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RUSH: Here\u2019s John in Columbia, Tennessee. John, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello.<\/p>\n

RUSH: John, are you there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nice to have you on the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. I\u2019d like to bring back the topic of Sarah Palin.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Where would the number of Republicans that have been running now be without her? We would have lost a number of races.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Excellent point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And on top of that, why is it that we in the upper crust or whatever you want to call it, they cannot seem to come to terms with Sarah Palin? You mention her name and they just try avoid it, try and stay away from it. Why are they doing that?<\/p>\n

RUSH: There are a lot of people — we have advanced a theory today based on a blogger called The Chicago Boyz, and it\u2019s all about status. I think however you strip it away it is about ruling class versus everybody else, and she\u2019s not it. She didn\u2019t punch the right tickets; she didn\u2019t go to the right schools; she didn\u2019t know the right people; she doesn\u2019t have the right background, and she\u2019s a threat as a result, especially to those who have a tenuous membership in the ruling class, especially a threat to those whose membership in the ruling class is not all that solid, and so the notion of what\u2019s inferior must be maintained and upheld so that some people can feel superior and thus qualified to be in the ruling class. I think it probably comes as close as anybody is gonna get to explaining it. <\/p>\n

Here is Gary in Fort Eustis, Virginia, nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush, love the show and, by the way, beautiful pictures on Facebook.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I\u2019m doubly nervous here because, frankly, my heart is racing more than when mortars were falling around me in Baghdad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m calling to say the host is wrong, which is definitely a set up for failure. On the Delaware chairman, I believe his name is Ross. He\u2019s not saying Castle is a conservative. He\u2019s trying to nationalize the race and say vote for Castle, eat the excrement sandwich and we\u2019ll get conservative real Republicans from the red states to run the committees.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh. Okay. Well, the Washington Post just has his quote, that\u2019s what I was reading. He said, ‘Quite frankly, I don\u2019t know what the goal is here. If they really want to see conservatives as chairmen of committees in the United States Senate they\u2019d step back and allow Mike Castle to become the next US senator. He\u2019ll win the general election and she won\u2019t.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: What he\u2019s saying is Castle is never going to be a chairman. He\u2019s trying to — the way we would say when you vote for a conservative Democrat in Nebraska, it\u2019s really a vote for Nancy Pelosi, \u2019cause when they vote for her to be the speaker of the House, her policies, liberal San Francisco views are going to be what\u2019s going to dominate the week. He\u2019s saying —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, I get you, I see. I see. Well, here\u2019s the thing about that. If you want to compare this to the so-called Blue Dogs in the House being elected to give Pelosi the majority, that\u2019s all true. For it to be true on the Republican side, we would have to also conclude that a majority of senators in a new Republican majority in the Senate are conservative. And that\u2019s not the case. There\u2019s no evidence that Mike Castle is going to support a slew of conservative causes or legislation. I\u2019m not trying to pick a fight with this chairman. It\u2019s a Washington Post story and it could be out of context here or even a misquote. What I\u2019m really focusing on here is that we have to understand we face a crossroads in the country. There are a lot of people who think we are on our last legs as a representative republic and that there has never been a greater opportunity than right now to contrast conservatism and what really works and what\u2019s gonna roll back this government and make it smaller and less intrusive. And we don\u2019t need to play around with RINOs and just get the Republicans in power, \u2019cause look where that got us in 2006. <\/line> <\/line>You need conservatives, people genuinely interested in saving the future of the country and reversing some of this outrageous Obamaism that has been implemented. I fear that the RINO Republicans aren\u2019t cut out for it; they\u2019re not interested in it; they don\u2019t want to do that kind of heavy lifting, and they, frankly, don\u2019t agree that we\u2019re in that big a problem or face that big a challenge. They\u2019re more oriented toward getting their power back for the sake of having their power. So that\u2019s where the dividing line here really is. A lot of people are saying, ‘Okay, if you have 51 seats in the Senate, but a vast majority of the people that get us to 51 are like Mike Castle, we really do not have a conservative majority, and why have a bunch of Susan Collinses and Olympia Snowes?\u2019 It\u2019s no different than that. What good are they nine times out of ten for conservatism, and especially at this juncture where it\u2019s nut-cracking time, as they say. <\/line> <\/line> If we conservatives had been as successful in a year and a half in advancing our agenda as this guy has been, we\u2019d be having parties. Look at what this guy\u2019s done in a year and a half, folks. Nationalizing all these industries and companies, destroying the health care system in a year and a half! Imagine what\u2019s going to happen if there\u2019s not any break, somebody\u2019s not able to stop this, imagine what four years of this is gonna look like. That\u2019s why there are people thinking on a scale of one to ten, ten being country finished, we\u2019re at eight. So politics as usual, Republican Party politics out the door. The traditional standard RINO Republicanism is not going to stop the direction we\u2019re headed. We need people who are gonna stop this who will be consistently voting and supporting efforts to stop this. It has to be stopped, not compromised with, plain and simple. It\u2019s not just the usual days where, okay, it\u2019s a Democrat in the White House now for four, eight years, but we\u2019ll get it back, let\u2019s just trade power here and get along as best we can. <\/line> <\/line> We\u2019ve never faced this radical a president. I don\u2019t even think Woodrow Wilson or FDR, may be close but certainly not in my lifetime have we ever faced anything this radical. And there\u2019s no indication it\u2019s gonna improve. There\u2019s no indication this administration thinks anything they\u2019re doing is wrong. I mean look at the numbers out today. We\u2019re going to have record poverty reported in this country, a record poverty rate. And the AP, oh, just a shame that this is happening during Obama\u2019s second year. I mean Plouffe and Axelrod on the Sunday shows, saying we\u2019re headed in the right direction, that my God, we\u2019d be in even worse shape if it hadn\u2019t been for them, that if Republican policies hadn\u2019t changed, my gosh. It\u2019s the exact opposite. So what you\u2019re faced with out there, what we\u2019re faced with is millions and millions of Americans who are not looking at the Republican Party first. They\u2019re looking at policy first, conservatism, stopping this, people that are interested once again in their children and grandchildren having a future that does not include rampant high taxation, indebtedness, and an ongoing, increasing erosion of freedom and liberty. It\u2019s serious. And some of them think the Republicans don\u2019t see it that bad. <\/line><\/p>\n

