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RUSH: Folks, listen to this next segment. Well, you know what? I\u2019m not gonna be able to squeeze it all in here with all the audio sound bites before the next bottom-of-the-hour time-out, so I\u2019ll wait \u2019til afterwards. What it is: Jon Huntsman announced his candidacy today for the Republican presidential nomination, and he took a page from the book of the esteemed and the great Ronaldus Magnus. He went out there and made his announcement in front of the Statue of Liberty, and he\u2019s got a logo (a red rectangle with his name, “Jon Huntsman;” and then white with “JonHuntsman.com”). and somebody observed to me that it looks like a designer label that you might find in clothes. His logo does, his icon. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s interesting. I\u2019ll give you a little hint, a setup. He channels Ronaldus Magnus, does Huntsman. He basically says, “Look, we gotta go out there and we have to respect President Obama! I deeply respect President Obama. I am not going to run down anyone\u2019s reputation,” and, by the way, the chattering classes both on our side and the left are going nuts here. I have a little media montage of the State-Run Media orgasmic over Huntsman making his announcement at the same place as Reagan frequently appeared. But it just illustrates exactly what we were talking about yesterday. <\/p>\n

The Republican Party is still convinced that in order to secure the support of independents, that they have to be boring. They have to be serious and Milquetoast and cannot be confrontational, cannot be partisan, cannot go into attack mode. Somehow this is going to cause the independents to get nervous and send them running right back to Obama. Now, of course, that\u2019s flat-out BS, it\u2019s totally wrong. The elections of last November demonstrate that in a real world, real life example. But then there\u2019s also this. We\u2019re told — and this is a trap, by the way, the left puts this out. It\u2019s designed to get us to be boring. It\u2019s designed to get us not to contrast ourselves with the left. <\/p>\n

They put out this notion, “These independents, these moderates, they don\u2019t mess around. They\u2019re cut above! And they start hearing this deep partisanship and they\u2019re just gonna run away from you guys. They\u2019re gonna run right back to the Democrats.” Right. Now, the Democrat Party and anybody in it that you want to name today is the most vicious and mean-spirited and exemplifies the politics of personal destruction unlike I\u2019ve ever seen it practiced in my lifetime. I know it\u2019s been bad in the nation\u2019s history. If go back to the days of the founding, the pamphleteering and the media then, it was brutal — which is actually also the point. <\/p>\n

We\u2019ve never had this utopian-type existence where everybody was totally respectful of one another, even our opponents and we had intelligent, civic-minded debate back then. We\u2019ve never had that! It\u2019s what the left wants \u2019cause they desperately want to us shut up and not tell the truth about them. Our side falls for it and believes it! “Yeah, these independents, they don\u2019t like partisanship. Yeah, they\u2019re gonna run to people like Barney Frank. Oh, yeah! They\u2019re gonna run back to people like Anthony Weiner, who was one of the most partisan people in town, one of the most mean-spirited people in town.” It doesn\u2019t wash, folks.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Jon Huntsman, the former ambassador to the ChiComs for Obama — the former governor of Utah — has announced his intention to seek the Republican presidential nomination. He did it this morning using the Statue of Liberty. Yesterday and this morning we have a montage of the State-Controlled Media orgasmic over this. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

WILLIE GEIST: Jon Huntsman set today to do his best Ronald Reagan impression.<\/p>\n

CAROL COSTELLO: Jon Huntsman channeling Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: …the same spot Ronald Reagan kicked off his 1980 general e…election campaign.<\/p>\n

F. CHUCK TODD: …wants to channel Ronald Reagan themes of American renewal.<\/p>\n

JOHN HARRIS: Obviously an attempt to invoke the imagery of Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n

JIM ACOSTA: This is the spot where Ronald Reagan announced his presidential bid in 1980.<\/p>\n

JOHN HEILEMANN: Invoking the memory of the sainted Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n

