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RUSH: As you know, ladies and gentlemen, the past couple of days here on the Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB Network, we have been discussing the era of Reagan theoretically being over, and conservatism thus being over, and, if you have listened, of course, you know my position on how absurd that is. And yet, there continues to be discussion among so-called conservatives about modernizing the Republican Party. Latest example, David Brooks, who used to work with Bill Kristol at the Weekly Standard until he became an affirmative action hire at the New York Times as the one conservative columnist. We got two sound bites here from Mr. Brooks. By the way, what I\u2019m going to say here has nothing to do with the fact that Mr. Brooks is routinely smearing me or being somewhat dismissive of me, particularly on the immigration debate and other things. It has nothing to do with that. It has totally to do with the fact that there are people who think that they\u2019re leaders, and the punditry is full of those kinds of people, ‘The Republicans need to modernize,\u2019 and of course modernizing means we become more moderate. It was on the Russert show over the weekend on PMSNBC. Russert said to David Brooks, ‘Please explain the Republican primary right now, because I don\u2019t understand it.\u2019<\/p>\n

BROOKS: Well, it\u2019s a fractured party, and it\u2019s a party that\u2019s really facing some long odds in retaining the White House. So it\u2019s a party in a bit of an intellectual crisis, and it\u2019s splintering out. And what we\u2019re seeing, I think, is the old Republican coalition becoming obsolete and new things growing. Mike Huckabee represents a new thing, a mixture of social conservatism with economic populism. John McCain is still a new thing, which is a sort of independent insurgence. Mitt Romney was a new thing posing as an old thing. He tried to pretend he was Mr. Reagan Conservative, but now in Michigan he\u2019s rediscovering his true self, assuming there is such a thing, and that is the businessman.<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, McCain is their guy. These are the ones that they swoon over. McCain represents the future, and of course McCain\u2019s not a conservative. This is what working at the New York Times does to conservatives. It waters them down, it neuters them, and it makes them think they need to seek the approval of all the liberals in town at other media outlets, and you have to distinguish yourself from conservatives because we all know conservatives are a bunch of Neanderthals and troglodytes and most of them are pro-life, ah, it\u2019s ruination of the party. I told you about meeting these people out in the Hamptons back in the early nineties, they all suffer from the same thing, and that\u2019s embarrassment. Everybody in the press, I don\u2019t care if you go to Fox News, right wing, left wing, they hate Romney; they absolutely despise him. In a way, I don\u2019t quite understand it. But their love for McCain has to be based on the fact that he\u2019s not conservative. Now, here\u2019s the second sound bite. Russert says, ‘David Brooks, you\u2019re a columnist. You get paid by the New York Times to offer your opinions. You wrote a whole column about Mitt Romney. You just didn\u2019t want him to be president.\u2019<\/p>\n

BROOKS: I just don\u2019t think he\u2019s sincere. I think on some of the flip-flops on not only the life issues, but on every single thing at a rally, somebody will challenge him on ‘no child left behind,\u2019 he\u2019ll deny he supported it. You gotta have conviction in tough times. You can\u2019t just come to an audience and say, ‘I\u2019m with you.\u2019 You gotta say, ‘I\u2019m me, and I\u2019m going to try to persuade you why I\u2019m right.\u2019 And I just don\u2019t — fundamentally don\u2019t trust the fact that he will stick by his convictions under all circumstances. And I will say one thing that undergirds the total Republican race: All the Republican candidates like each other except Romney; they all hate Romney.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, everybody hates Romney. The press hates Romney, a lot of the Republican candidates hate Romney, there\u2019s no question. But how can you discuss Huckabee without saying pretty much the same thing? Well, you can\u2019t trust what he says, changes his positions over and over, say whatever people want to hear. And, see, it falls back to the idea that McCain, ‘Straight talk, that\u2019s right, Limbaugh, I\u2019ll tell them what they want to hear,\u2019 even though there\u2019s this infatuation, almost, with somebody who supposedly engages in all of this straight talk, telling people what they don\u2019t want to hear, giving them the truth of the matter. But when you boil it all down, these guys end up loving, supporting, propping up the least conservative people in the roster of candidates seeking the Republican Party presidential nomination.<\/p>\n

