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CALLER: But the reason I called, I think that this gay rights – I mean the anti-gay marriage amendment – is a huge tactical error, if Bush continues pushing this. It is going to be a disaster.<\/line>RUSH: How so, sir? How so?<\/line>CALLER: Because there will be a two-year pummeling in the media and in the Congress that will be relentless, and it will ultimately lose, and we\u2019re going to take a huge beating on it – a huge beating. It\u2019s just a recipe for disaster.<\/line>RUSH: Here\u2019s the problem I have with this. This is the problem. You are allowing righteousness to be subordinated to tactics. We have a situation that can only be described as rampant lawlessness. We have certain citizens who are violating the democratically, legally expressed will of their fellow citizens in there saying, “Up yours.” I got a reverb problem here. Let me turn myself down. [adjusting controls] There we go. So what\u2019s happening is, we sit back and let it happen and do nothing, or we sit around and argue about it, or we try to enforce the law. <\/line>There have been repeated efforts to enforce the law. Those aren\u2019t working, either. The governor of California called up his attorney general and said, “You go make \u2019em stop.” He said, “You make \u2019em stop, Terminator, but you can\u2019t stop me.” Then the lawbreakers decide to go on the offense and sue the state because the ballot initiative was illegal anyway. They want to say it\u2019s unconstitutional, and given the judges we\u2019ve got who knows what the hell is going to come out of this. At some point, if it is judged by the president to be an institution worth holding onto and maintaining because of its value to culture and society, he\u2019s got to fight for it.<\/line>One of the other things that bothers me about what you\u2019re saying is – and I really meant this at the top – we\u2019re supposed to subordinate righteousness or what\u2019s the right thing to do here to tactics. We\u2019re not going to do what\u2019s right because we\u2019re afraid what they\u2019re going to say about us. We\u2019re not going to do what\u2019s right because we\u2019re afraid somebody might pummel us for two years. What about the fact that, if that happens, there might be an uprising in this country from people who are fed up with being pummeled? The majority, who said, “Screw this! You know, we\u2019ve looked the other way for too many years. We\u2019ve bent over backwards and forwards for too many years!”<\/line><\/p>\n

What if they stand up and stay, “We damn well are going to have this amendment and we\u2019re gonna support it,” and what if they start telling all these little wimps in Congress who are afraid like everybody else is afraid what somebody is going to think of them what they\u2019d better do or their ass is grass, or they\u2019re not going to be working there anymore? What then? Why can\u2019t we take the occasion here to think that this may be a unifying event that may cause something positive to happen and put the brakes on the cultural degradation that is happening? You know, I don\u2019t like this business of subordinating what we do to the tactic. <\/line>“Oh, they\u2019re going to say this about us and Bush is going to get creamed.” Much rather go down in flames being right and giving it my best than to compromise core principles just to get along with the people that I don\u2019t even want to get along with in the first place – or better stated, just so they won\u2019t say bad things about me because I\u2019m going to clue you in and I hope Bush has learned: They\u2019re going to say bad things about us no matter what we do. They\u2019re going to say bad things about us if we lose; they\u2019re going to say bad things about us if we give up; they\u2019re going to say really bad things about us if we win. <\/line>They\u2019re going to say bad things about us. That\u2019s their technique. That\u2019s all they\u2019ve got. That\u2019s why I said yesterday, “I\u2019m proud to be known by the enemies I\u2019ve made. I\u2019m honored by it. It\u2019s because I take a stand, because I don\u2019t back down from it.” Do you people know how successful I would be if I had decided when all the heat on me began 10, 12 years ago to become a liberal? Do you realize I would be in television; I might be in movies; I\u2019d be all over the place, if I were a liberal. Now, you may not be my fans, but the liberal intelligentsia and the liberal powers that be would make sure I\u2019m everywhere. <\/line><\/p>\n

Do you realize how wealthy I would be? Do you think I\u2019m wealthy now? I am a pauper compared to what I would be if I sold out to the liberal media intelligentsia and so forth. And I\u2019m not going to say whether or not I have been approached because it was a long, long, long, long time ago. I will tell you this: if I ever was to be approached I wouldn\u2019t trust them or believe them. But do you understand me? You know, this is taking a stand for what you believe in and standing up for it. It\u2019s only worth something if you\u2019re willing to do that, but if what you believe in is not really – you must not really believe in it if you\u2019re willing to just sort of, “Okay, I\u2019ll be quiet because I don\u2019t want people to be really mad or really critical.” That\u2019s not the way.<\/line> I\u2019ll just speak for myself. I can\u2019t operate that way. I learned this long ago in life. I\u2019m like everybody else. I am no different than everybody else. When I was much, much younger, I didn\u2019t want to have any enemies. I wanted everybody to like me. We all want that, right? And something always happens, when you\u2019re about six or seven, and you learn it\u2019s not possible. But then you deny it and you keep trying and you keep trying to make everybody like you, and some people keep doing it until they die, and they\u2019re miserable or they\u2019re phonies. <\/line>Whoever they are, they\u2019re not who they really are, or you can be who you are and stand up for what you believe in, and have the courage of your convictions, and hope to triumph with them. And so that\u2019s how I look at it. So I don\u2019t want to take a defensive posture. This is not an issue where, okay, I\u2019ll give this one up in order to prevail another day.<\/emphasize> Yeah, that is a tactic that in some circumstances, like in war, matters – but this is not one of those issues. Besides, too many people have been doing that for way too long. <\/line>You\u2019ve heard the thinking on this, “Let\u2019s go ahead and let Clinton win. Let\u2019s show the country how rotten these Democrats are and they\u2019ll never win again.” Hm-hm. “Let\u2019s go ahead and let these liberals have this. Go ahead, let \u2019em pollute the culture. There will be a revolution when people figure out how rotten it is.” Well, frankly, I don\u2019t want to wait for this to get fixed till after I\u2019m dead. I mean, that\u2019s not the point. And, by the way, why leave this to somebody else to deal with? Isn\u2019t that what Clinton did, got us in all this mess with Al-Qaeda, and all this other stuff? Left a mess for somebody else? <\/line>Hey, you know, we\u2019re all meant to be here, and everything that happens to us, and everywhere we are is – you can say it\u2019s an accident or whatever – but there\u2019s a reason behind it. There\u2019s a reason for everybody\u2019s existence and there are things everybody needs and has to do, wants to do, what have you. Some things are thrust before us. Some things are placed there and we have a choice. We can close our eyes, ignore them, turn around and walk away, move to a gated community and hibernate. I\u2019ve been really close. Or we can say, “I\u2019m going to accept what has been tossed at me and stand up for the things I believe in.” Those are the options that we have, and if you\u2019re right, what are you afraid of?<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT <\/line><\/p>\n

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