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RUSH: This is Debbie in Austin, Texas. Great to have you on the program today.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I got a question.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It needs an honest answer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019ve called the right place.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, that\u2019s why I wanted to ask you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to know what the problem with Mormons is. We already know they\u2019re like big Christians, and is it just because they don\u2019t smoke and drink?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I don\u2019t know what it is. I mean that\u2019s the honest answer. I don\u2019t know what it is, but it\u2019s not that they don\u2019t smoke and drink. Look at Mitt Romney. I said that I thought Romney did well last night. I got some e-mail from people saying, ‘Rush, Rush, he\u2019s a Mormon. You know better than this.\u2019 No, I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve known plenty of Mormons, and I\u2019d rather have a Mormon than a liberal. I\u2019d rather have a Mormon than John Edwards, the next Jimmy Carter, I\u2019d rather have a Mormon than Hillary whatever — well, not Rodham anymore — Clinton. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I just — I see —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Frankly, I don\u2019t know. I can tell you — the roots are — look, I would have to guess here, and it\u2019s a pretty educated guess. The guess is that it\u2019s rooted in religion and the people that do have a problem are rigid. You got all kinds of religious people, and some of them are more in-depth than others. But it\u2019s not just the people who have had a problem with Mormons. In the past in this country it was a big deal when JFK was elected as a Catholic.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It is still is. The country would never elect a Jewish president, it is said. We haven\u2019t moved that far. But the specifics with a Mormon, I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m seeing all kinds of news stories about Mormons with these numbers of wives they\u2019ve got, and there\u2019s a new movie out that Robert Novak reviewed about some slaughter the Mormons engaged in 140 years ago, I think. I\u2019m remembering this in a very surface fashion. All I know is that of the Republican candidates in the upper tier, Romney\u2019s the only one that hasn\u2019t been divorced. I\u2019m not trying to be ignorant, but I don\u2019t understand it either.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I never knew. I heard people that were afraid of Mormons, ‘I\u2019m never going to vote for a Mormon.\u2019 And I just thought, wait, how come?<\/p>\n

RUSH: I hear it, too. On this one I have to admit, I\u2019m woefully uninformed. I\u2019m sure that in the next break when I go to the e-mail I\u2019m going to get reams and reams of answers to this question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know how much of it I\u2019ll be able to repeat. This is not a pulpit here. We\u2019ve never discussed theology on this program. I\u2019m not a preacher, and I don\u2019t do that. I stay away from it. People should go to church for that, not come here. It\u2019s really a big curiosity to me, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, because we\u2019ve heard Mitt Romney even say his personal testimony of Jesus Christ. So we know they\u2019re Christian. And a lot of Christians —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, see, you\u2019re going to have problems if you say that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, he already did.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but there are some Christians who are going to say you can\u2019t be a Christian and be a Mormon, they think there\u2019s huge differences.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, on that book right in the in front of that book —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What book?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The book of Mormon.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Another witness to Jesus Christ. I mean that sounds Christian to me.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m warning you. (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-oh. I\u2019m getting in the wrong territory.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, be very careful. Well, nobody wants to end up in a religious argument, because there\u2019s no winning. You\u2019re arguing faith. That\u2019s why I\u2019m not going to argue faith. I\u2019m not going to sit here and tell people their faith\u2019s wrong, when it\u2019s not my purview to do that. Not on this program. It\u2019s just a philosophy I have, and again, I\u2019ll say it, I\u2019m woefully uneducated on what the problem that people have are. Now, Debbie, I could have told Snerdley, ‘I don\u2019t want to take this call because I\u2019m going to sound bad.\u2019 But, no, I am perfectly willing to admit when I don\u2019t know something because it\u2019s so infrequent. I think it humanizes me to admit that there\u2019s things I don\u2019t know. Well, like last night. Some people ask me all the time who I like in the Republican field. And I said, ‘Well, sort of like the buffet at Denny\u2019s.\u2019 I think somebody in the front row said, ‘There is no buffet at Denny\u2019s.\u2019 And I said, ‘Well, see I just proved I\u2019m out of touch.\u2019 People that go to Denny\u2019s know there\u2019s no buffet there. I should have said the menu at Denny\u2019s, some of it you like, but not everything. You can use any restaurant. Okay, anyway, Debbie, thanks for the call. Kansas City, this is Deonne, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Mega dittos. I\u2019m so excited that I got through.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just wanted you to know, I have a political blog and I have a Rush babe emblem right there on the front to show everybody my support —<\/p>\n