WILLIAM KRISTOL: Ronald Reagan. That\u2019s what they\u2019re hoping to evoke.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right. Symbolism here, ladies and gentlemen. Announcing in the same place as Ronaldus Magnus does not make one Ronaldus Magnus. You know, there\u2019s somebody else announced there. You guys ought to know this. (There are Californians, of course, watching the program on the other side of the glass.) Do you know who else announced their presidential intentions at the Statue of Liberty? Three… two…one… Any guesses? Want to make a guess? Pete Wilson. Yes, the former Governor, the former Senator Pete Wilson did so — and he was also attempting to claim the Ronaldus Magnus mantle, the symbolism. Here is Huntsman. Let\u2019s listen to Huntsman — and, folks, this is not… Well, I don\u2019t want to say it\u2019s not gonna be pretty. It\u2019s gonna be interesting, \u2019cause we\u2019re gonna play Huntsman, you are a gown hear Huntsman describe how we have to go after Obama, what we can\u2019t do and what we must do, and we\u2019re gonna do all this as Reagan would have done it. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget that. Here\u2019s the first of our many sound bites:<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: Let me say something about civility.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: For the sake of the younger generation —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, yes.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: — it concerns me that civility, humanity, and respect are sometimes lost in our interactions as Americans. Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused. I don\u2019t think you need to run down someone\u2019s reputation in order to run for the office of president. I respect the President of the United States. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help a country we both love, but the question each of us wants the voters to answer is “Who will be the better president?” not who\u2019s the better American.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You see where this is. This is reminiscent of McCain getting rid of anybody in his campaign who dared use Obama\u2019s own middle name. Even that was considered to be provocative. So you don\u2019t need to run down anybody\u2019s reputation. “I respect the president of the United States.” This is Consultants 101 — and I\u2019m sure Huntsman believes this himself. As a moderate, this is what they all believe. By the way… I don\u2019t know this for sure, I should say. My best guess is that he does not want to be considered a conservative, because being considered a conservative is all those cliches. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure the consultants have said to him, “Stick to policies. Don\u2019t be critical of Mr. Obama. Don\u2019t! Don\u2019t attack Obama. He\u2019s a great American, blah, blah, blah. The American people will not put up with it.” You take a look at polling data, folks. There are people angry as they can be at this president. There are people who think his reputation deserves to be questioned, his policies, everything. I don\u2019t know how you separate the man from his policies. When you go vote, it\u2019s not the policies on the ballot. It\u2019s the candidate\u2019s name. This is so much hogwash. This is how we penalize ourselves, but this is what political consultants bring to the table. Here\u2019s more. This is Huntsman again telling us how he\u2019s gonna operate his campaign and various other things associated with it.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: Behind me is our most famous symbol of the promise of America. President Reagan launched the 1980 general election campaign from this very spot. — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: It was a time of trouble, worry — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: — and difficulty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: And he assured us that we could make America great again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. Right.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: And through his leadership, he did. Today I stand in his shadow, as well as the shadow of this magnificent monument to our liberty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So, “Behind me, our most famous symbol, the promise of America. Reagan launched his campaign from this very spot. Time of trouble, worry, difficulty,” and so forth. Now, one of the things… You have to forgive me here but I\u2019m a little resentful of people who are nothing like Reagan trying to be Reagan. Mr. Huntsman\u2019s not said it but the mind-set that he evokes has told us countless times through very many different people and voices that the era of Reagan is over. But when it\u2019s time to go out and get votes, isn\u2019t it amazing? Even Obama tries to channel Reagan! They all do. Reagan was an unapologetic conservative, and there was none of this talk about civility and all of this, and now the image that we\u2019ve got here so far in Mr. Huntsman\u2019s announcement is, “We\u2019re going to be civil. We respect the president. We are not gonna attack his reputation. We are going to be like Ronaldus Magnus. We don\u2019t want to tear down anybody\u2019s reputation.” <\/p>\n

Well, listen to how it\u2019s done by Ronald Reagan. This is September 1st, 1980, Liberty State Park behind the Statue of Liberty kicking off his general election campaign.<\/p>\n

REAGAN: The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. His answer to all this misery? He tries to tell us that we\u2019re only in a recession, not a depression — as if definitions — words — relieve our suffering. Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it\u2019s a definition he wants, I\u2019ll give him one: A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his!<\/p>\n

SUPPORTERS: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ho! Oh, my God, how vicious! Can you believe how mean-spirited Reagan was? Why, he went right after the reputation of Jimmy Carter. My God, he was making fun of Jimmy Carter. He was making fun of him! He was laughing about Jimmy Carter being no different than a dictionary. Why, I can\u2019t believe how uncivil Reagan was! I didn\u2019t hear Reagan talk about how much he respected Carter\u2019s reputation. I heard him talk about how damaging Carter was — and Reagan was just getting warmed up.<\/p>\nREAGAN: I have talked with unemployed workers all across this country. I\u2019ve heard their views on what Jimmy Carter has done to them and their families. Let Mr. Carter go to their homes, look their children in the eyes, and argue with them that it\u2019s only a recession that put dad or mom out of work. Let him go to the unemployment lines and lecture those workers who have been betrayed on what is the proper definition for their widespread economic misery. Human tragedy, human misery, the crushing of the human spirit. They do not need defining; they need action. <\/p>\n

