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RUSH: Joe in Brooklyn as we go back to the phones, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Hi, Rush. Great to be here. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would love to discuss with you the Tea Party. We know we are in a bad shape, America. We are under a bad regime, and we have to take back our country. So we have the Tea Party backing conservative candidates, and I like the Tea Party, and I\u2019m also a conservative. What I can\u2019t understand is why the Tea Party is backing some candidates that don\u2019t have real chances in November, when in fact you have against this candidate also a true conservative. Let\u2019s talk about Kentucky. We have the Trey Grayson, and we have Rand Paul. Trey Grayson is a loyal, solid conservative. But the Tea Party went to back Rand Paul, and he is a little controversial, so the Democrats have to play it, and the same as in Nevada, (unintelligible) was a loyal conservative. We go back Sharron Angle to hurt our chances, and maybe that\u2019s now in Alaska, too. Lisa Murkowski against Joe Miller.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So why are they backing these candidates? When you take Mark Kirk and you taking Mike Castle, they are RINOs, that\u2019s understood. What\u2019s bad with Trey Grayson? Trey who would win with a landslide. Now Rand Paul is tight with Jack Conway. (Unintelligible) this, Rush?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s what I think about this. I think that nobody\u2019s perfect. Nobody makes every decision correctly. But I think there\u2019s an overriding thing here that is guiding the Tea Party. It is axiomatic and automatic they\u2019re fed up with Democrats on the left. But they\u2019re also fed up with the same old same old from the Republican Party. They are not Republicans. They are conservatives, and they have very specific objectives: Smaller government, lower taxes, property rights, liberty, freedom, so forth and so on. And they are people who have become exhausted with the notion that a Republican is substantially different from a Democrat just because of the label. These are people who look at what people say, stand for, and claim they\u2019re going to do, because a lot of Republicans have claimed to be conservative during campaigns, and they\u2019ve gotten to Washington, and they throw it away and they cast it aside. The Tea Party is made up of people who are just not gonna take it at face value any longer. If you notice also, according to our media masters, it\u2019s a good thing for liberal Democrats to be associated with defending the Ground Zero mosque. Speaking of the Tea Party it\u2019s a terrible thing for the GOP to be associated with the Tea Party but it\u2019s a great thing for liberal Democrats to be associated with defending the Ground Zero mosque. <\/p>\n

Now, you want your question answered, somebody explain this to me. How can it be a terrible thing for the Republicans to be associated with the Tea Party, but a good thing for liberals to be associated with defending the Ground Zero Hamasque? You\u2019re also falling prey I think to a lot of the media criticism of these Tea Party people. What do you know about Sharron Angle in Nevada other than what the media is saying? They say Rand Paul is a kook and a creep and all this, so you buy it. Too many people are still prisoners to what I call the media masters or the Drive-By State-Controlled Media, the partisan political operatives disguised in media, Fake Media, whatever you want to call \u2019em. I admire the Tea Party in many ways. We for the longest time have been denouncing Republicans-in-name-only. We have been saying that you\u2019re not doing us any good. Just because you\u2019re Republican doesn\u2019t mean that you\u2019re any better than the average Democrat. <\/p>\n

This has inspired people to run for office who are not professional candidates, they\u2019re not professional political people, but they love the country, and they\u2019re willing to risk the loss of privacy and all of the media anal exams they get to put into action the things they believe. They come along and they run for office and people start running them down, particularly on the Republican side and the media. I think a lot of it is simply due to the fact that they\u2019ll tell us who they fear. It\u2019s just as simple as that. Their attitude is, what good is electing a Republican who is gonna end up being a McCain? What good is it? It doesn\u2019t make any difference, in fact, it\u2019s harmful, and we don\u2019t need any more of that. This is a crossroads moment in time for the country as far as the Tea Party people are concerned. This is it. It\u2019s not Romper Room, it\u2019s not playground, it\u2019s not politics as usual. And that\u2019s how I would answer your question. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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