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RUSH: Gainesville, Florida<\/a>. This is Tom. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush.<\/line>RUSH: Hi.<\/line>CALLER: I was just thinking. I\u2019m far too young to remember the years of President Reagan<\/a>, but I do recall hearing his common phrase of “trust but verify.”<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, it was about the commies.<\/line>CALLER: Yeah, I realize it was about the commies. I think part of it maybe — maybe you can help me — but maybe it was his whole stance on government and that the people should perhaps be a little bit wary of what the politicians are up to, and it seems to me today\u2019s conservatives are willing to trust the government, as you\u2019ve been, you know, asking for reasons why we should support this nomination, that we\u2019re supposed to be willing to trust the president, yet when are we going to get around to verifying what we\u2019re being told about this nominee and whether or not she actually is a conservative?<\/line>RUSH: Well, that will happen during the confirmation hearings.<\/line>CALLER: I mean, and I frame this from the point of view that this is not a president that I see as being very conservative, and therefore it seems to be a bit of a reach to say that someone who\u2019s rather moderate would appoint a Scalia or a Thomas. I think he\u2019s not demonstrated very many conservative actions, although his rhetoric is conservative.<\/line> RUSH: No, he has. This is the thing. It\u2019s an enigma because he has done quite a few conservative things. The thing that people look at that don\u2019t attach much conservatism to is the fact he hasn\u2019t vetoed any spending bills and the federal budget has grown faster than even it did under Clinton, and there\u2019s been no brakes put on it. People say that\u2019s not conservative, but his judicial nominees for the circuits and the federal district courts have been on the money.<\/line>CALLER: Can I say one quick thing about that?<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. I wonder about that, too, because is that perhaps a smoke screen for them to point at and say, “Well, if my appellate nominees are conservative you must assume my Supreme Court nominees are also conservative.” I don\u2019t see how one necessarily implies the other.<\/line>RUSH: No, I mean that\u2019s basically what people are saying. There are plenty of people out there with proven records that we wouldn\u2019t have to guess, roll the dice, wait ten years, or what have you.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: No, that\u2019s true. I was just speaking under the context of you don\u2019t think he\u2019s very conservative. He is on a lot of things, tax cuts.<\/line>CALLER: Tax cuts are great. But we seem to be using a policy right now of guns and butter, and I think that violates every economic law from the beginning of time. I mean, we\u2019re in a wartime yet we\u2019re still increasing Medicare, we\u2019re increasing the Department of Education, again, Ronald Reagan said let\u2019s get rid of it and now we\u2019re doubling it.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah, but he didn\u2019t. See, that\u2019s the thing. Reagan didn\u2019t get rid of the Department of Education.<\/line>CALLER: They were talking about it. We\u2019re not hearing that rhetoric now.<\/line>RUSH: Fine. Well, now, wait a second, now. Let\u2019s take these. He talked about it, and everybody went, “Rah-rah-rah!” and then the Newt Republicans said, “We\u2019re going to get rid of the NEA.” It\u2019s still there.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line>RUSH: A lot of talk.<\/line>CALLER: Well, I read an interesting point of view on that today, actually, on the web. It was talking about when you have Republican leadership, they\u2019re going to try to “reach out” to the voters that they don\u2019t have on the left so that the Republicans are actually going to move the country to the left, whereas the Democrat Party is going to reach out to the moderate Republican voter and actually maybe nibble away at the size of government a little bit, and I think that\u2019s been empirically shown in the past 15 years or so.<\/line>RUSH: There is something to that. It\u2019s much easier to get votes by buying them, particularly if you have a population that\u2019s gotten used to it, and you put more and more people on the entitlement mentality. It\u2019s much easier once you get power of showing that you\u2019re not mean. A lot of this is why we want to have the debate.<\/line>CALLER: Right.