This is Disa in Redmond, Oregon, I\u2019m glad you waited. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. I\u2019m glad to be on. Hey, I am livid over that comment I just heard that guy say. First of all, Romney is a sincere guy, and, you know, the media hates him, and that is clear. It is a miracle he is doing as good as he\u2019s doing right now. I have heard over and over again, ‘He didn\u2019t win Iowa, he\u2019s out. He didn\u2019t win New Hampshire, he\u2019s out.\u2019 It is a miracle. He has gotten first and second in everything. It is a miracle he\u2019s doing what he does with them against him like that. Okay, he can turn things around. He is one of the sharpest guys I\u2019ve ever known. This man can analyze — he goes to a company, what does he do? He analyzes it, he says, ‘Okay, what\u2019s going wrong, why isn\u2019t this company working?\u2019 He sees what\u2019s wrong. He cuts the waste and he increases productivity. Okay, this guy is amazing. If this guy wins the Republican nomination, he\u2019ll take us to the White House, and no one else will, because, you know what, McCain is not a conservative. Huckabee, he should be a vice presidential candidate for the Democrats, okay? He\u2019s a nice guy, but he is a liberal, okay, they can get some of the religious vote if they take him as a vice presidential candidate. I\u2019m sorry. Am I getting too excited?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. I love women who are excited, especially when they\u2019re talking to me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: The guy has got fire. He is the most sincere guy. All right, he changed his position on abortion. Why don\u2019t people stop and listen to his explanation for that? I don\u2019t know one person who has had the exact same position for the same exact reason their whole life. He has a position, he always personally did not believe in abortion. When he switched that position, he said the reasons why, and he sticks by it. He is not a flip-flopper. People don\u2019t like him, you know why? The guy\u2019s a real conservative. The guy is sincere. The guy — you let that man get comfortable, that man will take us to the White House. He can look at the problem —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What was it that got you fired up today, Disa?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Actually, at first I kind of didn\u2019t like him because I thought it was just going to be glib, I heard all the things —<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I mean today. You\u2019ve called here, you\u2019re fired up. What happened here today?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I guess I heard some guy you were talking to while I was on hold saying that he\u2019s not sincere, you know, saying that, you know, nobody likes him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, you\u2019re talking about David Brooks, the conservative columnist at the New York Times.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, he wasn\u2019t a caller. We played a couple of audio sound bites.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I was on hold, but just think about it. Think about the media not liking someone as much as they don\u2019t like Romney.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you can tell who the genuine conservatives on our side are by who the media hates most.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s exactly right. And, you know what? They push McCain. I don\u2019t have anything personally against McCain. He can\u2019t be our candidate. He\u2019s not a conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he won\u2019t be.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And he never will be a conservative. He\u2019s a nice guy. The media says over and over, well, he\u2019s just likable, you know, he has the best chance —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Disa, Disa.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — the real thing is, I like him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Disa.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Sorry.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no, no, no, no. Don\u2019t apologize. Your instincts here are exactly right. I want to go further. I want to tell you what this is really all about to help your blood pressure levels. The media, in propping up Huckabee and McCain, I don\u2019t care if they\u2019re Republicans or Democrat Drive-Bys, they\u2019re trying to destroy the conservative movement. This is why they are salivating over the possibility that Huckabee might have gotten the nomination. They think they could take out two of their biggest enemies in one election, conservative Christians and the evangelical vote, and they would love that. I\u2019ve had a number of these Drive-Bys confirm that to me. Same thing with McCain. They just despise conservatives, period. They despise conservative leaders, people that have a chance to lead and govern with conservative policies, because the big target of conservatives is Big Government, and that\u2019s God to these people! We\u2019re going after their savior. Liberalism, if you look at it like a religion, God is their temple, abortion is their sacrament. And conservatives go after both of those things. And they\u2019ve got to be destroyed. So, of course, they\u2019re going to prop up a guy like McCain. Of course, McCain\u2019s gone out and tried to make the Drive-By Media his base, not Republican voters. It\u2019s no surprise to me McCain didn\u2019t win Michigan. Republicans aren\u2019t going to vote for him. The two primaries where he came close and won, independents and Democrats are voting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Watch what happens if Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination. Watch what happens when everybody is not fighting against Mitt Romney. The guy is a conservative, okay? People talk about problems with the economy or whatever the issue is, he\u2019s a problem solver. We do not want the same old same old. You know, when people are in politics year, after year, after year, after year, after year, it becomes same old same old. It is exciting to me to get an innovator in there, to get somebody in there who will open their eyes. I mean if you read a little bit about the Olympics, it\u2019s like, he comes in there, sits there, he listens to everybody, what is the issue? He figures out how to solve the problem. He doesn\u2019t figure out politics. Okay, you just watch what happens if he gets the Republican nomination. I wish people would get behind this man. This man is the real McCoy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Are you related to him in any way?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m not. But, you know, as time goes by, I was just so disgusted. I did not know what to do. The first time I saw Huckabee, I thought he\u2019s a real nice guy, he has good jokes, but I thought, you know what, after I first heard him I thought, he\u2019s Jimmy Carter. Huckabee is Jimmy Carter, and I got afraid of Huckabee. And McCain, McCain had a real great war experience. That\u2019s wonderful. You know, he\u2019s a nice guy. He is the same old same old. He\u2019s not a Republican; he\u2019s not a conservative. I thought we learned that four years ago, or eight years ago, whatever it was. I thought we already learned that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I just —<\/p>\n