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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, if I may, let me cut through all the noise and make the complex understandable. It\u2019s very simple. Republican chairmanships are not going to roll back Obamaism. Conservatism is. The only thing that\u2019s going to roll this back, the only thing that\u2019s going to ever have a prayer of repealing health care is not Republican chairmanships. It\u2019s not Republican majorities. It is conservatives. There is a conservative ascendancy. It is outrageous that it is being fought within the Republican Party. I can understand the Democrats not wanting it to happen, but inside the Republican Party it\u2019s outrageous for this to be going on. But it is. We need wild-eyed conservatives to roll this back! The same old Republican Party just won\u2019t do it. There are too many of them too eager to put a Republican stamp on Obama\u2019s agenda. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the power! They think that there is something to be gained by getting along, something to be gained by showing cooperation. Those days are long gone. According to the Gallup poll, there is only one thing Obama has passed that people approve of, and that\u2019s financial reform and that\u2019s only because they don\u2019t know what\u2019s in it yet. Congress hasn\u2019t done one thing that a majority of Americans approve of. Not one thing. And not even the Republican Party is listening to this. The Republican Party is still more concerned with making sure that the old elders are rewarded and the old war horses are rewarded, regardless of their ideology or policy points of view. I mean, that\u2019s party politics. It is what it is. There\u2019s really nothing new about that. These are just different times. <\/p>\n

Different times that call for truly drastic and desperate measures. <\/p>\n

The American public is fed up. They want to draw a line in the sand. This Ground Zero mosque shows that. The rejection of Republican-designated candidates shows that. It\u2019s patently obvious, and of course the Republican powerbroker structure is fighting it. And that\u2019s what people don\u2019t understand. Why would they? Because for the longest time people have thought that Republican equaled conservative, and it\u2019s not the case. At this dinner party I was telling you about on Saturday night, somebody brought up the fact that Wall Street people, everybody thinks of them as rock-ribbed, big business Republicans. They\u2019re the evil rich and so forth. How come they all supported Obama? And one of the guests said, ‘That\u2019s very simple. Their wives have them henpecked. Their wives are making \u2019em do it.\u2019 <\/p>\n