SUPPORTERS: (applause)<\/p>\n

REAGAN: Call this human tragedy whatever you want. Whatever it is, it\u2019s Jimmy Carter\u2019s. He caused it, he tolerates it, and he\u2019s going to appearance to the American people for it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow, can you believe this? How… Reagan, why, he was going after Jimmy Carter here! Jimmy Carter, this is misery. Whatever this human tragedy is, it\u2019s Jimmy Carter\u2019s. Meanwhile, the Republican consultants of today are advising every Republican, “Don\u2019t! Don\u2019t do that! Don\u2019t go out there and make this about Obama. You gotta attack the policies, but you can\u2019t mention Obama. Don\u2019t do that! You gotta be like Reagan.” <\/p>\n

Well, here\u2019s Reagan. <\/p>\n

You\u2019re gonna be like Reagan? Listen to Reagan. <\/p>\n

You notice, by the way, the energy that Reagan is exhibiting here. There\u2019s no boredom. There\u2019s no soft-spoken intellectual seriousness. There\u2019s passion! There is deep passion here! Nobody listening to Ronald Reagan make this announcement in 1980 had any doubt what he wanted to do and what he thought about what was happening to the country. He was dead serious about fixing this because he cared deeply about the misery and the destruction that one man had brought about: Jimmy Carter! He was unabashed and unafraid to lay the blame for all of it at the feet of one man: The sitting president at the time, Jimmy Carter. Ronald Reagan won two land landslide victories, yet they tell us gotta be like Reagan to win the election. But no! The advice these people are being given (and maybe they don\u2019t even need the advice; maybe they believe it themselves without the consultants) is they can\u2019t do this in this era. “You can\u2019t! You can\u2019t go after Obama this way.” Now, here\u2019s the line that Huntsman quoted from Reagan in context. It\u2019s a little different than the way it sounded from Huntsman.<\/p>\nREAGAN: I\u2019m looking forward to meeting Mr. Carter in debate, confronting him with the whole sorry record of his administration — the record he prefers not to mention. If he ever finally agrees to the kind of first debate the American people want, which I\u2019m beginning to doubt, he\u2019ll answer to them and to me. <\/p>\n

SUPPORTERS: (applause)<\/p>\n

REAGAN: This country needs a new administration with a renewed dedication to the dream of America, an administration that will give that dream new life and make America great again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. So that\u2019s the context of “running down the reputation” of one Jimmy Carter that Huntsman said he wasn\u2019t gonna do. It\u2019s perfectly clear here to me who Ronald Reagan thought the problem was. It\u2019s perfectly clear to me what Ronald Reagan thought the solution to the problem was. The problem was Jimmy Carter. The problem was not just his policies, because you can\u2019t separate them. Reagan didn\u2019t distinguish. He didn\u2019t run around and say, “You know, I like Jimmy Carter. Jimmy is a great guy, but his policies are causing misery.” He didn\u2019t say that. He went for the throat. I marvel here, folks, at how all these experts are telling us how the Republicans need to act and how they need to campaign to win, and they hearken back to the great civil days of Reagan. I\u2019m not saying this is uncivil, but politics is what it is. It\u2019s a hard-hitting business — and if you get into these races to win them, you have to go after the people you want to replace; and we are where we are precisely because of Barack Obama. But if we\u2019re gonna run a campaign which tries to (sigh) mention that without mentioning it, well, it\u2019s gonna be that much more difficult to pull off.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I love the contrast that we just shared with you exclusively here on the EIB Network. Ronald Reagan being Ronald Reagan, Ronaldus Magnus as Ronaldus Magnus compared to a RINO pretending to be Reagan. And the contrast is dramatic, as I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll agree, those of you who heard it. If I didn\u2019t hear we\u2019re gonna play these again throughout the program this afternoon. It\u2019s too important; it\u2019s too crucial. Folks, this notion that the independents are where elections are won and lost, that\u2019s 20, 25% of the electorate. You\u2019ve got people advising candidates, “Go out and get those people and you\u2019ve got this in the bag. You gonna get 40% of Republicans voting for you automatically, 40% Democrats voting for Obama.” The problem with this is Ronald Reagan didn\u2019t campaign to specific groups. <\/p>\n

