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RUSH: Move on to Senator McCain and his town hall yesterday. You know, President Obama is preparing to pass an extinguished torch to future generations of Americans. Remember President Kennedy? (JFK impression) ‘The torch has been passed to a new generation.\u2019 Obama is going to pass a torch only the torch he passes is going to be extinguished. The torch he\u2019s going to pass is one of fascism. And this health care debacle. So McCain has a town hall yesterday — and, folks, it\u2019s worse than I thought it was going to be. My reaction to it was negative. It was appropriate. Here\u2019s just a sample of it. We have one sound bite from the town hall yesterday, Sun City, Arizona. A woman got up and said, ‘I would like to know how the president is getting by with all of this money. It\u2019s against the Constitution. Doesn\u2019t he know we still live under a Constitution?\u2019<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I\u2019m sure that he does. I\u2019m sure —<\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (laughter)<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: No, no, I\u2019m serious. I\u2019m sure that he does and I\u2019m sure that he respects the Constitution of the United States. <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (groans)<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: No, no, no, no. No, I — I — I — I really do. I — I am absolutely convinced of it. <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE MEMBER: No!<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: I just believe, my friends, that there is a fundamental difference in philosophy and about the role of government. That\u2019s why we have competition for public office and competition amongst parties and competition about different ideas and visions for the future of America. I am convinced the president is absolutely sincere in his beliefs. <\/p>\n

AUDIENCE: (groans)<\/p>\n

MCCAIN: But he\u2019s — wait a minute. Wait a minute. He is sincere in his beliefs. We just — we just happen to disagree, and he\u2019s the president of the United States and let\u2019s be respectful.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is problematic. He\u2019s running for reelection. His audience does not trust Obama. All trust has been lost. They are afraid! People are scared to death of this man. They\u2019re scared to death of his policies. The people of this country who showed up at McCain\u2019s town hall think Obama has no respect for the Constitution. Sure he knows what it is. But he looks at it as a limiting document. He has said so himself. What is so hard about people in our party understanding what their opponents actually say and believe? Obama looks at the Constitution as ‘a series of negative rights.\u2019 Obama says, he looks at the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, first ten amendments, and says, ‘It doesn\u2019t say what the government can do to you! It doesn\u2019t say what the government can do for you. All it says is what the government can\u2019t do.\u2019<\/p>\n

Well, he is a big believer in government doing everything. The Constitution is an obstacle to him, and McCain ought to know this. (doing McCain impression) ‘You know, we just — we just — we\u2019re reasonable people and we just disagree! We just have different political philosophies.\u2019 You know, something else that McCain did yesterday, and this is really so tired and worn out. At this town meeting, he said, ‘We have to take Washington back from the special interests.\u2019 Folks, that is just vacuous psychobabble, in my humble opinion. We need to take this country back from the liberal Marxists that have taken over! The special interest that we need to fear is fascism! These special interests are all over Barack Obama\u2019s administration. After telling us they wouldn\u2019t be, they\u2019re all over the place. <\/p>\n

The people that work for him are enriching themselves at the public trough like never before. And that\u2019s something people thought was going to change, but it hasn\u2019t changed. The fascists, the Marxists in this administration, they\u2019re working with the special interests. Whatever that term means anyway. That\u2019s just an illustration of how antiquated this line of thinking is, and McCain acts like, ‘Politicians, we\u2019re all hostage\u2019! Politicians are hostage to special interests. (doing McCain impression) ‘That\u2019s what meaningful campaign finance reform is all about because good people come here and get corrupted! Corrupted by special interests, and so — and so — and so we need campaign finance reform.\u2019 It\u2019s just this tired, worn-out, ‘Gosh we\u2019re all hostage to the special interests!\u2019 It\u2019s more like a reciprocal, corrupt arrangement. <\/p>\n

The Democrats and the unions are bought and paid for by big business executives, AARP. Special interests, they\u2019re blood brothers! This business that he wants to lay out the groundwork to sell us out on the health care by coming up with a bipartisan bill, when the Democrats are in the process of flaming out and talking about using reconciliation? Let \u2019em do all of these things! Don\u2019t give them any assistance. Don\u2019t go ‘bipartisan\u2019 with them on this at all. McCain made every effort in that town hall meeting yesterday to make himself appear to be a reasonable man, wanting to work with a political party not his own. But those days are gone! That\u2019s not what the American people want right now, and certainly people that vote for Republicans do not want that myth that he ran on. He ran for office on that myth, and look what happened! <\/p>\n

He ran for office on the idea that the American people just want us to work together. He\u2019s out there saying, ‘We gotta work together and I\u2019m the guy to cross the aisle.\u2019 No! That\u2019s why you lost the election. Good grief, what…? And this isn\u2019t about McCain anyway. The country is facing problems that will likely irrevocably harm everyone alive today and Americans yet to be born, and to solve this to satisfy some personal insecurities about an option that\u2019s no longer viable? Working with these guys? Who in the hell is still talking about working with these guys? Anybody that\u2019s reasonable is talking about stopping these guys! We\u2019re talking about beating these guys. We\u2019re talking about defeating these guys. Now, all of a sudden we\u2019re going to start working with them? I can\u2019t tell you how frustrating this is. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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