{"id":10449,"date":"2014-01-13T19:09:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T19:09:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-13T19:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T19:09:48","slug":"why_conservatives_won_t_defend_christie_the_way_we_defended_clarence_thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2014\/01\/13\/why_conservatives_won_t_defend_christie_the_way_we_defended_clarence_thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Conservatives Won\u00c2\u2019t Defend Christie the Way We Defended Clarence Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: If I do this right, I think, this is telling. It\u2019s important. I want to take you back, talk about Chris Christie<\/a> and talk about why there is not a huge wave of people defending him. The Tea Party isn\u2019t because the Tea Party doesn\u2019t like him. The Tea Party does not think that he is a conservative. The Tea Party…<\/p>\n

This Bridgegate\u2019s one thing<\/a>, but basically embracing Obama and screwing Romney, that was all it took, that one time and you\u2019re done<\/a>. But the Tea Party\u2019s not Christie\u2019s buddies. The Republican Party establishment is Christie\u2019s buddies<\/a>, and they aren\u2019t even defending him. They\u2019ve all got this caveat, “He\u2019s home free IF he\u2019s telling the truth.” “IF.” Now, can I contrast this with something for you? Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill. <\/line><\/p>\n

Clarence Thomas was nominated the Supreme Court by George Bush 41. The moment he was nominated, the left\u2019s long knives came out. That was their seat, Thurgood Marshall. Clarence Thomas, Republican, conservative, traitor, Uncle Tom. When this all happened, I didn\u2019t know Clarence Thomas. I had never met Clarence Thomas. I had to read about Clarence Thomas to find out who he was. From the moment Paul Simon, Democrat senator from Illinois…<\/p>\n

His wife, actually, was the one responsible for this, if you want to know the truth. They dragged Anita Hill forward. Snerdley, you\u2019ll remember this because you\u2019ve been here the whole time. I began the biggest, full-throated defense of Clarence Thomas that there was, and I didn\u2019t know him. I\u2019d never met him. I had to read and find out who he was and, you know, about his life, the things he\u2019d done, where he\u2019d worked, gone to school.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Yet I didn\u2019t feel I was taking a risk at all in a full-throated, never-ending, full-fledged not only defense of Clarence Thomas, but an attack, a returned attack on Anita Hill and the Democrats. Now, how was I able to do this with such confidence, not having met the man, not having known the man? I don\u2019t do things for show here. I don\u2019t do things to get noticed here. I was in either Tulsa or Oklahoma City on the Rush to Excellence Tour.<\/p>\n

I was doing an appearance on Saturday when the Anita Hill stuff really hit, and all of the outrageous allegations, the “pubic hair on the Coke can” and all the sexual harassment stuff, and I can\u2019t tell you how livid I was. I spent the entire almost two hours on stage that night (it was a Saturday) talking about this, and how sick it made me and how angry it made me. The reason that I — and I have been fully vindicated, by the way — was able to defend Clarence Thomas with total confidence against this, is I knew he didn\u2019t do it. <\/p>\n

I knew he didn\u2019t do it, and I didn\u2019t know him. But I learned about his character. I learned about his family. He was conservative. He was courageous. He was a conservative African-American. You learned that they had tried to destroy him at Yale \u2019cause he didn\u2019t get in with affirmative action. He betrayed them. He betrayed the civil rights coalitions because he climbed the ladder without them, showing that it could be done. <\/p>\n

I learned very quickly that Clarence Thomas became the biggest threat breathing to people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the biggest threat alive to the civil rights coalitions, because Clarence Thomas was living proof that a minority could reach the pinnacle without having to be a liberal or a Democrat or part of that whole civil rights coalition. I also knew that the people attacking him were totally capable of lying and making things up. <\/p>\n

The left, the Democrats, take your pick — Biden, take your pick of \u2019em on that committee. Ted Kennedy. I knew their character, and so without knowing Clarence Thomas, without ever having met Clarence Thomas, I knew he didn\u2019t do it. I\u2019ve since gotten to know Clarence Thomas. He\u2019s become a very good friend and he didn\u2019t do it. He thwarted all of that by standing up for himself at those hearings, if you\u2019ll recall, by finally accusing the people of conducting a “high-tech lynching” on him. <\/p>\n

But what was it, folks? <\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know Clarence Thomas. <\/p>\n

What was it that made me do this? I didn\u2019t think I was risking anything. I really didn\u2019t. If I\u2019d had the slightest doubt of his innocence, I woulda never opened my mouth. If I thought that there was just a tiny thread of possibility that what Anita Hill was saying and what the Democrat witnesses were saying was true, I woulda stayed silent. But I didn\u2019t. I went to the equivalent of the mountaintops and started shouting. Now, why? Character, conservatism, and and my knowledge of the left.<\/p>\n

I only bring this up because there isn\u2019t any of this going on for Governor Christie, from anywhere. Now, partly, the fascinating thing about this… I\u2019m not saying it\u2019s not deserved, don\u2019t misunderstand. My point is that the Republican RINOs, Republicans-In-Name-Only, and the Tea Party have an ideological basis for not running to Governor Christie\u2019s defense. They disagree with him on policy. They felt that he betrayed his own party and cause with that embrace of Obama.<\/p>\n