Reagan campaigned to every American as an American. He didn\u2019t care if they were hyphenated, didn\u2019t care what their gender, their sexual orientation, whether they liked animals, it didn\u2019t matter. And as we noted, the pure passion. It wasn\u2019t boring. He didn\u2019t try to make himself sound serious. And folks, if you were not paying attention back then, if you weren\u2019t old enough paying attention, or if you just don\u2019t remember, do not doubt me when I tell you that even back then — in 1976 Reagan lost the Republican nomination. Gerald Ford won it. The Republican establishment in \u201976 did not like Reagan, just like they don\u2019t like conservatives of today. Even after Reagan was elected, a lot of them were not happy. Reagan was unabashedly conservative. He was unafraid to say that he was conservative. Mr. Huntsman doesn\u2019t want to be called a conservative. <\/p>\n

New York Times on June 20th: “Huntsman refused to describe himself as a conservative. Huntsman said he didn&rsquo;t like political labels, but if he had to pick one, he considered himself a ‘pragmatic problem-solver.'” Well, Ronaldus Magnus had no problem describing himself as a conservative. He did so proudly. He had literally no shame whatsoever in identifying himself that way. When I start talking this way, a number of you independents, I know you get a little peeved. In fact, we\u2019ve got one on hold. We actually have an independent who has called the program, and that person is on hold, and thinks that I broad brush them. In other words, speak in generalities. <\/p>\n

To those of you who are independent or call yourselves independents, let me really specify something. When talking about you, I actually am bouncing off how you are thought of by so-called political experts, and particularly on the Republican side. I do happen to think that a lot of independents relish calling themselves independents because the notion is that they\u2019re not partisan, that they\u2019re open-minded, that they discuss things and decide things issue by issue, they\u2019re far, far more intelligent than these committed ideologues on the right or the left. But my main bone of contention with independents is how you are portrayed and how you are sought and how you are pursued by political professionals.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I checked the e-mail during the top-of-the-hour break, “What do you got against Huntsman?” I don\u2019t have anything against Huntsman. Folks, I guess I\u2019m glad for the question. It gives me the opportunity to specify. I don\u2019t know Jon Huntsman, and everything I\u2019ve seen about the guy, he\u2019s a prince, a prince of a person, a nice fellow. (interruption) I\u2019d play golf with him, sure. My comments here have to do with campaign technique, tactics, and strategery, and I don\u2019t know if the way Huntsman\u2019s going about this is what he really thinks is the best way to do it or whether he\u2019s getting advice. Either way I disagree with it. I know these guys are getting this kind of advice, “Go milquetoast. Don\u2019t be anything that\u2019s partisan. You don\u2019t want to be confrontational, independents don\u2019t like it.” <\/p>\n

I get so fed up with being on defense, particularly where independent voters are concerned. Independents are perfectly fine with the country being destroyed. What would really tick off the independents is if you get mad at the people doing it. I\u2019m sorry, it doesn\u2019t compute. And if I were you independents I\u2019d be a little bit upset that you\u2019re being portrayed this way, that you\u2019re perfectly fine with everything going to hell in a handbasket but when somebody gets very pointed in saying so, that\u2019s when you get mad. What is that? <\/p>\n

Now, let me give you a quote of something that Huntsman said today, and again, within the context of Mr. Huntsman saying, “I\u2019m not gonna go attack anybody, and I\u2019m not gonna destroy anybody\u2019s reputation. I have profound respect for President Obama.” Okay, here\u2019s something he said at his announcement at the Statue of Liberty today. He said, “For the first time in our history we\u2019re about to pass down to the next generation a country that is less powerful, less compassionate, less competitive, and less confident than the one we got.” Okay. That matters to me. That\u2019s a pretty big indictment. For the first time in our history? This is not insignificant. He\u2019s right, and I assume he believes it. Not only is it not insignificant, it\u2019s profound. <\/p>\n

“For the first time in our history we are about to pass down to the next generation a country that\u2019s less powerful –” this less compassionate business, I don\u2019t know what that means. We\u2019re going broke being compassionate. We\u2019re bankrupting the next generation and the generation after that, and the following generation. We\u2019re bankrupting all those people with our compassion. And make no mistake, that\u2019s how way too many people define compassion: how much money are you willing to throw at people. How much money are you willing to redistribute. That\u2019s what goes for compassion these days. “We\u2019re passing down a country that\u2019s less competitive and less confident.” Sorry. Somebody\u2019s responsible for that. Somebody and their policies are responsible for that. And if you don\u2019t want to say that one person is, clearly a political party can be said to be responsible for it, clearly the policies of a political party. <\/p>\n

