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RUSH: This is just amazing. Folks, I cannot get away from it. I go to the e-mail during the breaks. I have the North Carolina mistress dumping on me for not doing enough of that to this candidate. I got other women, ‘You\u2019re just dumping on our own! We have a saying in my house: ‘We don\u2019t dump on our own.” She\u2019s talking about another candidate. I\u2019m getting dumped on by everyone out here for what I\u2019m doing on the program. I\u2019m not even going out with these people. The only thing good about this is I\u2019m getting dumped on, and it\u2019s not going to cost me anything, but still. (sigh) I\u2019m just kidding. I\u2019m just having fun with all this. You gotta understand, folks: I love stereotypical humor, when it doesn\u2019t cost me anything. Yes, I know. I am so funny. <\/p>\n

Mike in upstate New York. Welcome. Nice to have you on the program. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Just fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good. Love your show. I just had a comment to make as far as the GOP candidates running — the way they\u2019re running their campaigns. They\u2019re really… I mean, not one of them is really breaking out, and I think it\u2019s because Bush really kind of fuzzied the lines as far as what a conservative is and what a Republican is and what a Democrat is. He ran as a ‘compassionate conservative,\u2019 and really — which is redundant, by the way — but he really never was any other, and so today they\u2019re having to compete against him, who really I think kind of clouded the waters as far as his belief system.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ain\u2019t going to happen. That —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m sorry?<\/p>\n

RUSH: It isn\u2019t going to happen, because that\u2019s going backwards. You know, Bush is not on the ballot. If there\u2019s an era that is ending, it\u2019s the Bush era, defined as his presidency. It\u2019s not going to serve Republicans well to start dumping on Bush.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, no. Not really dump on specifically in the most obvious way, but to really pinpoint his whole administration and the flaws he made where he really signed up with the Democrats, and what you do is if you take 16 years out of it from his last four to the first four of the Clintons, that\u2019s gonna bring you closer to the Reagan era. So you really pick up the mantle from where Reagan left off to where the new GOP candidates are running today and say, ‘This is where we left off.\u2019<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean run against the Bush record without mentioning Bush\u2019s name?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean the Republican candidates ought to run against letting Democrats write education bills?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The only reason he won the second term –which was very close, by the way — is because of the war on terror, and he did a great job with that, and we\u2019re winning, and we will win, probably not by the end of —<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, look. You are tough, you callers today, I have to tell you. You are forcing me to emote and articulate things that I normally would hold back at this stage. Now, I don\u2019t think… Huckabee tried it and he caught hell for it, by saying — what did he say about Bush? He had an ‘arrogant foreign policy.\u2019 You can\u2019t. If you\u2019re going to do this… I understand what you\u2019re saying, but you can\u2019t. It\u2019s not going to make sense for Republicans to do that. I\u2019m not saying they have to go out and specifically embrace Bush, but on certain things they can: taxes, appointments to the Supreme Court, national security. Here\u2019s the problem, folks. Oh, this is so hard for me to say. This is just hard, and I don\u2019t mean any of this personally. But I frankly believe that one of the reasons that we find ourselves in this current situation, where all of us are looking at this roster of candidates and trying to pick the one that we dislike the least, I think it is a direct result of the fact that there has not been conservative leadership from the highest levels, either White House or the Republican Party, since the year 2000. You have ‘compassionate conservatism,\u2019 you let Democrats write the education bill. This is really, when you boil it all down here, we could really synthesize all these problems we\u2019re having, to leadership. The American people will respond to it, Republicans, conservatives will respond to it. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re not getting any leadership out of the Democrat Party. We\u2019re getting whining and moaning and trying to make everybody just feel rotten and miserable. On the Republican side, we\u2019re really not getting any leadership. We\u2019re getting policy statements and reactions to the premises that have been set by Democrats: global warming, health care, this sort of stuff. It really is just that simple. Had there been — and when I say ‘leadership,\u2019 I\u2019m talking about ideological. Certainly Bush has led on the war on terror, don\u2019t misunderstand here, but I\u2019m talking about ideological leadership. Most people are not self-starters. They want to be led and they want somebody in front of the movement who\u2019s going to take \u2019em in the right direction for all the right reasons, and they\u2019ll do anything for them. If you have a leader that you respect, you\u2019ll go out of your way to get that leader\u2019s respect. There just hasn\u2019t been that. So if you want to talk about a quagmire, that might be a halfway decent way to describe circumstances right now. All this can change on a moment\u2019s — well, not a moment\u2019s notice. But leadership can surface as a result of certain instances or events that take place. But I think it really boils down to nothing more complicated than that, and when that\u2019s absent, look what happens. You have all these people going off the reservation, their own ways, because there\u2019s no discipline. There are no guardrails. So you got this disparate bunch of people, Republican and Democrat alike, that are just going like spokes in a wheel, and we\u2019re not going anywhere. The wheels are turning but we\u2019re just doing 360s, the way McCain steered his naval vessels. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fred Thompson on the Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer yesterday. Blitzer said, ‘Hillary Clinton says if she were president, she\u2019d have a 90-day moratorium that there would be no foreclosures at all. No foreclosures over 90 days to help keep people from losing their homes. Is that a good idea?\u2019<\/p>\n