RUSH: That a babe, that a babe.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So I wanted to let you know I was listening to your response to the ‘we can\u2019t win\u2019 guy on Wednesday and I was just cheering the whole time. It just expressed my views on the war to a T, and I feel like you do in that I\u2019ve been a little discouraged by some of the people in our own party that seem to have the same we can\u2019t win attitude, and especially Bill Buckley wrote this piece<\/a>, you know, recently about the waning of the GOP saying that —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — we can\u2019t win the war, the Republican Party might even suffer from this. And I know you love Bill Buckley, and I\u2019m just wondering where is he coming from with this?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I can only speculate, because I haven\u2019t spoken to him about it. I got e-mail about that. ‘Hey, Rush, you love Buckley, did you see what he wrote? How can you still like Buckley?\u2019 You people are not aware of the pressures I\u2019m under because of the things that I admit. There\u2019s a branch of conservatism that holds we ought go nowhere where our national interests are not threatened. We cannot be, quote, unquote, policemen of the world. I can\u2019t tell you for sure that I know that Bill Buckley has been on board and then got off the train. I don\u2019t know if he started out being for this or if he didn\u2019t. I think what he\u2019s assessing is the bungling of this as he sees it, and he thinks that the bungling of this is going to really, really decimate the Republican Party, because it\u2019s looking incompetent. It could well be that Mr. Buckley has fallen prey to what we\u2019ve been talking about the last couple days, the media bubble. But he\u2019s not the only one. There are quite a few others — <\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — who I know at the outset were very supportive and ready to go, and simply don\u2019t like the way it\u2019s been, and I think in his view his criticism is based on incompetence of the whole thing. No, he\u2019s not rooting for defeat. It\u2019s a big difference out there, Deonne. He\u2019s not rooting for defeat. He\u2019s ruing it, and he\u2019s worried about the impact that it might have on the Republican Party and of course the future.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, the question about Mr. Buckley that I just got and his recent column saying Iraq\u2019s lost, we can\u2019t win it, going to ruin the Republican Party, I actually think it\u2019s the other way around. I think the Democrats are the ones doing themselves in over this. Now, again, my usual caveat, I don\u2019t know that that\u2019s going to show up in the \u201908 elections. Folks, I am telling you, we\u2019ve discussed this at great length, so I don\u2019t want to sound like a broken record, but these people boxing themselves into a corner on this, that it\u2019s going to be very, very difficult politically for them to win, no matter what happens. The worst thing that could happen is that we do win this thing big time, definitively. They\u2019re totally shut out there. The second worst thing is, they win the White House in \u201908 and we\u2019re still there, and they will not bring the troops home, and then they create chaos in their own party. There are some adult Democrats who know this. Ted Koppel wrote of it, David Broder wrote of it, in a piece about Dingy Harry<\/a>. And, lo and behold, look at this. <\/p>\n

Looky here. Another Washington Post story. This was by Dan Balz and David Broder. By the way, Mr. Broder, we salute you on still having a job at the Washington Post. Fifty Democrat senators sent a letter to the editor of the Washington Post after what he said about Reid. I thought they might try to get him fired. They have a presumption. The Democrats presume that the big Drive-By Media is on their side. They\u2019re not used to getting this kind of criticism. David Broder launched at \u2019em and they sent this big letter to the editor, they had all 50 of them sign it, in defense of Dingy Harry. Now, the headline of this story: ‘Democratic Field Seeks New Moves to Halt War<\/a>.\u2019 Now, I\u2019m not going to read the whole story to you, and I\u2019m not even going to read excerpts, I\u2019m just going to summarize this for you. You know the media has devoted reams of paper and hours of busy broadcast time discussing the ways the Iraq war has been hurting Republicans and will hurt Republicans, been destroying George W. Bush. But here is another. There are still too few of these, but still here is another article in the Washington Post no less that says Democrats may have their own political headaches with this war. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m beginning to wonder if these reporters are actually doing something they don\u2019t do, and that\u2019s listen to me because so much of what I have said about the potential problems they face is here in the story. It\u2019s all about the fact that there\u2019s a split in the presidential field over how hard to take out after Bush, who is not on the ballot. Now, Mrs. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are said in the story to favor less confrontation than the other candidates. That\u2019s because they\u2019re forward-thinking, they\u2019re thinking beyond the primaries and thinking about getting elected in the general election. But why? The question, why are they going easy on Bush compared to the other candidates? We\u2019re told the polls say the American people are totally behind everything the Democrats say and do. The will of the people. The people may as well be 75% Democrat, if you believe the polls, if you believe the Drive-By Media. So why in the world, if Bush is so hated and his approval numbers are 39 or 36 percent, then why are the two front-runners going easy on him? <\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be interesting to see how much this debate — you know, how hard to hit Bush — strains the window dressing unity that the Democrats are trying to fake. Now, this is a chilling thought and it\u2019s probably unlikely, but it\u2019s something to consider. If both Obama and Mrs. Bill Clinton continue on the less extreme course of hitting Bush, that\u2019s going to displease the kook fringe, and who would it open it up for — and this is really unlikely, but I mean anything can happen. The Breck Girl can wind up in the top tier and have a serious chance of being the nominee because — I know it\u2019s not likely, probably won\u2019t happen, but this kook fringe base is as wacko as anything I\u2019ve seen in a long time, and they are totally consumed with the notion of getting out of Iraq yesterday. If Mrs. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are going to go light on this and the other parts of the rest of the field are going to start hitting Bush, like they have been, and this story is warning about going after Bush. He\u2019s not on the ballot. You guys are the majority, it\u2019s time to start acting like it rather than constant whining, little spoiled brats of the minority that you\u2019ve been doing since 1994. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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