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RUSH: Kimberly in Sarasota, Florida, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, you\u2019ve got to be kidding me. I thought we had come so far as women voters, to know that there are women out there that are willing to vote for somebody because they talk a good talk and because they are good-looking? Did we not learn anything from ‘read my lips\u2019? These people have to know you have to research the record, and I\u2019m not saying I don\u2019t like Romney–<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, you\u2019re talking about Romney and you\u2019re talking about the Mittens that called here yesterday?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, we had three women that called here yesterday, and they were just gaga over Mitt. I think they were happy, one, but they were gaga over him, it wasn\u2019t good looks, it was substance.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, absolutely, and it\u2019s not that I don\u2019t like him, but I\u2019m just saying that we have to look at these people\u2019s record to know where they have voted and how they\u2019re going to vote.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And you don\u2019t think they did that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I don\u2019t know, they were so gaga over how good he looks and how good he talks that I don\u2019t know if they\u2019ve done any research on his record.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You gotta tell me what they said that has caused this reaction in you, to be embarrassed of your sisters. You started out by saying you can\u2019t believe there are women out there who are thinking and talking this way, haven\u2019t we learned anything. What did you hear them say that embarrassed you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I wouldn\u2019t say that I was personally embarrassed because I don\u2019t let anybody offend me, but I just think that when you are looking into voting for a president, you don\u2019t look at somebody\u2019s outside features or how they talk, we\u2019ve heard the lips part before in the past —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait a minute, ‘read my lips\u2019 was George H. W. Bush.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know it was, sir. <\/p>\n

RUSH: I thought you might have meant Clinton and the lips elsewhere. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Because George H. W. Bush was not classically good-looking and a model type or what have you. I thought you might have meant Clinton was. Remember how women were swooning over Clinton?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And that\u2019s why I thought you meant Clinton and ‘read my lips,\u2019 and I was, you know, getting some really strange images as I was making the association of those two.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I just really think that we really need to pay attention to the records of these gentlemen on their immigration, on their foreign policy —<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, you\u2019ve done that, I assume, you have a candidate you support?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely. Fred Thompson is my man.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He seems to be the only conservative out there. Romney is great fiscally, I understand, but there have been some bad decisions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know. This nomination process, for a lot of Republicans, Kimberly, and I\u2019m not going to lump you in this, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s true for you. For a lot of Republican voters, it\u2019s going to be picking the one we dislike the least.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, and I\u2019d rather have Hillary in the White House than I would John McCain because I don\u2019t want him to destroy the name of the conservative party.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! You would rather have Hillary in the White House than McCain. That came out of left field.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would. Because she can take what\u2019s going to happen to the country instead of the conservatives having to take the responsibility for what\u2019s going to happen if McCain gets elected.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, so your theory is if somebody\u2019s going to destroy the country, let Democrats do it so we can put it back together after they make a shambles?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I kind of like that kind of thinking, if you\u2019re going to destroy the country, let\u2019s not be part of it. She\u2019s worried about the brand, conservatism being destroyed. Have I not made that clear? I may need to say that more forcefully, but I think frankly that Kimberly here, you\u2019re right, whether you swerved into it or not, you\u2019ve had a head-on collision with accuracy here. I really think that there are some in our own party who are just as eager to rid the party of us conservatives as Democrats are to defeat us. I think the destruction of conservatism would happen with certain of these candidates being nominated in ways that perhaps you might not be foreseeing yourself. I\u2019m not prepared to go there yet because I\u2019m not convinced we\u2019re going to be faced with that possibility. But if I am convinced at some point down the road we\u2019re going to be faced with that possibility, I will be wide open about it. But she\u2019s exactly right. In the process of the Republican Party losing big, conservatism is going to get the blame. Folks, you have no idea how many people in the Republican Party would love to just take as much of conservatism out of the fundamental structure of the Republican Party as they could. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Heather in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Nice to have you. I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. Nice to be you. Thanks so much for having me.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I actually want to touch on a very valid point about John McCain and his legislation that threatens conservative grassroots activism, but, Rush, I\u2019ve gotta touch on your caller Kimberly, how she mentioned the women that called your show yesterday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I listened to the program, and Rush, I appreciate you for empowering these good tax-fighting, limited-government-loving, charter-school-choosing women who love Mitt Romney. I\u2019ll be one of those smitten Mittens, I am, and I\u2019ll admit it, but I can tell you about his record. First, let\u2019s examine the record. Look at the Olympics. He went into a scandal-ridden Olympics facing bankruptcy —<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, Heather, let me interrupt you. I wasn\u2019t going to get into this until the next hour, but you\u2019ve given me a good transition here because I have two stories here on the Democrat side, first from an ABC News blog. Hillary Clinton pouncing on Barack Obama, saying that she\u2019s ready to be a CEO and a COO, and Obama isn\u2019t. Hillary is ready. David Broder today, in the Washington Post: ‘A Democrat Field Without an Executive.\u2019 He says, ‘By contrast, the Republican field is loaded with people who are accustomed to being in charge of large organizations. Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee were governors of their states of Massachusetts and Arkansas, Rudy Giuliani served as the mayor of New York, and John McCain, as he likes to remind audiences, commanded the largest squadron in the Navy air wing.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Romney also ran a huge business in the private sector and straightened out the Olympics. So Broder says, if experience is your issue, the Democrats are lacking. If you can\u2019t control the smears that your bureaucracy are putting out, in the case of Mrs. Clinton — you know, the Clinton campaign is saying, Heather, that all these smears of Obama, ‘Why, my staff has nothing to do with this.\u2019 And that\u2019s not nearly as big a bureaucracy as the federal government is. If she can\u2019t control that, if she can\u2019t run that — Now, where\u2019s this been for a year? I\u2019m glad Broder finally got in the game here on this. But you talk about having experience of running big organizations, or turning failing financial organizations around, that experience is going to be found in droves on the Republican side, nowhere to be found on the Democrat side.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And Mitt has experience in the private sector as well as government. So if you want proof —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — look at what he did in Massachusetts. He went to Massachusetts with a $3 million deficit. Without raising taxes, he brought them into a surplus by the time he left office. On top of this, yes, he\u2019s turned businesses around. He made Staples and Domino\u2019s what they are today. People talk about foreign policy and Mitt Romney, he dealt internationally with businesses and business leaders all over the world and was a huge success. He was hailed as such a success as a businessman.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand. Look, please don\u2019t take this personally, don\u2019t be offended, but I don\u2019t want to turn the program over to what are essentially campaign commercials for these guys. I appreciate the call and telling me why you like somebody, but we gotta draw the line here at some point otherwise I\u2019m going to find myself in a position where they\u2019re all going to demand this, and I don\u2019t want to go there. So, Heather, I thank you for the call. I appreciate it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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