THOMPSON: No. I mean that\u2019s totally typical Big Government, you know, drop money out of a helicopter kind of approach. You got to have sound economic fundamentals. Those who are paying taxes now who would have a moratorium on their taxes for a year at the lower income tax bracket, you know, that would be people who are paying taxes that you give a benefit to directly and a child tax credit, for example, as I talked about, you know, that would find its way into the economy right now. But if you\u2019re going to squelch a particular part of the economy for a period of time, that pressure builds up otherwise. You\u2019re going to create a bigger bubble in the future than you have now. It might sound good politically, but it\u2019s not practical.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You can\u2019t freeze, what was it — no foreclosures for 90 days? Stop the market! Just put the brakes on the market, no foreclosures. Of course, we\u2019re going to have to do something about this because this appeals to a lot of people. ‘Yes, stop those evil lenders from taking people away from their homes! Mr. Limbaugh, you just don\u2019t understand the pain and suffering that\u2019s out there.\u2019 Right. Okay, so we\u2019ll foreclose on you three months from now, not in the next 90 days. We\u2019ll give you 90 days to run out on the mortgage, to leave the country, to leave the town, we\u2019ll give you 90 days. You can\u2019t do this kind of thing. It would wreck the mortgage industry. This is so fundamentally simple. Up next, Mitt Romney, Hannity &amp; Colmes last night. Hannity said, ‘Do you think Senator McCain is a conservative? Do you think he\u2019s liberal? Do you think his policies are closer to the Democrats on many issues?\u2019<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: I believe that lowering taxes helps stimulate the growth of the economy and allows us to have more funds for government, and of course a lot more funds for the people whose taxes are lowered. So I supported the Bush tax cuts, he voted against the Bush tax cuts. He was one of two Republicans to say no to the Bush tax cuts. And at the time, what he was saying was, he was against them because they were a tax cut for the rich. And that\u2019s exactly the wording that came out of the Democratic playbook. Now, he also, as you know, was coauthor of this bill providing a form of amnesty for illegal aliens. That I think was an enormous mistake. And, of course, I think for a while there, maybe I\u2019m wrong on this, wasn\u2019t he flirting with the idea of becoming a VP running mate of John Kerry?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

ROMNEY: That\u2019s not something I would contemplate to tell you the truth. McCain-Feingold I think was an enormous error. I\u2019m sure it was done out of the best of intent to try and reduce the impact of money in politics, but, in fact, the influence of money in politics has gotten worse, not better.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you, this business of intentions, I don\u2019t even want to get into it. Examine results. Examining intentions is how we let the left get away with destroying the black family and other poor families with the war on poverty, and the Great Society. They\u2019ve destroyed the health care system, or are on the way to with all of this stuff. ‘But their intentions, Rush, they only wanted to help.\u2019 Yeah, they wanted to, but look what they ended up doing? The intentions of getting the money out of politics was so offensive from the get-go. Every time I heard somebody say, Senator McCain or anyone else, (Doing McCain impression) ‘We\u2019re good people. It\u2019s the money that\u2019s corrupting us. Gotta get the money outta here. The money is corrupting, we\u2019re good people! Get the money out!\u2019 We have more money in politics every year than we had the year before. So it was the system that\u2019s corrupting everybody, and of course people bought that. All this good intentions garbage. The intentions of this were to silence critics of incumbents. It\u2019s exactly what the intentions were. Do they think we are a bunch of idiots? You cannot fool me, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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