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RUSH: John in Sacramento, my adopted hometown, welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Mega dittos.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I wanted to talk about passion and how you said before that you need passion in order to succeed, and I wanted to talk about it as it relates to the Republican candidates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I was watching the debate Wednesday, and it just seemed like there was a lack of passion. And even to kind of demonstrate, when you were reading Giuliani\u2019s words on Wednesday, you delivered those with two or three times more passion than Giuliani did. I was thinking, I\u2019ve been wondering, you know, how someone like Ron Paul can have the success that he does in raising the money that he has as a Republican when his views can be far out there, and it\u2019s just that he has the passion. I think that someone like Mike Huckabee, whose views I think line up more closer to a lot of more conservative and right-wing evangelical Christians, line up well, but he doesn\u2019t quite have the passion. What does it take for him to succeed?<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, there are a lot of factors at play here. If you\u2019ve been watching these debates, you know that in some of them McCain has come out there really wired up and energized, and he\u2019s been criticized as being over-caffeinated. You\u2019re running for president, there\u2019s a decorum that seems to be required and expected, and having too much energy goes against the notion that presidents are supposed to be deliberative. These guys are all trying to make it sound like they\u2019re being deliberative, and they probably are because they\u2019re focused. One thing, like I said to the speech coach, speech instructor, if you go into a speech or an appearance with fear, you\u2019re dead, because you\u2019re going to be worrying what you shouldn\u2019t say. When you\u2019re worried about what you shouldn\u2019t say, for whatever reason, you\u2019re not going to be able to have passion about what you are saying, because passion, you might think, will lead you into the verbal slip that you don\u2019t want to make. <\/p>\n

On the other hand, I think back to Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan had just a warm and magnetic, charismatic personality, but he was never wildly upbeat and passionate except during convention speeches and so forth in front of the party. I was thinking about Clinton when you said this. (doing Clinton impression) ‘Clinton was kind of like this all the time, lackadaisical and so forth.\u2019 But Clinton had the ability to believe the lies he was telling, and that\u2019s where the passion comes in. If you know your subject, then that\u2019s what the confidence is derived from. Now, it\u2019s interesting, however, John, that you mentioned this, because I was on a riff last night in the Rush to Excellence Tour in Philadelphia, and I want you to hear this riff. It\u2019s audio sound bite No. 5, and here it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I don\u2019t mean as an ego statement. I sit around and I watch the presidential debates. Why aren\u2019t any of them saying these things? You realize one of them in the pack could run away with the whole thing just to explain this. It\u2019s the reason my show is successful. The Democrats think that I have created a bunch of mind-numbed robots — because that\u2019s what they think of you anyway — you can\u2019t think for yourself, don\u2019t have the brains to, and so I am your Svengali. I\u2019m the pied piper, and you get your marching orders from me every day. That\u2019s how they look at virtually everybody else. But the fact is you\u2019re here tonight because, finally, there\u2019s somebody nationally that says and thinks what you\u2019ve always said and thought. You\u2019ve been validated. (cheers and applause)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Standing O. Point was, I was on a riff. I had just gone through a description, much like you hear on radio here today, of these Democrat candidates and what\u2019s in store for the country and what they want to do based on what they say. It was during this riff that a couple of the liberals got up and walked out. When I saw the liberals get up and walk out is when I said, ‘Does it frustrate you like it frustrates me that none of the Republican candidates are actually saying this stuff about the Democrats and what they portend for the future?\u2019 Now, I understand it\u2019s the primaries, and the primaries you run against your opponents. My thinking is, since the Democrats think they\u2019ve got their nominee, and since it doesn\u2019t matter who their nominee is, if somebody in this Republican field wants to jump out and break away from it, they can start running against the Democrats and say what they\u2019re gonna do for the country. This campaign is not going to be about Iraq. <\/p>\n

This campaign is going to be about the future of the country. The sooner somebody on our side starts talking about it, particularly from a staunch conservative principled perspective, they\u2019re going to run away with the nomination. They stand a good chance of being elected president. But if you have a fear that what you\u2019re going to say is going to offend or bother a specific constituent group like independents, or minorities or whatever, any time you start speaking defensive, it\u2019s not possible to have passion. Passion is what\u2019s necessary to attract. It\u2019s the magnet. So it\u2019s a fine line between being passionate, and confident, and briefed on the subject, knowing the subject matter, and that\u2019s what gives you the confidence. And being exuberant, because exuberance, as you can see, the way McCain has been treated, a couple times — by the way, another thing that happens with that, McCain has come out, he\u2019s been really exuberant a couple times, other times he\u2019s come out, not been exuberant: ‘What\u2019s wrong with McCain?\u2019 <\/p>\n

So you gotta be who you are every time you show up. Even at that, they\u2019re going to be nitpicking at you. ‘Didn\u2019t seem quite the same, maybe getting too old, is Alzheimer\u2019s setting in?\u2019 as they tried on Reagan in those debates in 1984. But you gotta forget all that, you just gotta be who you are and connect with the audience. That\u2019s something that, I don\u2019t know, to me it\u2019s not that hard to do, because that\u2019s also done with passion. Because the audience, I don\u2019t care if you\u2019re a person, or if they\u2019re on television, when you\u2019re running for president, you\u2019re telling them why you need to be elected to run the country, it\u2019s that important. That ought to give you enough ego and passion to be able to sell it to people, at least give them a chance to reject it or accept it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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