Even if you say, “I\u2019m not gonna attack the guy, but we gotta go after his policies.” Well, that\u2019s pretty profound stuff here. These are very destructive policies. If you really believe this you gotta attack this with a little passion. But how can you say, “For the first time in our history we\u2019re about to pass down to the next generation a country that\u2019s less powerful, less compassionate, less competitive, less confident,” and at the same time say, “I\u2019m not gonna attack anybody.” Contest here on who\u2019s a better president, not who\u2019s a better American. Who\u2019s a better American is not on the ballot anyway. Where did that come from? I mean this kind of stuff bothers me. It doesn\u2019t offend me. This less powerful, he\u2019s basically saying the same thing that the Defense Secretary Robert Gates said over the weekend, except for the competitive and the compassionate part. <\/p>\n

But I mean this stuff matters. It\u2019s not saying for the first time in our history we\u2019ve got a national debt of $14 trillion. Okay, fine. First time in our history we\u2019re a nation in decline. That\u2019s serious stuff. Somebody\u2019s responsible for that. That just didn\u2019t happen, folks. Sorry to say, it\u2019s not just an evolutionary cycle. The evolutionary cycle that is this country is one of growth, is one of power, is one of liberation for the oppressed all over the world. The evolutionary cycle of this country is greatness. And now we have people running for office, acknowledging that for the first time in our history — so it\u2019s not part of a cycle — for the first time in our history we are in decline. Well, you can\u2019t just ho-hum that. If you ho-hum it, nobody\u2019s gonna believe you mean it. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s like trying to fight a war on terrorism without daring to use the word “terrorist,” which, by the way, this current regime has tried to do. You gotta be willing to name your enemies. You have to be willing to define your enemies, and you have to be willing to tell people why they are the enemy. But I don\u2019t think we even have people willing to describe the Democrats as our enemy. “No, they are our worthy opponents, Mr. Limbaugh, the Democrats are our worthy opponents. That\u2019s how we independents look at it, they are worthy opponents.” Fine, worthy opponents. Let me make something very clear. Barack Obama and his buds look at us as the enemy. Barack Hussein Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm, and his party look at us as much bigger enemies than they see Al-Qaeda as an enemy, make no mistake about it. <\/p>\n

So this is all that I mean. If you\u2019re gonna run around and talk about how for the first time ever we\u2019re a nation in a state of decline, it\u2019s not a ho-hummer. It\u2019s not a “oh, by the way.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want to save the US economy? You roll back the Obama revolution. Pure and simple. That\u2019s how you save the US economy. You want to sit around and worry about respecting somebody\u2019s reputation or what have you? You know, Obama once told us we should be mad, except he told us we should be mad at people like AIG, or people on Wall Street. So even our esteemed Dear Leader told us, “It\u2019s okay to get mad at people,” but we? We\u2019re not supposed to be mad at Obama! We\u2019re not supposed to be mad at a party which is systematically destroying — and admittedly here by even Mr. Huntsman, it\u2019s the first time in our history we are a nation in decline being presided over as such, happily, by the Democrat Party and its leaders and emissaries. <\/p>\n

All right, to the phones we go. We\u2019re gonna start White Plains, New York. This is Rich. Thank you for calling, sir. Appreciate your patience in waiting. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call, and congratulations on your 80 score.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you. Oh, it was exciting. It was fun. I was ready for an emergency nine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know you\u2019re feeling good. Rush, I think it\u2019s most critical for the liberal Drive-By Media to try and push a moderate like Huntsman as the Republican candidate 2012 because of that poll that shows that a generic Republican candidate will beat Obama. What that means is it translates into a lot of Republicans won\u2019t be holding their noses and voting for a moderate because they\u2019re worried about his or her electability in the general election. They\u2019ll vote their conservative ideology and not settle for less. I guarantee you\u2019re gonna watch the scare tactics from the lamestream liberal media left and right to try to convince Republicans, “You know, don\u2019t do it. Don\u2019t. Don\u2019t vote in that, quote, ‘extremist conservative candidate\u2019 or you\u2019ll lose!” <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. That\u2019s right. In fact, the whole notion of a Republican candidate and extremism is already being formulated. Axelrod and some of the Obama people are starting to allude to it even now. So you\u2019re dead on right. I\u2019ll tell you something like this, folks. He\u2019s talking about the generic ballot where an unnamed Republican beats Obama. The generic ballot, it\u2019s a funny thing to follow in polling. Generally in the generic ballot, Democrats in the past (if I\u2019m not getting confused about this) traditionally have always done well in generic polling. However, lately it has been Republicans. What it means is, an unnamed Republican would beat Obama. Anybody. Elmer Fudd, as long as he were a Republican, would beat Obama.<\/p>\n