They feel he sabotaged his own party in their quest to win the White House. The Tea Party, they\u2019ve got substantive reason. Now, the people on the right who support Christie, to launch him, this is the problem with the Republican Party. There\u2019s no foundation there. There\u2019s no ideological basis on which to defend Christie, is my point. They\u2019re RINOs. They\u2019re Republicans-In-Name-Only. They\u2019re establishment types. <\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s the beginning and end of everything, what happens there, and whatever you have to be to succeed there is what you do. So Christie may well be worth defending, is my point. I don\u2019t know. He may well be worth a Clarence Thomas-type defense, but notice that nobody is coming forth with one. They\u2019ve all got that caveat. “He\u2019s home free IF he\u2019s not lying.” This is not a comment about Governor Christie, so please don\u2019t misunderstand or be confused. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m trying to illustrate (What\u2019s the word?) the emptiness of the Republican… (interruption) No, it\u2019s not. My purpose here is not to comment on Governor Christie. I\u2019m trying to make the point that over there in the RINO Club, the Republican establishment, the wildebeests<\/a>, whatever, there\u2019s not an ideology. There\u2019s not a belief system. There\u2019s not a foundation on which to base a defense, as I had with Clarence Thomas — and, by the way, he\u2019s not alone. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I have also offered full-throated defenses of Sarah Palin and Robert Bork, and a whole bunch of people on our side. Miguel Estrada. I mean, the left has tried to take out people on our side with cheap lies and phony accusations, like they did with Clarence Thomas. They\u2019ve done it with Bork. What Kennedy did to Robert Bork, to me, to this day still — and what they tried to do with Clarence Thomas — is just near criminal, even though it all falls within the purview of the First Amendment and politics. (interruption) Carl McCall?<\/p>\n

Well, yeah, but Carl McCall… I wasn\u2019t defending Carl McCall ideologically. I was defending Carl McCall because his own party abandoned him and I was illustrating something there. We ended up raising money for Carl McCall because, here\u2019s the Democrat Party, this guy\u2019s a black guy who wanted to run for governor of New York, and the Democrat Party threw him overboard, and they supposedly are the ones championing black people, and they threw him on the ash heap. So we raised a little money for him here to try to defend him. <\/p>\n

Now okay, you mentioned Clinton. Why did the Democrats go to the mat defending the Clintons knowing his character and background? It\u2019s precisely because of his character and his background that they do it. It\u2019s because Clinton has a track record of beating us every time he opens his mouth, and that\u2019s why they love him. They love Clinton\u2019s ideology. Now, we don\u2019t have enough data here to track the left defending Obama because they haven\u2019t done anything but that. I explained that earlier. But I\u2019m just… looking for the word here. Not “surprised.” Although that fits. It\u2019s just every Republican who has entered the fray defending Christie has to put a caveat out there “if he\u2019s telling the truth.” <\/p>\n

Now, if there were a fervent ideological foundation, if there was a substantive reason of believing in Governor Christie, then whether he lied wouldn\u2019t matter. They\u2019d be out there defending him left and right just to make sure the Democrats don\u2019t get away with this. And I\u2019ll admit that was part of the reason that I jumped into Clarence Thomas. There was no way they were gonna get away with this if I had the ability to have a little bit of something to do with it. There\u2019s no way. I wasn\u2019t gonna sit there and put up with this. I\u2019d done enough to find out he was a fine man and know this was a witch hunt. They were out to seek and destroy. It had happened with Bork. It was intelligence guided by experience, and it took not one shred of risk on my part to do it.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just Governor Christie. You note the Republicans, any one of their brood comes under assault, and they throw \u2019em overboard. Satisfy the sharks and try to make the sharks go away, satisfy their hunger and their appetite so maybe they\u2019ll go away and forget about it. Sarah Palin, throw her overboard, get rid of her. Any number of people, Scooter Libby, throw him over, get rid of him. You name it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Mark in Grand Rapids, Michigan, great to have you on the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you doing?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just fine, sir. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Listen, thanks for that retrospective on Clarence Thomas.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that. Thank you, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, that was just terrific. Listen, a question: If Christie is cleared of the bridge incident, can we expect the New York Times to endorse him as the next Republican candidate for president?<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Interesting thought. But will he ever be cleared, or will there always be a lingering doubt about it? I\u2019m talking about as far as the way the media reports this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, the never-ending story, huh?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. How can they ever really prove that he didn\u2019t know? They can\u2019t read people\u2019s emails.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They have a great opportunity here. They have a great opportunity to pair this in parallel to John McCain and what they did to essentially help select our candidate for president. I don\u2019t consider myself a Republican any longer, I consider myself a staunch conservative, and so I really thank you-for-creating what I consider the greatest radio program in broadcasting history to try to basically resurrect our principles of liberty and free market capitalism. I do so much appreciate listening to you every day, and knowing what kind of an effort you must put for us in order do this every day.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow. I really appreciate that. I can\u2019t thank you enough. That\u2019s a great birthday present. I really do appreciate that. As for Christie, don\u2019t forget, they are afraid of him. You and I may think they\u2019re crazy, but they\u2019ve got two polls (and they live and die by these things) that show Christie as the only Republican beating Hillary. So they are palpably frightened by the guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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