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RUSH: Rudy Giuliani was on Larry King Alive<\/emphasize> last night. I don\u2019t know how many of you people watch this, but the reputation that Larry King Alive<\/emphasize> has is that it\u2019s softball after softball after softball after softball — and it\u2019s true with the aging Hollywood star who hasn\u2019t had a hit in 30 years but still is a big favorite of Larry\u2019s as a guest, or some liberal Hollywood entertainer or what have you, or somebody from the Drive-By Media. Yes, they get softballs. But you get a guy who\u2019s a Republican, a quasi-conservative, and Larry\u2019s softballs become not so soft. First question from King (Larry impression): “You don\u2019t like the idea of a nonbinding resolution, because?”<\/line>GIULIANI: Because there\u2019s no decision!<\/line>KING: But it\u2019s say — make a — It\u2019s a statement.<\/line>GIULIANI: Yeah, but that\u2019s what you do. That\u2019s what Tim Russert does. That\u2019s what Rush Limbaugh does. That\u2019s what you guys do: you make comments. We pay them to make decisions, not just to make comments. We pay them to decide! The ones that I think have a better understanding of what their responsibility is, and are willing to take a risk are the ones who are saying, “We\u2019ve got to hold back the funds. We\u2019ve gotta vote against the war,” or, “We\u2019re for the war.”<\/line>RUSH: What he\u2019s saying — and I think it\u2019s a wise comment — is it doesn\u2019t take any guts to come up with a nonbinding resolution, and that\u2019s not what these people are there to do: make statements and pontificate. They\u2019re there to make laws, or not make laws, which would probably be the better course of action, but nevertheless, they still are pontificating. I want to elaborate on this a little more, though, because I think some of us might be underselling and underplaying this nonbinding resolution. I might have been guilty of that myself, because it\u2019s easy to say the nonbinding resolution is a gutless move and that it will have no impact and that they\u2019re going to have to do something serious like de-fund in order for this to matter. But, if they keep this up, and of course they\u2019re going to be aided and abetted by a cavalry of Drive-By Media, it is going to continue to politically isolate the president, as it did Nixon. <\/line><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how many of you people will remember this. I read a review today in the New York Post<\/a> by a TV critic, Linda Stasi, and she was heralding a History Channel<\/a> show on Nixon, and she was inadvertently informing us how ignorant she is on politics, because she was telling us (paraphrased), “You know, my gosh! This Nixon guy, he wasn\u2019t all that bad. He was a pretty big liberal. Why, this Nixon guy couldn\u2019t be elected today. He couldn\u2019t be. This Nixon guy couldn\u2019t get the Republican nomination for president today. Why, this Nixon guy, this Nixon guy created the EPA! The liberals love that. This Nixon guy went out there and created OSHA,” and I could tell she was stunned. She thinks this is a brilliant program on Nixon. It\u2019s on the History Channel tonight (it\u2019s not a Biography), and of course it\u2019s gotta talk about Watergate and goes through the whole mess here. But the point is that I said a long time ago the Bush presidency reminds me a lot of the Nixon presidency more than the Reagan presidency because President Bush has “reached out” to his enemies, the left, just as Nixon did.<\/line>Nixon gave them wage and price controls, and Bush has given them the right to write education bills with Ted Kennedy and so forth. We had steel tariffs. The president put steel tariffs on. We\u2019ve had the drug bill. We\u2019ve had a number of appeasements made by President Bush to the left to “bridge the gap,” “new tone” and so forth. Nixon did the same thing, Nixon was out there with OSHA and the EPA and wage and price controls and a whole bunch of other things. Affirmative action? Thank you, President Nixon — and of course the left so despises Nixon that they have forgotten what a good guy for them he was. So when this TV critic watches this preview special of Nixon, she thought, “Why, this is one of the greatest things I\u2019ve ever seen!” because it\u2019s stuff about Nixon she didn\u2019t even know, or if she knew she didn\u2019t remember, or is not old enough to know. I don\u2019t know. But, point here is that the similarities between the Nixon presidency and the Bush presidency are eerie. <\/line>Now, I\u2019m not talking about break-ins or any of that, but just the isolation, the isolation of the president from Congress; members of his own party abandoning him, as Nixon\u2019s congressmen and senators did during Watergate and so forth. The Drive-Bys on the left have pretty much made the war in Iraq Watergate, not Vietnam. They\u2019re claiming we\u2019ve got another Vietnam, but the way to look at this is that they\u2019re actually using the war in Iraq as Watergate. There\u2019s no break-in. There\u2019s none of this. But there is “presidential irresponsibility. He\u2019s not listening to anybody! He\u2019s isolated! He\u2019s not listening to the people. He\u2019s lost his mind. We\u2019re trying to get the troops home. We\u2019re trying to save the troops,” and so these resolutions of a nonbinding nature may not be binding, but if they keep up, they will have the effect of isolating Bush from even his political base — and, believe me, these resolutions are going to keep coming. You put blood in the water for the libs, and they\u2019re like sharks: they keep smelling it and they\u2019re going to keep sniffing it. Now, next question from King to Rudy, “Do you blame Rumsfeld for the war?”<\/line>GIULIANI: Noooo —<\/line><\/p>\n

