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RUSH: Let\u2019s just jump feet first into this Santorum business. I want to start actually with Friday night\u2019s Hardball. Chris Matthews had the editor-at-large from Salon.com, Joan Walsh, as a guest. And they were talking about Obama\u2019s decision that insurance companies pay for contraception coverage for employees of religious-based businesses.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what happened at the same time Obama\u2019s approval numbers were plummeting. Now, you\u2019re gonna be hearing something that isn\u2019t true in this bite. They cite a poll that shows 66% support of Obama\u2019s federal requirement that private insurance plans cover the full cost of birth control. No. The vast majority of polls say it\u2019s 50-50. It\u2019s not a 66-34 issue. It\u2019s not an 80-20 issue. More and more people are considering that the president doesn\u2019t have the authority to unilaterally just dictate this! Don\u2019t doubt me, folks. There are more and more people starting to actually become alarmed (and they are independents) at the brazen, naked power grabs that Obama is making. And the White House, the Democrat Party are living under age-old assumptions that the independents hate values.<\/p>\n
One of the things… You\u2019ll remember this when I remind you. One of the glaring things that showed up in the exit polls was how much “values” mattered to voters. And we were all surprised. And I\u2019ll never forget the Democrats. Immediately upon the delivery of the exit polls, the Democrats (for a week or two) were publicly were saying, “Yeah, we\u2019re gonna have to get our house in order on the values. The values-based voters, we\u2019re not giving \u2019em enough. We\u2019re gonna have to make some adjustments.” I remember it like it was yesterday. And all that is, when you hear “values-based voters,” is we\u2019re simply talking about social issues, social conservatives. They were the primary reason for the 2002 midterms success, and Democrats gave the usual lip service for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
And then, of course, they abandoned it because they never meant it in the first place. I bring it up just to reaffirm the point that Jeffrey Bell makes in his recent book that social conservatism has led to victory in presidential elections. It\u2019s the dirty little secret the Democrats know and the media know, and it\u2019s why the social conservatives (one of the reasons why) are so despised. They\u2019re also despised on principle. But they\u2019re also despised because there are so many of them, and they\u2019re thought to be hick, hayseed idiots who believe every syllable in the Bible, “And how stupid can that be?” in their minds. And they vote Republican, and they\u2019re anti-abortion. Oh, every ingredient necessary for a liberal Democrat to hate somebody, the social conservatives have — and they joyously, happily propose it and vote it.<\/p>\n
And the Democrats know full well. Why do you think…? Why do you think Obama and the Democrats all of a sudden try to concoct this contraception issue? ‘Cause they\u2019re losing the independents! They believe, from the age-old pages of their playbook, that if they can revive this notion that the Republican Party is nothing but a bunch of theologians that want to dictate from the pulpit in the White House, that they can scare the independents back to Obama\u2019s camp. They know they can\u2019t attract \u2019em with economic issues. They know they can\u2019t attract the independents back by being positive about Obama\u2019s record, \u2019cause there isn\u2019t anything there to be positive about. They know that social issues are a winner for the Republican Party.<\/p>\n
Now, the Republican establishment doesn\u2019t like the social conservatives either. They\u2019ll take \u2019em on Election Day, but that\u2019s as far as it goes. They\u2019re scared of \u2019em, too. They don\u2019t like them. But they\u2019ll take them on Election Day. So Matthews says to Joan Walsh, “There\u2019s a new New York Times\/CBS poll taken in February. It spanned opinion both before and after the president announced his accommodation last Friday which kept the religious institutions from having to sign on to providing free-of-charge abortion benefits. Sixty-six percent…” Matthews erroneously cites here. “Sixty-six percent in the New York Times poll support the federal requirement that private insurance plans cover the full cost of birth control.” That\u2019s the only poll that shows that, by the way. And he says to Joan Walsh, “This is a pretty clear public opinion here, I think.”<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I am leading the Republican Party off a cliff on the issue of abortion and social issues. I\u2019m not on the ballot. I guess she\u2019s saying this because I\u2019m not condemning Santorum for what he\u2019s doing. Well, if I\u2019m leading the party off the cliff, they ought to be happy. But they sure as heck sound worried to me. You know, everybody chooses to conveniently forget that Bill Clinton ran on family values in 1996. That\u2019s how he won the soccer moms, for crying out loud. The Democrats will make overtures to the family values crowd. Why did Clinton bother with all the public apologies with Jesse Jackson and so forth over the Lewinsky stuff? Because it offended people\u2019s sense of decency where it comes to family values. He had to get \u2019em back. <\/p>\n
