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RUSH: Here\u2019s Bobby from the New Jersey Turnpike. You\u2019re next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. What a pleasure to talk to you again. I\u2019m happy you didn\u2019t put me on right after that guy. My head was still spinning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir.<\/line>CALLER: But I just wanted to congratulate and thank you for your speech at CPAC in 2009. I watched it in its entirety again last night, and it was incredible to watch your sense of confidence and your prescience in reaffirming what conservatism is and what it should be and what it could mean — and how that speech really laid the foundation for what has transpired over the last two years.<\/line><\/p>\n

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

CALLER: It was tremendous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m glad you reminded me. It was 2009 It\u2019s either the second or third anniversary of that speech, CPAC speech.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Second, right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That CPAC speech, that was given within three weeks or two weeks of Obama\u2019s immaculation.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And at that time there wasn\u2019t a dry eye in conservatism. Everybody was in tears, and everybody\u2019s heads were hung low, and everybody thought we were destined for the wilderness for generations.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You really couldn\u2019t tell that from watching you, though. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s my point.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You had confidence and everything was tremendous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad you liked it. Thank you very much. <\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That was a fun day. That went on for an hour and 20 minutes. It was supposed to go for 45 minutes and during one of the sustained periods of applause, the CPAC people said, ‘Look, can you keep going? Another 45 minutes would be fine.\u2019 I said, ‘Sure,\u2019 so we did. We had to room all night. (laughs) They said we didn\u2019t have to get outta here \u2019til ten o\u2019clock. So I\u2019m glad you mentioned it, because CPAC\u2019s convention is happening now. What prompted you to go back and watch it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The fact that CPAC was coming on again and I remember watching that and sort of applauding to myself and my family at home at the time and really sort of getting a charge from it, because it was darkness for the times for everybody that believes like we do, and it really was the start of how things turned around. You made a couple of mentions that were kind of interesting knowing how things have unfolded since. You mentioned the couple of Tea Parties that had popped up and I guess the guy on CNBC, Santelli, had mentioned or had his little rant shortly before your speech, et cetera. The health care thing hadn\u2019t fully unfolded and it was interesting to see in context of history. I truly believe that it was a historic speech, and tremendously important for our country. I\u2019m tremendously happy to be able to be on and thank you for you and congratulate you. It was a tremendous accomplishment.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: No teleprompter. No teleprompter, of course, as well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Your first address to the nation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s right. (laughing) My first national address. <\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: My first address to the nation — without a teleprompter to boot, exactly right. Thank you very much. You have made my day. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I had forgotten that \u2019til he mentioned it. I mean, it\u2019s not something I think about every day, but it was fun. And you know, something interesting? We\u2019re driving into town. You know, Kathryn\u2019s with me in the back of the car being driven into town and I had no idea what I was gonna talk about. I never do. (chuckles) This is why I really don\u2019t like doing speeches \u2019cause I never plan them. I don\u2019t even outline them in my head. I always wait because I know sometime right before I\u2019m gonna start, I\u2019m gonna get some inspiration. Some giant spark is gonna be ignited, and driving into town is when I had the idea. I looked at Kathryn and I said, ‘You realize what this is? This is my first address to the nation,\u2019 and we started laughing about that. So that\u2019s what I used as the foundation for the whole thing, and that gave me my mind-set about what the speech was.<\/p>\n

‘Okay, here\u2019s an address to the nation. I\u2019m addressing the nation at this point in time about this,\u2019 and that\u2019s what unlocked the deep, dark secrets of knowledge in my mind as to what I wanted to talk about. I\u2019m sweating. I\u2019m driving into town and I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m gonna talk about. I cannot… I do not have the ability, talent, or whatever. I cannot sit here and write a speech that I\u2019m gonna give tomorrow night, next weekend or whatever. I just can\u2019t do it. When I sit down to write, my brain freezes. I lose half my knowledge, or my ability to recall half my knowledge. I lose half my vocabulary. I sit there. The first error I make on the typewriter or computer keyboard, I stop to correct it and train of thought\u2019s gone. So… (sigh) I hope and pray every time I\u2019m supposed to do a speech that I get that spark. I do. It\u2019s touch and go. I\u2019ll betcha I lose 15 pounds in the one hour before a speech in nervous energy \u2019cause I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m gonna talk about. I\u2019m sitting there waiting for the spark, and I got that one driving in about 45 minutes before I was to give it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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