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Follow me on this. The left has said, “We are cold-hearted, mean, cruel, mean-spirited, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes who don\u2019t care if people are starving.” So what do we do? We act defensive. “Oh, no, we\u2019re nice guys! Watch us, and we\u2019ll rebuild New Orleans at three times the cost of the Democrats, and we will make sure that seniors who don\u2019t even want it get free drugs as part of Medicare. See, we have big hearts?” It\u2019s the problem. The definition of how you prove that you\u2019re a compassionate person. This is what\u2019s pervasive about it. The left has for 50 years been defining these terms. So you\u2019re right. The Republicans become the majority and they get sensitive to all these charges, they say, “We\u2019re not this, we\u2019re not these rotten scalawags, we\u2019re not mean-spirited,” and the definition of that is how much money do you give people. This is why we want the fight. This is why conservatives are saying, “It\u2019s time to straighten all this out. We\u2019re sick and tired of being tagged with this racist tag, homophobes and all this, when none of this is true.” The real racists are on the left and it\u2019s time to say this.<\/line>CALLER: I know you\u2019re right, Rush, but it all goes to the unity argument and the only way we\u2019re going to be unified with these people is if we all join MoveOn.org which is not going to happen, but I think the real problem is the voters who decided they were going to vote for John Kerry to send a message that they didn\u2019t agree with President Bush and all that did was undercut the apparent amount of support that the conservative movement had. Think about if the president had actually gotten 55, 56, 57% of the vote, he would have had a much larger mandate and he could really point to that and say, “See, you know, the support for the Democrat Party really is dwindling,” they did even more pathetic this time around than they did in 2000.<\/line>RUSH: See, now you\u2019re singing my tune. I don\u2019t want to wait around \u2019til we get 55 or 56. We got the trend. We got, whatever it was, 53. We got a four million vote margin. We still sit around and accept the terms of the left. “Well, this isn\u2019t a mandate. Why, with 55,000 votes change in Ohio, Kerry would have won.” BS. It\u2019s an absolute lie. It\u2019s an absolute myth. The fact is the Democrats are losing elections more and more often — and there\u2019s a trend going, and it\u2019s time to hammer the nail. You\u2019re making my argument out here, and this is the thing people have been fighting for 40 and 50 years on the conservative side of things, and to have to continue to frame everything we do in the bibliography and the vocabulary of the left is frustrating and to continue to have to act defensive and stealth and use “trickinology<\/a>” or whatever to run end runs around these people, the longer we do this and the longer we avoid acting confident and strong and decisive, the longer we\u2019re going to have to put up with this duality here of having the liberals becoming more and more irrelevant yet still appearing to define the terms under which public policy is debated, and I for one am fed up with those terms and I\u2019m fed up with the definition of compassion, and I\u2019m fed up with the way we\u2019ve gone about trying to prove to black people that we\u2019re not racists. <\/line> I\u2019m fed up with the way the left has gotten away with defining that when they\u2019re the ones that perpetuate it. I\u2019m tired of the superiority of the left, I\u2019m tired of them sitting on their ivory towers and telling us, you know, what\u2019s what and how is how, and I\u2019m sick and tired of people that are not offended by it. I know that there are a number of different strategeries that you can employ to battle these things, but I\u2019m going to tell you this, folks — and this is where the rubber meets the road; this is putting the pedal to the metal; this is where the hot knife goes through the butter; this is where the elevator goes all the way to the top: When it comes to winning elections, it has been done by articulating strong, fervent, decisive conservatism. It has not been done trying to fool people into thinking we\u2019re something that they don\u2019t think we are. We\u2019ve not adopted the language of the left to go win elections, and we don\u2019t have to do this. It\u2019s amazing to me that conservatism wins elections and then after that the very people who benefited from the conservatism all of a sudden think they have to start speaking liberal language in order to stay in power and to prove to people that they\u2019re not mean-spirited racist, sexist, bigot, homophobic and so forth, and that\u2019s what I mean by acting defensive, or embarrassed, or what have you. Anyway, I\u2019m a little long here, but that\u2019s a great call out there.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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