If family values didn\u2019t matter to Democrats, if it didn\u2019t matter to people, Clinton wouldn\u2019ta cared, it wouldn\u2019ta mattered. And he probably didn\u2019t want to do all that, but he had to. You want to talk about Santorum, Obama started this. If I may be bold, Ms. Walsh, it was Obama who started this at the National Prayer Breakfast. Santorum is simply reacting to Obama. Obama was the one who equated his policies with Jesus Christ, for crying out loud. We haven\u2019t had a Republican do that in I don\u2019t know how long. But Obama did it plain as day. And where were you, Ms. Walsh, and where were the rest of you libs? You\u2019re probably gritting your teeth, but you say, “Okay, he\u2019s our guy, we know what he has to do.” Another indication of just what the Democrats think they\u2019ve gotta do to win reelection. They\u2019ve got to show themselves to be at least friendly and nonthreatening to Christians and southern conservatives if they\u2019ve to have a chance. Otherwise Obama wouldn\u2019ta wasted time trying to equate himself and his wonderful policies to Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
So he started it. That\u2019s what everybody has to remember here. Obama started it. Santorum was reacting. Pure and simple. And this was not all that Santorum was talking about last week. He was also doing extremely well talking about the economy, manufacturing. He hits grand slam home runs when he talks about such things as providing decent jobs for people who don\u2019t have college degrees in this country. That\u2019s a lot of people. And he hits grand slams talking about that stuff. He also mixes in the other stuff. And this next sound bite, this is what sent \u2019em in orbit. This is Jackie Gleason to his wife in the Honeymooners, “To the moon, Alice!” which she really ticked him off. Santorum said this Saturday in Columbus, Ohio. He was at a Tea Party rally.<\/p>\n
SANTORUM: This is what the president\u2019s agenda is. It\u2019s not about you. It\u2019s not about you. It\u2019s not about your quality of life. It\u2019s not about your jobs. It\u2019s about some phony ideal, some phony theology. Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology.<\/p>\n
RUSH: A different theology. It\u2019s not about your quality of life. It\u2019s not about your jobs. It\u2019s about some phony ideal. And he said Obama\u2019s agenda is not based on the Bible and he didn\u2019t back down. When they started firing at him for this, he did not back down from the assertion that Obama\u2019s values run against the values of Christianity. Santorum said, “Obama is imposing his values on the Christian church. He can categorize those values any away he wants. I\u2019m not going to,” and he\u2019s exactly right. It was Obama who at first demanded that the Catholic Church provide free contraception and other abortion-related benefits, after he says that his policies equate those of Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
So here\u2019s Obama demanding that churches and religious schools provide things that they are morally opposed to. So Obama started this plain as day, and Santorum says he\u2019s imposing his values on the Christian church, not the other way around. Robert Gibbs, the former White House press secretary, was on This Week yesterday, the fill-in host Jake Tapper said to him, “Pressed by reporters as to what exactly he meant, Santorum said the president\u2019s, quote, ‘Imposing his secular values on the church, and I think that\u2019s wrong.\u2019 What\u2019s your reaction, Gibbs?”<\/p>\n
GIBBS: Those remarks are well over the line. It\u2019s wrong, it\u2019s destructive, it\u2019s time to get rid of this. It\u2019s time to have a debate on our political positions but not question\u2019s character and faith. This GOP primary, in many cases, Jake, has been a race to the bottom. We have seen nastiness, divisiveness, ugliness, distortions of opponents\u2019 records, of the president\u2019s records.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: So Santorum shows up on Slay the Nation yesterday, Bob Schieffer, he\u2019s 74; I said 92. He\u2019s 74 years old. And Schieffer actually seemed like he was talking to somebody from Mars. He looked at Santorum and he literally could not fathom that a living, breathing human being believes — much less would say — these things. So he asked Santorum about his remarks that Obama\u2019s agenda is about some phony theology. “Senator, I\u2019ve got to ask you, what in the world were you talking about, sir?”<\/p>\n
