him via e-mail when he sends me notes, but I\u2019ve never sat down and talked to him. I\u2019ve never talked to him about Sarah Palin. But he\u2019s come to the conclusion that one of the reasons I like Sarah Palin is because the left hates her and since the left hates me, she must be cool. You know what\u2019s more confusing to me, is why the people who don\u2019t like her don\u2019t like her. That\u2019s what gets me scratching my head. I mean, people on our side, not the left. I understand the left is scared to death of her. The left is still out there trying to destroy Sarah Palin. She\u2019s up in Alaska. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re filing ethics complaints against her every week forcing her to have to have a legal defense fund! They\u2019re trying to break her; they\u2019re trying to make her go broke so she won\u2019t be able to have a political future. They\u2019re scared to death of her. If they weren\u2019t, they\u2019d leave her alone. They\u2019d let her go moose hunting, and that would be it. Why…? Do you see how easy the conventional wisdom is? The conventional wisdom is that Palin\u2019s a dork, that Palin\u2019s an idiot, that Palin is unsophisticated, that Palin is this or that. She doesn\u2019t know the lingo. She has a bad wardrobe. It\u2019s all of this irrelevant stuff to try to destroy her, to destroy her credibility with people, to impugn her. I just listened to what she said, and I liked what she said and I liked the way she said it. It\u2019s no more complicated than that. <\/p>\n

She understands the threat posed by an ever-growing government and the encroachment on individual liberty and freedom that a growing government poses. I do, too! I\u2019m all about freedom and liberty. I\u2019m all about the individual. I\u2019m all about self-interest. I\u2019m all about everybody doing what\u2019s best for them, making the country great. It\u2019s not selfishness, that. That\u2019s not selfishness. What kind of father would you be if you weren\u2019t doing the best for your family? You\u2019d be a deadbeat, right? If you were selfish and only doing things for yourself and your family suffered, that wouldn\u2019t be good. But if you\u2019re doing things to improve yourself \u2019cause your family does, isn\u2019t that an admirable quality? If you do otherwise you\u2019re a deadbeat and they come take your kid away from you — after the wife calls. I mean, none of this is complicated. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s just been so muddled and confused in people\u2019s minds. She just says things I agree with. She has ability to relate to average people, says things they can understand. She fires \u2019em up. Let\u2019s see. Next question from Kiran Chetry: ‘You write there\u2019s a sense of exasperation from party leaders over the media coverage of Limbaugh and Palin, a product largely of her good looks and tabloid fodder family troubles. If…\u2019 Did you hear what Kiran Chetry just said? There\u2019s ‘exasperation\u2019 among party leaders because of ‘her good looks.\u2019 What\u2019s she saying, they\u2019re jealous of her good looks? Am I hearing that right? Is that what a woman says? And her ‘tabloid fodder family troubles,\u2019 they don\u2019t like that about her. ‘If the GOP wants to build a viable candidate in 2012, you talk about the polarizing nature, the latest poll says 38%. I\u2019m an independent and I\u2019m not affiliated with the Republican Party.\u2019<\/p>\n

MARTIN: They are all exasperated. They think that Sarah Palin still gets the coverage she does noooot because of marital (mumbles) because of any ideas that she\u2019s promoting, but because she\u2019s something of a — even a diversion, that she\u2019s good fodder for the media because she has this, you know, one family travail after the next, and that\u2019s the reason that she gets coverage. They view her increasingly as a distraction to their larger process of rebuilding, but there are folks in the party like Rush who say, ‘No, no, no. She is the one who is out there, the sort of one true figure who can really articulate our message.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: Sarah Palin could build the party, and all these moderates and independents think that she\u2019s going to be a drag on building the party. Why? Because, true, she will not attract liberals. She won\u2019t attract moderates. Thank God! We don\u2019t want \u2019em in our party — and this business about polling data, 38% are independents? I ask you to remember — and Koko, I want you to go to our archives. We drag this poll out every now and then, the Battleground poll, which shows that 60% of the American people, since, what, 2000, identify themselves as conservatives. The telling part is that 30 to 34%, 30% call themselves Republicans; but 60% call themselves conservatives. And if you look at the individual polls on individual Obama policies, you\u2019ll find that they\u2019re nowhere near as highly approved of as he is personally. There is a gold mine waiting to be tapped. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s another question for the moderates. The moderates are about reaching out, right? Why do they not reach out to us? I\u2019m serious. The moderates, in our party, want to cast us aside. The moderates in our party want to reach out to everybody but us, the conservatives. When are they gonna reach out to us? I\u2019ll tell you what, they always look at — gosh, I can\u2019t use this term. I would love to use the term, but I can\u2019t use it. But they\u2019re just hero worshipers. They go wherever the power is. That\u2019s what moderates do. They go where the power is, and they\u2019ll be back once we reacquire power. They just want to bask in the light of others. Everybody\u2019s talking about reaching out. We gotta reach out. The media said we gotta reach out. How come nobody\u2019s reaching out to us? I ask the question rhetorically. A couple more sound bites. Here\u2019s James Carville on The View yesterday. Whoopi Goldberg asked him a question, ‘Who is, in the Republican Party that you actually see who has a brain?\u2019<\/p>\n

CARVILLE: They have a problem, and they know they have a problem. Michael Steele, he\u2019s a very nice guy, but he\u2019s not coming across is a serious guy, he\u2019s coming across as like a clown, and they know that. Sarah Palin is coming across as something less than a very deep and thoughtful person.<\/p>\n

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

CARVILLE: Okay? Rush is a — how do I say, he\u2019s polarizing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Rush is polarizing, Palin\u2019s an idiot, Rush is polarizing. Well, Obama is polarizing. This is the most polarized country we\u2019ve had according to several polls. Polarization is actually not bad. Means people are standing for something. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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