{"id":34843,"date":"2010-03-09T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:15:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T01:15:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T01:15:35","slug":"it_s_all_a_game_to_the_politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/03\/09\/it_s_all_a_game_to_the_politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s All a Game to the Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: &#8216;Already challenged on the right by J.D. Hayworth, John McCain is about to get hit from the left today on health care with a barrage of robo-calls. The D[emocrat]-linked Americans United for Change are firing off about 250,000 calls starting today in Arizona, basically calling McCain a rich guy hypocrite. &#8216;Arizona Senator, John McCain is happy to let the government pay for his health care, but last December, John McCain voted against requiring that ordinary Americans be eligible to buy the same health insurance as Members of Congress,\u2019 the calls say. &#8216;Senator McCain may have seven houses and fly around in private jets, but when it comes to his health care he should be no better than the rest of us.&#8221; Now, my friends, we were talking about this with Karl Rove just a moment ago: Bipartisanship. <\/p>\n<p>I thought the Democrats loved McCain. I thought these people making these robocalls loved McCain!YHe would cross the aisle and work with them and so forth. How can this happen? How can this happen? These guys are all politicians. That\u2019s the answer. You and I are not politicians and they are. We try to understand \u2019em through our lens, but we\u2019re not politicians. I\u2019m sure you heard Karl say how &#8216;impressed\u2019 he was with Ted Kennedy. Now, how can that be? You and I look at Ted Kennedy, he\u2019s a buffoon, a dangerous buffoon who\u2019s out destroying very important, valuable people on our side. Personally, character-wise, career wise, he\u2019s out destroying them. But people get to Washington and see Ted Kennedy as an icon. <\/p>\n<p>How can that be? A very successful Democrat.\u2019 It\u2019s because he\u2019s in the game. He\u2019s in the game. It\u2019s kind of like not the best analogy here but kind of like if you played professional baseball back during the Nolan Ryan era. Nolan Ryan never spoke to an opposing player in his career, very seldom. Those guys were the absolute enemy. But they all respected him. Now, he was trying to beat \u2019em. He wasn\u2019t trying to destroy their character or any of that kind of stuff but he was trying to beat \u2019em. So these guys are all in the game together. You and I look at Ted Kennedy as an absolute buffoon. We look at Obama as an absolute disaster. And other people say, &#8216;No, he\u2019s elected president. He\u2019s in the game. He\u2019s a politician. We deal with him the way we deal with politicians. We deal with ourselves and everybody else as politicians.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125112.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright\"\/>So it\u2019s not that the two parties are the same and so forth. It\u2019s that it is a business. Politics, like everything else, is a business, and it\u2019s a game. And the people that are on stage in the game, and if they\u2019re prominent in the game regardless what party they\u2019re in, there\u2019s, I guess, a lot of respect bestowed upon them. Whereas you and I are not in the game. You know, we\u2019re the peasants with the pitchforks. We see these people playing the game. The country\u2019s the Monopoly board and we\u2019re the pieces, and they\u2019re rolling the dice and moving us all around here. So some of us end up in jail, some of us buy worthless railroads, some of us end up Park Place, some of us end up St. James Place &#8212; and others end up, you know, on Ventnor Avenue. We move around and so forth, but they\u2019re still the guys with the dice. We very seldom pass Go, and if we do (laughing) we go to the jail, tax jail or whatever jail it is. So this is an eye-opening thing in a way to try to understand this, because when you hear people say, &#8216;Oh, Ted Kennedy? I have an amazing lot of respect for him.\u2019 I didn\u2019t respect Ted Kennedy for anything. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: &#8216;Already challenged on the right by J.D. Hayworth, John McCain is about to get hit from the left today on health care with a barrage of robo-calls. The D[emocrat]-linked Americans United for Change are firing off about 250,000 calls starting today in Arizona, basically calling McCain a rich guy hypocrite. &#8216;Arizona Senator, John McCain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s All a Game to the Politicians - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/03\/09\/it_s_all_a_game_to_the_politicians\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"It&#039;s All a Game to the Politicians - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: &#8216;Already challenged on the right by J.D. 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