SANTORUM: I was talking about the radical environmentalists, that\u2019s why I was talking about energy. This idea that man is here to serve the earth as opposed to husband its resources and be good stewards of the earth. And I think that is a phony ideal. We\u2019re not here to serve the earth. The earth is not the objective. Man is the objective, and I think a lot of radical environmentalists have it upside down.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I guarantee you, Santorum, by the way, could not be more correct. I don\u2019t care whether you\u2019re religious or not, he could not be more correct. The left in this country has done its best to subordinate humanity to every other living or near-dead organism on the planet. You don\u2019t even have to go to its extreme fringes to find this, although you will. The left believes this would be a far better place, the planet would be, if there were no human beings. They don\u2019t see any other organism participating in destruction of the climate, destruction of anything that\u2019s on the planet. Everything but man is completely normal and natural. It is man, it is humanity that is the abnormality and the problem on the planet. Santorum\u2019s exactly right. That\u2019s exactly how they think. Now, I guarantee you, Bob Schieffer, in the circles he travels, has never heard anybody say that. Nobody\u2019s even gotten close. This the first time he\u2019s been confronted with something like this, and he doesn\u2019t know how to deal with it, as you will hear when we get back.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Now, before we get back to the Bob Schieffer sound bites and the stuff with Santorum, the Drive-By Media headlines have been hilarious. “Santorum Says Obama\u2019s Agenda Based on Phony Theology, Not the Bible,” or Santorum Questions Obama\u2019s Christian Values!” Santorum has never once criticized Obama\u2019s beliefs as they relate to Jeremiah Wright\u2019s. Santorum has never questioned Obama\u2019s devotion to Reverend Wright\u2019s church. He\u2019s not even talking about that. Almost all of these reports go out of their way to misunderstand — actually misreport — what Santorum was saying. Which, to those of us who understand, was perfectly clear. Anybody who doesn\u2019t see… And this is the real truth.<\/p>\n
Anybody who doesn\u2019t see that Obama and the rest of the left are the ones treating manmade global warming as an article of religious faith is either blind or a member of the news media. It is the left that has converted global warming into a religion! It is the left that has made abortion the sacrament to their religion of liberalism. It\u2019s Obama and the left that are converting everything to do with environmentalism and manmade global warming to a religious belief. Santorum was talking about Obama\u2019s belief in global warming. He was saying that gas prices are going up because of Obama\u2019s actions, which are based upon his belief in manmade global warming. Which is a religion. It is a theology. Global warming is not a science.<\/p>\n
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Which is what the left preaches. For crying out loud, they are trying to make what we exhale into a “pollutant.” And therefore, according to the left, only man and our animals emit carbon dioxide, thus pollutants. I\u2019m frankly gonna get a little offended that they\u2019re harping on Santorum for this. I\u2019ve been doing this for decades! I\u2019ve been making this point for decades and they\u2019ve ignored me. Let\u2019s go back to Schieffer and his attempts here to deal with Santorum. So after Schieffer on CBS on Slay the Nation yesterday asks (summarized), “Senator, what in the world…? What in the world were you talking about, sir?” Santorum answers, and then Schieffer says, “Well, how does that translate into some sort of theology…?” Meaning Obama\u2019s global warming beliefs. “How does that translate into some sort of theology, that the president\u2019s theology is not based on the Bible? I mean, that suggests he\u2019s not a Christian, sir.”<\/p>\n
SANTORUM: (chuckling) I wasn\u2019t suggesting the president\u2019s not a Christian. I accept the fact that the president\u2019s a Christian. I just said that when you have a worldview that elevates the earth above man and says that, you know, we can\u2019t take those resources because we\u2019re gonna harm the earth by things that are — that, frankly, are just not scientifically proven. For example, the politicization of the whole global warming debate. I mean, this is just all an attempt to — you know, to centralize power and to give more power to the government. And this is not questioning the president\u2019s beliefs in — in Christianity. I\u2019m talking about the belief that man is — should be in charge of the earth<\/p>\n
SCHIEFFER: (unintelligible sputtering)<\/p>\n
SANTORUM: — and should have dominion over it and should be good stewards of it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right. I guarantee you this is Greek. This is hieroglyphics to Schieffer. He doesn\u2019t comprehend it. Remember when Lord Monckton came and delivered a speech here in the United States about global warming and said things that you\u2019ve been hearing on this program for a long time? Juan Williams said, “You know, I never heard that before. I\u2019ve gotta stop and think about this. I\u2019ve never heard that perspective on global warming.” He hadn\u2019t heard it! It\u2019s just everywhere, but he hadn\u2019t heard it. I guarantee you, Bob Schieffer hasn\u2019t the slightest ability to comprehend this. “What do you mean, elevating man over the earth? What…?”<\/p>\n