KING: But he —<\/line>GIULIANI: — I don\u2019t blame anybody.<\/line>KING: You don\u2019t blame anybody! Somebody\u2019s got…? <\/line>GIULIANI: No, no. You don\u2019t do it that way. That\u2019s why you don\u2019t make progress. Just like I don\u2019t blame people for not figuring out September 11 before it happened. What I do is, I kind of look at what happened, so you learn for the future.<\/line>KING: But there were<\/emphasize> mistakes!<\/line>GIULIANI: Of course there were mistakes. Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn\u2019t know that the Soviets were moving three, four, 500,000 troops. We missed it.<\/line>RUSH: “We missed it,” and King says: The Battle of the Bulge? What was the Battle of the Bulge? That was, uh, uh… Wha? What was that?<\/emphasize> <\/line>You got a little flavor there of old Lar\u2019. (impression) “Well, if there were mistakes made, somebody\u2019s gotta get the guillotine!” But, of course, Rudy has it right: Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes; many more and profound mistakes have been made than in this war, which is really a penny-ante war compared to all these that were cited here: the Civil War, World War I, World War II. This is a penny-ante war. The way it\u2019s being thrust on everybody here, it\u2019s sickening to me, and it\u2019s frustrating as all get out. But one other thing before we go to break here. The San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> ran a story yesterday. I think it posted in the middle of the afternoon, right after I got off the air, in fact, is when I saw the story. <\/line><\/p>\n

“Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, insisting he is ‘100 percent committed\u2019 to running for the 2008 Republican nomination for president, wooed Silicon Valley insiders Monday – saying he is a strong believer in global warming, praising Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a ‘progressive\u2019 leader on the environment, and calling for immigration policies that welcome ‘people who make contributions\u2019 to America\u2019s economy. Giuliani spoke to about 500…” Now, let me run through these here for just a second, because remember yesterday, folks? One of the things I told you I feared was a “redefinition of conservatism” in order to fit specific candidates, like in the conservative intelligentsia (of which I am proud to not<\/emphasize> be a member). The conservative intelligentsia is these intellectuals in the DC-New York axis, and they sit around and they choose their candidates, and then they plug their candidates into a new definition of conservatism. They say, “Well, our conservatism is what our candidate is now,” and you\u2019ve got people who are for Giuliani who are saying, “Giuliani is the best conservative in the race.”<\/line>Yes, and you\u2019ve got others who are saying, “No, no, no! McCain is the best conservative, and the closest we can get.” <\/line>Others are saying, “No, it\u2019s Mitt Romney.”<\/line>The point is they\u2019re taking all of these candidates and saying, “This is what conservatism is.” So Giuliani\u2019s supporters, to the extent that they\u2019re saying he\u2019s the best conservative in the race, are somehow going to have to explain him saying that he\u2019s “a strong believer in global warming,” which is a full-fledged, liberal scheme to tax, spend, penalize achievement, and to grow government, pure and simple. Arnold Schwarzenegger as a “progressive leader on the environment”? Schwarzenegger is “progressive,” period! He turned his back on the very people who enabled him to run for governor by the overthrow, the recall of Gray Davis. There\u2019s nothing conservative anymore about Schwarzenegger! Calling for “immigration policies that welcome people who make contributions to America\u2019s economy”? Now, look, Rudy can say what he wants and he can go out there and battle for this office saying what he wants. Don\u2019t misunderstand. All I\u2019m trying to point out is (tap, tap, tap), in terms of Reaganism and conservatism, you\u2019re not going to find it there. <\/line>That\u2019s not conservative. Maybe… (interruption) Well, I know Reagan\u2019s not running here, but what are we conservatives supposed to do? My point is the liberals never allow for liberalism to be watered down. They never take a candidate and say, “Candidate A is a lib.” They demand full fealty to full-fledged liberalism! What liberals do is try to fool everybody else into thinking they\u2019re not<\/emphasize> liberals, but they are. I know there\u2019s not a Reaganite candidate out there, and I\u2019m not saying that we can\u2019t support a candidate who\u2019s not Reaganite, but I don\u2019t want to see conservatism redefined in the process so that conservatism equals: support for the madcap environmentalist wackos on global warming. I don\u2019t want conservatism to be redefined so it supports: illegal immigration. That\u2019s all I\u2019m saying here. I\u2019m not saying these candidates are disqualified. Just don\u2019t start plugging these guys in as definitions of “conservative,” and for heaven\u2019s sake, don\u2019t try to tell me McCain. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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