And I said, ‘You know, you have a point. That\u2019s why they\u2019re anti-pro-lifers, because of their wives. All these Northeastern liberal Republicans, they don\u2019t want to hear their wives complaining about the Southerners and the pro-lifers and so forth and they don\u2019t want to go to the conventions with these people.\u2019 So a lot of forces are being marshaled here. But standard, run-of-the-mill, everyday Republicans are not gonna roll this stuff back. They don\u2019t have the desire to. They want to roll the sleeves up and do it. It\u2019s just the latest evolution of where the country is going. ‘Let\u2019s manage it the best we can.\u2019 That\u2019s their point of view. ‘We\u2019ll fight it on the margins.\u2019 It\u2019s a tipping point and it\u2019s also illustrative of ‘ruling class\u2019 versus, as Mr. Codevilla calls us, ‘the country class.\u2019 And there\u2019s less and less tolerance now. The days where the ruling class was thought to be best and brightest and smarter than everybody else, those days are over. The average American doesn\u2019t think that anymore. It used to be, but they don\u2019t. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Eric in Charlotte, North Carolina. It\u2019s great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Hey, I\u2019ll drop the name of Tara Servatius to you. She\u2019s a great talk show host down here in Charlotte. I suggested Jason Lewis years ago; you put him on. You need a lady on, and we got a wonderful lady down here in Charlotte who I think you\u2019d love you if you ever got a chance to listen to her. But I wanted to drop a word here on my frustration as I\u2019m sure many other conservatives have with the current crop of Republican leaderships here and their thrust. Newt Gingrich was a visionary. He gave us the Contract with America. He\u2019s just an ideologue. I hope he runs for president. I just love his ideas. He may have some problems there with, of course, his marriage issues. But I think he can overcome that if he\u2019s really put forward. But the problem is these guys aren\u2019t visionaries. I wonder if there\u2019s someone other than Boehner that you like. I like Eric Cantor, I like Mike Pence, Thad McCotter and so on, but… You know, Boehner is great — he knows a lot, he\u2019s good — but there\u2019s some inspiration that he just doesn\u2019t bring. He needs to at least put forth some sort of thing to inspire this election. This is a golden opportunity that we\u2019re missing. Even though it looks like we may get the majority the problem is that, you know, it could be even bigger if there\u2019s some sort of vision, just like the Contract with America. Something with the title of ‘retaking\u2019 or ‘taking back\u2019 America or maybe even ‘get rid of Obamacare,\u2019 something to that effect, if you know what I\u2019m trying to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, there are a lot of people who think that the Republicans ought to be offering more of policy-oriented agenda to have a mandate, that it\u2019s not enough just to say, ‘I\u2019m not a Democrat.\u2019 Although it is. (chuckles) See, that\u2019s the scenario. You don\u2019t have to do any more than that to win, and if they don\u2019t have to, they won\u2019t. They\u2019re not going to take a risk at offending anybody. This is the thing that bothers a lot of us, and that is they still walk into a room thinking they have to prove they\u2019re not racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe. Everybody thinks this, they believe it, and so they think they have to first prove that they\u2019re reasonable. And I\u2019ll tell you, that is one of the big bugaboos that I face. It\u2019s one of the things that just really irritates me to no end is this desire to show that I\u2019m reasonable and you aren\u2019t. <\/p>\n

And you know how it\u2019s typified? One of the best examples of this, peace be upon him, is Jack Kemp. In the vice presidential debate with Algore back in 1996, Algore is up there praising Kemp for not being a racist and a bigot like so many in his party are. And Jack Kemp said, ‘Thank you,\u2019 rather than excoriate Gore for having that view of Republicans in general. It\u2019s \u2019cause it\u2019s easy. It\u2019s easy to take the praise, easy to take the compliments, easy to stand out. So we have people who want to be the most reasonable man in the room while the Democrats are out there trying to portray themselves as the smartest people in the room. And all too often Republicans want to be seen by the media as the most reasonable man in the room. This is another quasi-explanation for why we have so many so-called conservatives in the media who are not conservatives. <\/p>\n

