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RUSH: Here\u2019s Paul in Culpeper, Virginia. Hi, Paul. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos from the Blue Ridge Mountains.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Rush, I say this with a heavy heart, but the Republicans must back the nom — uh, confirmation of Sotomayor.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Don\u2019t worry, they will.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. They gotta do it because she\u2019s gonna get confirmed anyway, or, if not, she barely gets defeated then another liberal candidate gets in and the Republicans will get beaten over the head left and right every day that they hate Hispanics. It will confirm in the mind of a lot of Hispanics that the Republicans hate \u2019em and, uh, it will be a disaster.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, I disregard that, and I dealt with this earlier in the program. You\u2019ve just explained why most Republicans will not oppose her. But she should be opposed, not to the purpose of defeating her confirmation because I don\u2019t think it can be. She should be opposed because opposing her will help the country understand who Obama is. And the country must understand who Obama is. The media is falling short in its responsibility. They didn\u2019t vet the guy. The American people must know who Obama is. By being critical of Sonia Sotomayor\u2019s record, you can explain who Obama is. This is a pipe dream, this Hispanic vote business. George Bush nominated a bunch of Hispanic judges. He had an attorney general who was Hispanic, and the left went out and destroyed both of them. The way to get Hispanic votes is with conservative founding principle values repeated unalterably in a campaign. This identity politics approach that the moderates in the Republican Party want to make is not gonna work. It\u2019s already been demonstrated that it doesn\u2019t work with McCain.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, let me tackle something head on here, because the last caller addressed it. We\u2019ve had two callers now who said, ‘Hey we need to support Sotomayor because if we don\u2019t, the Hispanics are going to hate us, and we\u2019re going to need the Hispanic vote.\u2019 The Republican Party, when it wins, does not do identity politics. The Republican Party doesn\u2019t out and say, ‘Okay, we got this policy for Hispanics, this policy for blacks, this policy for whites, this policy for the rich, this policy for the poor.\u2019 That\u2019s not how Republicans win; it\u2019s how Democrats win. Now, folks, you people are going to have to face reality. If the Republican Party did not get the Hispanic vote last time, with the architect of amnesty for illegal aliens as our nominee, what makes you think there\u2019s anything we could do to get the Hispanic vote along those lines? <\/p>\n

We can\u2019t stop Sonia Sotomayor. The opposition to her ought not be based on stopping her. That might happen anyway, because the more people look into her record, you\u2019re going to find out what I mean when I referred to her today as a ‘reverse racist,\u2019 and you can see in the Ricci case that\u2019s currently before appeal on the Supreme Court with the decision coming in late June. She sided against a white firefighter and was admonished in her reasoning by a Clinton-appointed Democrat judge for not even addressing the constitutional issues. She ruled against the white firefighter — Ricci and other white firefighters — just on the basis that she thought women and minorities should be given a preference because of their skin color and because of the history of discrimination in the past. The law was totally disregarded. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I mean when I refer to her as a ‘reverse racist.\u2019 Obama himself is one. The chip on his shoulder that he brings to office, if people just listen to what he said over the course of his career, it\u2019s unmistakable. I know the media\u2019s going to harp on this reverse racist stuff and I just want all of you to know that I am perfectly willing to back it up and I\u2019m proud that I said it. It happens to be true. Reverse racism is what affirmative action is, and no racism is good. The original majority white racism was bad that we dealt with… If all this racism really existed how did she get where she is? That was my whole point in the first hour. Her personal story is very compelling. She overcame all kinds of odds. But they weren\u2019t as bad as Obama wants us to believe. <\/p>\n

She came to realize her wildest dreams during the Reagan years and the Bush years and the Clinton years. Supposedly when this country was imperfect and unjust and immoral, according to Obama. But to go get the Hispanic vote, that\u2019s the view of moderates: ‘Hey, look at us! We don\u2019t hate you.\u2019 The premise that we hate Hispanics is wrong in the first place. George Bush had them all over his administration, and the liberals tried to destroy every damn one of them. The two most prominent were Miguel Estrada and Alberto Gonzales. And it doesn\u2019t have anything to do with Hispanic. It has to do with liberal versus conservative — and the media is going to side with the left, and the Democrats are going to try to destroy any conservative or Republican who\u2019s going to be a success, particularly minorities, particularly Republican minorities. <\/p>\n

