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RUSH: All right, Jack Danforth. I have to tell you, he\u2019s a friend of extended members of my family. This is not the first time that he\u2019s written a piece like this; it won\u2019t be the last, and each time he does it — I won\u2019t say my blood boils, but the hair on my arms begins to stand up a little bit. “Jack Danforth wishes the Republican right would step down from its pulpit. Instead, he sees a constant flow of religion into national politics. And not just any religion, either, but the us-versus-them, my-God-is-bigger-than-your-God, velvet-fist variety of Christian evangelism. As a mainline Episcopal priest, retired U.S. senator and diplomat, Danforth worships a humbler God and considers the right\u2019s certainty a sin. Legislating against gay marriage, for instance? ‘It\u2019s just cussedness.\u2019 As he sees it, many Republican leaders have lost their bearings and, if they don\u2019t change, will lose their grip on power. Not to mention make the United States a meaner place. Danforth is no squalling liberal,” it says here. <\/line> “He is a lifelong Republican. And his own political history shows he is no milquetoast. A man of God and the GOP, he is speaking out for moderation — in religion, politics, science and government.” Well, let\u2019s applaud moderation. Yeah, it just sounds so wonderful, but you still aren\u2019t going to be able to find for me. Nobody is going to be able to find for me in any library anywhere Great Moderates in American History. That book hasn\u2019t been written, and it won\u2019t be written. <\/line>“The lanky figure once dubbed ‘St. Jack,\u2019 not always warmly, for the perch he seemed to occupy on Washington\u2019s moral high ground, expects people will sour on the assertive brand of Christianity so closely branded Republican. ‘I\u2019m counting on nausea,\u2019 he says.” All right, well, some thoughts on this. Let\u2019s take a look at people of faith, shall we? Because all this is, is another hit piece on conservatives who are Christian. It\u2019s not a hit piece on “Christians.” It\u2019s a hit piece on “conservatives who are Christians” who dare to participate in the political process — like liberals who are Christians — who dare to stand up for their beliefs when they are under attack by liberals, by the left, and by their courts. Senator Danforth and others like him just wish those conservatives would go away, because that way liberal and moderate Republicans and Democrats could return to their exalted rights: at the perch of power. <\/line>Well, people of faith were among the first abolitionists in this country. People of faith were among the first civil rights activists, and people of faith are today the defenders of life and moral values that are the foundations of our society. Were it not for people of faith, not only in the country at large, but within the political spectrum — and they have ever right to be there, as does anybody else; were it not for their presence — who knows how many abortions would be taking place, how much teen pregnancy, how much moral debauchery would have been visited upon our culture. It\u2019s a significant amount, as it is. Jimmy Carter is allowed to wear his faith on his sleeve — and what does he do with it? He promotes tyrants. The Reverend Jackson uses faith. He goes into church and passes the plate for himself and Democratic candidates. <\/line><\/p>\n

He uses his faith to advance big-government liberalism in the Democratic Party, but now that tens of millions of Christians who don\u2019t share the views of the left are participating in the political process, why, “Uh-oh! Sound the warning bells! They are dangerous.” Now, this nonsense may fly on the Style Section pages of the Washington Post and the New York Times, but it\u2019s not going to fly anywhere else. <\/emphasize>Those people in New York and Washington, inside the Beltway, are the ones in “the bubble;” and all this piece represents is the increasing fear of their presence and power that the left feels. Because — at the end of the day, at the end of the week, at the end of the year, in the final analysis — Christians who are conservative are Americans, too, and I don\u2019t see anybody else telling any other group of Americans to “get yourselves out of the politics.” <\/line>We\u2019re not saying it to militant Muslim groups. We\u2019re not saying it to anybody else: “Get yourself out of our political system. You\u2019re going to wreak havoc!” Senator Danforth and former President Carter and the like don\u2019t like — well, they don\u2019t say this about liberal Christians. You would