CALLER: I like Thompson because he\u2019s conservative.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. Disa, you just have to understand here that the Drive-Bys are trying to run our nomination process, and they\u2019re trying to choose the nominee they would like so as to effectively guarantee our defeat. This is precisely what they\u2019re doing. Your instincts have taken you in the right direction. You could go look at various things here. Huckabee got 16% in Michigan. He lost the evangelical vote. He lost all the rest of the vote. McCain was supposed to win Michigan, and he lost. David Brooks is wrong, the guy that you heard on hold. So you have Huckabee who is for open borders and then securing the fence, he\u2019s for raising taxes, then for the FairTax. He\u2019s for a national ban on smoking, and now he\u2019s against that. He\u2019s reversed himself. He\u2019s done an about-face on smoking. And here\u2019s Brooks talking about all these flip-flops from McCain. What about McCain\u2019s position on the issues? You can sit there and say he\u2019s not a conservative. Well, let\u2019s examine it. He has curtailed free political speech. It was like called McCain-Feingold. He opposed tax cuts, one of only a few Republicans to do so. He opposed efforts to eliminate the filibuster of conservative judges, came up with this Gang of 14 idea. He proposes a job-killing global warming agenda. He trashes free enterprise like drug companies, oil companies, and other industries. Is this the new conservatism the New York Times is promoting, Mr. Brooks? There\u2019s no conservatism in this, as Disa, from Redmond, Oregon, instinctively understands. No conservatism here in Huckabee or McCain. Why do you think the Drive-By Media is so enamored with both of these people? I\u2019m sounding like a broken record on this but I\u2019m going to continue to break until people get it through their heads what\u2019s happening here.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: One more thing about Mr. David Brooks in the New York Times, and others. Fred Barnes and Kondracke at Fox. They\u2019re all part of this group that is just enamored of McCain. All this week, we\u2019ve had this ongoing battle here about the era of Reagan supposedly being over, which it\u2019s not because Reaganism is conservatism, which is the Constitution, which is the Declaration, which is the founding. It can\u2019t be over. Conservatism is immutable! But in this argument, I\u2019ve had people send me e-mails. I\u2019ve had people talk to me, ‘You know, Rush, you\u2019ve got a man crush on Reagan here. Obviously, you just have this cult of personality thing with Reagan. That\u2019s all. You gotta let go. It\u2019s 2008 here. It\u2019s not 1980.\u2019<\/p>\n