Now, it changes once you start giving people named choices. Normally when you start putting names in there the advantage gets even bigger. But I think even the idea of calling Huntsman a “moderate” is an illustration of media manipulation. I think that\u2019s part of the whole strategy. The whole idea he\u2019s a moderate is, again, how we\u2019re being manipulated — and, of course, “Moderates are what we want! That\u2019s what we\u2019re told will win,” and who is it that tells us this? Our opponents, the Democrats tell us. So we have the Democrats trying to pick our nominee again (with their willing accomplices in the media), and they always say what we need are moderates. <\/p>\n

Take a look at who loses our elections. I went through this yesterday. The reason why the Republicans get hamstrung on this is \u2019cause they can\u2019t get over the landslide defeat of Barry Goldwater in 1964. Goldwater, of course, was an unapologetic conservative — and they think that what led to his defeat was the fact that he was unapologetically conservative. “So if we just avoid that, we got a better chance.” Look at who it is that actually loses our elections and who it is that wins them. Ronaldus Magnus won twice in landslides. Not only did he say that he was a conservative. He did it with great enthusiasm and passion. <\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t embarrassed to say he was a conservative at all, nor was he embarrassed about conservatism. George W. Bush won twice espousing conservative principles, policies, and ideals. The people on our side that lose elections are these vaunted “moderates,” the RINOs or the liberal Republicans: George H. W. Bush in \u201992, Bob Dole, McCain. So is it any wonder that the left and the media would come along and suggest, “You guys, you better nominate a moderate. That\u2019s the only chance you\u2019ve got.” They know full well what beats them. They know. They have a crystal clear definition and answer of what beats them.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Amy in Powhatan, Virginia, it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Boy, it\u2019s an honor to speak with you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I was listening to the show this morning and heard Huntsman speaking, and then I heard Reagan speaking, of course, no comparison, but I came up with kind of a theory of what I think the strategy is. And before I say my theory I wanted to tell you if I was running for office —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — I wouldn\u2019t even need a strategist because I would just listen to Rush Limbaugh and it would be a slam dunk.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I totally understand that. If you are running for office, if you are really passionate, why do you need a policy advisor? I mean I can understand a tactical strategerist advisor, but I never understood why you need an advisor to help you with policy, if it\u2019s really in your heart. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s just me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah. Anyway, what I was thinking was, from listening to all of these things, I\u2019m thinking the left is going to attack via who\u2019s killing the American dream, so the right is going to come back with who is killing the American dream, and I think that\u2019s going to be like the political battle for the election, like who\u2019s the good guy and who\u2019s the bad guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute. I must respectfully disagree.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think the left thinks the American dream is being attacked. <\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re going to say the GOP is going to kill the American dream.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They are going to say the GOP is killing jobs.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But they don\u2019t think the American dream is being killed. Obama is saving it; Obama is revitalizing. I can\u2019t tell you the number of liberals I talk to who don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything really dramatically wrong with the country right now. They think we\u2019re making much to do about nothing here. This is just a standard, ordinary business cycle, economic cycle.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I think that as it approaches the election, that\u2019s going to be the battle cry is that if you elect a Republican, they\u2019re going to kill the American dream, that we have to keep going with Obama. And I think Huntsman\u2019s people are kinda trying to get in front of that, and he just has a really sucky delivery.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, what they\u2019re going to say is that the economy was in much worse shape than even they realized, worse than they even knew and it\u2019s gonna take their policies even longer. But their policies, they\u2019re going to say, are starting to work now, starting to get traction, and we can\u2019t change horses in the middle of the stream. They\u2019re already saying it. I don\u2019t know that the Republican candidate is going to be willing to say that Obama\u2019s destroying the American dream. That\u2019s the point.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was just referenced by our independent caller. In the first hour of this program, we played audio sound bites of Jon Huntsman at his announcement seeking the Republican presidential nomination today at the Statue of Liberty, the same place Ronaldus Magnus announced his candidacy in 1980. Now, this is very instructive. Mr. Huntsman, channeling Reagan, goes to the Statue of Liberty and saying (summarized): “I\u2019m gonna be like Reagan. We\u2019re not gonna be uncivil. I respect the president of the United States. I respect Obama. I\u2019m not gonna attack his reputation. We can\u2019t be seen attacking Obama! That\u2019s not the way to win,” and all of this. So we\u2019re gonna listen to Huntsman, and then we\u2019ll take you back to 1980, to Reagan announcing his candidacy against Jimmy Carter. And you tell me, after you hear this, if you think Reagan soft-pedaled it all. If you think Reagan didn\u2019t attack and was not critical of Carter, period; much less his reputation. You will hear Ronald Reagan blame Jimmy Carter personally for the economic disaster that Jimmy Carter caused back in 1980. First, Governor Huntsman from Utah at the Statue of Liberty. He\u2019s the first of two sound bites we have.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: Let me say something about civility. For the sake of the younger generation it concerns me that civility, humanity, and respect are sometimes lost in our interactions as Americans. Our political debates today are corrosive and not reflective of the belief that Abe Lincoln espoused. I don\u2019t think you need to run down someone\u2019s reputation in order to run for the office of president. I respect the President of the United States. He and I have a difference of opinion on how to help a country we both love, but the question each of us wants the voters to answer is, “Who will be the better president?” not who\u2019s the better American.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (sigh) I\u2019m just… I\u2019m just gonna shut my mouth. I hear this kinda stuff and I get close to blowing a gasket. Now, they\u2019re trying to say he\u2019s Reagan. That\u2019s the point. They\u2019re trying to say he\u2019s Reagan because he announced the same place Reagan did, and you\u2019ll hear that there\u2019s no similarity here at all. But what is this “civility” stuff? “For the sake of the younger generation, it concerns me…” Their country is being destroyed, for crying out loud! Their generation, our young people, you\u2019re in such debt here that your chances for economic prosperity over. Huntsman himself said so in his own announcement. “We are, for the first time, a nation in decline,” and yet we\u2019ve gotta not say so. We can\u2019t say so. It might be impolite. Here\u2019s the second bite. I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m gonna say.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: Behind me is our most famous symbol of the promise of America. President Reagan launched the 1980 general election campaign — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, yeah. Right.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: — from this very spot.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: It was a time of trouble — <\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: — worry, and difficulty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, it was.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: And he assured us that we could make America great again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s true.<\/p>\n