never read a piece like this. You\u2019d never see a piece like this about the Reverend Jackson and his organization, the Monochrome <\/emphasize>Coalition. They don\u2019t denounce the involvement of the Muslim community in politics and in legal battles. But you go back in history and look, the birth of the Republican Party in many ways involved the issue of abolition. It was people of faith who helped bring and lead that movement. Now I suppose — just from reading this piece that Senator Danforth wrote, I suppose — if he had been in Philadelphia when the Declaration of Independence was being drafted, he would have objected to the inclusion of reverence to God and natural law in our founding document. <\/line>They\u2019re right there. To tell us that people of faith, conservatives who are Christians, “You<\/emphasize>‘ve got to remove yourselves from the political system,” would be akin to saying to many of the Founding Fathers, “You<\/emphasize> have to pull yourself out of these talks to put together our founding documents because you are only going to bring trouble to our land.” I guess if Senator Danforth had been in Congress earlier in our history, he would have objected to passing the First Amendment because of the free exercise of religion clause. The First Amendment has the free exercise of religion clause, and now we\u2019ve got elements of the “moderate center” and the left who are telling certain conservatives in America who are Christian, “No, no, no, no! Because of the religion you practice, you are destroying the country. You need to stop.” <\/line>If you take a look at the enemies that the left of this country has, it\u2019s striking. We\u2019ve gone through them before: ExxonMobil, Shell, any pharmaceutical company, Wal-Mart, Christian conservatives. Take a look at the enemies that they have and you\u2019ll clearly find out exactly who they are and where they are. If Senator Danforth were on the Supreme Court today — I\u2019m assuming, I suppose, because I\u2019ve read this piece that he wrote today in the Washington Post — that he would join the ranks of Ginsburg and Souter, Breyer and Stevens, claiming there\u2019s a “wall of separation between church and state,” and he would probably agree to strike down all religious symbols and references to God in the public square. I mean, once you start down this path that some <\/emphasize>Americans are not acceptable because of their religion — and then they get powerful in politics; it makes them really undesirable — where do you stop? <\/line>As I say, I\u2019ve read this. I\u2019ve seen this before. There\u2019s nothing particularly new in this, what Danforth is saying or stands for. He\u2019s just another voice repeating the same old catch phrases. What\u2019s interesting to me about all this is this doesn\u2019t faze the Christian conservatives. It just energizes them, because Christians who are also conservatives are fighting back. They didn\u2019t pick the fight, and I say the same thing about myself on this program. You know, people say, “All you do is attack people.” No, I don\u2019t. I don\u2019t “attack” anybody. I defend<\/emphasize> the institutions and traditions that I love, agree with and want to protect. I defend <\/emphasize>things. I don\u2019t get up and look for people to attack. They do that to me. The same thing with these Christians who are conservatives: They didn\u2019t pick the fight; they are fighting back. It\u2019s the left. It is the left in this country that seeks to use the courts to change society.<\/line><\/p>\n

It is the left in this country that seeks to outlaw <\/emphasize>practices that have historically been permitted and in fact cherished. It\u2019s the left in this country trying to get rid of all of these symbols. They are afraid <\/emphasize>of symbols; they are afraid of words because they are afraid of the power they think lies behind it. With all due respect to Senator Danforth, I think he has it backwards. It is the left <\/emphasize>that is on the attack in a desperation mode. It is the left that has, as Peggy Noonan wrote today, “descended into an utter meaninglessness.” She agrees with me that they are imploding, and they are imploding because they are meaningless. They are irrelevant. <\/emphasize>They are the people — because of their knowledge of their impotence, irrelevance and meaninglessness and their implosion, they are the ones — who are on the attack. It is people of faith who are organizing to push back,<\/emphasize> to defend what had been the status quo for most of our history, and I commend them for doing so. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line> RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, here\u2019s a dirty little secret, folks, about a lot of this. The Christians who are conservative — or conservatives who are Christians — they\u2019re growing stronger, and they\u2019re branching out, and they\u2019re not <\/emphasize>monolithic. Everybody thinks that they agree on virtually everything, and they don\u2019t. I mean, there\u2019s some conservative Christians that are big believers in global warming, and I think they\u2019re nuts, but I\u2019m not telling them to get out of the political system! There\u2019s some Christian conservatives who have a lot of different views on various social and cultural, international issues as well. They\u2019re not a monolithic bunch. But regardless, they\u2019re growing <\/emphasize>in power, and they are growing in power because they\u2019re unified and they\u2019re fighting back. They\u2019re under assault, and they know it. On the other hand, the modern-day so-called civil rights movement is built <\/emphasize>around the church! <\/line>I mean, Bill Clinton\u2019s spent half his time in these churches (raising money illegally) with the Reverend Jackson passing the plate. Come on, let\u2019s be honest about this. Jimmy Carter is a big Christian nut. <\/emphasize>He\u2019s allowed to go out and proselytize and say whatever he wants based on his “deeply held faith,” and the same people that rip the conservatives who are Christian don\u2019t rip Jimmy Carter or the Reverend Jackson or the Reverend Sharpton. These guys get a free pass. The fact of the matter is they are losing power. They are imploding because they are locked into a time warp. They\u2019re locked in 30 to 50 years ago, and here\u2019s more evidence of it. The AP ran a story yesterday following the death of Coretta Scott King. “Civil Rights Movement Losing Icons and Focus — Amid their grief over the death of Coretta Scott King, black advocates say that her passing underscores a growing concern: As the movement\u2019s iconic leaders fade into history,” Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, “much of the focus is on honoring the past rather than pushing for equality today.” Well, hey! This is written by Erin Texeira. <\/line>Erin, let me give you a little hint. They\u2019ve been focusing on honoring and distorting the past for I don\u2019t know long. The leaders still want their people to still think they\u2019re living in days of slavery! One of the premiere quarterbacks in the National Football League can\u2019t be criticized by his black wide receiver without calling it “black-on-black crime.” I mean, this is nothing new. There hasn\u2019t <\/emphasize>been any advancement. Everything is still based on pre-1964 and 1968 beliefs. “‘We will now celebrate Coretta Scott King as though the civil rights movement is finished and the mission has been accomplished, but the work is not done,\u2019 said Bruce Gordon, president of the NAACP. ‘We should be very respectful of and encouraged by the substantial progress that has been made. But in no way, shape or form should we conclude that the civil rights mission is complete.'” No, of course it never will be complete! That\u2019s the business of it. The business demands <\/emphasize>it never be complete. <\/line><\/p>\n

“[T]here\u2019s also a sense among advocates that modern activism is being overshadowed by a near-constant string of commemorations for bygone victories: the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education in 2004 and, last year, the 40 years since the historic march from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery, Ala., to win voting rights for African-Americans. Inevitably, such remembrances intensify in the first months of each year with the mid-January holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. that his widow fought to win and with Black History Month, which began Wednesday. In addition, each time an important civil rights figure dies be it Rosa Parks, Ossie Davis or now Coretta Scott King it renews the focus on the movement\u2019s history. Some advocates are concerned about that eagerness to look back.” <\/line> I think that\u2019s pretty accurate. They\u2019re pretty wise to be concerned about this, because if you have a movement — let\u2019s just take them for what they are; if you have a movement — based on icons, based on Martin Luther King, based on Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks, who are<\/emphasize> the current icons that 30 and 40 years from now you\u2019re going to be celebrating? Ja Rule? Snoop Dogg? Kanye West? There are plenty of people out there that qualify for this, but