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RUSH: Francis, Nashville, Tennessee, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m trying to stop laughing after that one. You may be able to help me, Rush. Most people I know are absolutely convinced that I\u2019m a full-fledged conservative because I\u2019ve been listening to you for about ten years, and I agree with you about 98 and a half percent of the time —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that pretty much seals the deal.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, see, I only disagree with you on the rare occasions that you\u2019re wrong, but, you know, I grew up in a very liberal Democratic background and what I\u2019ve learned especially in the last ten years or so is that everything I was taught to believe about liberals and conservatives turns out to be exactly the opposite. When you grow up being a liberal, you think that liberals are in favor of individual liberty and freedom and are opposed to oppression and tyranny and all that, and what I\u2019ve learned more and more is that it\u2019s really just the opposite. If somebody had said to me in 1992, ‘Rush Limbaugh,\u2019 I would have said, ‘Oh, he\u2019s just some right-wing nutcase, isn\u2019t he?\u2019 Of course I had never actually listened to you in 1992 and I think that one of the things about liberals is they kind of parrot stuff that they\u2019ve been taught almost robotically without ever questioning it or analyzing it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, there\u2019s no question about that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So here\u2019s where I need your help. This is the question. Can I be a conservative and yet be opposed to amending the federal Constitution to prohibit abortion and to prohibit homosexual marriage?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I can?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, conservatism is not something that excludes — there\u2019s no litmus test here. I tell you, abortion, the only choice that the Democrats and the left are going to allow before it\u2019s all over is abortion, it\u2019s the only choice they\u2019re going to allow. But, you know, gay marriage, both of those things are not going to be solved by amending the Constitution and nobody is trying to. Those things are going to be solved or dealt with at the state level, and they\u2019re not going to be pleasing to people. Those are cultural issues, the so-called social issues which a lot of Republicans want nothing to do with. But still, those are things the people of the country ought to vote on via the elected leaders that they send to various state legislatures around the country. We\u2019ve never voted on abortion. You know, abortion does not nearly roil the British society like it does ours because they voted on it there. It was not imposed by a Supreme Court, nine people wearing black robes. Gay marriage, there\u2019s a political issue behind gay marriage, the militant homosexual community has been pushing the envelope on a lot of things, but the way to deal with all of these is to have the people of the country or various states vote on them, and that\u2019s —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I agree with you at the state level, not at the federal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Of course you\u2019re going to get people arguing, ‘Well, if one state allows gay marriage and 48 don\u2019t, are you saying every gay that wants to get married has to go to that state?\u2019 Well, yeah, at some point. That\u2019s what the practical end result of it would be. It\u2019s still going to be a controversial issue because where the states that have voted to make it illegal the gays are going to continue to press and force the issue so that they can change the vote there, which is what the country is all about.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, you\u2019ve relieved me. Just tell me one other thing. Why is it called conservatism, and not conservativism, we don\u2019t have liberism, we have liberalism.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s just word structure, that has nothing to do with changing the meaning or deflecting it or hiding it, it\u2019s like why do we call the Democrat Party the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party not the Republicanic Party?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, I call the Democratic Party the Democrat Party, and they get ticked off because they like the illusion of Democratic. Democratic Party, Democratic National Convention. So I call \u2019em Democrat Party, Democrat National Convention and they get livid about it all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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