Ask Clarence Thomas. Ask Ken Blackwell in Ohio. Ask Thomas Sowell. Ask any number of black conservatives if they are treated at all like liberal minorities are, and they\u2019re not. So the idea that we can go out there and support Sotomayor and somehow this is going to be remembered in about two or four years, ‘Oh, yeah, the Republicans supported her.\u2019 If our number one Hispanic supporter, John McCain — author of amnesty for illegals, running against his own party on the issue — was not able to get the Hispanic vote, then please explain to me how supporting Sotomayor is going to accomplish it. This is what\u2019s wrong with our party. We accept the premises of the left and then we very defensively and cowardly proceed on the basis of those premises, that we\u2019re somehow mean-spirited, extreme, wacko, racist, sexist pigs, and we\u2019re not. <\/p>\n

You know what I\u2019m beginning to think after these two stories I read about how Obama supporters love the fact that he lies? Maybe we ought to start lying. Ask yourself this: If you want to be like the liberals are maybe to go get liberals we need to start lying. Just like we need to approve Sotomayor and not oppose her, maybe we need to start lying just like Obama does. As a strategic political move, lie about everything we plan to do! Maybe we should go out and join the trashing of big business, maybe we should join trashing of the military. Maybe we ought to embrace Hugo Chavez and send some Republicans in Congress down to have a meeting with him. Maybe we ought to come out in favor of tax increases. Maybe the Republicans ought to embrace national health care. Maybe the Republican Party ought to become pro-choice. <\/p>\n

Maybe the Republican Party ought to speak out against the California Supreme Court today which upheld the ban on gay marriage. Just lie! Just lie about what we believe. Obama is proving it works like a charm. After all, the goal is only to get elected. That\u2019s the battle in the overall war, isn\u2019t it, just to get elected? So let\u2019s lie. Let\u2019s just lie, like Obama does. His supporters love him for it. I mean if we\u2019re going to go with the Hispanic vote, by saying we don\u2019t have a problem with Sotomayor\u2019s judicial work, her body of work, if we don\u2019t have a problem with it, say, ‘Oh, yes, wonderful, it\u2019s great.\u2019 Lying works. Clinton got away with it. Let\u2019s just try it. In fact let me try it. I\u2019ll lead the way on this. Someday when I don\u2019t tell you, I will lie about everything I believe on this show and see how you like it. And we\u2019ll see if the left likes me any more than they already do. We\u2019ll see if the media turns me into a lovable figure. <\/p>\n

Dustin in Indianapolis, I\u2019m glad you waited. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush, from flyover country here in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just wanted to comment about the wonderful story of Sonia Sotomayor, which is an amazing story, but I wonder where the liberal policies that Obama holds dear and wants to implement to get the economy going and to remake America — where were those policies for the mother who worked six days a week to put food on the table? And I also find it interesting that all of the nominees for Supreme Court, for cabinets, for, you know, all these posts in the government, have an amazing story of hard work and personal responsibility to get to their own point in their life.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have yet to see a nominee for a government position thank the welfare system or thank government policies for allowing them to achieve the American dream.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Amen, bro. This is great. You are absolutely right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And one other thing I would just contend to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I contend that the true great American story in this nomination today is Mr. and Mrs. Sotomayor, the parents of the Supreme Court nominee who came to this country and worked their tail off to let this woman achieve what she\u2019s achieved so far.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t disagree with that but she did, too. Nobody can… Look, she got divorced. She has not remarried. She has no children. Something I read this morning: She is a workaholic, and her clerks become her family, and they go home with her and work. So she\u2019s a hard worker. She\u2019s a very hard worker. So was John Gotti. <\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: But the story is very compelling. Nobody\u2019s going to oppose that, but your point, every one of these nominees, we\u2019re all told how tough they had it. They came from the wrong side of the tracks, and they praise their parents. You\u2019re right. They don\u2019t praise a government program. They don\u2019t say, ‘AFDC got me here,\u2019 and they don\u2019t say, ‘Affirmative action got me here.\u2019 They don\u2019t say that, even though it\u2019s applicable in many of their cases. They don\u2019t say it. They credit hard work and good old conservative values. Excellent point out there, Dustin, it really is. I have a brief time-out but a next story: ‘Eight Health Risks in Your Own Backyard,\u2019 and again, what\u2019s the source of this? MSNBC. ‘Eight Health Risks in Your Own Backyard.\u2019 So we\u2019re supposed to keep the kids inside all summer, that\u2019s what the story is. But you know how dangerous it is inside? They\u2019ve already told us how dangerous it is inside, and now they\u2019re going to tell us how dangerous it is outside. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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