they\u2019ll never see the light of day in this context. That would be Clarence Thomas, Condoleezza Rice. The movement is moving forward, is my point, but the assigned <\/emphasize>people in the big clique in the civil rights movement are not the ones moving forward. They\u2019re not moving forward because of the ideas they hold, and so all they can do is look past and look back and commemorate the glory days of what once were. Now, the work that those guys did, Martin Luther King, you can see it. The work that they did has come to great fruition. <\/line>There\u2019s a great growing black middle class, you have the most powerful woman in American history as secretary of state, talked about as a presidential candidate. She\u2019s lampooned and impugned by the same people in the civil rights movement, though, who impugn others in the conservative movement. They write disparaging things about her. They put cartoons together that are repugnant <\/emphasize>in their racial overtones. So while the movement is going forward the people who think they run it are standing still, just like everybody else is in the Democratic Party and in the left<\/emphasize>. It\u2019s plain days for those outside the movement to see it. I mean, I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to have a Kweisi Mfume day 30 years from now. I mean, he\u2019s upset he lost — he had no money to run for — the Senate. Well, he\u2019s got some, but he\u2019s being dwarfed in Maryland. <\/line> BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: Senator Danforth\u2019s piece today is not his first along these lines. He\u2019s written other — I think one other time, prominently, that Christian conservatives need to get out of politics. It\u2019s terrible. He\u2019s upset, worried what\u2019s going to happen. This is all a result, I think, of power <\/emphasize>being amassed and secured. I don\u2019t think it is coincidental, in fact, that Senator Danforth\u2019s piece appears after Judge Alito has been confirmed to the US Supreme Court. Now, as I told you, I don\u2019t think Senator Danforth hates <\/emphasize>Christian conservatives. I just think there\u2019s fear among people that think they are moderates, and want (blue-blood moderate impression) “reasonable and wise, and not reactionary, thoughtful, well-bred, reasonable,” and everybody else is just an out-of-control freak. “My gosh, if we don\u2019t get our arms around them, they\u2019re going to destroy the country!” When, in fact, they\u2019re the ones that move ideas forward. Hey, as I pointed out: the civil rights movement, modern era? The whole thing was oriented around the Church. <\/line>The Reverend Jackson? Nobody tells him to get out of politics. Nobody ever tells Al Sharpton to get out of politics. Nobody ever tells Jimmy Carter to get out of politics, but I\u2019ve had… As I say, it\u2019s nothing new. I think it\u2019s just a result of more and more power being amassed and secured at the Republican convention or at these hoity-toity country club blue-blood Republican fund-raisers — or just flat-out dinner parties, not even fund-raisers, just dinner parties — that I\u2019ve been to. All these guys that come up (whispering), “What are we going to do about the Christians?” As though I\u2019m one of them and I gotta, you know, rein them in. <\/line><\/p>\n

I\u2019d say, “What are you talking about?”<\/line>“Abortion! It\u2019s killing the party. It\u2019s killing the party.”<\/line>This is during the Clinton years, and they thought we were losing everything because of abortion, and I would say, “Well, look, you want to just throw their 24 million votes away?”<\/line>“No, but abortion!”<\/line>I took a couple of them aside. “Do you really care?” <\/line>“It\u2019s my wife. My wife! She won\u2019t vote Republican. She won\u2019t until they get rid of this abortion.”<\/line> So I\u2019m telling you, in my humble opinion, these guys are just henpecked. The only thing they do behind their wife\u2019s back is zip her up, and the wife comes along and says, “I\u2019m not voting Republican. Look at these Christian conservatives,” and so the guy says, “Okay. I want peace in my house, and I\u2019m out raising lots of money for Republicans, and I got my wife telling me she\u2019s going to work against me and not vote.” So it became a cause. But I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s the case with Senator Danforth. He\u2019s never said anything about this to me, so don\u2019t associate him with that story, but this happened to me, folks, since 1992-93 and it was really at an all-time panic during the Clinton years. Back then these hoity-toity Republicans