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RUSH: This is Moscow Mills, Missouri, and Rich. Hello and thanks for calling.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, great to get through and talk to you. I\u2019ve been enjoying the show more so than ever with everything that\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: The reason I\u2019m calling is, you know, this Senator Cornyn\u2019s comment. You know, I understand the truth. Us folks out here in flyover country, we get the truth, we understand the truth when we hear it. And I think that\u2019s why the mainstream media, with very little truth telling, is losing popularity every time. I\u2019m sure you\u2019re doing pretty good by telling the truth. I saw Dick Cheney\u2019s polls go up eight points by coming out and telling people the facts. All we need is politicians to state the truth, to talk to us honestly. Now, what we have is a lot country club-type, I guess, limp wrists. I don\u2019t know. I always thought Cornyn was pretty strong conservative, but evidently it offends their sensibilities to talk about race, racism — or if it\u2019s not racism, abortion. You know, they want us to go away because even though it\u2019s true what we\u2019re saying, it offends them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Senator Cornyn is up for reelection I believe this year, is he not, Mr. Snerdley? He\u2019s up next year, 2010? And I think one thing I must say in defense, in slight defense of politicians: getting votes is a far different thing than acquiring an audience. Politicians really don\u2019t think that they can survive with voters hating them. I, of course, have proven that you can prosper when people hate you. But I\u2019m not a politician. By the same token, I don\u2019t have the power they do. So when Senator Cornyn sees the need, as he did on NPR yesterday, to distance himself from me — or Newt Gingrich, or Tom Tancredo — I guarantee you it\u2019s the result of polling in Texas over this issue of Sotomayor and the Hispanic vote. <\/p>\n

And the Hispanic vote is something the Republican Party is as frightened of as they are of conservative Christians. The Republican Party desperately wants the Hispanic vote, I think, to replace conservative Christians in their coalition \u2019cause they\u2019re embarrassed by them. I want to tell you something, Rich. I was in Texas last night. I was in Houston. I flew in for a fundraiser for a member of Congress named Michael McCaul, and I met a lot of people there last night. Louie Gohmert, who is a member of Congress, who\u2019s fabulous, Senator David Vitter from New Orleans flew over for this. Tom DeLay was there. There were about 200 or 250 people at this fundraiser — and I must tell you, every one of them was a conservative Republican. There wasn\u2019t a moderate in the bunch. <\/p>\n

I talked to them all because there were photo sessions and so forth and so on and when I made my remarks I could see the applause. I didn\u2019t get booed. Nobody came up to me and said, ‘Shut up, you\u2019re hurting the party.\u2019 It was the exact opposite. Now, you might want to call Texas flyover country. Some people might, and it\u2019s hard to extrapolate from audience of 200 people. But I will tell you that I bet you if I went to every state in the country and did a fundraiser for a Republican candidate, I could give the same remarks I made last night and get standing ovations. It\u2019s the same thing I say on the radio each and every day. There\u2019s nothing earth-shattering there. <\/p>\n

But my point is that it\u2019s all of the Republicans in Washington and conservative media people in Washington who have this fear of moderates and Republican voters going away in droves if the rhetoric is too strident. And they define rhetoric as too strident as simply being truthful. Words mean things. I mean, if you want to communicate properly you use the right words to communicate the thought. Except we can\u2019t do that because it\u2019s going to offend somebody. It\u2019s going to offend Hispanics or it\u2019s going to offend someone. We can\u2019t do this. I want to stipulate and remind everybody again: my analysis of Judge Sotomayor is not aimed at keeping her off the court. There\u2019s no way, realistically, that can happen. The Republicans don\u2019t have the votes and they\u2019re not interested in keeping her off the court. <\/p>\n

But there is an opportunity here to tell the country who Obama is by telling the country who she is. This reluctance that our party has to contrast itself with its enemies is dumbfounding to me. I understand it. I understand why. I don\u2019t agree with it, but it nevertheless is dumbfounding how this is happening. It\u2019s almost like the Republican Party today and some in the Republican media are content to share power as losers, to be in the club but be losers. The club in Washington. The people that elect \u2019em don\u2019t want \u2019em to be in the club as losers. The people elect \u2019em because they want winners. And the party\u2019s not acting like it\u2019s interested in winning. <\/p>\n

Nobody wins playing defense. Nobody wins worrying about what everybody else thinks about you. Nobody wins who doesn\u2019t tell them what they stand for. That\u2019s where we are here. So I\u2019m just telling you, the people… Whenever I travel this country, and whenever I happen to make political remarks, I don\u2019t have people boo me. I don\u2019t have people run away. I don\u2019t have people say, ‘You know, you need to tone this down \u2019cause it\u2019s really hurting.\u2019 I only hear this from so-called conservative people on television, so-called conservative people in media — and not all of them, just some. So I have become America\u2019s pi&ntilde;ata. <\/p>\n

I am the passkey. You bash Rush, and the media gives you a free pass. John Cornyn can be loved by NPR. All he\u2019s gotta do, bash me and Newt. Same thing if any Republican wants to be invited on any of the Sunday shows, get an interview in the Style section of the Washington Post (if anybody still reads it) or be profiled on one of the nightly newscasts or show up on a cable show. All they gotta do is bash Rush, bash America\u2019s pi&ntilde;ata and, they get a free pass! They\u2019re loved. That\u2019s how easy it is — and that\u2019s, sadly, what some of them seem to want, especially if it\u2019s reelection time.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. John Cornyn. I\u2019ve gotta retract what I said, giving him a little slack. He\u2019s not up for reelection in 2010. He was reelected in \u201908, so he\u2019s not up \u2019til 2014. He was just elected last year. So he\u2019s not running for reelection any time soon. So polling data in Texas is not the reason why he is trying to distance himself from critics of Judge Sotomayor. Now, I am told — and I\u2019m going to have to fact check this because lately I\u2019ve been misled by a whole bunch of contributors. Well, one of my contributors the other day told me it was 40 days until Obama\u2019s birthday, and it\u2019s not. It\u2019s like 85 or 90. I am told that there is a reason judges wear black robes, and it\u2019s to hide them. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s to hide any bias, to essentially present the image of fairness. A black robe hides whatever bias, whatever economic circumstances there are. Whatever there is to know about the judge that is not supposed to be known is hidden because of the black robe. In this case, if that\u2019s true, then the robe that Sonia Sotomayor will wear on the Supreme Court is transparent. Because we have already seen who she is. She has told us that she will make policy, she will legislate from the bench. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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