They want to be seen as reasonable. They don\u2019t want to be seen as wild-eyed and crazy and extreme and radical like some of these conservatives are. They want to be seen as reasonable, and so they write things and they say things. ‘Oh, I can see that. I can also see it this way. I think if I were doing that…\u2019 and of course they\u2019re just a bunch of mush. They don\u2019t take a stand on anything. They hope they\u2019ll be perceived as reasonable, and that\u2019s not gonna cut it. Is it better to appear to be reasonable or determined to produce the best result for the greatest number of people? Obviously it\u2019s better to be determined to produce the best result for the greatest number of people. John Boehner said on Face the Nation: ‘If the only option I have is to vote for those at 250 and below of course I\u2019m going to do that, but I\u2019m going to do everything I can to make sure that we expand the current tax rates for all Americans.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, Boehner is doing two things. He\u2019s trying to appear reasonable there, but he also knew that he was being set up because if he had come out against tax cuts for the middle class that\u2019s what they were setting him up for. They were setting him up. They already had ads ready to run. They just knew that Boehner would say, ‘If you don\u2019t give tax cuts for the rich, I\u2019m not going to be voting for anything,\u2019 and they couldn\u2019t wait to run that ad. But he knew it was coming, and so he went the reasonable route on them. So I give him a pass on it in this instance. But that is one of the things that they do. And, by the way, ‘reasonable\u2019 according to whose standards? Is it not ‘reasonable\u2019 according to theirs? We let the liberals, the media define what\u2019s ‘reasonable,\u2019 and then we have people who want to fit into their definition of it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Harold in Houston. Harold, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh-ho-ho! (chuckling) I can\u2019t believe it! If I get to say what I want to say, you ain\u2019t ready for me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Maybe I am. Give me a shot.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I\u2019m 69 years old on the 28th of this month and I never voted. I\u2019m gonna vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why are you gonna vote for the first time this time?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) Well, for 42 years I\u2019ve been frustrated with the system that my vote ain\u2019t gonna count. I think the elites are just gonna put in whoever they want, the news media\u2019s gonna put whoever they want in. I came to a conclusion that I\u2019d be voting by not voting, that someday somebody would come along and want my vote and say what I say and want what I want and I would vote for them, and I\u2019m seeing the conservative movement and the Tea Party as the people that want my vote. Here they are. I wanna vote. I pictured me walking in the booth, the voting booth, and I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to see. I know all kind of tricks are pulled to disguise and manipulate your vote. I don\u2019t know how to see through it. Is there some way? I want to vote all incumbents out from the smallest office up. They failed. I wanna send my Mr. Smith to Washington.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Well, the first thing to do in this regard is don\u2019t vote for anybody with a Democrat or a D next to their name. <\/p>\n

CALLER: All right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s over half the battle, Harold. Now, in Texas I don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to have much of a problem because most of the Republicans on the ballot in Texas are not going to be RINOs.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re going to have some out there, but the odds —<\/p>\n

CALLER: So I\u2019m safe going Republican —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well…<\/p>\n

CALLER: — just using the R?<\/p>\n

RUSH: With reservations, yes, but certainly much safer than… Don\u2019t vote for any Democrat, whatever.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No way. No way, yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No way. No, no, no, no. Not one Democrat is a member of the Tea Party, which is what\u2019s got you jazzed.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Yeah. I\u2019m on fire! I waited for them to show the whites of their eyes; now I\u2019m ready to pull my musket out and shoot it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, figuratively speaking of course.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because do you actually have a musket?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah? I thought you might.<\/p>\n

CALLER: A vote. My vote is my musket.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, your vote\u2019s the musket. Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) I\u2019m sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s okay. That\u2019s okay. Look, you just stay tuned to this program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I — I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Well, then you\u2019ll receive proper guidance at the proper time.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And the second thing I wanted to know was: It\u2019s my honest concern that as soon as I register as a Republican or independent, that I\u2019m going to be audited, knowing how the elite use the IRS and the FBI.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Has anybody ever compiled statistics? <\/p>\n

RUSH: That may be a factor whether you get health care in ten or 15 years, five years.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it\u2019s not a guaranteed audit, particularly if you vote independent, but if you want to register Democrat and vote Republican you could do that, too. It\u2019s not a problem.<\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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