thought we had lost everything forever, for good, because of abortion. The truth of the matter is that the people who are pro-life on this are succeeding. <\/line> There are fewer abortions in the country today. There\u2019s less teen pregnancy. There\u2019s progress. There\u2019s no reason… It\u2019s because these people have been under assault and under attack you could say since 1973, but they don\u2019t close up shop and go home. I think it\u2019s nothing more than their fear that the left, “the reasonable and the wise, and the elite,” are losing virtually everywhere they go — and, look, to them, when you say “Christian conservative,” you may as well say, “Zeke and Mabel in a 1948 blue pickup<\/a> in the bowels of the south trying to outrun the Revenuers,” because on the one hand, they\u2019ve gotta still in the backyard up in the woods where they\u2019re making moonshine; they got a shotgun in the rack in the back of the pickup, and they\u2019re running around going to church, in their Sunday going-to-meeting clothes and then they\u2019re eating possum for Sunday dinner. They think it\u2019s the Beverly Hillbillies, and they\u2019re just embarrassed that those people are in their party. But like everything else of the left it\u2019s an image and a reality that\u2019s totally false. It\u2019s not who these people are, and so I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any hate. I just think that there is fear. Carol in the Castro Valley, California<\/a>, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you?<\/line>RUSH: Peachy keen. Fine and dandy and humble.<\/line>CALLER: Always. I wanted to react to Danforth\u2019s comments. I am a conservative Christian Republican. I\u2019m also an attorney and a college professor, and I am really fed up with these guys with their arrogant, condescending attitude. I have been involved in local politics, a ran for office in 1998, and it\u2019s really astounding when you\u2019re up front and say, “Yeah, I don\u2019t believe in abortion. I really do believe that it\u2019s killing a child and no, I can\u2019t vote that way,” that people are so astounded that you\u2019ll actually say that and won\u2019t slobber all over yourself and stammer around, that you can actually persuade people to your point of view. But people like Danforth try to marginalize us, and, one, he\u2019s wrong. He\u2019s never going to be able to marginalize us, and two, there\u2019s a lot of support out there in conservative circles for all sorts of charitable works. I mean, the church that I go to.<\/line>RUSH: Oh, I know.<\/line>CALLER: It\u2019s ridiculous.<\/line>RUSH: All that\u2019s true. I would say this. Something I\u2019ve had to learn personally — and, by the way, you heard her say John Danforth\u2019s “comment.” He has a column today in the Washington Post, and I read excerpts of it at the beginning of the program. I don\u2019t want to go back and repeat those. He\u2019s not said anything verbally, but if you want to go to the Washington Post website, it\u2019s there. We\u2019ll have a link to it at RushLimbaugh.com when we update the site later this evening. But I think, as I\u2019ve had to learn personally, and I think all of you probably in this movement — the Christians who are conservatives movement — you know full well what this means. It\u2019s not something to fear yourself. I mean, it puts you on your toes, lets you know you have enemies, lets you know that you have people that are trying to marginalize you and wipe you out from the political process, but it also is a measure of your success, and that\u2019s how you have to look at it. <\/line><\/p>\n

All this criticism and stuff used to bother me, but now I know how to look at it — and as I say, to me it\u2019s no coincidence this comes in the midst of Alito being confirmed to the Supreme Court. There\u2019s a potential opening coming up. You have to think averages are such we\u2019ve got another opening within the next two years, and if we get the next nominee, I say, “Bring it on! We\u2019re on a roll.” The next nominee (laughing). In fact, I have a story in the stack here. I can\u2019t think of the term, but it\u2019s a term they\u2019ve used for every nomination that is made by a Republican president since Bork. What is it? It\u2019s akin to, “All right, we\u2019re going to pull out all stops. All right, we\u2019re going to go…” It\u2019s not “nuclear,” but, “We\u2019re going to…” <\/line>I\u2019ll find it to give you the term, and I think they\u2019re all gearing up for this, and you\u2019re just seeing an attempt now to form and shape public opinion on the whole Christian conservative crowd