HUNTSMAN: And through his leadership, he did. Today, I stand in his shadow, as well as the shadow of this magnificent monument to our liberty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now we go to Reagan. It was September 1st, 1980, in Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, there at the Statue of Liberty — and as you listen to these I want you to ask yourself if you\u2019re hearing Reagan talk about the need for civility or he doesn\u2019t want to run down somebody\u2019s reputation. Look, it speaks for itself. Just listen. <\/p>\n

REAGAN: The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. His answer to all this misery? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape a second. I don\u2019t know everything Huntsman said — I don\u2019t have a transcript; I don\u2019t have it in front of me — but my guess is he did not say one thing critical of Obama\u2019s record, based on the sound bites we do have him saying. I could be wrong about that. But if he did say something about Obama\u2019s record, I\u2019m sure it wasn\u2019t as hard-hitting is Reagan is talking. (Recue, by the way, Reagan to the top here.) I mean, folks, this is passion. This is 1980. This is Reagan, and back in 1980 a lot of people thought we were in the same place then that we are now. There was a big difference: Jimmy Carter was thought to be just an incompetent boob. Today, motivations are of a different opinion. <\/p>\n

People are really, really worried about the objective of Obama. Carter was just bumbling through it all. But you listen to this and you\u2019re going to hear a Reagan that doesn\u2019t exist in these consultants\u2019 minds, a Reagan that they don\u2019t want you to think ever existed. This is just so powerful, it is so passionate — and it\u2019s how you do it. Reagan was campaigning against somebody he thought was a disaster for the country and said so! Here we go. <\/p>\n

REAGAN: The Carter record is a litany of despair, of broken promises, of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten. His answer to all this misery? He tries to tell us that we\u2019re only in a recession, not a depression, as if definitions — words — relieve our suffering. Let it show on the record that when the American people cried out for economic help, Jimmy Carter took refuge behind a dictionary. Well, if it\u2019s a definition he wants, I\u2019ll give him one: A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his!<\/p>\n

SUPPORTERS: (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on, right on. Here\u2019s Reagan now blaming Carter, bluntly, questioning his motivation. <\/p>\n