I said, ‘Whoa, hold on a minute. It\u2019s not about personality.\u2019<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s not really so much about Reagan. Reagan did not invent conservatism. He didn\u2019t create it. He didn\u2019t define the concepts or the policies that I and others promote. The reason I love Ronald Reagan, is he came along and applied \u2019em, and he showed how to apply \u2019em — and they work! You understand how frustrating it is to know it works and to have people in our own party besmirch it, ignore it, and want to run away from it? It is more than frustrating. If I don\u2019t maintain a tight grip, I could get downright mad about this. I\u2019m going to tell you something: if there is a cult of personality anywhere in this presidential campaign, it is with people who are enamored of John McCain. It\u2019s a cult of personality with McCain. They like the McCain story. They like the POW\/MIA story. They like the hero story. They like the fact that he\u2019s willing to take on Bush. They like the fact that he\u2019s not some sycophant. But they don\u2019t look, or else they ignore, his liberal domestic record. They ignore it totally. They must ignore it if they\u2019re going to support him.<\/p>\n

If they\u2019re going to call him a Republican, and a conservative, they have to ignore it. So you have a cult of personality that\u2019s propping up McCain. Now, they don\u2019t like Huckabee\u2019s religious views. I\u2019m talking about some of our, uh, revered conservative pundits on our side. They don\u2019t like his religious views, but you know why they do like him? They like him because his economic opinions fly with the New York Times editorial board: more trashing of capitalism, more trashing of profit, wealth creation, and all that. I\u2019m not kidding you. There are Republicans — I don\u2019t know how many conservatives, but there are Republicans — who are embarrassed to hell with genuine conservatives in their midst, and I\u2019ve been through all the reasons why. So you say, ‘Well, how come they like Huckabee?\u2019 Well, because Huckabee is willing to side with the New York Times on things, and that\u2019s, of course, the gold standard, even for some conservatives, and of course all liberals. I just think this is the price conservatives end up paying for writing at the New York Times. It\u2019s just disappointing as it can be to see.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: As for Mr. Brooks at the New York Times, I\u2019ve been thinking — and I never met him — I guess he\u2019s a nice guy, but he\u2019s sounding more and more like Pat Buchanan every day.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I just read something attributed to David Brooks of the New York Times. It was on a blog, so I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s actually true, but he quoted me from yesterday\u2019s program in which I said, ‘Folks, I\u2019m just going to tell you something.\u2019 It was in response to the guy who called and was upset about people that said they\u2019re not going to vote if Huckabee or McCain get the nomination. And I said to the guy, ‘Look, you better understand something. If Huckabee or McCain get the nomination, there\u2019s a good chance this party is finished. It\u2019s going to be over and done with as we know it, and it\u2019s going to get redefined, it\u2019s going to be built back up from practically scratch. It\u2019s going to be devastating.\u2019 So this is quoted in this blog, ‘Then that\u2019s the end of McCain.\u2019 They\u2019re all upset now, ‘Rush and his mimics are now out trying to destroy the Republican Party modernizers, like McCain and Huckabee and Newt Gingrich.\u2019<\/p>\n

I am personally trying to destroy the party\u2019s modernizers? I don\u2019t know what you want to call these people. Now, it\u2019s attributed to Brooks, but I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s true. Some blog post by a guy named Ezra Klein, who I don\u2019t know, and don\u2019t interpret this as a criticism of anybody. I just think this is fascinating. It is literally fascinating to hear that people who are not conservatives, or who have abandoned a lot of their conservatism, are now the party modernizers? Whew, baby. If that doesn\u2019t tell you what trouble we\u2019re in, nothing will. If that\u2019s what these guys who are not conservatives, that\u2019s how they\u2019re perceived, modernizing the party, and, of course, these are Drive-By Media types writing this stuff? They\u2019re all depressed now because McCain was supposed to win Michigan, and he didn\u2019t. Romney did, and this guy that posted this blog said, ‘I just don\u2019t see how Romney is denied this now. If that\u2019s what Limbaugh thinks.\u2019 (sigh) Modernizing. Modernizers? I can\u2019t tell you how that offends me on so many levels.<\/p>\n

This term progressive to describe liberals, which is a big misnomer. If anything needs modernizing, it\u2019s the Democrat Party. How old is their playbook? They don\u2019t have one new page in their playbook since I\u2019ve been alive, and they keep going back to that same old playbook and old pages and reworking the same old dishonest tricks. Modernizing. We need to modernize by going more socialist? We need to modernize by believing that government\u2019s the answer, that\u2019s how you modernize the Republican Party? No thanks, folks. I am happy to be the source of scorn. I am happy to be labeled and targeted as the guy who\u2019s targeting the modernizers of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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