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RUSH: Dana in Ottawa, Illinois. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. I\u2019m thrilled to speak with you today.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I admire you a lot. To get right to it, I did call to disagree with you in some respect about this not being a GOP versus Democrat movement. And to illustrate that, I\u2019d like to go back to your point about there is no leader of this movement, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re nervous.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — many of the speakers the other day at the rally spoke to that point. And a lot of the people I spoke with were Democrats that are disgusted with Obama, and to a person the Republicans that I spoke with were just fed up with government in general. There was a lot of anger at the Bush administration. They had all the levers of power at their disposal and they did nothing. They did not represent us. There\u2019s just real anger out there, and so I really believe that this movement is bigger than the political parties. I really think there\u2019s going to be a movement soon to maybe form another party. I\u2019ve been a Republican my whole life, but those people no longer represent me. And if I could, I\u2019d like to talk to you about an 81-year-old man that was on the bus that I was on. There were 28 ragtag people on that bus from all walks of life. He took four shots of insulin a day and he made it on that bus. He did not have a leader. There was nobody telling him to get on a bus and go there. And, Herb, if you\u2019re out there I hope you\u2019re doing fine. And he went through that 16-hour bus ride, stood all day, and then the major media is not even reporting tens of thousands of people were there. I think people like Herb deserve better from our media. And I\u2019m just outraged, Rush, and I\u2019m thrilled that I was there. My niece and my sister and my husband went with me. And we didn\u2019t have anybody tell us to go there. We did not have a leader. We realized that we have to do it ourselves. Nobody in the Republican Party, God knows not on the other side, are going to help us, and we have to do this ourselves.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, let me address the second thing you mentioned first, and that is all these people that showed up deserve better from the media.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, they do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, they do, you\u2019re absolutely right, it ain\u2019t going to happen. I have long cautioned everybody, if you seek validation for your actions based on the media being accurate in their reporting of your actions, you\u2019re going to be forever disappointed. The media is as much the enemy as is the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, trust me when I tell you that I know that. I\u2019m not surprised by it. But I am outraged by it because I mean this is verging on Pravda. I mean you look at those pictures on the television, you know, even MSNBC had a wide shot, an aerial view of this group of protesters, and they\u2019re trying to tell people there were tens of thousands of people there? I\u2019m not surprised; the people at the rally were not surprised. But it\u2019s so disappointing, and I\u2019m going to tell you, Rush, I spoke to a lot of people there, and we will come out in bigger numbers the next time, and I will do whatever it takes. I worked on Friday. I got on a bus for 16 hours, I knew it wasn\u2019t going to be fun. I\u2019m back at work today —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But it was fun.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — in Illinois.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No wait. But it was fun. You did enjoy it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I did enjoy it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you enjoyed it for all the reasons that you\u2019ve mentioned. But we\u2019ve gotta be really, really careful here, Dana, about this left versus right government thing. You mentioned third party, and we\u2019ve been through this with Perot.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know that. I know that. And I think Perot helped Clinton get in, I don\u2019t doubt that. I do believe there has to be a huge movement before people can vote that way.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But a third party is not going to do anything other but ensure the reelection of Obama and every other Democrat running for office because even if you come up with a charismatic third-party presidential candidate, still isn\u2019t going to have anybody of any significance running in that party for seats in Congress of the US Senate unless this movement happened to become the majority movement in the country, and that\u2019s not what\u2019s happening. I respectfully disagree with you here. I understand the anger at the Republican Party. Hell, I\u2019ve got it, too. I\u2019ve had it for a long, long time. But don\u2019t make the mistake of thinking this is not a left versus right thing. This is a conservative ascendancy that\u2019s going on out there. You didn\u2019t show up and protest like this when the Republicans were in power.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Folks, we need to take the Republican Party back. The Democrat Party was co-opted, has been co-opted by a bunch of communists, socialist, fascists, what have you from the sixties and the seventies and that\u2019s what we\u2019re up against now. We have allowed our party to be co-opted by a slate of Ivy League elitists and country club, blue-blood Republicans who want to be thought of as enlightened and compassionate and so forth, they want to be thought of as liberal light, Democrat light. We\u2019ve talked about what the divisions in the Republican Party are all about. It\u2019s about the social issues, the Republicans don\u2019t like the pro-lifers being in the party, blah, blah, blah, blah. Now, if we just leave the Republican Party where it is, go third party, we\u2019re ceding defeat. The Electoral College alone, the Electoral College discriminates against third party like you can\u2019t believe. It\u2019s not the way to go. I realize a lot of you are going to be mad at me, but history repeats itself. But the one thing that you who have been with me for 21 years know is that I have never been anything other but a mainstream down the line rock solid bulwark conservative because that\u2019s who I am. And I know that the Republican Party has won big time when it has been as well. <\/p>\n

I know that a third party isn\u2019t going to win diddly-squat. But, I am prepared for the next two to four years for some of you out there to hate me and despise me because of this. Because I\u2019m well aware of the anti-Washington sentiment that exists and the desire to just throw the whole thing into the Potomac River and rebuild it. It does have to be rebuilt but you\u2019re never going to throw it all in the Potomac River. And if you discount the role of Barack Obama in ginning up all this passion that\u2019s leading to the protests, if you want to try to equate the Republican Party to what this radical bunch of leftists is doing, you\u2019re going to have a tough time convincing me that there\u2019s any similarity.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, you gotta understand, let me put it to you this way: We are at the triage stage. We\u2019ve gotta address the biggest emergency first, and that is stopping Obama. That has to happen. If that doesn\u2019t happen then all the rest of this is academic. The second thing is, Ross Perot gave the White House to the Democrats in two successive elections, and I can show it to you in polling data, which I think I\u2019m going to do tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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