on the basis of abortion for a host of reasons, among them the next potential Supreme Court nomination. Look, when Ralph Neas and the boys and these left-wing liberal advocates start practicing their 30-year-old Bork technique against Alito, and against Roberts. All they\u2019re trying to do is be first out of the box to have the first impression the public hears of any Republican nominee, be that that they succeeded in convincing people Bork was: racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, all these things. The fact that they can\u2019t do it anymore has got \u2019em panicked. They tried the same technique against Alito and Roberts that succeeded against Bork, and they think succeeded against some other Republican nominees — and it failed miserably. <\/line>They\u2019re not able to move and bend and shape and flake and form public opinion the way they were, even if they are first out of the box with the description of any nominee, as they were with Alito, because we\u2019re here and you\u2019re there, and we are in far greater numbers than they understand and appreciate, and when they think we\u2019re a bunch of hick, hayseed idiots we have them right where we want them. If they think that we\u2019re stupid and idiotic and backwards and all, we\u2019ve got them right where we want them. You\u2019ve got to look at this in the context of the strategical moves necessary to get what we want and succeed. When the other side is going to misunderestimate you, weeeeeeeell! You\u2019ve got them right where you want them. We need to substitute the term Bork now because it\u2019s been shown that they can Bork anybody anymore, but we Alitoed <\/emphasize>the elites. The elites can be “Alitoed,” and the elites are “Alitoing” themselves at the same time. Here\u2019s Barbara in St. Louis<\/a>. I\u2019m glad you called. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/line>CALLER: Hi, Rush, this is Barb in St. Louis.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah.<\/line>CALLER: Back in December there was a full-page ad in my local paper for the —<\/line>RUSH: That would be the St. Louis Post-Descratch<\/emphasize>.<\/line>CALLER: Actually this is one of the local county papers that —<\/line>RUSH: Oh, sorry about that.<\/line>CALLER: — you get mailed you that you might not want but they send it to you anyway.<\/line>RUSH: Yeah.<\/line> CALLER: Senator Danforth is honorary coalition co-chair for the Missouri Coalition for Life-Saving Cures, and that group, Missouri\u2019s kind of charged right now as far as Republicans who are against embryonic stem cell research and others who are for it, and there\u2019s been discussion for having a cloning ban in our state, and it really didn\u2019t move forward in the last legislature. But what this group is trying to do is get a petition together to place what they call a Stem Cell Initiative on the November 2006 statewide ballot.<\/line>RUSH: And is Senator Danforth active in that?<\/line>CALLER: Yeah. There\u2019s been commercials on TV.<\/line>RUSH: All right, well, that\u2019s pretty much all we need to know. <\/line>CALLER: I\u2019m nervous as could be here.<\/line>RUSH: Well, no.<\/line>CALLER: I think what I\u2019m telling you is true, and I can fax you something if you need to see.<\/line>RUSH: You don\u2019t sound nervous.<\/line>CALLER: Okay.<\/line>RUSH: You did a great job of explaining it to us. I appreciate that. Embryonic stem cells, where are you going to get the embryos? (ahem) Hello, Roe vs. Wade? “Oh, no, we can\u2019t have that! You\u2019re going to have to have to have the freedom to freely abort, for embryonic research.” Okay, well, I\u2019m telling you, there\u2019s fear in there. There\u2019s no question that there\u2019s fear in this, but the Supreme Court has caused this to be the issue that it is by taking it outside the realm of the legislative process. We haven\u2019t ever had a nationwide or even state-by-state vote on these things, and so nine people in robes proclaimed X, and the people have revolted in large numbers ever since. That would explain it, because the stem cell debate is just an extension of the pro-choice crowd (ahem!) or the pro-aborts<\/a>.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line>&lt;*ICON*>Rush\u2019s Essential Stack of Stuff…<\/strong><\/line>&lt;a target=new href=”\/home\/eibessential1\/pro_abortion__not_pro_choice.gues.html”>(Pro-ABORTION, Not Pro-Choice)&lt;\/a><\/line>&lt;a target=new href=”\/home\/estack\/left_hits_new_low.guest.html”>(Left Hits New Low: Disgusting, Racist Treatment of Dr. Rice)&lt;\/a><\/line><\/p>\n

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