Bob, you do it every day. All you have to do is believe that man is causing global warming, and therefore man should be subordinated to a tree or to carbon dioxide (which we exhale) or whatever. Then you are believing that we are the problem, that we are destroying the planet and that we are the ones that have to change and be punished for it. And all that does is transfer control and power to the government and takes away individual freedom and liberty. I guarantee you, I could sit here and explain this for two straight hours to Schieffer; he wouldn\u2019t comprehend it. And not just Schieffer. You take any of them in the media on the left. So Schieffer says, “Well, Senator, I have to ask you to give some explanation of that. I mean, you sound like you\u2019re saying…”<\/p>\n
Well, he\u2019s moving on. This is the prenatal care controversy. Santorum had made the claim that amniocentesis and prenatal care contribute very proportionately to abortion, and it\u2019s undeniable that they do. I can remember 20 years ago on this program talking about the coming conflict between the ethics of prenatal care — amniocentesis, learning what is in the womb before it\u2019s born — and medical ethics. For example, I\u2019ll give you the example that I gave 20 years ago. “If, for example, somewhere down the road,” I said, “we\u2019ll be able to tell prospective parents that your child is genetically prone to red hair, freckles, and overweight, how many people might decide to abort the kid because they just don\u2019t want a kid to have to live with those problems?”<\/p>\n
Nobody wants to be fat, freckle-faced and redheaded. We wouldn\u2019t do that to a kid.<\/p>\n
I said, “This is coming, folks. It\u2019s coming,” and then I hit them with the clincher: “What happens if someday down the road some scientist claims to discover the gene that indicates a predisposition to homosexuality, and two prospective parents are told that their fetus has this gene? What do you think is gonna happen? You\u2019re gonna see the biggest switch from pro-choice to pro-life in the history of the planet, in the gay population.” Twenty years ago we were talking about these kind of things on this program. So here comes Santorum and he\u2019s making the point that prenatal care, amniocentesis, the ability to discover characteristics and traits of children in the womb before they\u2019re born leads to abortion. Again, Schieffer is just gob-smacked with this. He can\u2019t comprehend it. He says, “Senator, I have to ask you to give some explanation to that. You sound like you\u2019re saying that the purpose of prenatal care is to cause people to have abortions, to get more abortions in this country. I think there are a number of people who would say that that\u2019s not the purpose at all.”<\/p>\n
SANTORUM: That\u2019s simply not true. A lot of prenatal tests are done to identify deformities in utero and the customary procedure is to encourage abortions. I didn\u2019t say prenatal care shouldn\u2019t be covered. We\u2019re talking about specifically prenatal testing, and specifically amniocentesis — which is a procedure that actually creates a risk of having a miscarriage when you have it, and is done for the purposes of identifying maladies of a child in the womb. And which in many cases — and, in fact, most cases — physicians recommend, particularly if there\u2019s a problem recommend, abortion. Ninety percent of Down syndrome children in American are aborted. So to suggest, “Where does that come from?” I have a child who has trisomy 18. Almost a hundred percent of trisomy 18 children are encouraged to be aborted. So I know what I\u2019m talking about, here.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And, by the way, tell the Chinese and the people in India that knowing the sex of your children in advance doesn\u2019t lead to abortion. They have a one-child policy and they want a son, and they learn that their fetus is going to be a little girl? Ha-ha. What do you think happens? Folks, the thing about this is, it\u2019s provocative, yeah, because it really pierces people\u2019s sensitivities and sensibilities. But it\u2019s undeniably true at the same time! None of this is easy. You start messing around in things like this, it\u2019s going to be get complicated and uncomfortable. And we\u2019ve got an abortion industry out there. We\u2019ve got an outfit, Planned Parenthood. You should go to their website if you don\u2019t believe me. Go to their website and look at what children can see.<\/p>\n
But Planned Parenthood makes its money, and a lot of it, performing abortions. And what do they need for that to happen? They need premarital sex. They need as much sex of any kind going on as they can get, and therefore they encourage it. There\u2019s a reason why in the nineties all this ratcheted up and they started teaching sex education and they started making all of this normal and they started saying, “You know, kids are gonna have sex. We can\u2019t stop it! We better do the best we can to help it be clean” and all of this stuff. But the proponents of this need pregnancies. Unwanted pregnancies. They need \u2019em! Planned Parenthood lives off of unwanted pregnancy. Now, you may be offended. I\u2019m telling you: As a matter of fact, it is unarguable. They would be out of business if there were no unwanted pregnancies — and the more of them, the better, as far as Planned Parenthood\u2019s concerned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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