REAGAN: I have talked with unemployed workers all across this country. I\u2019ve heard their views on what Jimmy Carter has done to them and their families. Let Mr. Carter go to their homes, look their children in the eyes, and argue with them that it\u2019s only a recession that put Dad or Mom out of work. Let him go to the unemployment lines and lecture those workers who have been betrayed on what is the proper definition for their widespread economic misery. Human tragedy, human misery, the crushing of the human spirit. They do it need defining; they need action. <\/p>\n

SUPPORTERS: (applause)<\/p>\n

REAGAN: Call this human tragedy whatever you want. Whatever it is, it\u2019s Jimmy Carter\u2019s. He caused it, he tolerates it, and he\u2019s going to have to answer to the American people for it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, but we can\u2019t do that anymore. See, we gotta be civil. Reagan was being uncivil here, you know. Oh, yeah! According to current standards, as espoused by brilliant Republican leaders, that\u2019s incivility. What you just heard is incivility. Why, he was too mean! He attacked Jimmy Carter personally! That\u2019s no way to win. We can\u2019t do that. The independents are gonna run away from us in droves if that happens and he only won 44 states. I also know this; I also know that Reagan never served in Jimmy Carter\u2019s regime or administration. Jon Huntsman did serve in Obama\u2019s; he was ambassador to the ChiComs. All right, we have one more sound bite here from the great Ronaldus Magnus. <\/p>\n

REAGAN: I\u2019m looking forward to meeting Mr. Carter in debate, confronting him with the whole sorry record of his administration — the record he prefers not to mention. If he ever finally agrees to the kind of first debate the American people want, which I\u2019m beginning to doubt, he\u2019ll answer to them and to me. <\/p>\n

SUPPORTERS: (applause)<\/p>\n

REAGAN: This country needs a new administration with a renewed dedication to the dream of America —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on. <\/p>\n

REAGAN: — an administration that will give that dream new life and make America great again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right on! Right on, right on, right on. I checked the transcript here, and Mr. Huntsman did not mention Obama\u2019s name once in his announcement today saying he was seeking the presidency of the United States. He did not mention Obama\u2019s name once. The closest he came was when he said, “and I respect the president of the United States.”<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Scott from somewhere parts unknown in upstate New York.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hello, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush, first-time caller, longtime listener.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: Good to be on with you. I had a few things to say but I think if you could play that clip of Reagan over and over again, maybe somebody will listen to that and say, “That\u2019s what I need to be saying.” Somebody needs to go after the Democrats. I don\u2019t understand why this pacifism and this let\u2019s just sit back and play nice. This is our country. This is what we\u2019re fighting for and you can\u2019t just have somebody sit back.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know. Mr. Huntsman today in his announcement actually said that for the first time in our nation\u2019s history we\u2019re a nation in decline. You know, that\u2019s not insignificant. That\u2019s not a ho-hum thing. Why is it a nation in decline? Why? For the first time. But yet he respects Obama, and he respects Obama\u2019s reputation. He also said near the end of his remarks announcing his candidacy today, he said everything is at stake. Okay, why is everything at stake? That\u2019s not insignificant, either. Everything is at stake. Why? If you run for office and you\u2019re going to be running against somebody, and you don\u2019t — I don\u2019t know. You know, I\u2019m not out to be hated here. I really am not. I am not out to be despised and I\u2019m not out here trying to make myself a target. I just don\u2019t know how else to deal with this. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not trying to make myself persona non grata to these people, but I swear, folks, you know, it\u2019s not just the consultants who are advising our candidates to go squishy and mushy and so forth. It\u2019s all the rest of us, too. You know, there are conservatives who don\u2019t run for office. I happen to be one. And when we talk the way we talk, when we talk this way, they tell us that we\u2019re too confrontational and we\u2019re being too conservative and we are too provocative, too partisan. I don\u2019t understand what\u2019s motivating these people. It clearly isn\u2019t winning \u2019cause this isn\u2019t how you do it. So I would say to Mr. Huntsman, “What void are you filling here? If you respect the president, and yet we\u2019re in a state of decline for the first time ever, and if everything\u2019s at stake, what are you doing? What void are you filling?” <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t want to get into a contest who\u2019s the better American, you want a contest who\u2019s a better president. Well, if you\u2019re gonna make the case you\u2019re a better president than Obama you\u2019re gonna have to start talking about why he\u2019s a bad one, or are you gonna say, “He\u2019s okay. He\u2019s a nice president. I\u2019m just gonna be better.” And maybe so. Maybe that\u2019s gonna be the tack because as you all know, folks, we really can\u2019t offend the independents. We can\u2019t offend them.<\/p>\n

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