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RUSH: Rand Paul has actually done something that I don\u2019t think — it may have happened — I don\u2019t think an elected Republican has done. I don\u2019t think an elected Republican\u2019s actually turned the tables on the issue of abortion against a Democrat. <\/p>\n

Now, I know that all kinds of so-called conservative activists — like Phyllis Schlafly is superb on this when she gets in debates with these leftists — don\u2019t misunderstand. But I\u2019m talking about elected officials who normally run from this issue. You remember what this is about. Rand Paul\u2019s up there after he\u2019s announced, and they say, “What do you think about abortion?” And he turns around and says, “You go ask go ask Debbie Schultz, you go ask Debbie Wasserman Schultz if she thinks it\u2019s okay to murder a seven-month-old fetus in the uterus. You ask her that.” And they did. They went and asked her that, and she stepped in it. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Okay, so Rand Paul goes out there and announces, and then he starts his media tour, and we chronicled how this began. He\u2019s mean to women. It was the official changeover from the race wars to the gender wars. It was the official media revival of the War on Women, just like Stephanopoulos got the War on Women going by asking Mitt Romney about contraception when nobody was talking about it. Nobody had cared about it. It wasn\u2019t even an issue anywhere on the horizon, kept badgering Romney. Romney finally answered it, voila, it didn\u2019t matter what the answer was, we\u2019ve got a War on Women, Republicans hate women, blah, blah, blah. <\/p>\n

That was a brief interruption in the overall race wars, everybody\u2019s racist because they criticized Obama, and so forth. But now it\u2019s Hillary\u2019s turn. She\u2019s next up so the gender wars are back. Rand Paul refused to accept the premise of Savannah Guthrie <\/a>and a couple of questions and they start, “You\u2019re mean to women. You don\u2019t like women. You really mistreat women reporters.” And the gender wars are back. And they asked him in this whole process a question regarding restrictions on abortion procedures and whether or not the Republicans accept or favor exceptions to late-term abortion bans in extreme cases. <\/line><\/p>\n

And Rand Paul, rather than fall for the trick of accepting the premise, turned the tables on \u2019em and told the reporters to go ask Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz if the Democrat Party favors no restrictions at all, not just late term, but at all. You go ask Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz if she would support the murder of a seven-pound baby in utero. And amazingly, the reporters went to Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz and carried the challenge. And she stepped in it. <\/p>\n

She said (paraphrasing), “I don\u2019t care, no exemptions. Any time a woman wants an abortion, it\u2019s her right. Government has no right to come and be involved. Whenever a woman wants an abortion, that\u2019s fine.” And then she realized that she had stepped in it and started trying to walk some of that back, and she went on CNN with Wolf Blitzer, tried to walk it back. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites on this. First up, Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz last night on The Kelly File. Megyn Kelly said, “You and Rand Paul have had this dustup about abortion. He keeps saying, ‘Ask Debbie ‘Blabbermouth\u2019 Schultz when life begins. When does she believe life begins?\u2019 Can you answer that question, Ms. ‘Schultz, when does life begin for you?”<\/p>\n

SCHULTZ: The question that he was asked and that he\u2019s trying to deflect from by pushing it on me is, does he support exceptions to his opposition — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n

KELLY: No, I know. I gave you that point. I cede the point, but I\u2019m wondering about you because I have you tonight.<\/p>\n

SCHULTZ: So from my perspective, my party\u2019s protective we do not support rolling back the protection that the constitutional right to make your own reproductive choices established in Roe v. Wade has given to women.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So Megyn Kelly says, “80% of the public is against an abortion in the third trimester, and almost 65% against an abortion in the second trimester. So people are divided on this. He\u2019s trying to get to the Democrats\u2019 position on at what point is it appropriate to say that it isn\u2019t just between a woman and her doctor, that there\u2019s a third life involved here, and it\u2019s the baby. At what point does that baby have life, does it ever have life, but it\u2019s born?” What do you think, Blabbermouth?<\/p>\n

SCHULTZ: What is appropriate from our perspective, I\u2019ll speak for myself but I think I can speak for most in my party, a woman\u2019s right to make her own decisions about her body should be between her and her doctor. And there is a Supreme Court decision, though, that answers those questions for us, the court decision —<\/p>\n

KELLY: But that\u2019s the Supreme Court decision. Casey says the state has a stay.<\/p>\n

SCHULTZ: That\u2019s right and states have made —<\/p>\n

KELLY: The state has a right to step in on behalf of the fetus and say at some point that fetus does obtain rights. You would admit that we can\u2019t women aborting third trimester babies just on a whim, right? You agree to some limits —<\/p>\n

SCHULTZ: Certainly not on a whim, but when a doctor —<\/p>\n

KELLY: See, that\u2019s what he\u2019s trying to get at.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, that\u2019s what he\u2019s trying to get at, you can\u2019t just on a whim. But she did try it, yeah, on a whim, whatever a woman wants. And see, that\u2019s not the majority position of the people in the country. That\u2019s all Rand Paul was trying to do was get her to admit that they are so far out of the mainstream on this. And she knew she was snookered from the moment that the press came asking the question and she gave her first answer. So she\u2019s been trying to walk it back and go everywhere she can. She just keeps stepping in it.<\/p>\n

Now, I could be wrong, but I don\u2019t know of — by the way, when I say I don\u2019t know of another Republican who\u2019s turned the table like that, it\u2019s not an endorsement of Rand Paul. I\u2019m not endorsing anybody. I\u2019m just observing here. Maybe somebody else has. If your favorite\u2019s candidate is Ted Cruz and he\u2019s embarrassed a Democrat, fine. If your favorite candidate is Scott Walker and he\u2019s embarrassed a Democrat, fine. I just have not seen it happen in this way. I know. The season is so young. I even get e-mail now, you know, say one thing positive about Rubio, “He\u2019s still a creep! He still blew it, and there you are defending him!” Ah, so. And as you say, Snerdley, the season is still young. The hate hasn\u2019t even really begun to percolate yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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