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RUSH: Kate in Fairfield, California. ‘The\u2019 Kate, speaking of KFBK, one of my favorite callers from my days back there. How are you, Kate?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m doing very well, Rush. How are you?<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: It\u2019s so good to talk to you. Hey, listen, I listened to Fox News last week and I heard about Newt Gingrich endorsing that woman, I can\u2019t even remember her name, there\u2019s no use remember her name, I call her ‘that woman,\u2019 who is not Republican in any way, shape, or form. She\u2019s pro-abortion, she\u2019s pro-higher taxes, why is Newt Gingrich endorsing this woman, and how do we get the message across to the Republican Party that we are sick and tired of this? Can I tell you something real quick?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m a Catholic, I think you know that, okay. When Catholics come to me and they say we want married priests and we want women priests and we want homosexual marriage, I say go and be an Episcopalian, okay? If you want all that go be an Episcopalian. If you want higher taxes, if you want pro-choice, if you want these things, go be a Democrat, don\u2019t call yourself a Republican. Don\u2019t do that. It\u2019s so annoying. It\u2019s so irritating.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah, I hear you. This business with the Republican Party, we have, as you well know because you\u2019re a regular habitual listener — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, I\u2019m addicted.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — we\u2019ve been addressing it. I can tell you exactly what\u2019s going on with the Republican Party. It\u2019s the social issues. The elite country club Republicans don\u2019t like pro-lifers in this party. It\u2019s all about that, make no mistake. There are other minor little things, too. They never have, even during the era of Reagan, the people running the Republican Party today were embarrassed of him \u2019cause he didn\u2019t have the great pedigree and they thought, well, the Democrats think he\u2019s an amiable dunce, oh, my God, but they loved the results they got, and they loved going to the conventions because everybody was winning. But the Republican Party, the people that are trying to run it now are not and never have been conservative. Now, I don\u2019t know about Newt and this woman, but look, even the Wall Street Journal has caught onto what\u2019s going on here in this New York 23. <\/p>\n

Republicans are telling themselves that a political wave is building that could carry \u2019em to big election gains next year. Well, judging by their performance so far in the special election in New York they deserve to wander in the minority for another generation or two. Democrats want to portray this race as a familiar moderate conservative GOP split but the real issue is why the Republican, Ms. Scozzafava, is a Republican at all. She has voted for so many tax increases that the Democrat is attacking her as a tax raiser. She supported the Obama stimulus, she favors card check to make union organizing easier, or at least she did \u2019til a recent flip-flop. She\u2019s run more than once on the line of the working family\u2019s party. The GOP will wander in the desert for two generations if they keep nominating candidates like this.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I spent a lot of time in the last hour on The Politico story talking about how Obama has succeeded in marginalizing me and Fox News, the Chamber of Commerce, the insurance industry, we\u2019re marginalized, Obama just roaring through. He is in trouble. His party is in trouble. His agenda is in trouble. Half the American people don\u2019t like his policies. Half the country disagrees with his policies. He\u2019s floundering in Afghanistan. He refuses to act like commander-in-chief. More and more people are starting to see that he\u2019s not at all what they thought they elected. And there is a general disquiet that is settling across the country, there is a general despondency that\u2019s setting out and spreading across the country as people begin to realize that they\u2019re not going to get a roaring economy any time soon. The Obama administration itself is out there saying so, that 10% unemployment is the new norm. The American people are being told, ‘You\u2019re gonna do with less and you\u2019re going to like it because we have been stealing from the rest of the world and it\u2019s about time we pay our dues.\u2019 That\u2019s what the American people are starting to figure out. <\/p>\n

In the midst of all this, the brainiacs at the Republican Party selected a candidate in a special election in the 23rd District in New York State, and they picked a woman whose name is Dede Scozzafava, who essentially should be a Democrat. Even the Wall Street Journal weighs in: ‘Democrats want to portray this race as a familiar moderate-conservative GOP split, but the real issue is why Ms. Scozzafava is a Republican at all. She has voted for so many tax increases that the Democrat is attacking her as a tax raiser. She supported the Obama stimulus, and she favors ‘card check\u2019 to make union organizing easier, or at least she did until a recent flip-flop.She has run more than once on the line of the Working Families Party, which is aligned with ACORN. Her voting record in Albany puts her to the left of nearly half of the Democrats in the assembly. She also favors gay marriage, which is to the left of Mr. Obama,\u2019 and she\u2019s a Republican, and this is who the Republican Party is asking people to donate to and who they are supporting. The GOP will continue to wander in the wilderness if it continues to put up candidates like this. It\u2019s mystifying. <\/p>\n

Now, the guy that everybody is watching in this race is a guy by the name of Doug Hoffman because he\u2019s on the Conservative Party ticket. It\u2019s now being reported that Dede Scozzafava is now polling in third place in this district race, ‘which may explain –‘ this is Erick Erickson at RedState.com ‘– may explain why Scozzafava, through her husband who also happens to be the head of the AFL-CIO.\u2019 It really is a legitimate question. Why is this woman a Republican? Scozzafava ‘called the cops to chase away reporters daring to ask inconvenient questions,\u2019 a couple days ago. But Chris Cillizza says, ‘Can Hoffman win? ‘I think the answer is absolutely yes. As Scozzafava implodes her voters are going to go elsewhere. With Hoffman in second place and voters most likely backing Scozzafava because of the ‘R\u2019 next to her name, the voters will go to the real Republican in the race — Hoffman. Hoffman is the strongest challenger to the Democrat and gives the only real contrast to the Democrat. Hoffman can win.\u2019 Everybody is asking, ‘Can he win this?\u2019 Yes, of course he can. It\u2019s mystifying because the Republican Party has a chance here, not just with this race, but in Washington as well, to contrast itself with the sheer radicalism the Obama agenda. And instead, they\u2019re nominating candidates that are close to it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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